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 
 
 
 
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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 
 
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Willis  Lamir Black