Mable S. Williams-Whack

Mable Williams Whack, born in Saluda, South Carolina, was the tenth of thirteen children born to Oscar and Ellie Smith. The family moved to Ward, South Carolina when she was two years old. She was educated in the public schools, was raised in a God fearing Christian home and accepted Christ at an early age. She moved to Port Deposit, Maryland after completing high school at age 18 to live with her sister, Elvina and her husband, Pink Bugg. She met and married Collin Williams and they had one daughter, Gladys. Her husband passed in 1972 and in 1982, she married the late Henry Whack. She was employed at the Bainbridge Naval Station for a time and moved to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Perry Point, Md. She ended her career with thirty six years of faithful service in the Dietetics Department. Sis. Whack loved the Lord and in the early 1960s she joined Mt. Zion Baptist Church under the pastorate of Rev. Milton Phillips at the Alliance Street location. She served faithfully as a member of the Senior Ushers Ministry, she made history as one of the original Celestial Gospel Singers who this year are celebrating fifty years of praising the Lord in song and she was also a faithful member of the Tuesday morning Women’s Bible Study group. She was a life member of the NAACP, a charter member of the SEIDAL Social Club and she loved to travel with her club members and friends. Mabel was also a true and faithful friend who admired and encouraged young people and had a pleasant smile and kind word for everyone. Sis. Whack passed peacefully in her home following a lengthy illness. She was predeceased by both husbands, her daughter, her parents and all of her siblings. She leaves to cherish precious memories a grand-daughter, Chandra (Steve) Turner and grandson Danny (Denise) Miller; great grandchildren Chase and Chance Turner and Madison Miller; special nephews Dwight James and Thomas Short; several other nieces and nephews;  sister-in-law, Rosa Brown; brothers-in-law Bernard James, Sr. and Leon (Dorothy) Hall, Sr.; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives; special friends Alice Venable, Dorothy Stevenson, Willie Scroggins, Deacon & Deaconess Morast;  Deaconess Classie Moore, Bro. James Malloy, Sr., her church family and friends. Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 11 AM, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 520 Lewis Street, Havre de Grace, MD. Visitation for family and friends will be held Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 10 AM until 11 AM, at the church prior to the funeral service. Interment will be in Harford Memorial Gardens, Aberdeen, MD.