Category: Death Notice(s)

Wednesday Afternoon

Great News!  The TEE done on Daddy this afternoon showed his heart valve to be free of bacteria.  Daddy has also been moved to the telemetry unit of the hospital.  Thank you for praying and please keep praying.

From Tammie Roberts:

Please add the family of Louise McNabb to the prayer link. She lived in Baton Rouge and passed away yesterday. Aunt Louise was the sister-in-law of Catherine Yarborough. The services will be in Baton Rouge on Saturday. She will be buried in Tangipahoa Cemetery. Thanks! Tammie Roberts

Wednesday

From Monica Smith (yesterday)

Makynna is the 4 year daughter of Krista and Justin Keller Justin is working in Indiana and they are there visitin Makynna has been vomiting and having headaches …. they are headed to the hospital now and hopefully but noon we will know more…please keep them in your prayers

I visited with Majel this morning.  Jesse is improving, but have been very ill.  He’s having a test today.  Keep praying for the Deans.

Mr. Billy Brabham is continuing to try to receive his treatments.  Please pray for him and the extended Brabham family.

Daddy’s problem has been identified.  He has a bacteria in his blood.  Tests are being done to determine more.  Pray for Momma as she tries to stay at the hospital with him.  My sisters and I will take turns.  Pray for Daddy.

Gregory Wayne Wall
(November 23, 1963 – May 4, 2010)

A resident of Amite, died at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. He was born November 23, 1963 in Amite and was 46 years of age. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Thursday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 12 Noon Friday. Interment Hyde Cemetery, Roseland. Survived by parents, Ivy Wall, Jr. and Sandra Crawford Wall, Amite, brother, Huck Wall and his wife, Kelly, Amite, sister, Deborah Miller, Amite, 3 nephews, Ben Miller, Ivy Wall, IV, Ivan Wall, 2 nieces, Brandi Miller, Grace Kelli Wall, great-nephew, Preston Miller. Preceded in death by niece, Ashley Sue Miller.

Monday Evening

I forgot to ask you to pray for Mr. Billy Brabham and his family.

Vivian Shelton Kleinpeter
(June 5, 1915 – May 2, 2010)

A resident of Roseland, died at 2:18 p.m. on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. She was born June 5,1915 in New Orleans and was 94 years of age. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Andrew Kleinpeter, Jr. and survived by a number of nephews. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Tuesday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Interment Hughes Cemetery, Amite.

Monday

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS PRAYERLINE
IMB
Monday, May 3, 2010

“Let them give glory to the LORD

And declare His praise in the coastlands.”

~Isaiah 42:12, NASB~

Dear Intercessors, this is Eleanor Witcher of the Office of Global Prayer Strategy, interceding with you for followers of folk Islam.

The Highland Singers of Central Asia blend Ismailism with folk beliefs. There are some new Christians, but no churches exist in their homeland. Religion is woven throughout their lives. They revere the Agha Khan; they look upon him as a living prophet. His word is law, and he may countermand the Quran. Some look upon him as god.

The Non-Turkic Settlers of the Caspian coastlands also practice folk Islam. Special spiritual significance is often placed upon certain trees or locations, and people regularly practice rituals for protection against evil spirits and curses. Rural communities are usually closed, and marriage outside of the clan is discouraged or prohibited. There are very few Settler believers.

Folk religious beliefs and practices have developed as West African women who believe that God doesn’t intervene in their problems have tried to deal with the felt needs and concerns of daily living. It is a major step in faith for a woman to abandon her folk practices and trust that God will protect her. Some of these practices include: using the evil eye as a curse, practicing sorcery, wearing amulets, going to a medium, visiting a saint’s tomb and praying there, trying to divine the future through the use of certain objects or rituals, and the use of special charms or actions to provide personal protection from evil spirits. Discipleship for these women when they become believers includes choosing Bible stories that the Holy Spirit can use to help the new believer see what God’s Word says about these practices.

* Please pray for believers who have left folk Islam to receive the spiritual nourishment and training they need from God’s Word.

* Intercede for those who are resisting salvation and ask God to continue knocking at their hearts’ door.

*Ask the Lord to reveal any false practices in your own life and repent as He leads.

Continue to pray for Jesse and Majel Dean.  Jesse continues to have complications requiring a return to the hospital.

Daddy seems to be getting better.  Thank-you for your prayers for my parents.

Continue to pray for grieving families.  Our area has had a number of deaths in recent weeks.

Devotional: “Death”

http://www.forthright.net/kneemail/2009/02/death.html

Now that May is here, the number of school days for the 2009-2010 school year is coming to a close.  Pray for a good ending and a long, happy summer vacation before 2010-2011 begins.

Have a great day!

