- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Sunset Celebration for Deacon Luke Isaiah Barnett, April 29, 2010, 1P.M., Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, Athens, Georgia, Pastor Wilson Lattimore, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2010-04-29
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Athens--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Athens--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Athens---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Athens--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Athens--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Athens--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Luke Isaiah Barnett. Birth date: January 31, 1915. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: April 29, 2010. Church: Chestnut Grove Baptist Church (Athens, 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_barnettlukeisaiah20100429
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_barnettlukeisaiah20100429
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Pall Bearers Deacons of Chestnut Grove Baptist Church
Flower Ladies Members of Chestnut Grove Church
The family of Deacon Luke I. Barnett would like to thank everyone for their acts of kindness, cards, food and calls. May God keep you all in His care.
The Family Final Arrangements Entrusted To Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home
1253 West Broad Street Athens, Georgia (706) 543-3623
April29,2010
lP.M.
Chestnut Grove Baptist Church
Athens, Georgia
Pastor Wilson Lattimore, Officiating
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~ke Jsaiah ~arnett was born on January 31, 1915 in Clarke
County, Georgia, the first son of Odie and Hattie Jones Barnett.
He began assisting his father on the family farm at the age of eight and joined the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church in 1929 at the age of fourteen. He became a deacon in 1944 and was a faithful member throughout his life.
Prelude Processional
Luke attended Union Baptist Institute and in 1933 joined the C.C.C. Camp in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After returning home from C.C.C. Camp, he was married to Roberta Virginia Glenn on December 6, 1936. To this union three children were born: Louis Hinton Barnett, Cordelia Delores Barnett and Tyrone McCoil Barnett.
He was self-employed during his working career and took pride in his
independence. He was a barber, drove a school bus, ran a wood business,
operated a service station and did landscaping during his retirement.
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He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Roberta G. Barnett, two
sisters; Oree Long and Cleora Johnson; three brothers Lloyd Barnett,
Hampton Barnett and Eddie Gary ; three brothers-in-law, Horace E.
Tate, Carter Lincoln and Walter Tidwell; son-in-law Robert Allen and
Eulogy--
granddaughter Sylvia Allen.
He leaves to cherish his memory a daughter Cordelia Allen; two sons; Louis H. Barnett ( ldanell) and Tyrone M. Barnett (Marion); four sisters; Lillie Mae Williams, Venida Tidwell, Ernestine Lincoln and Virginia Tate; two sisters-in-law Johnella Barnett and Sue Gary; five grandsons; Anthony Allen, Michael Barnett, Derrick Lee, Fred Beal and Craig Beal and a host of neices, nephews other family and friends.
Recessional INTERNMENT
In The Family Cemetery Repass at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church
