Deacon James "Jim" Pickens
April 4, 1944 - March 24, 2022
PICKENS, Deacon James “Jim”– age 77, passed away, Thursday, March 24, 2022 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Oakland. Family hour 10:30AM Friday, April 1, 2022 at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, 512 Pearsall Ave., with funeral service commencing immediately at 11AM. Pastor Terrance J. Gowdy, Officiating. Entombment Perry Mount Park Cemetery, 878 North Perry Street. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 10:30AM Friday. Deacon Pickens will lie in state at the Church and may be viewed from Noon – 6:00 PM Thursday. Deacon Pickens leaves to cherish his memory: wife, Lynell Pickens; children, James L. (Roshell) Pickens, Jr., Teril L. Pickens, (Vashawn) Phillip A. Byrd (Stephanie) and Jacquelyn Foster; a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; siblings, Mary Lawson, Gertrude Lindsay, Diana Chatmon and Arthur Pickens; sister-in-law, Elcine Long and other relatives and friends. Deacon Pickens was preceded in death by his mother, Gertrude Pickens and brother, Robert Pickens.
PICKENS, Deacon James “Jim”– age 77, passed away, Thursday, March 24, 2022 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Oakland. Family hour 10:30AM Friday, April 1, 2022 at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, 512 Pearsall Ave., with funeral... View Obituary & Service Information