Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at Bethel Church of God in Christ, 3147 Glenwood Ave, Youngstown, Oh., 44511 for Evangelist Thelma Fitzgerald who entered eternal life on June 5, 2017 at St. Elizabeth Hospital-Youngstown.  

Evangelist Fitzgerald was a member of Beulah Temple United Holy Church of America where she formally served in the music department and was called to the ministry as an Evangelist Missionary.

In 1966, she started a Bible study with only two people, a shopping bag of clothes and a desire to help others. Through those classes, many today are in ministries of their own as preachers, teachers, missionary’s and Disciples for God. She also was Co-Pastor at Amazing Grace Ministry.

Evangelist Fitzgerald dedicated her entire adult life to God and the ministry of serving others. On December 25, 2001, she began Amazing Grace Ministries, “A Woman’s Ministry of Helping Others.”

The garage and basement of her home served many families throughout the Mahoning and Trumbull Counties with food, clothing, mentoring and referrals to agencies for assistance. She serviced more than 300 families a month. Evangelist Fitzgerald was affiliated with the Kinship Care Program, Human Services, Social Security Office and many churches, where assistance was needed with food, clothing and ministry. She was known to many as mom.

Evangelist Fitzgerald also supported foreign ministries with money, clothes and supplies. She, herself, went to Liberia West Africa for a while to work the foreign fields and give support to missionaries who were stationed there.

She leaves to cherish her beloved memory, three daughters, Patricia Clark of Youngstown, Valerie (Clarence) Johnson of Upper Marlboro, Md., and Lucy Conners of Youngstown; one son, Anthony Clark of Youngstown; two sisters, Elaine Levels of Mich. and Melvine (Gunter) Kaisauer of Hollywood, Calif.; one brother, Prentiss Logan of Chicago, Ill.; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by three sons, Johnathan, Alonzo and Darrell Clark; one daughter, Paulette Smith; her mother, Luvenia Logan Underwood; her father, Ashley J. Mayo II; one brother, Elder Leonard J. Mayo; and one sister, Violet Smith.

Friends may call from 9-10:00 a.m. at the church.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to L.E. Black, Phillips and Holden Funeral Home.