MRS. MARY P. PATTERSON, WIDOW OF BISHOP J. O. PATTERSON SR., WHO IS KNOWN FOR PRESERVING THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST HISTORY AND HERITAGE AS WELL AS PENTECOSTAL-HOLINESS HISTORY AROUND THE WORLD HAS DIED
THE PICTURE ABOVE: Mother Mary Patterson poses in her Memphis, Tenn., home, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht) (RNS) — Mother Mary P. Patterson, who was the widow of a Church of God in Christ presiding bishop and became known for her efforts to preserve the history of the historically Black Pentecostal denomination,…