Rev. Lamey, an ordained Bishop in the Church of God, was born in a small farming community near McCrory, Arkansas on January 25, 1936 leaving as a young teen to Indianapolis, Indiana where he met his future wife Hazel (Carathers). Called into the ministry in 1967 he left his job as a manager with Colonial Bakery moving to Bainbridge, Georgia. His Church of God beginnings were a prison and local morning radio ministry.
Church of God Headquarters beginning in 1968 sent him to pastor numerous churches across the state ending in Brunswick, GA as the pastor at Sterling Church of God where he retired after 27 years of service in 2007.
On November 1, 2026 our father left this earth having completed his work to be rewarded by his God he served faithfully. Waiting are his wife (Hazel), his parents (Elizabeth and Willie) and siblings (Alma, Gerald, and Perry) and one great-grandchild (DJ) who preceded him. His surviving siblings (Sam Lamey, Nola Griffin, Madie Ponder, and Mae Waddell) and children – Brenda (Bradley), Sue, Joe, and Jeff (Sandy) with four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild will miss him dearly.
