Hello my name is James T. Lynn Jr. and I’m the son of Anita Lynn.

“ Anita F. Crump Lynn entered eternal peace on February 2, 2022, as the Spirit of the Lord beckoned her home to her final resting place. Anita was born in Richmond, VA to the late Samuel W. and Willie Birthel Crump, April 17, 1955. She grew up and was educated in New Kent County, VA. Where she graduated from New Kent High School. She attended Thomas Nelson Community College.

Anita loved to worship at home and at several churches, especially her home church, New Elam Baptist Church in New Kent, Faith Temple COGIC in Hampton, where she served on the adult choir, and St. Paul United Holy Church of America, Inc, where she served in the adult choir and nurses ministry. She last attended New Beginnings Outreach Center Church of God in Newport News, VA. She believed in connecting to God wherever she resided. She served with a willing heart of servanthood.

Anita’s hobbies were traveling, reading and sewing. She was a gifted and devoted teacher’s assistant and a data entry clerk in the Richmond Public School System. She enjoyed working at the Norfolk Police Department as a non-emergency employee, Langley Air Force Base as an office assistant, and Verizon as a sales consultant.

In addition to Anita’s parents, Samuel W. and Willie Birthel Crump, she was proceeded in death by her spouse of 20 years, James T. Lynn, Sr.

Anita is survived by her sons, James T. Lynn, Jr. and Brandon Mayfield-Crump (Javon); sisters, Phyllis C. Burrell, Sandra C. Tatum, Willie C. Anderson (Ernest); brothers, Elton I. Sr., S. LaMont, and Anthony M. Crump; an aunt, Hazel Tyler of Roxbury, MA; special uncle, Clarence Hogan, of Roxbury, MA; 8 nephews; 6 nieces; 9 great-nephews; 11 great-nieces; 5 great-great nephews; many cousins; God sons and God daughters; an enormous number of relatives and friends. Acknowledgements to a special friend Marlene Williams; a special sister, Zelnora Holt of Hampton; a special daughter, Che’Nita Lasley of Saudi Arabia.

Committal by Superintendent Sherman Watkins, of New Beginnings Outreach Center Church of God, Newport News, VA. Funeral Services rendered by Affinity Funeral Service, Mechanicsville Turnpike, Mechanicsville, VA. Interment in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Norfolk, VA beside her love, James Turner Lynn, Sr.