"SOVEREIGN, SOVEREIGN, THE LORD MY GOD IS SOVEREIGN. HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO DO. HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO DO WHEN HE WANTS TO. GOD CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO DO WHEN HE WANTS TO, HOW HE WANTS TO, BEAUSE HE'S SOVEREIGN, GOD IS GOD. WHO AM I TO QUESTION HIS WISDOM? I AM NOTHING. WHO AM I TO QUESTION GOD'S JUDGEMENT? I AM NOTHING. WHO AM I TO BE OFFENDED BY HIS WAYS, BY WHAT HE ALLOWS TO BE…? I MUST REALIZE MY GOD IS SOVEREIGN…"

ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020, AT 5:48PM, GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, BREATHED "NEW LIFE" INTO MY DEAR MOTHER, PEARL ELIZABETH HARRIS MCCLARY.

BORN SEPTEMBER 18, 1942, IN OXFORD, NC, TO MARY RUTH ELIZABETH HARRIS. PEARL AND HER MOTHER MARY WERE ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF MACK AND MINNIE NEAL JONES, AND RELOCATED TO WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE MANY GRANDCHILDREN, NIECES, AND NEPHEWS, PEARL WAS THE APPLE OF BOTH HER GRANDPARENTS EYES.

AT A VERY EARLY AGE, PEARL BECAME A MEMBER OF ST. PETER'S APOSTLIC CHURCH, WHERE HER GRAND UNCLE, THE HONORABLE BISHOP ELI NEAL WAS THE FOUNDER AND PASTOR. PEARL TARRIED AND RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST AT THE AGE OF TWELVE. PEARL WAS A DILIGENT WORKER IN ST. PETER'S, WHERE SHE SANG ON THE CHOIR, WORKED WITH THE KITCHEN COMMITTEE, THE MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT, AND IN MANY OTHER CAPACTIES.

PEARL ATTENDED ATKINS HIGH SCHOOL AND MARRIED THE LATE ALFORD MARTIN. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN TWO DAUGHTERS, VERNETTA VYONNE MARTIN, (HER DILIGENT CARETAKER) OF WINSTON-SALEM, NC, AND TONYA DENISE MARTIN-NOBLE, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.

PEARL LATER GRADUATED FROM FORSYTH TECHNICAL COLLEGE, AND BECAMAE EMPLOYED WITH THE FORSYTH COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, WHERE SHE SERVED TENACIOUSLY FOR  27 YEARS. DURING THIS TIME, SHE MARRIED THE LATE WILLIAM D. MCCLARY.

UPON RETIREMENT, SHE OBTAINED HER CNA CERTIFICATE, AND WORKED FOR VARIOUS LOCAL AGENCIES AND PRIVATE DUTY SITTING.

PEARL WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE MACEDONIA TRUE VINE PENTACOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH UNDER THE DIVINE BISHOP SYLVESTER DAVIS JOHNSON. SHE LATER BECAME A MEMBER OF THE NEW JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE REVEREND RONALD SPEAS IS THE PASTOR. (FORMALLY PASTOR SAMUEL J. CORNELIUS)

PEARL LEAVES TO CELEBRATE HER LIFE AND LEGACY HER DAUGHTERS, VERNETTA AND TONYA; HER ADOPTER DAUGHTER, PHYLLIS JOHNSON; HER ADOPTED SON, JOSEPH K. BRUINTON; GRANDSONS, REGINALD L. NOBLE, III (THE LOVE OF HER LIFE) AND CARLOS SAWYER; GRANDAUGHTERS, KELLI AND CANDICE NOBLE AND TANEKA CALDWELL OF THE CITY; GREAT-GRANCHILDREN, SETH AND CARRINGTON CALDWELL OF THE CITY; HER BELOVED COUSIN, BETTY DAVIS; HER BELOVED SISTERS, VERONICA SAWYER OF THE CITY AND ADA HARVEY OF PALM COAST, FLORIDA; GODDAUGHTERS, DARLENE PARKS,CARMEN RUSSELL-BONHAM, PEGGY BITTING-HALE, VALENCIA DUNLAP, CRYSTAL FARRIOR, DARLENE DILWORTH,  AIMEE HAMPTON, AND TOO MANY OTHER CHILDREN TO NAME; AND A HOST OF COUSINS, NEICES, NEPHEWS, AND FRIENDS.

PRIVATE MEMORIAL SEVICES WILL BE HELD.