Maternal Matriarch Gone Home

SERVICES HELD AT FAMILY CHURCH
ACTS FULL GOSPEL COGIC, OAKLAND, CA
Bishop Bob Jackson, Senior Pastor
Pastor Joseph Cotton, Officiating

HOMEGOING SERVICES FOR

ELSIE EARL WATERS

sunrise: December 24, 1924, | sunset: February 27, 2023

Visitation: Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Funeral/Repast/Internment

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Services forward

Visitation: Wednesday,  March 15, 2023

C.P. Bannon Mortuary 12p – 4p

6800 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94621

Phone: (510) 632-1011

Thursday,  March 16, 2023

FUNERAL: 

Acts Full Gospel COGIC 11a -1p

1034 66th Ave, Oakland, CA 94621

Phone: (510) 567-1300

Bishop Bob Jackson, Senior Pastor

Officiating: Pastor Joseph Cotton

Live Stream service @ActsFullGospelChurch on Youtube

INTERNMENT: 

Rolling Hills Memorial Park 

4100 Hilltop Dr, Richmond, CA 94803

Phone: 510-223-6161

FAMILY REPAST TO FOLLOW 4:30P-8:30P

info: workingmylines@gmail.com

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Honoring Our Family Matriarch – “Mama Elsie”

My Maternal Family celebrated my Grandmother’s 90th Birthday. Held in the Bay Area, it was a grand occasion Hotel banquet style, catered by our own. Generations hailed up the crown of our honorable Matriarch in Dance, Kinship, and appreciation. Above is the mini-bio she and I created for the day’s offering. Get to know a little about our Mama Elsie.

And, although we are grieving the loss of one of God’s greatest gifts to our Family, our Hearts will forever be filled with her memory. #givepraisetolife //

Love 4 Louisiana Genealogy & Hip Hop

First steps and my first flight to continue my Genealogical field research. Quarantined for 3 years, grateful for the wealth of my Health, I am determined to service the wealth of my Family and Family History.

During this era of “pandemic re-opening” my #MaskON protocols are intact while I explore exciting Pedigreed pathways. #Ancestorproject

Just back from a monumental experience tromping the homesteads, lands, and burial grounds of my Ancestors. Fulfilled a personal commission to touch the hem of my paternal Matriarch’s garment (her pants leg that is), my Great Aunt Maude Ella Smith née Hunter, aka “Bute“. It was my first time on Family land enclosed by a lush forest of trees, and long roads flanked with Family namesake pathways, where Great Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins still live. Mt. Sinai, Claiborne Parish, LA, Ward 1.

#AncestorProject “It was all a Dream…”* This broadcast day reflects several dynamic connections intersecting, History into present-day dynamics, challenging narratives of “the Story” while unleashing an abundance of access and receipts. It’ll be a monumental Day of kinship exchange permeating the airwaves. Both Sway “Jon” Calloway and Nicka Sewell-Smith share Family connections in Lake Providence, Louisiana to Claiborne Parish, both with a deep love for Hip Hop. The Seasoned and the Devotee interplay rounded out with the legendary Heather B and Millenial Mindfulness-Maven Tracy G, somebody gon’ get their DISCOVERY on today! @workingmylines Big Up #SwayIntheMorning *Bless Up Notorious B.I.G.

Nicka Sewell-Smith trailblazing works specializing in “Reverse Genealogy”; She is the Creator of the critical research repository, #TRASK250 a collection of over 5,000 names, documenting “…the lives of more than 250 formerly enslaved of the Trask and Ventress families of Louisiana and Mississippi.” WhoIsNickaSmith.com

…a grand salute to our beloved Ancestors above, encoded within our life keys here on earth.