VISITATION:

Corey Alexander Clerkley was born on October 19, 1971 to Kenneth Earl, Sr. & Johnnie Jones Clerkley. He was their third child.

Corey was raised in Palestine, Texas and attended Palestine High School, Trinity Valley Community, Tyler Junior College and Eastfield Community College. Corey joined the United States Army and was Honorably Discharged.

He accepted Christ at an early age and united with Mount Vernon AME Church.

Corey was a Respiratory Therapist.

Corey left this earth on the Wings of Angels on November 15, 2017 in Mesquite, Texas.  He was preceded in death by his mother, Johnnie Jones Clerkley; grandmother, Onie Jones; grandfather, Elmer Jones; three uncles, William Danny Weatherford, Charles Clewis and Samual Thomas.

Loving survivors: son, Austin (Bubba) Alexander Clerkley; daughters, Avenie Lee Carroll Clerkley and Masie Brown; father, Kenneth Clerkley, Sr., Fort Worth, Texas; brother, Kenneth E. Clerkley, Jr., Dallas, Texas; sister, Oddiea (Richard) Daughtery, Sr., Palestine, Texas; nephews he helped raised, Richard Don Daughtery, Jr., Whitney Craig Palomo; aunts Claudia Thomas, Lois Jones and Brenda Clewis; uncles, James B. Weatherford, Calvin Jones and Louis Jones. A host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.