- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Celebration for Mother Mary Lou Aaron, October 14, 1929 - March 17, 2015, Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 12:00 p.m., Aaron's Tabernacle F.B.H. Church, 1785 Hollywood Road NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, Rev. Kimberly Edwards - Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2015-03-21
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Mary Lou Aaron. Birth date: October 14, 1929. Death date: March 17, 2015. Funeral date: March 21, 2015. Church: Aaron's Tabernacle F.B.H. Church (Atlanta, Ga.). The Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_aaronmarylou20150321
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_aaronmarylou20150321
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
FLOWER LADIES
Sis. Earlene Strozier
Sis. Mary Swift
Sis. Catty Virgie
Sis. Barbara Ward
Sis. Virginia Ward
Sis. Edith Zachery
PALL BEARERS
Bro. Jonathan Aaron Sr.
Bro. Reginald Edwards
Bro. Patrick Ward
Mr. Phillip White
Bro. Timothy Woods
Bro. Keith Zachery
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Aaron family would like to express our sincere appreciation for the love, concerns and many acts of kindness shown during our time of bereavement. Every prayer, visit, flower, card, thought and the many other tangible ways in which kindness was shown, was deeply appreciated. We shall never forget.
The Family -
'1-fomegoing cerebration
for 'Mother 'Mary Lou ~aron
Octv6er 14, 1929 -~arch 17, 2015 Saturday, ~arch 21, 2015- 12:ooy.m.
~aron's Ta6ernacfe P.'B.1f. Church 17851-foUywood%Jad rNW ~t[anta, eoraia 30318
'Rev. Xim6er(y 'Edwards- Ojficiatina
OBITUARY
Mother Mary Lou Aaron was the daughter of the late Rev. Luther E. Cook Sr. and the late Mary Duncan Cook. She was born on October 14, 1929, in Toccoa, Georgia. She is the seventh of nine children, eight who preceded her in death.
In her youth, Sis. Mary Aaron attended school in Rome, Georgia, where she graduated from Rome High School. She also attended Bethune Cookman College, and subsequently Spelman College, during which time she met, and married on September 15, 1954, her husband, the late John Wesley Aaron Sr., who preceded her in death on May 28, 2009. To their union was born eight children (one who preceded them in death, their daughter Thalia Aaron) . Sis. Mary worked for Atlanta Public Schools, and later pursued nursing assistant.
She accepted the Lord in 1942, at the age of 13, while attending St. John Holiness Church. In 1954, she became a member of Aaron's Tabernacle F.B.H. Church, first serving under the leadership of the late Rev. Dewitt Aaron. She continued to serve faithfully at Aaron's Tabernacle, as Assistant Pastor, under the leadership of the late Rev. Walter I. Aaron, where she was a local minister of the Fire Baptized Holiness Church and served actively on the Mother Board, until her passing, under the leadership of Rev. Kimberly Edwards.
She departed this life, on March 17, 2015. She leaves to mourn her passing: 7 children - Mr. John W. Aaron Jr., Ms. Mattilyn Aaron, Mr. Luther D. Aaron, Mrs. Mignon V. White, Mr. Anthony Aaron, Mr. & Mrs. Kevin (Ruth) Aaron and Ms. Corliss Aaron; 1 sister - Mr. & Mrs. Johnny (Rosalyn Juanita) Carter; 17 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren; 2 sister in laws - Sis.
Jacqueline Aaron & Sis. Glada Aaron; A host of nieces, nephew,
relatives and friends.
ORDER OF SERVICE
Processional ......... .
"Just A Little While To Stay Here"
Hymn .................................... Bro. Patrick Ward Prayer .................................... Bro. Jonathan Aaron Sr.
Old Testament New Testament. ....................... Sis. Valeria Williams
Selection.............................. "Pray We All Be Ready"
Remarks..... .. .... ......... .. (Mother Board - Sis. Mary Swift) (Others- Limit 3 Minutes)
A Medley of Songs ...
"I'm Pressing On" "Over Yonder" "How I Got Over"
Obituary.................. .. ............ (Read Silently)
Eulogy.................................. Rev. Kimberly Edwards
Acknowledgement of Flowers and Cards
Recessional.................. "When We All Get To Heaven"
INTERMENT
South-View Cemetery 1990 Jonesboro Road SE Atlanta, Georgia 30315