Stan McKenzie, husband of first female AME bishop, dies at 76
Stan McKenzie, the husband of African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, died on July 21 in Dallas after a brief illness. He was 76.
Less than two weeks before, McKenzie’s wife—the first woman bishop in the denomination’s 205-year history—praised her spouse at the retirement service for bishops during the AME Church’s General Conference.
“He is unique in that his ego does not get in the way of me being who I am, and I don’t get in the way of who he is,” she said in Orlando, Florida, on July 9. “This is a man that listened to every sermon before you heard it and listened to it patiently and supportive—this is the man who, when God called me to preach, said ‘yes’ because he knew that God was calling us together.”
