Almeta Phillistine (Williams) Buchanan
Dob 27 Aug 1949 Chicago, Il
Death 27 February 2006 Kalamazoo, MI
Almeta (Phillistine) Buchanan parents were Ethel Mae (Sconyers) Williams and Alfonzo Chester,
Surviving is Almeta older sister name Gwendowlyn Barbara Ware. She had two cousins Larry and Marie Thomas that she was close to and they talked frequently. Larry, Mary and Phillistine was more like siblings than cousins.
She had been married once to Paul Anthony Buchanan.
She didn't have any biological children. We were very close. She was a great aunt to me.
I got reconnect with my Aunt Almeta Phillistine Buchanan in my late 20fs, which was my mother's (Barbara J. Ware) younger sister in 1989. I always called her Phillistine was her choice. But sometimes I would call her Aunt Phillistine by nature. She lived in Chicago, IL downtown in a high-rise building off of 48th street and Lake Park . Out her big picture window you could see Lake Shore Drive and on a cool summer evening you could feel the wind across the lake through her windows. When we first got reconnect she would take me out at night to the nightclubs to dance. She taught me how to do the electric slide dance.
My Aunt was a classy career woman, who loved her fur coats and fine clothes. She was not a very outgoing person. But she had a lot of hospitality if you came into her home. She was a tall lady that walked down those streets in Chicago with a lot of pride and dignity in her neighborhood.
She was raised by a single mother in Chicago so she knew what it was like to struggle. Her mother died when she was finishing high school. So my Aunt also told me that she was going to college to make something of herself and get a good job. She worked for a large insurance company downtown Chicago and in her later years for Chicago Archdiocese corporate office.
When I went to Chicago to see my family, I mostly would stay with Aunt Phillistine we were like "two peas in a pod," as people would say. I would wake up in the morning smelling home cooked bacon in the black iron skillet. And if she didn't cook supper we would go out to a nice restaurant with good food. We loved to eat Italian ice and Italian beef sandwiches. Aunt Phillistine liked her sandwich dipped in the beef juice. We also would go to the best barbecue rib joints in Chicago. For desert we would have a strawberry shortcake cake that Jewels grocery store sells. My aunt was a clean housekeeper if she drops something on the kitchen floor she would mop it up right then and there. Every room in her apartment was pink carpet and white furniture. Her apartment looked a home in the Better Homes and Garden Magazine. When she would clean up she would listen to Sam Cook her was one of her favorite singers or her praise music. We went with our cousin Crystal one year to see Ojays in concert in Indiana area, we had a blast!
Aunt Phillistine gave her life to Christ and joined church "Salem Baptist Church of Chicago" with Pastor James Meeks. When the doctors told her that her cancer was spreading and she was in the last stages. I went to Chicago and got her and she agreed to relocated to Borgress nursing home in Kalamazoo
MI. where my grandmother Eunice Dungey was at the time. Aunt Phillistine didn't like it she said "Eunice gets around better then me and I am 40 years younger." The cancer was taking a toll on her. So I agreed to let her move in with me. A few months later she passed away in my home with cancer.
By then Phillistine was a resident of Kalamazoo and so her creamation was done in Kalamazoo.
Her family and friends had a gravesite service on March 18, 2006 with a pastor from her church and her remains are buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Chicago, IL. The same day we have her afterwards was her cousin Creed Thomas funeral in Chicago, IL.
I miss her so much. Rest in heaven until we meet again.
Written by her niece Wanda Dungey Thurmond on Feb 22 2017
Dob 27 Aug 1949 Chicago, Il
Death 27 February 2006 Kalamazoo, MI
Almeta (Phillistine) Buchanan parents were Ethel Mae (Sconyers) Williams and Alfonzo Chester,
Surviving is Almeta older sister name Gwendowlyn Barbara Ware. She had two cousins Larry and Marie Thomas that she was close to and they talked frequently. Larry, Mary and Phillistine was more like siblings than cousins.
She had been married once to Paul Anthony Buchanan.
She didn't have any biological children. We were very close. She was a great aunt to me.
I got reconnect with my Aunt Almeta Phillistine Buchanan in my late 20fs, which was my mother's (Barbara J. Ware) younger sister in 1989. I always called her Phillistine was her choice. But sometimes I would call her Aunt Phillistine by nature. She lived in Chicago, IL downtown in a high-rise building off of 48th street and Lake Park . Out her big picture window you could see Lake Shore Drive and on a cool summer evening you could feel the wind across the lake through her windows. When we first got reconnect she would take me out at night to the nightclubs to dance. She taught me how to do the electric slide dance.
