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Amelia Bashful Obituary

Died March 31 at the age of 91 in San Leandro, California. She was a graduate of McKinley High and Southern University where she received Bachelor and Master's Degrees in Elementary Education with a minor in Music. She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Mary Walker Bashful; brothers, Earnest Bashful and Dr. Emmett W. Bashful; and sisters, Lucy Bashful, Dorothy B. Kinnon, and Lillian B. Martley. Services will be on Tuesday, April 10 at 11:00 a.m. at Market Street Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Oakland, California.

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Published by The Advocate on Apr. 8, 2012.

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Nina Kinnon-Humphrey

April 27, 2012

We don't konw how strong we are until being strong is the only choice we have. This is one of the many lessons we learned from you, Tee. I miss you.

Nathan Kinnon

April 26, 2012

There are times when words cannot express the sorrows of the human heart.

This is one of those times.

For 91 years Amelia Bashful has been able to touch lives either through her classroom, through her music or church involvement (Choir Director, Organist, Pianist, Sabbath school Teach, weekly prison evangelism and visitation of the sick and shut in.

She taught school for 33 years and never saw it as her job, but her duty to serve in the development of the human intellect.

She was firm believer that no child should be left behind.

Miss Amelia Bashful (Aunt Tee) was a kind, caring, selfless, God loving person.

It was hard for me to understand, how she could give so much of herself yet be so happy with so little time left for self.

Aunt Tee always carried herself like a lady, with dignity and respect for self and toward others.

She loved her family dearly and unconditionally, even at times when we were least deserving.

The last name is Bashful, but there is nothing bashful, about how high Amelia Bashful set the standard for the Life she lived and the Example she left.

Too often we must lose what we have, to realize just how much we had.

C.P. Bannon Mortuary

April 7, 2012

Offering our deepest condolences during this difficult time.

Delo Kinnon

April 4, 2012

Grief can be so hard, but our special memories help us cope. Remembering you and your loved one today and always.

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