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Prelude & Visitation...9am-10am
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EL’RAY WISEMAN, JR.
– Active Pallbearers –
Order of Service
Processional ..........................Clergy & Family
Selection ................................................Choir
Raymond Wiseman
Jake Wynn
Norris Stangill
Rainey McLendon
Chad Wiseman
Remus Hines
A Celebration of the life of
Sunrise: April 28, 1954 • Sunset: August 16, 2009
– Honorary Pallbearers –
Holy Scriptures
Old Testament ..................Psalms 121:1-8
New Testament......1 Corinthians 15:50-52
El’Ray D. Wiseman
Bradley Wiseman
ONeal Bob Wilson, Jr.
Don Carter
Charles Hightower, Jr
Clarence Wiseman
Prayer
Acknowledgement
Obituary .....................................Read Silently
The family of El’Ray Wiseman, Jr. wishes to
express sincere appreciation for your prayers,
cards, floral, fiscal and other acts of kindness
during our beloved’s transition from time into
eternity. May God bless and keep you.
“The Lord’s Prayer”....Kijana Wiseman-Fusilier
Resolutions & Acknowledgement
Lunita Martin
Interment
Paradise Cemetery
10401 West Montgomery Rd., Houston Texas
Expressions
(2 minutes please)
Funeral Arrangements
Solo ..........................Kijana Wiseman-Fusilier
Frazier - Mitchell Funeral Home
“Wind Beneath My Wings”
5002 Hershe, Houston Texas 77020
713-673-3672 • fmfsvc@sbcglobal.net
Eulogy ..........................Rev. Stanley T. Hillard
Saturday,
Program Design
Selection ................................................Choir
August 22, 2009
The Wiseman Company
Viewing: 9-10am Service: 10am at
713-521-0900 • info@wisemancompany.com
Recessional
St. Luke Baptist Church
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4200 Lockwood Dr • Houston TX 77026
Rev. S. T. Hillard, Pastor
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Obituary
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With Love...
El’Ray Wiseman, Jr.
To my “One” Son
was born on April 28, 1954, at St. Elizabeth
Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was the third
child of the union of Mary Wilson Wiseman of
Huntsville, Texas and the late El’Ray Wiseman,
Sr., of San Augustine, Texas.
This is your report card...for Heaven’s Sake.
You have been a good, obedient, honorable son.
You kept your committment to your dad’s last
request to you at the age of four when he was
leaving to check on his mother. You got your
nursery school bag and stood by his side and
said, “I did my job. The bathroom is clean. Can I
go with you?” Your dad replied, “No, Little Man.
Stay here and take care of your mother. You
obeyed and did not cry. You did the best you could
for me. Today, I release you to our Father God.
Thank you for a job well done my Son! I will see
you Resurrection Morning.
El’Ray expressed faith in Christ at an early age
and united with Second Cavalcade Baptist
Church where he was a member of the Faith
Chorus youth choir.
El’Ray was a master coronet player and--with
his sister, Lynda Joy, on flute--was a member
of the world-famous Kashmere Stage Band, for
6 years under the tutelage of “Prof” Conrad
Johnson. He served as captain of the band
from 1969-1971 and was named best highs
school trumpeter in America for two years in a
row.
-Bradley Wiseman
Dad, I know that you've moved on.
The spirit is still here though the body is gone.
Please watch over me with tender loving care
There’s so much more I wish we could’ve shared.
Remnants of your love will fuel my soul
My faith is entrenched in the one I behold.
Though I miss you, I know you
are seeing a brighter day.
When I think of it, you haven’t really gone away.
Peacefully sitting at the Father’s hand
Who spreads bliss all through the land.
The pain is gone; doubt no more.
Just wait to see what the Lord has in store.
-Mary Helen Wiseman, M.Ed.
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-Joy Wiseman
My Dad
El’Ray loved his family and was a devoted
father who continued to guide and protect his
beloved mother, four children and six
grandchildren until called to eternity on
Sunday, August 16, 2009, while vacationing in
Salt Lake City Utah.
He was preceded in death by his father, El’Ray
Wiseman, Sr. and beloved sister, Lynda Joy
Wiseman-Barnes. He leaves to grieve, his
mother, Mary Helen Wilson Wiseman; sister,
Kijana Wiseman-Fusilier (Aundra); four
children: LaTanya Brooks-Samuels (DeAndre),
El’Ray Darian Wiseman (Rose), Bradley Elliot
Wiseman and Joy Delaine Wiseman; six
grandchildren: Nathaniel LeDarian Parker,
Cristopher Levy, Cameron Samuels, Kierra
Wiseman, Ni’tashia Wiseman and Pearl
Wiseman; one nephew, Andre Eugene Barnes;
an ex-wife, Faren Sims Thomas; special
friends Sandra Brooks and Tracy Ann Richard;
and a host of other relatives and friends.
God called him on the phone, many
many times, but my dad wouldn’t answer.
This time, though, he didn’t put Him on hold
--didn’t send it to voicemail-he simply answered the phone
and said “I’m coming home.
I know you are playing a hot celestial trumpet now
--rediscovering the funky soulful music your illness
forced you to bottle inside all these years...BTW,
give a shout-out to Lynda, Prof, Rufus, Bob, Rilla,
Drayton, Terra, Daddy--& everyone else!-- for me!
When I lose hope,
You give me strength.
When I feel that I have failed,
It is you that remind me
Of just how special l am.
You see into my soul
when all others can’t understand me.
Fathers are special in that way.
You are not only my father.
You are my rock, safe haven and protector.
For this reason, the two of us
Will always share a bond of love, trust
And admiration.
I admire you for who you are to me.
Confidant, dad and friend.
-Kijana Wiseman-Fusilier, M.Ed.
-LaTanya Brooks Samuels, M.Ed.
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There are so many stories and so much that I
could say. I just want to say that I love you
and I am going to miss you.
El’Ray with the 1971 Kashmere Stage Band
-El’Ray Darian Wiseman
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