My Aunt was a classy career woman, who loved her fur coats and fine clothes. She was not a very outgoing person. But she had a lot of hospitality if you came into her home. She was a tall lady that walked down those streets in Chicago with a lot of pride and dignity in her neighborhood.
She was raised by a single mother in Chicago so she knew what it was like to struggle. Her mother died when she was finishing high school. So my Aunt also told me that she was going to college to make something of herself and get a good job. She worked for a large insurance company downtown Chicago and in her later years for Chicago Archdiocese corporate office.
When I went to Chicago to see my family, I mostly would stay with Aunt Phillistine we were like "two peas in a pod," as people would say. I would wake up in the morning smelling home cooked bacon in the black iron skillet. And if she didn't cook supper we would go out to a nice restaurant with good food. We loved to eat Italian ice and Italian beef sandwiches. Aunt Phillistine liked her sandwich dipped in the beef juice. We also would go to the best barbecue rib joints in Chicago. For desert we would have a strawberry shortcake cake that Jewels grocery store sells. My aunt was a clean housekeeper if she drops something on the kitchen floor she would mop it up right then and there. Every room in her apartment was pink carpet and white furniture. Her apartment looked a home in the Better Homes and Garden Magazine. When she would clean up she would listen to Sam Cook her was one of her favorite singers or her praise music. We went with our cousin Crystal one year to see Ojays in concert in Indiana area, we had a blast!
Aunt Phillistine gave her life to Christ and joined church "Salem Baptist Church of Chicago" with Pastor James Meeks. When the doctors told her that her cancer was spreading and she was in the last stages. I went to Chicago and got her and she agreed to relocated to Borgress nursing home in Kalamazoo
MI. where my grandmother Eunice Dungey was at the time. Aunt Phillistine didn't like it she said "Eunice gets around better then me and I am 40 years younger." The cancer was taking a toll on her. So I agreed to let her move in with me. A few months later she passed away in my home with cancer.
By then Phillistine was a resident of Kalamazoo and so her creamation was done in Kalamazoo.
Her family and friends had a gravesite service on March 18, 2006 with a pastor from her church and her remains are buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Chicago, IL. The same day we have her afterwards was her cousin Creed Thomas funeral in Chicago, IL.
I miss her so much. Rest in heaven until we meet again.
Written by her niece Wanda Dungey Thurmond on Feb 22 2017
Almeta Phillistine (Williams) Buchanan
Dob 27 Aug 1949 Chicago, Il
Death 27 February 2006 Kalamazoo, MI
Almeta (Phillistine) Buchanan parents were Ethel Mae (Sconyers) Williams and Alfonzo Chester,
Surviving is Almeta older sister name Gwendowlyn Barbara Ware. She had two cousins Larry and Marie Thomas that she was close to and they talked frequently. Larry, Mary and Phillistine was more like siblings than cousins.
She had been married once to Paul Anthony Buchanan.
She didn't have any biological children. We were very close. She was a great aunt to me.
I got reconnect with my Aunt Almeta Phillistine Buchanan in my late 20fs, which was my mother's (Barbara J. Ware) younger sister in 1989. I always called her Phillistine was her choice. But sometimes I would call her Aunt Phillistine by nature. She lived in Chicago, IL downtown in a high-rise building off of 48th street and Lake Park . Out her big picture window you could see Lake Shore Drive and on a cool summer evening you could feel the wind across the lake through her windows. When we first got reconnect she would take me out at night to the nightclubs to dance. She taught me how to do the electric slide dance.
My Aunt was a classy career woman, who loved her fur coats and fine clothes. She was not a very outgoing person. But she had a lot of hospitality if you came into her home. She was a tall lady that walked down those streets in Chicago with a lot of pride and dignity in her neighborhood.
She was raised by a single mother in Chicago so she knew what it was like to struggle. Her mother died when she was finishing high school. So my Aunt also told me that she was going to college to make something of herself and get a good job. She worked for a large insurance company downtown Chicago and in her later years for Chicago Archdiocese corporate office.
When I went to Chicago to see my family, I mostly would stay with Aunt Phillistine we were like "two peas in a pod," as people would say. I would wake up in the morning smelling home cooked bacon in the black iron skillet. And if she didn't cook supper we would go out to a nice restaurant with good food. We loved to eat Italian ice and Italian beef sandwiches. Aunt Phillistine liked her sandwich dipped in the beef juice. We also would go to the best barbecue rib joints in Chicago. For desert we would have a strawberry shortcake cake that Jewels grocery store sells. My aunt was a clean housekeeper if she drops something on the kitchen floor she would mop it up right then and there. Every room in her apartment was pink carpet and white furniture. Her apartment looked a home in the Better Homes and Garden Magazine. When she would clean up she would listen to Sam Cook her was one of her favorite singers or her praise music. We went with our cousin Crystal one year to see Ojays in concert in Indiana area, we had a blast!
