- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Obsequies of the late Willis Lamar Black, Wednesday, April 24, 1991, 3:00 P.M., Springfield Baptist Church, Poplar Street, Hogansville, Georgia, Rev. R.B. Lankford, Officiating, Rev. Joseph McGuire, Pastor, Interment, West View Cemetery, Hogansville, Ga., Arrangements, Thrash and Sons Funeral Home, Hogansville, Ga.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-04-24
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Hogansville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Hogansville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Hogansville---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Hogansville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Hogansville--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Hogansville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Troup County, Hogansville, 33.17318, -84.91494
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Willis Lamar Black. Birth date: November 13, 1954. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: April 24, 1991. Church: Springfield Baptist Church (Hogansville, 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: 342
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_blackwillislamar19910424
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_blackwillislamar19910424
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
FLOWER LADIES Cousins. and Friends
HONORARY PALL BEARERS Classmates
PALL BEARERS Cousins and Friends
Arrangements Entrusted To: THRASH AND SONS FUNERAL HOME
Hogansville, Ga.
Springfield Baptist Church Poplar Street
Hogansville, Georgia
REV. R. B. LANKFORD, OFFICIATING Rev. Joseph McGuire, Pastor
INTERMENT West View Cemetery Hogansville, Ga.
ARRANGEMENTS Thrash and Sons Funeral Home
Hogansville, Ga.
OBITUARY
The first born child to Johnnie Mae Black and the late Wlliam (Do~) Black, was born November 13, 1954 in Troup .. Cotillty Georgia. He joined the Springf~eld Baptist Church at an early age, and early JJlis year he moved his membership to Mount Olive:- Ba'ptist Church where Rev. R. B. Lankford is :;!'astor. He . ~~~rved his country in the U. S. Army for eight years. He was a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. He leaves to reJolce in . his Homegoing, one son, Lander, one daughter, Kerri Lynn, a loving mother, Johnnie Mae Black, one brother, Walter, four sisters Jennifer Reed of Griffin, Ga., Yolanda, Phyllis and Kolette of Atlanta, Ga., grandfather, Henry Norwood, step grandmother, Beatrice Black, three Aunts, Emma Shank. -Mary Darden of Atlanta, and Tommy Frank Brown, two Uncles, Robert Darden of Atlanta, and William Thomas Black.of Rome, Ga., one brother- in -law Derek Reed, ef Griffin, Ga., one sister- in - law, Maybelle Black of Douglasville, Ga. , four Great aunts, Daisy Meadows, Iva Beasley, Annie Mae Gate~ of Newnan, Ga., Eva Bell Norwood of Alcoa, Tennessee, two great uncles, Arohie Lee Meadows, Jerry Black of Atlanta, Ga., and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and many, many friends, to cherish
his memory.
ORDER OF SERVICE REV. JOSEPH McGUIRE OFFICIATING
Processional
Soft Music
Scripture Old Testament--~---~--------Rev. H. L. Johnson
New Testament--------------------Rev. ' E. Geter
Prayer--------------------------------Rev. L. Clark
Soft Music Remarks----~---------Evangelist Faye Etheridge King
A Special Thank You--------------Sis. Oberian Geter
Solo----------------------------Bro. Eddie Robinson
Acknowledgemnt
Soft Music
Eulogy--------------------------Rev. R. B. Lankford
Interment------------------------West View Cemeter<y
I
There's an open gate at the end of the road Through which each must go alone
And there in a light we cannot see Our Father claims His own
Beyond the gate your loved one finds
Happiness and rest And the e is comfort in the thought
That a loving God knows best.
Humbly submitted bv the Family
.
of.
Willis Lamir Black