LEFAY better known as LEE FAYE MACK

(May 18, 1932 -August 21, 2019)

• AkA Minister Lee Faye Mack- known to be a woman with fierce belief in the power of God
• Founder of Can You Hear The Cry Ministries
• Founder of the Back To Life Center
• Founder of "Mother Wit" Program
• AKA Mother of Churches : Dellabrook Presbyterian and True Temple Holiness
• AKA Community Mother
• Known as community activist since mid '60s
• Known for her advocacy for others, for standing in the gap when others could not stand for themselves
• Known for defending the defenseless
• Known for speaking truth to those in power
• One of the first women hired by Louise Wilson Director of the Experiment in Self Reliance to organize women in Winston-Salem, NC
• Known as Mother of the Black Panther Party when she stood with the youth of our community in Winston-Salem, NC
• Community Organizer with the Winston-Salem Urban League
• Co- founder of the Winston-Salem Welfare Rights Organization

Born into a large sharecropping family in Elliot, SC on May 18, 1932 to her birth mother, Sudie Anderson McDonald, who died during her child birth. Mother Mack was raised by her grandmother, Dosia Anderson; father, Clara Eugene; and Mattie Durant McDonald, whom she called mom.

She migrated to Winston-Salem with her late husband, Hayzle Lee Mack in the late 1950s. Mother of six children, Hazel, Ruth, Lenora and Preston (Beleita), preceded in death by Clara and Betty, grandchildren, Malcolm (Amber), Roderick (deceased) Elricko (Tanethia), Rasheedah, Atiya, Joshua, Jessica, Angelica; and three great-grands, Maliyah, Malcolm, Jr., and Adesola into whom she instilled knowledge of self, love of God, love of self, love of the Black Community and a duty to work for the good of the whole. Mother Mack was preceded in death by her siblings, Licenia Mashack, Rebecca Anderson, Eloise Mashack, Eugene McDonald, and Edgar McDonald.  She has three living siblings, Mattie Lee Bennett (John), Nancy Irene Knott (John) and Ruth Geneva Benjamin; three cousins, Margaret Durant, Dosia Anderson-Blair, and Elizabeth Katherine Jackson;  special devoted friends, Ms. Wallene Gaither, Mrs. Barbara Gaddy, and Mr. Paul R. Allen of Upper Marlboro, Maryland; and she leaves behind a host of relatives and friends who love and adore her.

Lee Faye Mack, AKA - Queen Mother Mack, protector of family, her people and community! We honor our Mother and celebrate her crossing over to reside forever with God and all of our blessed ancestors.

Let us celebrate her life all are asked to wear African Celebratory Attire.

Funeral services will be held at 12noon Friday, August 30, 2019 at Emmanuel Baptist Church.  Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery.  The family visitation will be held from 11:00am until 12noon on Friday at the Church.