Devoted wife, mother, grandmother and pastor---Pastor Loretta Bleah Laurore, 66 peacefully departed from this life on Saturday, September 9, 2017 surrounded by her family in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Loretta was born on March 25, 1951 in Liberia, West Africa to Samuel and Emma Urey Johnson. In 1977, Loretta graduated from the University of Liberia with a degree in Education. She married her childhood sweetheart, Reverend Joseph Joel Laurore in 1971 and spent 14 years pastoring the Philadelphia Church in Liberia, West Africa.

For the past thirty-five years, Pastor Loretta has been engaged in global ministry with her husband and children where her life and ministry has had a lasting impact. As the Pastor of World Revival Temple, she emphasized the power of prayer and had a passion for ministering to married couples, to ensure their success. She was known not only as Pastor, but was referred to as mother, sister and friend. She was the loving mom to four beautiful daughters and grandmother to 12 grandchildren. She will be deeply missed but her legacy will continue to live on.

She is survived by her husband Archbishop Joseph Joel Laurore, her children Christine Domond, Michaelle Holbird, Jorette Gilkes and Immanuella Senatus; son in laws, Wilner Domond, Greg Holbird, James Gilkes and Jeanaude Senatus; 12 grandchildren, Valencia, Grahmia, Joely, Yshua, Joel-Michael, Ezriel, Gabrielle, Zion, Jiselle, Jeanaude, Majesty and Zylirah; her siblings Vera Walker, Stanton and Lourdes Johnson, Bishop Darlingston and Chrys Johnson, Edrina Denard, Adolphus and Mercy Bates and an entire network of family and friends.

She is preceded in death by her parents Samuel and Emma Johnson.

Memorial contributions may be made to the family of Pastor Loretta B. Laurore, P. O. Box 701770, Tulsa, OK USA 74170

Visitation will be Friday, September 22, 2017 from 7-9 pm at Moore Funeral Home 9350 E. 51st Tulsa, Oklahoma 74145. Home going services will be held Saturday September 23, 2017 at 11am at Boston Avenue Methodist Church 1301 S. Boston Ave. Tulsa Oklahoma 74119. Moore's Southlawn 918-663-2233