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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.