The late Pastor Arthur J. Gass, Sr. of Waukegan, Illinois, departed this life on Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
A Celebration of His Life Service will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, August 29, 2020 at the Christian Valley Missionary Baptist Church, 2690 Argonne Drive, North Chicago, Illinois.
A private ceremony for the family will be held on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. from the Shepard Memorial Garden Cemetery in Sylvester, Georgia. Words of Comfort will be given my Pastor John Hillary, Sr. Services will be streamed Facebook Live from the "Shipps Funeral Home" Facebook page.
Pastor Arthur J. Gass, Sr. was born on October 18, 1951 in Sylvester (Worth County), Georgia to the late Ulysses, Sr. and Tannie Lee (Ellison) Gass.
He accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior at the age of 10 at the Hopewell Baptist Church of Gordy, Georgia under the pastoral care of Reverend Albert Paxton. Arthur attended public school in Sylvester (Worth County), Georgia and graduated from Worth County High School in 1970. He volunteered to serve his country in the United States Army with the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and was Honorably Discharged in 1973. After leaving the Army, Arthur attended Albany State College in Albany, Georgia, and graduated in 1977 with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Accounting and Economics.
Arthur served as Pastor of the St. Stephen Baptist Church for 7 years. After being relocated to Illinois in 1986 with Moore Business Forms, he joined Christian Valley Baptist Church under the pastoral care of Reverend Clarence Clark. He served as pastor of the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Waukegan, Illinois for 33 years. He retired from Moore Business Forms in April 2002 after 26 years. Arthur and his lovely wife Anne founded the Black Chamber of Commerce of Lake County in 2009, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer.
This Soldier in the Army of the Lord was called from Labor to Eternal Rest on Tuesday, August 25, 2020. He was preceded in death by his wife, Anne V. Gass; his father, Ulysses Gass; his mothers, Tannie Lee Gass and Mary L. Gass; his brother, Austin Gass; and his sister, Juanita Gass-Payne.
He leaves to cherish his children, LuSundra (Darl, Jr.) Everett of Chesterfield, Virginia, CaRita (Kedrick) Timms, Arthur J. Gass Jr., both of Zion, Ilinois and Frederick Countryman of Albany, Georgia; grandchildren, Darl III, Donavyn, Jasper, Harrison and Jaylen; his siblings, Agnes Bernice (Ronald) Eley of Lauderhill, Florida, Ulysses Gass, Jr. of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Earnest (Nada Jean) Gass of Sylvester, Georgia, Bennie Gass of Albany, Georgia, Alice Gass of Detroit, Michigan; and a host of nieces, nephews and in-laws.
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