Monday, September 12, 2011Eleven Oâ??clock in the MorningProvidence Baptist Church 1106 Tuscaloosa Street Greensboro, North Carolina Reverend Dr. Howard Allen Chubbs Officiating~Reflections~On September 5, 2011, after battling a series of illnesses, Lucille Strickland Tapp Morgan, longtime resident of Greensboro, departed this earthly life at Moses Cone Hospital. She was born on September 25, 1927, in Randolph County, to the late Inabell Cassady Roberson and Alonzo Americus Strickland. Lucille graduated from Randolph County Training School and received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics degree from North Carolina College at Durham (now North Carolina Central University). For many years, Mrs. Tapp, as she was known, was a highly skilled and dedicated Home Economics teacher at several North Carolina area schools and was especially loved by her students at James B. Dudley High School. Lucille will be remembered as strong, generous, caring and hard-working; she was a phenomenal seamstress, who rejoiced in creating and styling fashionable outfits for herself and others. She also had a talent and love for gardening and cooking and delighted in sharing her home-made canned and frozen goods with family, friends and neighbors. Lucille was a member of the Beta Iota Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. During holiday time she would make jars of pink and green jelly to give to her sorority sisters. She was a longtime member of Providence Baptist Church and during earlier years designed and made outfits for her fellow ushers.Mrs. Morgan was predeceased by her husband of 35 years, James D. Morgan, Jr. and her great granddaughter Cierra N. Tapp. From her first marriage, to Charlie Tapp, Jr., she was blessed with two sons, Jerry of Steubenville, OH and Kenneth of White Plains, NY. Additional survivors include: a daughter, Fanchonette Chapelle Davis, four grandsons, Rhasun Allah, Shannon and Terrence Tapp and Lloyd Davis, one granddaughter, Fanchon Davis Marsh, three daughters-in-law, Lynda Tapp, Karen Gadson-Tapp and Patricia Seaton, eight great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Memories of her positive impact as a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, teacher and friend will be everlasting.