- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Celebration of Life For Mr. Clarence Bailey, Jr., Sunrise: November 23, 1941, Sunset: October 31, 2016
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2016
- Subject:
- African American men--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 Clarence Bailey, Jr. Birth date: November 21, 1941. Death date: October 31, 2016. Funeral date: (not recorded). Church: Ben Hill United Methodist 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_baileyclarencejr
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_baileyclarencejr
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
God sawy ou getting tired, and rest was meant to be, So he put HIS arms aroundyou and whispered ((Come to Me'~
With teaiful ryes we watchedyou, and sawyou pass awqy, Although we lovedy ou dear!J, we could not makeyou stqy, A golden heart stopped beating, and tender hands now rest, God broke our hearts to prove to us, HE on!J takes the best.
PALLBEARERS
The Men of Ben Hill United Methodist Church
FLOWER LADIES
The Ben Hill United Methodist Church Jewels & Partners
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We sincerely thank you for your prayers, your many acts of kindness over the years, and your many expressions of sympathy.
Because of you, we are able to endure our great loss. Please keep us in your prayers.
THE BAILEY FAMILY
Funeral Arrangements Entrusted To: MURRAY BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME, INC.
1199 Utoy Springs Road, SW Atlanta, Georgia 30331 404.349.3000
Programs by D arryl Allen's Plus 404.755.0965
Clarence Bailey, Jr. was born in Macon County, Georgia on November 23, 1941 to the late Clarence Bailey, Sr. and Fairy Lee Bailey. The oldest of two children, he was raised in a farming community, where he learned at a young age the discipline of hard-work. It was through years of laboring in the fields of South Georgia that Mr. Bailey developed his long-time passion for gardening.
Mr. Bailey graduated from the segregated, D.F. Douglas High School in Macon County where he played forward for the school basketball team. Years later, he obtained a Technical- Associate's Degree from Georgia Perimeter College. It was while Mr. Bailey was employed at Georgia Tech in its maintenance division where at the University dining hall he met his late-wife, Mrs. Jennie Mae. They were married for 47 years and together raised their only daughter, Maxine.
Mr. Bailey was a proud retiree from the General Motors Company where he was employed for over 35 years. He rose to ranks of Supervisor where he managed the fulfillment of dealer orders on a nightly basis. Mr. Bailey could be assigned anywhere in the plant because of his knowledge of the entire operation. He was one of the first African-Americans in a leadership position at the Doraville location.
Mr. Bailey was a long-time member of Ben Hill United Church where he joined in 1973, and was a loyal member of the Men's Usher Board and Finance Committee. Second to his love for the Lord and his family, was his love for his garden. Though Mr. Bailey served as landscaper and "yard-man" for many families through the years, meticulously cutting lawns with his top-of-the-line mowers, his best work may have been reserved for his own back-yard mini-field. Friends, family and neighbors all awaited the one-of-akind vegetables that Mr. Bailey cultivated each season in his yard. He took pride in pulling out his hedge-clippers to cut the large vegetables to place in the over-sized trash bags.
Mr. Bailey was preceded in death by his parents and his wife. He
leaves to cherish his memory his daughter, Mrs. Maxine 0ohnny)
White; his brother, Mr. Billy Goyce) Bailey; granddaughters, Milicent, Muriel, and Leslie; five great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and special friends.
PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL
HYMN OF CELEBRATION
UMH#525
"We'll Understand It Better By and By"
SCRIPTURE Old Testament Psalms 23 New Testament John 14:1-6
Reverend Paul E asley
PRAYER
Reverend Dr. Byron Thomas Sr. Pastor
Ben Hill United Methodist Church
CELEBRATION IN SONG "Center of My Joy"
TRIBUTES:
Mr. Greg Ross, Best Friend
Brother Ben Crawford, Friend & Church Member
CELEBRATION IN SONG "It is Well With My Soul"
WORDS OF COMFORT
Reverend Belinda McCastle
Associate Pastor
Ben H ill U nited Methodist Church
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
RECESSIONAL
POSTLUDE
Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens 5755 Mallory Road
College Park, Georgia
REPAST
Ben Hill United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall