Lorraine Vertell Thomas Obituary

It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Lorraine Vertell Thomas (Washington, North Carolina), born in Chicago, Illinois, who passed away at the age of 98, on February 7, 2024. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family.

She was predeceased by: her father Otis Goldsmith; her husband John Thomas; her brothers, Claude, Otis, Frank Odean and Vernon Goldsmith; her granddaughter Crystal Harsley-Black; and her mother Velma Robinson.

She is survived by: her sisters, Bernice Wright, Brenda Arnold, Alice Goldsmith Cobb and Janice Marie Goldsmith; her children, John Jr., Craig, Victor (Erica), Anthony (Donnie), Bonita, Lenora and Jacqueline Thomas; her grandchildren, Tiara, Kiana, Tirharqah, Dymond Thomas, Tianna Peoples, Bryanna Walker and Tyshawn Stadeker; her goddaughter Felicia Johnson (Lenard); her siblings, Bishop Jeffery (Evangelist Regina), Kenneth Goldsmith, Ruth Anne Benford, Carol Jean Goldsmith and Bertha Chivis (Wendell); her nieces and nephews, Alecia Cobb McCarty, Sharon Garrett, Karon Cobb, Stephanie Reed, Terry Ellison Hart, Felicia Price (Michael), Thomas, Dewayne Cobb, Earl McCullough, Lav Thomas and Steve Ellison; her close friends, Edith Evans, Sarah Schroko and Sylvia Hiple; Patricia Murphy. She is also survived by many other nieces and nephews.