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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