With deepest sorrow we at Henryhand Funeral Home regret to announce the passing of Lucille Elizabeth Ar-Rahmaan, 87, of Georgetown, SC, who passed away on Thursday, March 13, 2025.

Circle of Life

Lucille Elizabeth Smith Ar-Rahmaan, stepped into eternity on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at Tidelands Health Georgetown Memorial Hospital, Georgetown, South Carolina after a brief illness. She was born on October 27, 1937, in Georgetown (Greentown), South Carolina to the late Pauline Georgia Greene Smith and the late Van "Sonny" Smith.

Lucille received her education in the Georgetown County Public School.  Although, she didn't graduate from Howard High School she received her GED from Durham Technical Community College (DTCC) in Durham, NC in 1982. After completing her GED, she studied Data Processing for one year.

Lucille spiritual guidance came from Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Georgetown. In 1965, she converted to the National of Islam where she was active in teaching students in the Sister Clara Muhammad School in New Haven, CT.  In the 1990's she was baptized at Christ Chapel in New Haven, CT and she sang in the choir.  In 2009 she started attending First Calvary Baptist Church in Georgetown, SC where she was a member of the Gospel Choir, served on the Usher Board, served meals in the community and was active with the children during the summer program.

In 1954, Lucille married David Wineglass which ended in a divorce. Then in 1967 she married Willard Bracey and in 1977, they changed their name from Bracey to Ar-Rahmaan. In 1984 she became a widow.  In 1990, she married Fredrick Reed which ended in a divorce.

Lucille loved to travel and wouldn't let any grass grow under her feet when she was younger.  When she left Georgetown, SC she lived in Columbia, SC, Franklin, KY, Chicago, IL (1962), Lawton, OK (1964), New Haven/Hamden, CT (1965), Durham, NC (1980) and Stone Mountain, GA (1999) before returning to Georgetown, SC in 2009.

Lucille worked various jobs.  After leaving high school in the 10th grade, she worked as a domestic servant, child sitting and housekeeping in Myrtle Beach; a shirt presser for American Linen, and racetrack server in Chicago. A racetrack server in Franklin, KY, in Durham, NC she worked in a printing shop, shirt presser at Rainbow Cleaners, started her own residential cleaning business called "Inside-Out Cleaning" and was a clothing and shoe vendor.  Her love for nursing overshadows all the various jobs. In New Haven, CT she worked at the Jewish Home for the Aged where she received her CNA and Geriatric Nursing degree.  When she returned to CT in 1986 after living in Durham, NC, she worked at Branford Hills Health Care Center where she retired in 1997 at 59 1/2.  She came out of retirement briefly in Stone Mountain, GA as a private duty nurse for a few years.

Lucille's hobbies included but not limited to traveling, cruising, going to the casino, learning about Africana Studies, playing spades, watching the ABC soap operas, Kelly & Mark, Let's Make and Deal, The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune. Her favorite foods and candy, besides seafood, are Almond Joy, chewing Doublemint gum, peanuts, fresh fruits and cooking Okra with stewed tomatoes.  Although Lucille didn't dance much, she loved to dance, and her favorite dance is the Electric Slide.  Her favorite song was "Cry Baby" by Garnet Mimms, and her favorite artists were the Temptations, Joe and Tina Turner.  Over the past two years, she has been engaged in Africana Studies. She didn't miss a session of In Class with Carr or Office Hours in Knarrative/Knubia with Dr. Greg Carr and Prof. Karen Hunter.

Lucille was preceded in death by: her parents, Pauline Georgia Greene Smith and Van "Sonny" Smith; maternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary Alston Greene; paternal grandparents, March and Eliza Alston Smith; uncles, William Greene, Eddie Greene, Johnie Greene, Moody Smith, Alonzo Adams, and Sydney Smith; aunts, Marion Greene, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Smith; one brother, James Buttone Greene; four sisters, Ella Mae X. King, Hazel Ann Smith, Mary Francis Smith and baby Cynthia Smith; spouses, David Wineglass and Willard (Bracey) Ar-Rahmaan; brothers-in-law, Alix Wineglass, Abraham Mose, Lee Bracey, Charles Bracey, William Bracey and Richard Valentine Sr.; sisters-in-law, Leola Wineglass Snow, Larena Bracey Valentine, Emma Bracey Caldwell Grant, Addie Bracey Washington, Mary Lou Greene and one great-granddaughter, Tamika Whack.

Lucille leaves a rich legacy for the future with one sister Ruth Smith Mose; five daughters, Viola W. Pace, Eugenia E. Barber, Willetta Ar-Rahmaan, Mary Christine Anderson and LaTasha Moody; two sons, Johnny Shaw and Willard A. Ar-Rahmaan; one son-in-love, Cliff Moody; fifteen grandchildren, twenty-five great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.  She also leaves special nieces Michelle Monteiro, Pauletta Sewefi, Pamela Smith-Downing, Bernice Bracey Wyatt; special nephews, Benjamin Greene, Antoine A. Scott; special cousins Richard and Dolly Greene, Elizabeth Brown; special friend Eloise Nesbit and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and a bonus mom to her children's' friends. She was the epitome of a mother to all that knew and loved her.

The family is receiving friends and family at 312 Mercer Ave., Georgetown, SC.

All arrangements and professional services have been entrusted to Henryhand Funeral Home of Andrews, SC. 843-354-2292.