PENNSYLVANIA, April 27 - Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

(4) An Army Sergeant, Reverend Tilly served proudly in

World War II with the F Company, 85th Infantry, at Fort

Riley, Kansas.

(5) Upon receiving his doctor of divinity degree from

Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, Reverend Tilly

was ordained a Baptist minister.

(6) Prior to moving to Johnstown, Reverend Tilly was an

associate pastor of Vine Memorial Baptist Church in

Philadelphia.

(7) Beginning in 1965, Reverend Tilly pastored the

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Johnstown for 47 years.

(8) Reverend Tilly profoundly changed the greater

Johnstown area in the most positive way.

(9) Reverend Tilly established the Pleasant Hill Baptist

Youth Fellowship, which mentored children on Christian

education, values, self-esteem, American citizenship, self-

responsibility, love and respect for others.

(10) In 1968, Reverend Tilly established the Pleasant

Hill Baptist Church Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Memorial Day, one of the longest-running celebrations of Dr.

King's legacy in Pennsylvania.

(11) Reverend Tilly, a faculty member at the University

of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, recruited hundreds of

disadvantaged students across Pennsylvania, giving them an

opportunity for a college education.

(12) Reverend Tilly ordained dozens of reverends and

deacons and was honored by the Pennsylvania and National

Baptist Conventions for outstanding service.

(13) Reverend Tilly is respected in greater Johnstown

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