Daily News | James E. Rhone, longtime teacher, vice principal, and church leader, has died at 87
James E. Rhone, 87, of Philadelphia, longtime teacher, popular vice principal, and tireless church leader, died Monday, May 1, of congestive heart failure at his home in West Mount Airy.
Away from school, Mr. Rhone was a constant presence at Nazarene Baptist Church of Nicetown. He served as trustee board chairman, head of the department of Christian education, and president of its Nazarene Community Development Corporation.He cofounded the church’s scholarship committee, taught Sunday school, and sang in the male chorus. “He was a peacemaker and a stabilizing rock in our church,” senior pastor K. Marshall Williams Sr. said in anBeyond his church, Mr.
He met Nan Rudd through mutual friends at church, and they married in 1971. “I knew right away he was a good man,” she said. They had daughter Nicole and son James, lived in East Mount Airy, and moved later to West Mount Airy. He took his son to amusement parks and cheered for him at wrestling matches. “He had a great personality,” his wife said. “His hobbies were young people and the church.”
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