The family sincerely appreciates each expression of love shown to them during this most difficult time. Your prayers, words of comfort, and other gifts of love have been a source of much strength. It is our

prayer that the Lord will continue to bless and keep each of you.

The Family of Jewel Gilliam Thomas

Professional Services Entrusted To: of Union, SC

361 Meansville Road P. O. Box 1156

Union, SC 29379 Phone: (864) 427-6055

of Spartanburg, SC

102 Marion Avenue P. O. Box 5664

Spartanburg, SC 29304 Phone: (864) 948-0025

Condolences may be expressed online on our website at

www.communitymortuaryinc.com

Sunrise Sunset

March 21, 1927 July 7, 2020

GRAVESIDE SERVICES CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF

“And ye now therefore have sorrow:

but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice,

and your joy no man taketh from you.”

- St. John 16:22

In Loving Memory

JEWEL GILLIAM THOMAS

March 21, 1927 - July 7, 2020

“I’m not going to let

nobody stop me from

seeing my Jesus.”

- Jewel Thomas

Jewel Gilliam Thomas, 93, was born March 21, 1927. A native of Union County, SC, she was the widow of James Thomas and the daughter of the late Reverend Benjamin Gilliam and Lettie Louise Young Gilliam.

She was a member of Rice Chapel AME Zion Church and a homemaker.

Jewel passed away, Tuesday morning, July 7, 2020 at her residence. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by one son, Eugene Thomas; one daughter, Edna Ruth Thomas; and eleven siblings.

She leaves to cherish fond memories: two sons, Kenneth (Elmira) Thomas and Charles Lee (Elizabeth) Thomas both of Union, SC; five daughters, Mary Frances Thomas Epps of Union, SC, Julia Ann Gage of Union, SC, Irene (Tony) Harris of Little Rock, AR, Reverend Shirley (Reverend Marshall) Wheeler of Buffalo, SC, and Joyce Crawford of Spartanburg, SC; one brother, Robert Lee Gilliam of Staten Island, NY; one sister, Annie Mae Thomas of Spartanburg, SC; twenty-six grandchildren, forty-three great-grandchildren; and thirteen great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Friday, July 10, 2020 Two o’clock in the Afternoon

Rice Chapel AME Zion Church 121 Rices Chapel Road - Buffalo, SC

Reverend Linda Brown, Pastor

Reverend Iris Evans Kennedy, Presiding

Clergy, Family and Friends

Old Testament – Reverend Patricia Booker New Testament - Reverend Jimmie Morgan

Minister Tameeka Alexander

Deloris Salters

Demetrice Morton

Reverend Linda Brown

Clergy, Family and Friends

Please note that a limited number of chairs have been placed for immediate family only and that the cemetery and vault employees will approach the grave

after family and friends have departed.

www.communitymortuaryinc.com

You can only have one mother Patient kind and true;

No other friend in all the world, Will be the same to you.

When other friends forsake you, To mother you will return, For all her loving kindness, She asks nothing in return.

As we look upon her picture, Sweet memories we recall,

Of a face so full of sunshine, And a smile for one and all.

Sweet Jesus, take this message, To our dear mother up above;

Tell her how we miss her, And give her all our love.