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Donnie McClurkin Still Grieving Loss of Mother & Father: ‘I Had
a Pity Party a Week Ago’ [VIDEO]
a Pity Party a Week Ago’ [VIDEO]
Article By Erin Cunningham: EEW Magazine News
Losing parents is difficult at any age. This especially rings true for award-winning gospel singer Pastor Donnie
McClurkin after both his parents died approximately 10 months apart. But he is finding comfort in the arms of
Jesus and through gospel music.
On a recent airing of TBN’s Praise the Lord, host McClurkin opened up about a very private moment of
distress, when he was all alone, bawling over his struggle to move forward without the physical presence of the
mother and father he deeply loves.
“I had a pity party a week ago, I mean just a 54-year-old pity party,” he said, while interviewing Grammy-
nominated solo artist Erica Campbell. “You ain’t never seen a man sit down and want mama and daddy at the
same time, and have to deal with a sense of loss, and then rest back on your bed and imagine yourself resting
in His arms and just saying ‘This will do. This will do.’”
His dad, Donald Andy McClurkin, Sr. died in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Nov. 13, of acute
myocardial infarction, a leading cause of death worldwide. Commonly known as a heart attack, AMI occurs when
there is a blockage of oxygen‐filled blood flow towards a part of the heart, eventually causing it to become
damaged, and die.
McClurkin’s father’s demise at 79 came just four days after his minister son's 54th birthday on Nov. 9.
His mother Frances McClurkin was also 79 at her time of death on Jan. 18 after succumbing to complications
from a massive heart attack on Jan. 13.
Losing parents is difficult at any age. This especially rings true for award-winning gospel singer Pastor Donnie
McClurkin after both his parents died approximately 10 months apart. But he is finding comfort in the arms of
Jesus and through gospel music.
On a recent airing of TBN’s Praise the Lord, host McClurkin opened up about a very private moment of
distress, when he was all alone, bawling over his struggle to move forward without the physical presence of the
mother and father he deeply loves.
“I had a pity party a week ago, I mean just a 54-year-old pity party,” he said, while interviewing Grammy-
nominated solo artist Erica Campbell. “You ain’t never seen a man sit down and want mama and daddy at the
same time, and have to deal with a sense of loss, and then rest back on your bed and imagine yourself resting
in His arms and just saying ‘This will do. This will do.’”
His dad, Donald Andy McClurkin, Sr. died in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Nov. 13, of acute
myocardial infarction, a leading cause of death worldwide. Commonly known as a heart attack, AMI occurs when
there is a blockage of oxygen‐filled blood flow towards a part of the heart, eventually causing it to become
damaged, and die.
McClurkin’s father’s demise at 79 came just four days after his minister son's 54th birthday on Nov. 9.
His mother Frances McClurkin was also 79 at her time of death on Jan. 18 after succumbing to complications
from a massive heart attack on Jan. 13.
JANUARY 31, 2014
(L) Donnie McClurkin, Sr (R) Frances McClurkin: Both died approximately 10 months
apart of heart-related issues. Both were 79 when they expired.
apart of heart-related issues. Both were 79 when they expired.
The singer, who is currently promoting his new “Duets” CD continued, “I got in my car, because at night, when I
get overwhelmed, I just drive and sit in an empty parking lot where nobody knows me and just turn my radio on.
12 midnight I turn my radio on.”
On this particular night, the preacher said he heard Campbell’s newest single, “Help,” the title track and the
second official single from the eOne/MyBlock Records artist’s upcoming debut project set for a March 2014
release.
Ironically, in that same song, EEW Magazine reported on Jan. 7 that Campbell lets out an agonizing plea for
God to help her cope with the death of her father.
“God I just lost my daddy, I need help!” she shouts out near the end of the melody, in remembrance of Eddie A.
Atkins Jr., who died of cancer on June 25, 2013. He was 66.
“That made me into a blubbering idiot,” said McClurkin of the lyrics that spoke directly to his pain. Both he and
Campbell are friends. In fact, the singer filled in for the pastor on his radio show back in November, so he could
take time off to grieve the loss of his father.
So how did he get up out of that low place? He talked to himself and then, God talked to him.
“You sitting up here crying and your mother and father both ain’t thinking about you. They ain’t even looked
over the portals of heaven to see how I am. They looking directly in the face of Jesus and they can’t think of
anything else at this time.”
McClurkin added, “And God started telling me, ‘Donnie, I didn’t take them from you. I promoted them to where
they always wanted to be.’”
So he said, “I had to look up to the heavens and say, ‘I’ll see y’all in a few.’”
Watch him talk about it below at about the 29:12 mark
get overwhelmed, I just drive and sit in an empty parking lot where nobody knows me and just turn my radio on.
12 midnight I turn my radio on.”
On this particular night, the preacher said he heard Campbell’s newest single, “Help,” the title track and the
second official single from the eOne/MyBlock Records artist’s upcoming debut project set for a March 2014
release.
Ironically, in that same song, EEW Magazine reported on Jan. 7 that Campbell lets out an agonizing plea for
God to help her cope with the death of her father.
“God I just lost my daddy, I need help!” she shouts out near the end of the melody, in remembrance of Eddie A.
Atkins Jr., who died of cancer on June 25, 2013. He was 66.
“That made me into a blubbering idiot,” said McClurkin of the lyrics that spoke directly to his pain. Both he and
Campbell are friends. In fact, the singer filled in for the pastor on his radio show back in November, so he could
take time off to grieve the loss of his father.
So how did he get up out of that low place? He talked to himself and then, God talked to him.
“You sitting up here crying and your mother and father both ain’t thinking about you. They ain’t even looked
over the portals of heaven to see how I am. They looking directly in the face of Jesus and they can’t think of
anything else at this time.”
McClurkin added, “And God started telling me, ‘Donnie, I didn’t take them from you. I promoted them to where
they always wanted to be.’”
So he said, “I had to look up to the heavens and say, ‘I’ll see y’all in a few.’”
Watch him talk about it below at about the 29:12 mark