The Last Insult in the World': The Reason a Pastor Reportedly Refused to Host Elderly Woman's Funeral Has Her Daughter Outraged

The daughter of an elderly woman who recently passed away is claiming that a pastor refused to host her mother's funeral — and cited the deceased 93-year-old woman's failure to tithe money in recent years as his reason.

Barbara Day claims that Fourth Missionary Baptist Church pastor Walter Houston patently refused to preside over the event for her mother, Olivia Blair, who had been sick for the past decade and in a coma over the past few months, according to KOKI-TV.

"It was like the last insult in the world," Day told KRIV-TV. "There was nothing else that I could do for my mommy but funeralize her in the church that she loved and worshipped all of her life, even as a little girl."

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The grieving daughter claims that Houston said that her mother had not attended the church in recent years and had "not paid her dues," thus she was not eligible for a funeral there.

"They knew she was ill. They don't care," Day said. "All they care about is getting money, money, money, money, money. Even retail stores give people more respect with that."

Tyrone Jacques, a self-described preacher watchdog, appeared on KRIV and claimed that he, too, was told the same thing — that Blair had failed to give dues. He said that the pastor rhetorically asked, "If the family cared so much, why didn't they at least send a dollar per week?"

A woman who answered the phone at Fourth Missionary Baptist Church told TheBlaze Wednesday that no one was available at the church to answer questions about the purported incident.

(H/T: KOKI-TV)

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