Maude Magdaline Spellman

Evangelist, Maude M. Spellman, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on August 14, 1920 to the late William Eddie and Maude Ann Thornton. She attended New Land Elementary School and Roanoke High School in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. She met and married her love, Andrew L. Spellman of Camden County, North Carolina on January 9, 1940. They were united in marriage at the courthouse in North Carolina. Twelve children were born from this union. They moved from North Carolina with their first two children and relocated in the state of Delaware to Greentop in Lincoln, Delaware. She was employed by Sussex Poultry, Libby's, McNeil & Libby's and cooked at Polumbo's & Paul's restaurant. She was also a daycare provider for many families in her later years. Mother Spellman joined Welcome Full Gospel Holiness Church along with her husband, under the leadership of Bishop David and Mother Sarah Shockley. She was a faithful and dedicated member, secretary, teacher and ordained minister. She followed her husband out into the green fields running revivals, evangelizing on migrant camps and teaching Sunday school and bible study in the home of saints. She joined the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas with her husband and continued the Lord's work at New Shiloh F.B.H. Church where her husband began pastoring in Ellendale, Delaware. She held many offices in the church, and trained the saints in those offices; Secretary, Sunday school teacher, Usher, Treasurer and Choir member. She attended ETTA Moody Bible Institute and taught New Testament Survey I & II. Mother Spellman was a prayer warrior, a faithful and dedicated wife and mother. She honored the Lord and her husband. She taught her children to seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; to respect themselves and others; especially the elderly, to have manners, to cook, to clean and to take care of each other. She spared not the rod but taught us to love each other and she loved us. She was a mother indeed. Even in her sickness, Mother witnessed to the nurses at Milford Hospital. On 9/20/12, she stopped the nurse and said, "before you leave I want to thank you all for what you have done for me and are going to do." She was being transferred to a nursing home so she said, "If I do not get to go home, I'll be resting with the Saints of God." God knows my heart and he can make all things right. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, sisters; Thelma and Margaret Hinton and Martha Sutton; brothers William Edward (Bud), Moses, Norman and Hilton Thornton, and one son, Roland Spellman and one granddaughter Rhonda Smith. She leaves to cherish her memory, her husband of (72) years, Elder Andrew L. Spellman, Evelyn Cooper of Boston, MA, her children, Leonidus (Nancy) of San Diego, CA; Miriam Celestine Harris (Luke) of Dover, DE; Ronald, Dover, DE; Leola Couturier of Dover, DE; Matthew (Diya) of San Diego, CA; Linda B. Spellman of Ellendale, DE; Weldon (Patricia) of Bear, DE; Timothy of Dover, DE; Charlotte (Robert) of Baltimore, MD; Thornton (Lisa) of Dover, DE; Gracie of Colorado, 22 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, a host of Godchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

Maude Magdaline Spellman

August 14, 1920 - October 5, 2012