~ Arrangements Entrusted To ~

Glover’s Funeral HomeOlivia Glover, Directress

April Dickson, Licensed Mortician

“Committed To Excellence In Quality Care & Service”

2562 Charleston Highway • Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115 • (803) 536-3200

PallbearersDEACONS AND

BROTHERHOOD OF VICTORY TABERNACLE

Honorary PallbearersWOMEN AND

USHERS OF VICTORY TABERNACLE

Acknowledgement

The family would like to express sincere gratitude for all acts of kindness and sympathy extended during this most difficult time. Your prayers have helped to sustain us, your kind words have served to

encourage us, and your love will keep us strong. Your kindness and consideration will always be remembered. Our prayer is that God will continue to bless each of you, as you have been a blessing to us.

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~Services~

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 201211:00 a.m.

VICTORY TABERNACLE DELIVERANCE TEMPLE, PAW681 Broughton Street

Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115

SUFFRAGAN BISHOP MICHAEL C. BUTLERPastor and Founder

Celebration of Life

For

Brother Anthony “Tony” Edwards

Sunrise

January 25, 1956Sunset

November 6, 2012

The Order of ServicePRELUDE ............................................................................................................................... ORGANIST

PROCESSIONAL ........................................................................................... “GLORY, GLORY, GLORY”

ENTRANCE OF BROTHERHOOD

VIEWING

OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE.................................................................. MINISTER ALEX JAMISON

NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE...................................................... MINISTER CHRISTOPHER GREEN

PRAYER OF COMFORT ............................................................................. EVANGELIST DENISE JAMES

SELECTION..................................................................................................... VTDT CHURCH CHOIR“I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU” MINISTER BRANDON RICHBURG

REFLECTIONS (3 MINUTES) .................................................... REPRESENTATIVE GILDA COBB-HUNTERDR. MARY GRIMES-MCGREER

ANDY HENDERSON & EVANGELIST BARBARA MAVENS, WSPX 94.5JOHN THOMAS & HOLLY CUMMINGS, WSSB 90.3

SELECTION...................................................................................................... VTDT CHURCH CHOIR“THE BLOOD STILL WORKS”

REFLECTIONS (3 MINUTES) ............................. DEACON FREDDIE ROGERS, BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENTDEACON RICHARD MCMANUSEVANGELIST TRINA BRAILEY

DEACON DAVID BROWNBROTHER MILTON PATTERSON

DEACON JAMES HOWARD, II, CHURCH SUPERINTENDENT

FAMILY TRIBUTES................................... MICHAEL & DIANE EDWARDS, BROTHER & SISTER-IN-LAWWAYNE EDWARDS, BROTHER

KRISTEN ALLEN, GODDAUGHTERSHAQUANNAH YOUNG, DAUGHTER

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................... SISTER CRYSTAL DARBY

RESOLUTION ........................................................................................... SISTER MINNIE WHETSTONE

SELECTION...................................................................................................... VTDT CHURCH CHOIR“WHEN I SEE JESUS”

WORDS OF COMFORT...................................................... SUFFRAGAN BISHOP MICHAEL C. BUTLER

SELECTION...................................................................................................... VTDT CHURCH CHOIR

RECESSIONAL.................................................................................................................. “ONE LOVE”

Committal, Benediction & IntermentMEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY

2400-2700 Broughton Street • Orangeburg, SC 29115

RepastVICTORY TABERNACLE DELIVERANCE TEMPLE, PAW

681 Broughton Street • Orangeburg, SC 29115

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To My Husband

Your name is the first thing I mention each time

I count my blessings because that’s what you are to me.

You fill my life with happiness, my heart with love,

and of all life’s blessings, there is none

that will ever mean more to me than you.

I Thank God for sending you as my Help Mate.

Life would not be the same without you.

I love you madly.

Your Partner for Life!

Your wife,

Angel

The Obituary

ANTHONY MARCEL EDWARDS, known to many as Tony, was born on January 25,1956 to Adrian and Adina Edwards in Brooklyn, New York. A saved and secure Man of God,Tony was called home on what he would have said was one of the greatest and most significantdays in American history: November 6, 2012, the day this country re-elected Barack Obama tohis second term as President. And, yes, Tony voted for him. His loving family made sure thatwish was carried out!

Tony’s father was a naturalized US citizen from Jamaica, and his mother’s parents had emi-grated from Barbados. Tony, was his parents first-born, and he was the embodiment of the easyWest Indian style combined with the first-generation’s take on the American Dream. His lifewould always include the strong influences from both.

Tony was the big athletic kid playing stickball, basketball and Little League baseball inBedford-Stuyvesant every chance he could get. When he wasn’t playing sports in the streets withhis friends, he could be seen perfecting his pitching form by throwing a ball against the side ofthe house from the middle of the street. Going to school at Our Lady of Victory, he was the tallkid with the engaging personality, drawing you into his world with a big handshake, a brightsmile, and that hearty, enthusiastic voice that always sounded like “You’re my friend now; that’sgreat!” They would come to be his trademarks for life.

