Anna May Stewart's Obituary
Anna M. Stewart was born on July 14, 1922 in Eutaw,
Alabama. Her parents were Bonabus Spencer and Magarette
Gibson. She was the oldest of six girls. She accepted Christ
and was baptized at an early age in Eutaw, Alabama, where
she was raised.
In 1938, Anna married Henry Stewart, Sr. and to this union,
eight children were born. They moved from Alabama to
Baden, Missouri and later, to Kinloch, where they settled and
raised their family.
In Kinloch, she became a member of Memorial Tabernacle
Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of Rev. A. P.
Harrold. Later, under the leadership of Rev. G. W. Harrold,
she was a faithful member and served as an usher and on
the trustee board along with her husband, Henry. When the
church relocated to Ferguson under the leadership of Pastor
Walter L. Harper, the church’s name changed to Memorial
Tabernacle Christian Life Center, where she served on the
Mother’s Board. The church relocated again under Pastor
Harper to Florissant, Missouri. Under the leadership of Pastor
Arbie Peterson, the church became The Christian Life Center
and Anna continued to serve on the Mother’s Board until she
went home to Glory.
Order of Service
PROCESSIONAL FAMILY
OFFICIANT PASTOR STEPHEN MCCRARY
SCRIPTURE
OLD TESTAMENT: PSALMS 73:23-25 PASTOR NAPOLEON PETERSON
NEW TESTAMENT:2 TIMOTHY 4:7-8 PASTOR ANTHONY HARDIMAN
PRAYER PASTOR MARK PETERSON
SELECTION “MY LIBERTY” CLC CHOIR
REMARKS PASTOR JACK SIMS
BISHOP JOHN W. SYKES
CONDOLENCES CHURCH CLERK
SOLO “WE SHALL BEHOLD HIM”
BEVERLY STEWART-ANDERSON
LIFE REFLECTIONS
SELECTION “ARISE” CLC VOICES OF WORSHIP
EULOGY PASTOR ARBIE PETERSON
RECESSIONAL “GOD SAID IT” CLC CHOIR
Interment
ST. PETER’S CEMETERY
2101 LUCAS AND HUNT ROAD ♦ SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI 63121
Repast
CLC FELLOWSHIP HALL
Anna worked as a nurse’s aide at the Mother of Good
Counsel Nursing Home in Normandy, Missouri until she
retired. Although she didn’t have many hobbies, she
enjoyed ironing and baking. She was known for her caramel
cakes and sweet potato pies.
Anna loved her family, church family and friends dearly. She
was a strong woman of God and a prayer warrior who loved
reading her bible. Anna loved good singing and preaching.
On Sunday evenings, you would often find her sitting in
front of her tv listening to a sermon by Bishop G. E.
Patterson.
Her loved ones who preceded her in death were her
husband, Henry Sr.; four children, Henry Jr., James, Don
and Eloise; her son-in-law, Pastor Walter L. Harper, Jr.; and
her two sisters, Mattie Lang and Minola Brown.
She leaves to cherish her memory: four daughters,
Margaret Redmond (Lee), Mary Wilson (Marvin), Mildred
Harper and Annette Sneed (Ralph); thirteen grandchildren;
twenty-five great grandchildren; fifteen great-great
grandchildren; three sisters, Betty Newburn and Bernice
Joliff of Saint Louis, Missouri and Jeannette Perkins of Gary,
Indiana; one sister-in-law, Ruby May Prewitte of Ralph,
Alabama; a host of nieces, nephews and cousins; and two
very special friends, Pecola Harrold, who was as close as a
sister, and George Harrold, who was as close as a brother.
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