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IN MEMORY

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.  He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.  He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of  death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.  You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.  Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23

 

IN LOVING MEMORY

You can now click on some names to view a photograph of the deceased.  Send all photographs to

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A - F

NAME Year
Estella Adams 1971
John Adams, Jr. 2002
Lollie Marcella (Lala) Twine Alexander 1999
Lucy Alexander 2013
Lawler Allen 2001
Elfreda B. Alves 2005
Clara Amos 1991
Mary Elizabeth Grier Archer 1997
Willie Ashford 2009
Virgia L. Austin 2004
Curtis Nathaniel Banks, Sr. 1993
Iola Barnes 1994
J.B. Bates 2004
Annie Batts 2004
Darlene Beard 2001
Beauries Isaac Beatty 1989
Lucy Ann Rawls Beatty 1986
Myra Beatty 1978
Neva Blakemore 2010
Roberta Bond 1998
Johnnie Mae Boyd 2011
Edna Beatty Floyd Boyd 1992
Clarence Booker 1998
Alex E. Brown, III 1978
Alex E. Brown, Sr. 2002
Annie C. Brown 1993
Bertha Handy Brown 1973
Buster Brown 1993
Emma Mae Brown 2004
Frank Brown, Sr. 2005
Katie Mae Bunch 1990
Ophelia Burch 2008
Sinnie Jones Bursey 1986
Lydia Bynum 1980
Willie Mae Carlos 2005
Octavius Carroll 1980
Vina Mae Hall Carroll 2005
Mamie Childs 1996
Arline Clay 1996
Josephine Collins 1990
Ollie Mae Collins 1988
Lloyd Cook 2005
Oliver Cook 2004
Isaiah H. Cooper 1991
Johnnie Mae Copeland 1998
Frazier Cox 2009
Virtue E. Cross 2001
Virgie Cummings 1985
Ada Cunningham 1994
Nora Cunningham 2007
Catherine Cusic 2005
James Cusic 1997
Melvin Cusic 1990
Linda Dabney 2000
George Dailey 1991
Rosie Bates Dark 1989
Gertrude Davis 2003
Gloria Davis 2003
Minnie R. Davis 1992
Rose B. Davis 2008
Mary Davis-Bohannon 2004
Elzie Daniel Densler 1984
Jessie Mae Dixon 2001
Mattie Dixon 1997
Tommy L. Dorsey 1977
James Dozier 2002
Thelma Anderson Dozier 2007
Alma Durry 1997
Booker T. Easley 2011
Mary Alice Bates Easley 2013
LaTonya Yvonne Edwards 2004
Earl Evans, Sr. 1993
Eva Evans 2012
Maggie Lee Ferguson-Sharp 1990
Aaron Ross Floyd 1999
Inez Foster 2011
Jessie M. Fox 1999
Mariah Frazier 1994
Percy Fultz, Jr. 1995
Frank Funches 2001

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G - L

Marguerite Garner 1979
Ruby Lee Price Gaston 2002
Mattie Perdue Geary 2001
Julienne Gist 1994
Edna Mae Godbold 1991
Ethel Grandberry 1990
Cherry Griffin 2012
Floreen Grooms 1995
Ethel Gustus 1991
Betty Hall 1994
Lucy Mae Hall 2007
Shelvin Jerome Hall 2007
Willie J. Hall 1989
Gladys Harper 2004
Charles Harris 1999
Williams Andrew Harston 1999
Thelma Harston 2005
Emma Hedge 2000
Howard Hentz, Jr. 2008
Bessie Hill 1972
Mattie Lue Levy Hill 2009
Eddie Hines 1994
Henry Hines 2008
James Hines, Jr. 2003
Bernice Hoffman 1987
Richard Holland 2005
Lula Hollins 1994
M.C. Hollins 1999
Mose Hughes, Sr. 1995
Eunice C. Ingram 1989
Albertha Ethelene Jackson 1989
Leola Jackson 1989
Martha Ann Mullen Jamieson 2000
Mattie Jefferson 1988
Gussie Mae  Jenkins 1998
Lawrence Jenkins, Sr. 1990
Brenda Winters Johnson 1997
Corine Johnson 1992
Curlie Carlease Dunn Johnson 1999
Delores Cross Johnson 1983
Drescilla Johnson 2002
Ida Mae Johnson 2003
James Johnson, Sr. 2002
Teresa Idonna Johnson-Gordon 2003
Alice Jones 1992
Charles Jones, Sr. 1985
Lawrence Jones 2006
Lena Mae Jones 1996
Melissa C. Jordan 2001
Mabel Kennedy 2008
Amanda Lawshee 1982
Earnestine Lewis 1981
Ramsey E. Lewis, Sr. 1983
Allen Zachary Lockhart 2009
Henry Lyles, Jr. 2004

