Past Recipients

2004

Memphis Conference

  • Memorialized – Rev. Doyle Masters
  • Honorees – Dr. David Hilliard, Rev. Everett Roseberry, Rev. Barry Henson, Rev. Justin Allen, Rev. Kevin Presley, and Bishop William Morris.

Tennessee Conference

  • Memorialized – Rev. Fenton Warren, Rev. Doyle Masters
  • Honorees – Dr. Farris Moore, Rev. Fred Blankenship, Rev. William Comperry, Dr. Lynn Hill, and Bishop William Morris.

2005

Memphis Conference

  • Memorialized – Mr. Wallace Stanley
  • Honorees – Laypersons:  Mr. C. J. Pickering, Mr. Wayne Hamm, Mr. Jack Morris.  Clergy:  Dr. Paul Wesley Clayton and Bishop Richard J. Wills, Jr.

 Tennessee Conference

  • Memorialized – Rev. Bill Potts
  • Honorees – Laypersons:  Mr. Don Williams.  Clergy:  Rev. Louis & Mrs. Anna Johnson, Rev. LeNoir Culbertson, Rev. Horace Perkins, Jr, and Bishop Richard J. Wills, Jr.

2006

 Memphis Conference

  • Honorees:  Layperson:  Mrs. Anne Richards;  Clergy:  Dr. Ben Boone, Rev. Larry Daniel, Dr. Jerry Jeffords, Dr. Bill Bouknight, Dr. Harry Durbin, Rev. John Holt, and Rev. Edd Templeton,

Tennessee Conference

  • Memorialized:  Mr. Frank Burke, Dr. Joseph King Vivion
  • Honorees:  Rev. Steven G.Lee, Rev. Max Mayo, Rev. Rosemary Brown, Rev. Larry Layne, Rev. Harriet Bryan, Dr. Jim Clardy, Rev. Joe Shelton, Rev. Edd Templeton

2007

Memphis Conference
  • Honorees:  Rev. James C. Cooper, Rev. Elwood & Edna Thornton, Dr. David Comperry, Rev. Ted Leach, Dr. William P. Mullins, Jr. 

Tennessee Conference

  • Honorees:  Rev. Randall C. Ganves, C. Don Ladd

2008

Tennessee Conference

  • Honorees: Mrs. Betty Alexander, Jack Allison, Rev. David Bain Hawkins, Rev. W. Eugene Moore, Dr. James Howard Olds

2009

Tennessee Conference
  • Honorees: Rev. William J. Miller, Pastor Maurice B. Moore, Nancy C. Moore, Joe Williams, Rev. Nan Zoller

2010

Tennessee Conference

  • Honorees: Rev. Jacob C. Armstrong, Rev. Joaquin Garcia, Rev. Barbara Garcia

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