Anna Lee

Sunday Afternoon

Flo Shoemaker Sanders
(July 24, 1929 – May 1, 2010)

A resident of Kentwood, LA, died at 8:43 p.m. on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite, LA. She was born July 24, 1929 in Lillie, LA and was 80 years of age. She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, Kentwood, member of Kentwood Music Club and Garden Club. She was known for her daily three mile walks where she helped to keep Kentwood beautiful by picking up trash. Her favorite past time was her weekly game of dominos. She is survived by her daughter, Debbie Sanders Cross and her husband, Don, Marietta, GA, grandson, Colin Sanders Cross, Washington, DC, 2 sisters, Sybil Fay Shoemaker, Kentwood, Ara Fern Brennan, Kentwood, numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred M. “F.M.” Sanders, Jr., grandson, Tyler Garrett Cross. The family request donations in her memory be made to The Tyler Cross Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Lovett School, 4075 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30327 or First Baptist Church, Kentwood, LA. Visitation at First Baptist Church, Kentwood, from 11 a.m. on Tuesday until religious services at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Services conducted by Rev. Joey Miller. Interment Woodland Cemetery, Kentwood, LA. McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements

Sunday Addition

Mrs. Flo Sanders passed away last night.  I’ll post more later.

Richard Edward Brennan
(December 31, 1927 – April 30, 2010)

A resident of Kentwood, died at 9:55 a.m. on Friday, April 30, 2010 at his residence.

He was born December 31, 1927 in Brockton, MA and was 82 years of age. He was secretary of Kentwood Rotary Club for 4 years. Survived by wife, Ara S. Brennan, Kentwood, 2 daughters, Nicole A. Brennan, Framingham, MA, and Cara F. Brennan, Boston, MA, 2 brothers, William Brennan, Falmouth, ME, and John Brennan, W. Dennis, MA.

McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, entrusted with arrangements.

Saturday

“Father, everything is possible for you.

Please take this cup of suffering away from me.

Yet I want your will, not mine.”

~Mark 14:36 NLT~

Jesse Dean is improving.  Continue to pray for him.

Walter Green Harper

Visitation from 9:00 until the 11:00 service at McKneely Funeral Home in Amite.

Donald Lloyd Thompson
(February 8, 1957 – April 29, 2010)

A resident of Amite, died at 10:55 a.m. on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at his residence. He was born February 8, 1957 in Canton, OH and was 53 years of age.

McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, entrusted with arrangements.

KneEmail

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10

Mike Benson, Editor

I WAKE UP, grab my iPhone, turn off the alarm, and update my Facebook status…

On the way to school I scroll through my friends’ status updates, updating mine with the song on my iPod.

At lunch, I take a picture of me and my friends and upload it to Facebook.

Now, I am chatting with my best friend in Tennessee. Status update: “Good night all. I’ll text you in the morning.” Such is the day of a typical American young person.

Facebook has taken the cyber world by storm and our social lives forever in a different direction. Compete.com ranked Facebook as the most used social network in the world

According to Facebook’s own stats page, there are currently more than 350 million active users, and 65 million people are accessing Facebook through their phones/mobile devices. They say that the average user has 130 Facebook friends and spends more than 55 minutes a day on their site.

What if Jesus were on Facebook and he sent you a friend request. We know that such is not possible, but for the sake of illustration pretend.

Would you have to stop and think before you accepted it? Would you have to look through your pictures to be sure that you don’t have any immodest pictures or anything tasteless?

Maybe make sure that you don’t have any pictures taken in inappropriate places? Would you go back over your postings to be sure that you haven’t said anything crude or inappropriate?

Would you scan through your list of favorite movies and music, perhaps deleting a few before you let Jesus on your site? What about the games you play? Quizzes you take?

Is there anything that would make you stop and say to yourself, “I think I’ll delete that before I let Jesus on my site?” If the answer is “Yes,” then why not go ahead and take it off? The fact of the matter is the Lord does look at our Facebook pages!

Proverbs 15:3 says, “The eyes of the Lord are in every place keeping watch on the evil and the good.”

Not only God is watching me on Facebook, but other people are watching. What they see on my Facebook site affects what they think about me, and the church, and Christianity.

What if I have my “religious preference” listed as “church of Christ,” and then I have pictures posted of me at a nightclub, or dancing, or at the beach immodestly dressed, or with an alcoholic beverage?

Or what if my status update has immoral lyrics? Or maybe I’m venting, and running someone else down. We ask, “What effect is it going to have on my non-Christian friend who looks at my site?”

He might say to himself, “I do better than that, and I don’t even pretend to be a Christian!” Or he might think, “What a hypocrite!”

Imagine that you are surfing Facebook, and you see that Jesus has his own site. You are excited, so you send him a friend request. Would he accept it?

Most of us when we receive a friend request have some sort of criteria before we indiscriminately accept someone as our friend.

We want to know if we know the person. We glance at his information, his friend list, where he lives, etc. Does Jesus have criteria for friend requests? Sure he does!

He said, “You are my friends if you do whatever I command you” (John 15:14). Therefore, to be a friend of Jesus, you have to obey him. In light of this,

Christian friend, ask yourself “Would Jesus accept my friend request?”

Before you answer, consider your faithfulness in attending worship, your Bible study habits, your efforts to teach others, your giving, the way you treat other people, etc. Now, with your answers in mind, “Would Jesus accept your friend request?”  Don Blackwell

“You are my friends if you do whatever I command you” (John 15:14).