Aunt Phillistine gave her life to Christ and joined church "Salem Baptist Church of Chicago" with Pastor James Meeks. When the doctors told her that her cancer was spreading and she was in the last stages. I went to Chicago and got her and she agreed to relocated to Borgress nursing home in Kalamazoo
MI. where my grandmother Eunice Dungey was at the time. Aunt Phillistine didn't like it she said "Eunice gets around better then me and I am 40 years younger." The cancer was taking a toll on her. So I agreed to let her move in with me. A few months later she passed away in my home with cancer.
By then Phillistine was a resident of Kalamazoo and so her creamation was done in Kalamazoo.
Her family and friends had a gravesite service on March 18, 2006 with a pastor from her church and her remains are buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Chicago, IL. The same day we have her afterwards was her cousin Creed Thomas funeral in Chicago, IL.
I miss her so much. Rest in heaven until we meet again.
Written by her niece Wanda Dungey Thurmond on Feb 22 2017
Dob 27 Aug 1949 Chicago, Il
Death 27 February 2006 Kalamazoo, MI
Almeta (Phillistine) Buchanan parents were Ethel Mae (Sconyers) Williams and Alfonzo Chester,
Surviving is Almeta older sister name Gwendowlyn Barbara Ware. She had two cousins Larry and Marie Thomas that she was close to and they talked frequently. Larry, Mary and Phillistine was more like siblings than cousins.
She had been married once to Paul Anthony Buchanan.
She didn't have any biological children. We were very close. She was a great aunt to me.
I got reconnect with my Aunt Almeta Phillistine Buchanan in my late 20fs, which was my mother's (Barbara J. Ware) younger sister in 1989. I always called her Phillistine was her choice. But sometimes I would call her Aunt Phillistine by nature. She lived in Chicago, IL downtown in a high-rise building off of 48th street and Lake Park . Out her big picture window you could see Lake Shore Drive and on a cool summer evening you could feel the wind across the lake through her windows. When we first got reconnect she would take me out at night to the nightclubs to dance. She taught me how to do the electric slide dance.
My Aunt was a classy career woman, who loved her fur coats and fine clothes. She was not a very outgoing person. But she had a lot of hospitality if you came into her home. She was a tall lady that walked down those streets in Chicago with a lot of pride and dignity in her neighborhood.
She was raised by a single mother in Chicago so she knew what it was like to struggle. Her mother died when she was finishing high school. So my Aunt also told me that she was going to college to make something of herself and get a good job. She worked for a large insurance company downtown Chicago and in her later years for Chicago Archdiocese corporate office.
When I went to Chicago to see my family, I mostly would stay with Aunt Phillistine we were like "two peas in a pod," as people would say. I would wake up in the morning smelling home cooked bacon in the black iron skillet. And if she didn't cook supper we would go out to a nice restaurant with good food. We loved to eat Italian ice and Italian beef sandwiches. Aunt Phillistine liked her sandwich dipped in the beef juice. We also would go to the best barbecue rib joints in Chicago. For desert we would have a strawberry shortcake cake that Jewels grocery store sells. My aunt was a clean housekeeper if she drops something on the kitchen floor she would mop it up right then and there. Every room in her apartment was pink carpet and white furniture. Her apartment looked a home in the Better Homes and Garden Magazine. When she would clean up she would listen to Sam Cook her was one of her favorite singers or her praise music. We went with our cousin Crystal one year to see Ojays in concert in Indiana area, we had a blast!
Aunt Phillistine gave her life to Christ and joined church "Salem Baptist Church of Chicago" with Pastor James Meeks. When the doctors told her that her cancer was spreading and she was in the last stages. I went to Chicago and got her and she agreed to relocated to Borgress nursing home in Kalamazoo
MI. where my grandmother Eunice Dungey was at the time. Aunt Phillistine didn't like it she said "Eunice gets around better then me and I am 40 years younger." The cancer was taking a toll on her. So I agreed to let her move in with me. A few months later she passed away in my home with cancer.
By then Phillistine was a resident of Kalamazoo and so her creamation was done in Kalamazoo.
Her family and friends had a gravesite service on March 18, 2006 with a pastor from her church and her remains are buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Chicago, IL. The same day we have her afterwards was her cousin Creed Thomas funeral in Chicago, IL.
I miss her so much. Rest in heaven until we meet again.
Written by her niece Wanda Dungey Thurmond on Feb 22 2017
