Charles Ray Mcdade

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness...." CHARLES RAY McDADE, age 67, of Meridian, Mississippi, affectionately known by many as "Ted", was born in Haughton, Louisiana on February 11, 1955. He peacefully transitioned and was welcomed into God's Holy Kingdom at Regency Medical Center, Meridian on October 10, 2022 at 1:41 p.m. Service of Memory and Life Celebration is slated for Friday, October 21, 2022 at 12:00 noon from the Weatherly Chapel. Visitation for family and friends is scheduled Thursday evening,(October 20th) from 2-5:00 p.m. also in the Weatherly Chapel. Rev. Marcus Lawrence will deliver the eulogy offering words of comfort and consolation with Sister Lenora Delaine Brown serving of Mistress of Order. Interment and Service of Committal follows in Elmwood Memorial Gardens, 11313 US Highway 11, York, Alabama. Ted joined the Waterloo Baptist Church at an early age and, until his last days, had several friends that he studied the bible with regularly. He was a star basketball player at Haughton High School and went on to graduate in 1973. Receiving an athletic scholarship, he attended McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas. Charles enjoyed many genres of music and sports. He was a top-notch Chess player who enjoyed challenging players of all skill levels. In 1979 he moved to Jackson, Tennessee where he met and married Deborah Yarbrough and from this union, one son was born, Joshua McDade. Even though, wheelchair-bound since August of 1993, he managed to become an active member in his local church, teaching Sunday School. Ted went on to counsel youth and young adults in the Meridian community where he had lived for the past eleven years. Charles met his special friend Jacqueline Studdard Weatherly in 1988. Their long relationship lasted throughout the most challenging years of his life and until his passing. Because of his outgoing congenial personality, Charles leaves many friends in the York, Livingston and Sumter County, Alabama area, the Meridian, MS area and countless friends in the Haughton and Princeton, Louisiana areas, along with those from Georgia and California. Additionally, Ted was truly blessed to enjoy a very caring and loving relationship with Dr. Robert and Mrs. Janet Berg of Meridian, Mississippi. Charles' mother Elnora McDade, preceded him in death. Those who remain to cherish precious memories and to Celebrate his life are his son, Joshua McDade, Jacksonville, Florida; three sisters, Velma Lott- Gladney (John) of Bossier City, Louisiana; Ruby Henderson (Milton) of Compton, California and Dorothy Lott of Dallas, Texas; one brother, Willie Lott of Long Beach, California; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends who loved him dearly and whom he also loved. Truly Charles "Ted" will be missed! To the McDade/Lott Family, we the Weatherly Funeral Home Family (that Charles was a part of for several years) offer to each of you our most sincere and heartfelt sympathy and condolences. Our prayer remains that your abiding faith in God will continue to comfort, to strengthen and sustain you during your time of bereavement. "Good night sweet Prince and flights of angels sing Thee to thy rest"