I may not be a young person, but I enjoy Facebook.  I hope this devotional helps us evaluate how we use it.

Anna Lee

Friday

“You cannot serve both God and money,”

~Matthew 6:24 NIV~

“Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also.”

~Matthew 6:21 NIV~

CaringBridge

Ashley Sue Miller

(September 27, 1988 – April 28, 2010)

A resident of Kentwood, died at 6:02 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at her residence. She was born September 27, 1988 and was 21 years of age. She is remembered as being bubbly and full of life and is known for lighting up any room with her big beautiful smile and magical presence. She is now in heaven with all the other angels. She will be missed terribly by all who knew her and loved her. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Sunday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 10 a.m. Monday. Services conducted by Bro. Bob Simpson . Interment Hyde Cemetery, Roseland, LA. Survived by mother, Deborah Wall Miller, father, Perry Miller, her only child, Preston William Wright, brother, Ben Miller, sister, Brandi Miller, grandparents, Sandra and Ivy Wall, Jr., and Myrtle Miller, father of her child, Matthew Wright, uncles, Greg Wall, Huck Wall, and Steve Miller, aunts, Sgt. Major Carolyn Miller, Pat Miller Harn, and Dorothy “Dottie” Winters, many cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. Preceded in death by great-grandparents, Ivy Wall, Sr. and Zula Wall, grandpa Doyle Dude Miller, aunt, Pauline Miller White, and cousin, Brian Saxon.

BOTH BORN AND ADOPTED

The following was reported by WESTERN MORNING NEWS in 1994:

Ian Lewis, 43, of Standish, Lancashire, England, was interested in finding out about his family.  He spent 30 years tracing his family tree back to the seventeenth century.  He traveled all over Britain, talked to 2,000 relatives and planned to write a book about how his great-grandfather left to seek his fortune in Russia and how his grandfather was expelled after the Revolution.  Then he found out he had been adopted when he was a month old and his real name was David Thornton.  He resolved to start his family research all over again.

How frustrating!  However, it reminds me that, for a Christian, it makes no difference whether we trace our spiritual lineage by way of birth or adoption because both images are used to express our relationship to God our Father.

“Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ ” (John 3:5)

“…having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will…” (Ephesians 1:5)

God is our Father by (re)birth and by adoption (we are chosen!).  What a privilege to be a part of His family!

Have a great day!

Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina

Continue to pray for all those we have been praying for lately.

Anna Lee

Thursday

It is not that we think we are qualified

to do anything on our own.

Our qualification comes from God.

~2 Corinthians 3:5 (NLT)~

CaringBridge

Walter Green Harper

(July 13, 1928 – April 27, 2010)

A resident of Roseland, died at 2:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite. He was born July 13, 1928 in Gatesville, MS and was 81 years of age. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 9 a.m. until Masonic and Religious Services at 11 a.m. Saturday. Services conducted by Rev. Tommy Hicks. Interment Arcola-Roseland Cemetery, Arcola. He is survived by his wife, Maxine Primes Harper, Roseland; a daughter, Keri Wickham and husband, David, Amite; 2 sons, Darell “Pete” Harper, Charleston, SC and Walter “Bo” Harper and wife, Linda, Amite; 8 grandchildren, Kimberly Parent and husband, David, Pumpkin Center, Gwendolyn Pedelahore and husband, Kenny, Livingston, Justin Barrilleaux and wife, Amanda, Holden, Blake Barrilleaux and wife, Traci, Lugoff, SC, Clay Barrilleaux and wife, Marjorie, Walker, Kevin Harper, Amite, Brian Harper, Charleston, SC and Caroline Harper, Charleston, SC; 8 great-grandchildren; a sister, Bettye Jo Hughes and husband, Earl, Roseland.

James Albert Davis

(August 12, 1941 – April 27, 2010)

James Albert Davis was born August 12, 1941 and passed away on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans after a brief illness. Mr. James was 68, a native of Magnolia, MS, a former resident of St. Helena Parish and a resident of Destrehan, LA.

Mr. James was a graduate of Woodland High School and Southeastern Louisiana University where he was a member of Sigma Tau Gama Fraternity. He served in the US Army, Civil Air Patrol, a member of the Jefferson Amateur Radio Club and a retired employee of Tulane Medical School.

Mr. James is survived by his wife of 41 years, JoAnn P. Davis, Destrehan; daughter, Jeanne D. Peres and husband, Tony, Metairie; son, Jevin A. Davis, Pearl, MS; grandchildren, Megan, Mason, Morgan & Logan Peres, Metairie; 2 brothers, A. Thomas Davis, Montpelier and David M. Davis, Alvin, TX.

He is preceded in death by parents, John Albert and Myrth Bornes Davis; brother, Joel A. Davis.

Visitation at St. Helena Catholic Church on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. with Fr. Joe Camilleri officiating. Interment in Amite Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers the family request donations in his memory to the American Cancer Society.

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, in charge in arrangements.

An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com

Devotional

http://www.devotions.net/devotions/04april/29.htm

Have a great day!

Anna Lee