Gertie Beatrice Little

GERTIE BEATRICE LITTLE, age 87, of Amityville, N. Y. was born May 13, 1936 in Cuba, Sumter County; Alabama to the union of the late T. S. and Jessie Mae Walker Smith. On October 26, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. she surrendered to the will of God and peacefully transitioned, surrounded by loving family at her residence. Service of Remembrance and Life Celebration is slated for Monday, November 6, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at Pine Grove Baptist Church, Yantley, Alabama. Rev. Andrew Byers will deliver the eulogy offering words of comfort and consolation; Rev. Willie D. Burton is church pastor. Sister Little will lie in repose one hour prior to funeral time. Interment follows in Pine Grove Cemetery. After the committal service repast is in the church's Fellowship Hall. Visitation for family and friends is scheduled Sunday evening (Nov. 5th) from 2-5:00 p.m. in the Weatherly Chapel. Early in life, she joined Pine Grove Baptist Church where she established Christian principals that carried her throughout her life. During her youth in Alabama, she attended Kinterbish High School. After High School, she journeyed to New York. This is where she was united in Holy Matrimony to Samuel Bernard Little who at a young age, preceded her in death. Also while in New York she did Day work and various other jobs and for ten years was a Foster Grandparent in the Park Avenue School district of Westbury. Sister Little was active in her New York Church - Bethel A. M. E. Church, Westbury, New York, under the pastorate of Rev. Tamoya Bubkley David where she was always gladly participating in the Missionary Society, was a Choir Member and was on the Women's Day Board - a faithful Christian woman. Those who remain to celebrate her life and cherish precious memories are: numerous nieces and nephews who adored her; a brother, T. S. Smith, Jr. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a sister Wanda Larkin, Bronx, New York; her church family and many friends. Truly she will be missed. To the entire Little family, we at Weatherly Funeral Home 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 sorrow.