In 1968, he visited his father’s land in Kingston, Jamaica for the first time. He took to theplace easily and for most of the next ten years or so, he, and his brothers would be living with rel-atives while going to school in Jamaica and spending most of the summers back in Brooklyn.Although his mom joined them after the first year, it was a different life for a young teenage boytrying to figure out the world. Tony met it with the same enthusiasm that would characterize hisname. Sports and music and a heart full of love were his constants; it didn’t matter what coun-try he was in.

Tony went to KC - Kingston College, “the Purples” where “the brave may fall, but neveryield”. There he learned to play soccer, table tennis and most of all cricket representing KC asthe wicketkeeper in the Sunlight Cup in his final year. He also wore the Purple and White inbasketball and leave it to him to find the only place on the island where they regularly playedbaseball - and he was a regular star.

Tony stayed in Jamaica for almost six of those years. Then he came back home to make hismark on the football and baseball teams at Brooklyn’s John Jay High School. Some say he missedhis calling in not trying out for the Mets’ farm team after high school; it was sometimes difficultbeing Adrian’s first son. Tony found the avenue that merged all that he loved in sports, in musicand in making friends with the world. It was Radio.

Tony truly had a voice for radio!

He studied at Kingsborough College in the City University of New York system and he beganperfecting his craft at the Columbia School of Broadcasting. There he made contacts in the busi-ness and got on the air wherever and whenever he could, including as an announcer at WKTU,Disco 92 in 1978, one of the most popular stations in the city back then. He made his living in

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those days as a security guard at night, but during the day he was the Minister of Music who could sing, danceand spin the records that we all wanted to hear, all the while keeping up with “the game,” which was whoev-er his New York teams were playing against then.

In 1986, he met the other great constant in his life, the love of his life, his honey, Annjeanetta Young,whom he called, Angel. In 1998, he joined Victory Tabernacle Deliverance Temple, PAW under the tutelageof Suffragan Bishop Michael C. Butler. Tony was baptized in Jesus name and became saved, sanctified, andfilled with the holy ghost. Tony and Angel were married on June, 27, 1999.

Together they made their home in Orangeburg where Tony had seized upon the opportunity to bring hisgifts to the airwaves at WSKO-FM. He soon became a fixture at another radio station that was “good for yourstate of mind”: WSSB, the FM station at South Carolina State. He was the Program Director, AssistantManager, and the Announcer. He touched so many lives there as “Tony in the Morning”, the guy who wouldplay modern R&B classics where the song had to be at least ten years old in the ‘90s. That wasn’t even knownas a music category back then. But Tony was playing it and people were loving it. That show has been off theair for over a decade, but for those who tuned in back then, just the mention of it brings a smile to their lipstoday. He followed that up with a finely cast sports talk show - just him and another guy! - that would haverivaled anything on ESPN today. Tony was also employed with Glory Communications for a period of time.On the days when he could travel with local college teams and broadcast their basketball games on the road,he felt like he was the luckiest guy on earth - and you could hear it in his voice.

Illnesses and infirmities eventually caught up to him and slowed him down some over time, but throughit all Tony was really that good. Whether on the baseball diamond or the cricket pitch, whether as programdirector or announcer, whether he was spinning records for building and the block party outside or just at hisbrother’s wedding, Tony was really that good - and he would be the last person to acknowledge it. Maybe itwas because he could always see so much in THIS moment as he glanced your way. And whereas he mightnot talk about himself, he would always remind others of the legacies we are left with and the heritage that isours from so many sources near and far.

Tony will be forever missed as the dynamic Media Ministry Coordinator for Victory TabernacleDeliverance Temple.

Tony is survived by his beloved wife Annjeannetta; his daughters, Stariasia N. Young, Shaquannah K.Young, and Shamecca Patrick; his grands, Rya Campbell, Kiare Patrick, Solomon Patrick, Amir Young,Marquise Jones, and Naveah Patrick; his brothers Michael (Diane) Edwards, Darryl Wayne Edwards andMaurice Edwards; his mother-in-law, Esther Heyward; his sisters-in-law, Lavenia Ward, Jewel Heyward, andRochelle Young; brother-in-law, Maurice Heyward; his uncles, Leon Howell and Leroy Howell; special friends,Jonathan and Katherine Dunning, Deacon Richard and Sister Hannah McManus, Brother Milton and SisterAlice Patterson, Brother David and Sister Marsha Gunter-Brown, Minister Alex Jamison, Sister KristenAllen, and the entire Victory Tabernacle Church Family; and a host of other relatives and friends, throughoutthe US, Jamaica, and literally around the world, among them Rennis, Dennis, Renee and Evelyn, Gloria andSuzy, Diane, Peggy and Karen, Tony and Fred and June, Dequan and Teresa and Kandi.

His memory is alive in them and his legacy remains in their kids. If they know Derek Jeter, they heardabout Jackie Robinson. If they know LeBron James, they heard about Dr J, Kareem and Wilt the Stilt. If theyknow Jay-Z and Usher, they heard about Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley & the Wailers.And if they know about Barack and Michelle, well, they heard how important it was to vote.

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