Ethel Mae Hightower Graham, 92, of Monticello's Waukeenah Community finished her earthly course at home, surrounded by her loving family, on Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, January 6, at St. Phillip AME Church, Monticello, with burial in the Church Cemetery. Viewing-visitation is 4-6 p.m. Friday at St. Phillip. Born and raised in Jefferson County's St. Phillip Community, Mrs. Graham had been a longtime professional housekeeper. She joined St. Phillip in 1944 and served faithfully as a Stewardess, Class Leader, Missionary Society Member and Chairperson of the Kitchen Committee. She was a great story teller, comedian, historian and prayer warrior. Survivors include her children: Alfreddie (Cheryl), Lois Carolyn (Bernard Brooks), Mazie, Reverend Jeffrey (Carol), Ronald (Patricia) and Donald Graham and Lorie Graham (Terry) Keaton; 25 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; brother, John (Ada) Hightower; sisters: Dorothy Plummer, Mary V. Ingram, Lenora (Henry) Wiggins, Bernice Hightower and Betty H. Gilley; brother-in-law, Richard Scott; sisters-in-law: Mamie and Esther Graham and Ethel Pyron. Ethel's husband, Lester Graham, preceded her in death.