Angela Clements Manassee

Angela was born in San Diego, CA and was soon adopted by Tip and Sandra Clements of Fallbrook, CA. Angela grew up in Fallbrook and graduated from Fallbrook High School in 1985. She attended Pepperdine University majoring in Sociology graduating in 1989. She continued graduate studies at Pepperdine University receiving the Master of Science in Ministry (1991) and the Master of Divinity (1999) degrees. Angela was fond of saying, “Pepperdine gave me the third degree.”

Angela’s professional career included working in Human Resources at Pepperdine University, serving as Single Purpose Coordinator and Master of Ceremonies in The Edge venue at North Coast Church in Vista, CA. She went on to complete an internship and residency in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at McKendree Village in Hermitage, TN and St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN respectively. Her training in CPE led to ministry as a hospice chaplain at Wells House Hospice in Long Beach, CA and Roze Room Hospice in Los Angeles, CA. Her ministry continued as she served as the Administrative Assistant for the Culver Palms Church of Christ in Los Angeles.

Angela married the love of her life, Mark Manassee, in 2004 and they welcomed and rejoiced in the birth of their son Micah Manassee in 2006.

Some of Angela’s significant life events were her baptism into Christ at Opportunity Camp in Northern California where she served as a counselor for underserved children during her college years. She helped rebuild a house in Croatia during the Croat–Bosniak War with Manna International and taught English to Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Angela was fond of traveling and especially enjoyed visiting National Parks and yearly anniversary trips to Ojai.

Angela was most of all a committed follower of the God made known in Jesus Christ, deeply devoted to her friends, loved sewing which made her feel close to her mother and grandmother, her one love with Mark, and especially treasured being a mom to Micah.

She was preceded in death by her parents Tip and Sandra Clements and her brother David Clements. She is survived by her husband Mark Manassee, son Micah Manassee, sister Chandra Dodson (Michael), brother Richard Clements (Roberta Kim Elliott and son Jimmy Elliott), birth parents Carol and Gordon Parham, nieces Alicia Clements (AJ Jimenez), Makenna Henry, Jennilynn Partee, nephews Chris Clements (Anareli), Levi Dodson, and Westen Partee, mother-in-Christ Rona Kingsley, and many great nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to Harvest Home www.harvesthomela.org an organization especially close to Angela’s heart or The American Brain Tumor Association at https://give.abta.org/ACM Angela firmly believed that God does not take us, but God receives us.

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. -William Shakespeare