- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Service of Memory for Leonard Courtney Archer, 1911-1974, Psalm 39:4, First Baptist Church Capitol Hill, 900 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, Tennessee, Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, Pastor, Monday, January 21, 1974, 2:00 P.M.
- Date of Original:
- 1974-01-21
- Subject:
- African American men--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Tennessee--Nashville---History--20th century
Funeral service--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century
African Americans--Tennessee--Nashville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Leonard Courtney Archer. Birth date: August 17, 1911. Death date: January 18, 1974. Funeral date: January 21, 1974. Church: First Baptist Church Capitol Hill (Nashville, Tenn.). 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.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 289
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_archerleonardcourtney19740121
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_archerleonardcourtney19740121
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
HONORARY PALLBEARERS
President A. P. Torrence President Emeritus W. S. Davis President Hugh Gloster
L. W. Beasley
Dr. David Bradley Dr. Hubert B. Crouch, Sr. Dr. Lawrence Davis English Department, T.S.U. (Male Members) Dr. C. B. Fancher Dr. Axel C. Hansen Butler Henderson Dr. Edward High
John H. Howard Dr. George Hull
Paul King . Dr. Edward Mazique Dr. Thomas E. Poag Dr. James Reeves Dr. Earl L. Sasser Dr. Louis Schuster
Dr. J. B. Singleton Bernard Smith Don Whitehead E. L. Whitmore
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
ACTIVE PALL BEARERS
Dr. Calvin Calhoun
Hazo Carter, Jr. Dr. Robert J. Hudson H. C. Jones
Dr. Calvin King
Dr. Crawford B. Lindsay Alfred Tyler Dr. McDonald Williams
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Family gratefully acknowledges with genuine appreciation your comforting expressions of sympathetic interest which will long be remembered with deep gratitude.
THE J. W. ADKINS FUNERAl.HOME
2510- Twelfth Avenue, S., at Gilmore Nashville, Tennessee
John W. Adkins, Licensed Mortician, Director Mrs. J. W. Adkins, Licensed Funeral Director,
Notary. Lady Attendant Mrs. Rhea T. Thomas., Licensed Mortician, Lady Attendant
William H. Parks. Licensed Funeral Director
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LEONARD COURTNEY ARCHER
/1911 - 1974
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I .-Psalm 39:4.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CAPITOL HILL 900 James Robertson Parkway Nashville, Tenne see Rev. KeHy Miller Smith, P or Monday, JanWD'Y 21, 1974 2:00P.M.
THE OBO"UARY
~~If we've the faith to plant a seed And know a flower will grow; If we've the faith that rain will fall And that the wind will blow . ...
If we've the faith that spring will come When wintertime is gone, How can we doubt that life and love Go ever on and on!''
Leonard Courtney Archer, the third son of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Archer, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 17, 1911. He received his early education at Morehouse Academy and his undergraduate ti-aining at Morehouse College, where his father was president. He later received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Speech and Theatre from the Ohio State University.
In 1940, Doctor Archer was married to the former Miss Alice Durham, to which union was born a daughter, Alice Lenore, who died at the age of nine.
During a long and distinguished professional career, Doctor Archer taught English and dramatics in Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas, and held the chairmanship of the Department of Speech and Drama at Central State College, Wilberforce. Ohio. In 1958, hejoined the Departments of English and Speech and Drama at Tennessee State University, where he served faithfully until his death.
Doctor Archer was author of numerous short stories, poems, and plays, and only last fall was acclaimed upon the publication of his book, Black Images in the American Theatre.
Since his move to Nash\ille, Doctor Archer has been a member of The First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill and a proud member of the Choir. He also held membership in the American Educational Theatre As~ociation, College English Association, Delta Psi Omega, and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Doctor Archer passed on Friday, January 18, 1974, leaving as survivors his devoted wife, two brothers, Mr. Samuel Howard Archer, Jr. and Mr. Nelson Thomas Archer, a sister-in-law, Mrs. Thelma Archer, all of Atlanta; and devoted cousins, Mr. and Mrs. John Clayton, Bronx, N.Y. and Mr. and Mrs. Quitman Williams, Belmar, New Jersey.
THE ORDER OF SERVICE
Organ Prelude Processional
Scripture Reading and Prayer ................ ............. Rev. Ottie West Hymn ....... ..................... ... ....._................................ The Choir
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Remarks:
Dr. A. P. Torrence, President, Tennessee State University Dr. R. J. Hudson, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Hymn ....................................................... .... .. ... ... ,. The Choir
How Great Thou Art
Eulogy ..................................... The Reverend Kelly Miller Smith Music ........................................ ............................. The Choir
This Is My Father's World Benediction Recessional
Memorial Services and Interment Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Atlanta, Georgia 2:00P.M.