Professional Services Entrusted To

Knotts Funeral Home 719 Wall Street

Sanford, North Carolina 27330

Phone: (919) 776-4345 / Fax: (919)776-0911

www.knottsfuneralhome.com

Floral Couriers

Dreama Cox Marie McLean Marcy Chalmers Tangia Millsap Naomi Douglas Carolyn Newton

Casket Bearers

Charlie Brown Calvin McNeill Christopher Jordon Ralph Murchison Lawrence Jennings Ernest Richardson Clifton McLean Master Chief Lewis Wilson

Ushers

Cameron Grove AME Zion Church

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Family Visitation: 2:30 PM

Homegoing Celebration: 3:00 PM Cameron Grove A.M.E. Zion Church

309 Vernon Street Broadway North Carolina

Reverend Kenneth Swann Pastor / Eulogist

His Sunrise

February 21, 1933

His Sunset

November 2, 2019

Acknowledgements

The Amerson Family gratefully acknowledges your compassion, kindness and love you have given to us during the illness and the

transition of our beloved Murreace. Your presence, communications, food, contributions, and prayers have sustained us during this time.

You have truly blessed us in so many ways.

God’s blessings to all of you.

The Amerson Family

The Celebration of Life In Loving Memory

Of

The Order of Worship Reverend Veronica Williams, Officiating

Processional…………………………………………...Clergy and Family

Family Visitation 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Music Selection……………………………………Cameron Grove Choir

Scripture Readings:

Old Testament ~ …………………………..Reverend Kenneth Sterling Spout Springs Presbyterian Church

New Testament ~ ……….…………………………...Pastor Cathy Ray God’s Fellowship Christian Center

Prayer of Comfort……………………………….Reverend Doug Western Kendale Acres FWB Church

Music Selection……………………………………Cameron Grove Choir

Tributes…………………………………………….Limit 1 Minute Please

Mr. Reginald Cox, Sr. | Coty, Inc. Mrs. Vashti Strickland | Williams Chapel Presbyterian Church Mr. Kent Everett | Kendale Community Mrs. Camila Berryman | Family Minister Ruth Amerson/ Family

Acknowledgements/Resolutions…………………...Sister Sabrina Vereen

Musical Tribute………………………………Brother Christopher Tembo

Eulogy…………………………………………Reverend Kenneth Swann

Recessional………………………………………....Morticians In Charge

COMMITTAL RITES & INTERMENT Lee Memory Gardens

Sanford, NC

THE MEMORIAL REFLECTIONS

“For God so loved the world that He gave us His only Son: so that everyone who believes in Him

may not perish but may have eternal life.” | St. John 3:16 NRSV

MURREACE AMERSON, the sixth of seven descendants of the late Reverend

Adolph, Sr. and Odessa Strange Amerson, was born on February 21, 1933 in the Dunn

Township of Harnett County, North Carolina. He attended the former Ridgeway

Rosenwald School, Swann Station NC, and graduated from Johnsonville High School,

Cameron NC – Class of 1952.

Murreace accepted Christ as his personal Savior at a young age and was baptized at

Williams Chapel Presbyterian Church, Broadway NC. During his adult years, he

transferred his membership to Cameron Grove AME Zion Church, Broadway NC. As a

disciple of Cameron Grove Church, he served in the following ministries: the Board of

Trustees, the “original” Gospel Choir, the Boy Scouts Leader, a playwriter and a

Church School teacher. He later was named as the Superintendent of the Church School

Department, a position he loved. He later transferred his membership back to Williams

Chapel Church, where he continued to serve His Lord and Savior as a Church School

teacher, a choir member, and an Elder of the church. Upon his move to Sanford NC, his

spiritual covering was at the Kendale Acres FWB Church.

After high school, Murreace enlisted in the United States Army and was honorably

discharged as a Private First Class. After his service to his country, he became an

employee of Lee Cabinet Shop and Coty, Inc. Murreace, also, took great pride in

serving his community. His jovial moments were being “his own man.” He established

Amerson Recycling, where he made sure aluminum cans, paper products, and card-

board were properly disposed. His other jovial moment was receiving a patent from the

United States Patent and Trademark Office for his invention of the “fan-in-the-hand.”

On Saturday morning, November 2, 2019, the patriarch of our family quietly transi-

tioned from his earthly life as our heavenly Father whispered to him: “well done, good

and faithful servant.” Even though, our loving husband, father, grandfather, and uncle,

will be greatly missed, his legacy of love, his powerful voice of cheer, his caring heart,

and his strong words of wisdom are forever etched in our hearts, minds, and souls. We

have a blessed and renewed hope we will meet again!

Murreace was preceded in death by his parents, Reverend Adolph, Sr. & Odessa S.

Amerson; his first wife, Bernice Buie Amerson; and all his siblings: Iodess Chalmers,

Adolph Amerson, Jr., Luverta Amerson, Charlie Amerson, Robert Amerson, and

William Amerson.

Treasuring Murreace’s joyful life and rich legacy are: his wife, Callie Amerson (whom

he married on December 18, 1999); his eleven children: Robert Earl Douglas (Evelyn),

Debra Pearson, Quinton Amerson (ValJean), Timothy Amerson, Joseph Amerson, Ruth

Amerson, Conrad Amerson, Donald Richardson, Naomi Robinson (Terry), Camila

Berryman (Freddie) and Tonya Sellers; fifteen grandchildren; generations of great-

grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; his aunt: Naomi Strange; his two sisters-in

-law: Juanita Douglas and Blendie Buie; and generations of nieces, nephews, cousins

and friends.