- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Homegoing Celebration for Ruth Banks-Bentley, Sunrise: March 17, 1927, Sunset: October 21, 2005, Funeral Service, Saturday, October 29, 2005, 2:00p.m., Virgie's Chapel, Goolsby Mortuary, 1375 Jonesboro Road, SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30315, Reverend B.J. Johnson, Jr., Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2005-10-29
- 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 Ruth Preston Banks-Bentley. Birth date: March 17, 1927. Death date: October 21, 2005. Funeral date: October 29, 2005. Church: Virgie's Chapel (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.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 321
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_banksbentleyruth20051029
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_banksbentleyruth20051029
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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Flower Bearers
Yvonne Bland
Jennifer Bush
Angie Cooley
Melinda Jones
Florence Qureshi Betty Simmons
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Pallbearers
Arthur Caffey
Samuel Caffey
Michael Daniels
Charles McPherson
Darrel Moody
Robert Tucker
Robert White
Frank White, Jr.
Acknowledgement
Psalms 107:1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
We thank God for all that have been done. The flowers, cards, visits, calls and food,
But above all we thank God for all The love, support and prayers.
Your love and support will always Be remembered and will certainly Help to brighten the days ahead. May God bless and keep you in His cares.
- The Family -
- Arrangements entrusted to-
Goolsby Mortuary
1375 Jonesboro Road, S.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30315 404-588-0128
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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
II Timothy 4:7
Ruth L. Banks-Bentley was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred and Mamie Preston March 17, 1927 in Selma, Alabama. She was educated in the public schools of Dallas County. She was proceeded in death by her brother Hurbert Maul and sister Lucy Drake.
On Friday, October 21, 2005, God gently closed her eyes and carried her home to be with Him.
She was a member of Greater Mt. Calvary Baptist Church until her death.
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She leaves to cherish her memories a loving husband, James Bentley, Two daughters, Shirley Donwell and Charlene Banks, Two sons, Arthur Preston and Ernest Carter, A grandson she helped raised William Banks Ill, Two stepsons, Willie Mckitchen and Ronald Bentley, Two stepdaughters, Yvonne Wiggins and Donna Ross (Robert), Two brothers, Lawyer Preston and Norman Preston (Minnie), Ten grandchildren, William, Kimberly, Michelle, Sharonda, Erica, Artura, Michael, Shawn, Desiree , Natasha, A special and dear cousin and friend , Willie Lee Gilmore, Numerous great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.
Mothers Never Die They Just Keep House Up In The Sky
When we are children we are happy and gay and our mother is young and she laughs as we play, Then as we grow up, she teaches us truth and laws. Gives foundation in the days of our youth and then it is time for us to leave home but her teachings goes with us wherever we roam. For all that she taught us and all that we did, when we were so often just a bad, "little kid''. We will often remember and then realize that mothers are special and wonderfully wise ...
And as she grows older, we look back with love knowing that mothers are gifts from above. And when she goes home to receive her reward, she will dwell in God's kingdom and "Keep house for the Lord", where she will "Light up" the stars that shine through the night, and keep all the moonbeams "sparkling and bright" and then with the dawn she11 put the darkness away as she "scours" the sun to new brilliance each day. So dry tears of sorrow for Mothers Don't Die they just move in with God and "keep house in the sky". And there in God's kingdom, Mothers watch from above to welcome their children With their undying love.
Your Children
PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL
HYMN OF PRAISE
WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS
SCRIPTURE
PRAYER SOLO
The Old Testament- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 The New Testament- John 14:1-6
PATRICIA MING
REFLECTIONS OBITUARY
(Open: Limit to 2 minutes please)
(Read Silently)
HYMN OF PRAISE EULOGY
BLESSED ASSURANCE
REVERND B.J. JOHNSON, JR.
GREATER MT. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH ATLANTA, GEORGIA
SOLO
Kimberly Daniels
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
RECESSIONAL BENEDICTION
Interment and Dove Releasing South View Cemetery
1990 Jonesboro Road, SE Atlanta, Georgia 30315 (404) 622-5393
DINNER WILL BE SERVED AT: 1681 Spoonbill Rd. Jonesboro, Georgia 30238