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REV. CLARENCE MOSES PRICE 1938 – 2025 Rev. Clarence Moses Price of Hitchcock, Texas accepted a call to complete his assignment of life’s journey here on Earth as he gave up his last breath a long-term illness on September 13, 2025. He leaves to mourn his death: wife, Jessie Anderson Price; a son, Kirk Price; a son, Elliott Brow; a daughter, Ashley Johnson; 5 Price Brothers and their wives (Earnest, Leonard and Carol, Ronald and Wonda, Michael and Hiro, Darren and Terri); 8 sisters and their husbands (Loretta and Roy Mathews, Ida Wycoff, Shirley Price, Bertha and Clyde Sherman, Reva Price, Eunice Price, Amilda {Lucy} and Jerome Harris, and Felecia Price); over 52 biological nieces and nephews; 1 brother in-law; 2 sisters-in-law; 32 nieces and nephew-in-laws; and a whole crew of two and three generations of cousins and friends. Clarence was the oldest of 21 children born, of which 16 lived to be raised, to Clarence and Katherine Price. His early childhood and Junior High School education took place under the Hitchcock Independent School District where he attended the Lorraine Crosby Schools from First-through-Eighth Grades. In 1953, after graduating from there he attended High School at the Lincoln High School under the LaMarque Independent School District. Desiring to give their children the education farther than what they had received, Clarence and Katherine made a way for Clarence, after graduating from Lincoln in 1957, to enroll in Prairie View College the fall of that same year. Unfortunately, as fate would have it Clarence had to register for the military, and in February of 1958, he found himself enlisted in the Army and on the way to Point Fort Ord California. At the request of officers and a desire to participate, not only did he train to become a soldier, but a Boxer too! However, that too was not in GOD’s plans for him either, because after Basic Training and two years in service Clarence was sent home with a None Battle Honorable Physical Medical Discharge. He came home, having married Vera Boganey (deceased) he began his ventures working along the beachfront in Galveston as a Chef in many and varied restaurants and hotels. Resulting in an agreed divorce, a few years later Clarence married Amy Brow (deceased), and gained two sons, Ernest (deceased) and Elliott Brow. Even though their marriage didn’t last as-long-as he desired, his love for the boys did. Like his parents, Clarence’s love for children created a desire for him to adopt a young boy under the care of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Price Sr. This boy would lead his parents to become Foster Parents to over 62+ kids over the years in addition to their own. The boy Clarence adopted is now a man known as Kirk Price. Having received the calling to spread the gospel of JESUS CHRIST, Clarence preached his first Sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in 1990, shortly after the death of his father. On November 11, 1994, Clarence married the love he had been waiting and looking for, Jessie Anderson, they enjoyed serving the LORD as one unit in obedient membership at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Texas City, Texas until being called to assist at Greater New Light Baptist Church. They later moved to Hitchcock, Texas where they shared their lives together for 30 years until his demise. They shared their love for children by lovingly caring for and raising the beautiful baby girl his heart always desired, Ashley Johnson, as their daughter! Clarence joined and became the Associate Pastor at Greater New Light Baptist Church where Rev, Thaddeus Brown is the Pastor, at 6538 N. MLK Ave., Hitchcock, Texas. Clarence served there for years until he answered his call to come home GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT!! WELL DONE, COME HOME TO RECEIVE YOUR REWARD!

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Rev. Clarence Moses Price

October 9, 1938 - September 13, 2025