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M - W
Kent M. Marshall 2004
Louise Martin 2001
Florzell Elizabeth Matthews 2003
Wordeen Thurmond McBride 2011
Doshie McCall 1986
James McCarty 2010
Walter McCline 1994
Willie Mae Carr McCowan 1993
Mary McGaha 2005
Ann L. Williams Miller 1976
Rev. Clarence Earl Miller 2008
Ernest Monroe 1991
Mattie Lee Saffold Moore 1994
Virginia Mosby 2001
Minnie Mosely 2009
John Mullen, Jr. 1993
Mateel Muse 2009
Rose Nalls 2007
Bessie Newell 1988
Emma Nowlin 2012
Eva Rene Nunn 2003
Magnolia Oliver 2000
Willie Page 1995
Anna Patten  
David Johnson Patten 1974
Lizzie Patterson 2006
Olivia M. Scruggs Taylor Peek 1991
Vivian Lucille Penderbey 1980
Arlena Perteet 2010
Lottie Penn 2001
Eva Randle 2009
Annie Roach 1982
Alice Robinson 1988
Nellie Ruth Robinson 1987
Augustus Saunders 2009
Gloria B. Williams Saunders 1992
Elizabeth Anderson Scott 1987
Mary Scott 2001
Willie Ruth Scott 2012
Viola Lucille Shanks 2001
Callie Shelton 2006
Christine Showers 2003
Argitha Sivels 2001
Wardell Sivels 2000
Elvin Simpson, Sr. 2000
Catherine Simpson 2008
Manola Simpson 1974
Leola Smith 1991
Willie C. Smith 1997
Willa C. Byrd Spencer 1985
Eddie Mae Taylor 2003
Lewis Barnett Taylor 2007
Savannah Wheeler Taylor 1994
Meddie Times 1988
Thelma Traylor 2011
Jessie Turpin 1993
Ida Copeland Vaughn 2011
Ida Lashley Virgil 1984
Elizabeth Monroe Walker 1983
Elnora Walker 1992
Jessie Walker 2012
Patricia Denise Ware 2012
Lafayette Washington 1975
Bertha Watson 1994
Nellie Lucille Watson 1987
Maddie West 2005
Roberta Whigham 1992
Carrie White 2006
Essie White 1994
Sally Wideman 1980
Dorothy Wigfall 2005
Ulysses Simpson Wigfall 1990
Vernesa Rachette Wilbourn 2006
Joseph Wilkins 2006
Shirley Willett 2009
Bertha Lee Chaney Williams 1985
Lois Williams 1983
Stance Williams 1993
Susie Bell Williams 2010
Willie Mae Wolfe 1990
Frank Young 2011
 

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Remembering Rev. Dr. Shelvin J. Hall (1916-2007)

The End of an Era for Leading Chicago Pastor

Rev Dr.  Shelvin Jerome Hall

The Rev. Dr. Shelvin Jerome Hall, Pastor Emeritus of the Friendship Baptist Church located at 5200 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois died in the West Suburban Resurrection Hospital in Oak Park, Illinois this morning, May 21, 2007,  twenty days following the death of his wife of sixty-two years Mrs. Lucy Mae Hall.

Rev. Hall was the greatly esteemed Pastor of Friendship Baptist Church for fifty-one years, who said “yes” to Dr. Martin Luther King and let him speak in his church when most others were afraid, who marched with Dr. King in the civil rights movement, and was the first Chairman of the Board of the first black -owned Bank on the Westside of Chicago.

All funeral services will be held at the Friendship Baptist Church, 5200 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.  773/378-6600. 

Services are as follows:

Friday, May 25, 2007

Lying in State:  12pm – 6 pm

Memorial Services, Officials tributes, 6 – 8 pm

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Reviewal:  8 am – 10 am

Funeral Service:  10 am – 1 pm

Interment will immediately follow the services at Washington Memory Garden, Homewood, Illinois.

Born May 3, 1916, in Yoakum, Texas, Rev. Hall was a graduate of Bishop College.  After coming to Chicago to Pastor the Friendship Baptist Church, he served as Dean of the Baptist General State Congress of Christian Education for 25 years, and two terms as the President of the Baptist General State Convention of Illinois. 

Rev. and Mrs. Hall are the parents of Justice L. Priscilla Hall, New York State Supreme Court, Justice Shelvin Louise Marie Hall, Illinois Appellate Court, and Mr. Lewis Jerome Hall, Supervisor of Higher Education, New York State Dept. of Higher Education.  Their granddaughter, Naima Lillian Hall is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.

For more information, please call the Friendship Baptist Church, 773/378-6600.    

Click here for a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times Obituary - May 23, 2007

Click here for a copy of the Obituary.

Remembering Mrs. Lucy Mae Hall (1918-2007)

We are saddened to announce the May 1, 2007, passing of Mrs. Lucy Mae Hall, First Lady Emeritus of the Friendship Baptist Church of Chicago and retired Master Teacher of the Chicago Public School System.  Mrs. Hall is the wife of Rev. Dr. Shelvin Jerome Hall the mother of Justice L. Priscilla Hall, New York State Supreme Court, Justice Shelvin Louise M. Hall, Illinois Appellate Court and Mr. Lewis J. Hall, Supervisor of Higher Education, New York Department of Education and grandmother of Naima Lillian Hall, graduate student, University of Michigan.

All Funeral Services will be held at The Friendship Baptist Church, 5200 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60644. 

The arrangements are as follows:
Monday, May 7, 2007 - 5:00p.m. -  8:00p.m.   - Lying in State
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - 10:00a.m -11:00a.m.  - Wake and 11:00a.m. - 1:00p.m   - Funeral Services
Interment will be at Washington Memory Gardens, Homewood, IL.  Funeral arrangements are being handled by Wallace Broadview Funeral Home.

Click here for a copy of the Obituary.

Click here for a copy of the Chicago Tribune (Metro Section) Obituary - May 11, 2007

Please take time to sign the Friendship Baptist Church Guest Book in memory of Mrs. Lucy Mae Hall and Pastor Emeritus Dr. Shelvin Jerome Hall.

Feel free to include a prayer, your thoughts, words of comfort and encouragement for the family or a special tribute to Mrs. Hall, for example.

SIGN OUR GUESTBOOK

"So, do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."  Isaiah 41:10

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Throughout the years, many of our Friendship family members have passed on. If you would like to list your loved one here then submit the name and year of death to our Web Administrator at:

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