Mother Evangelist Emma Mae Lassiter

Service Details

Her Homegoing Service will be held on January 27, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. in St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, 1123 Center Street. Visitation will be in the church from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service.

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Mother Evangelist Emma Mae (Nunn) Lassiter, 81, received her heavenly reward on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. She was born in Alamo, Tennessee on October 17, 1942, the daughter of the late Ewell and Irene (Turner-Avery) Nunn. She graduated from Central High School in Crocket County, Tennessee, in 1962. Mother Lassiter was a longtime and devoted member of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, under the leadership of Bishop Lawrence L. Kirby. She enjoyed Bingo, fashion, cooking, singing, doing crafts, cheering on the Green Bay Packers, and working in her flower garden. Her greatest love was the time she spent with her family and serving the Lord. She was a 1988 graduate of the Milwaukee Theological Seminary.

Surviving are her two daughters, Jadaici – Jahzhara (Virginia) Rashinda Ahmad of Racine, and Mertarsha (Willie) Fondren, of Kenosha; stepdaughter, Denise Mack; five grandchildren, Willie Jr., J’lesia, and Jacèon Fondren, Emmankia Moore, and Johnathan Ahmad; one great-grandson, Willie Fondren III; four sisters, Betty Avery, Irene Barker, Shirley (Melvin) Johnson, and Martha (Vernon) Perry;  one brother, W.E. Avery, all of Alamo, Tennessee; special cousins, Zodie (Robert) Brown, Faye Nunn; special friends, Donald Young, Laura Spalding, Jimmie Ann and husband and host of godchildren. Her nieces, nephews, other relatives, friends, and church family also survive her. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her stepfather, JB Avery, husband, Willie McMullin Sr, husband, James Baker, husband, James Lassiter, her son, Willie Eugene McMullin Jr., three brothers, and one sister.