- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Celebration of the Life of Mrs. Julia Washington Bond, Thursday, November 8, 2007, 3:00 PM, Sister's Chapel at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, The Reverend Dr. Dwight D. Andrews, Senior Pastor, Officiating, The Reverend Dr. Norman M. Rates, Eulogist
- Date of Original:
- 2007-11-08
- 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 Julia Agnes Washington Bond. Birth date: June 20, 1908. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: November 8, 2007. Church: Sister's Chapel, Spelman College (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: 333
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_bondjuliaagneswashington20071108
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_bondjuliaagneswashington20071108
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Horace Julian Bond James George Bond
Horace Mann Bond II Michael Julian Bond
KojoMoore Jeffrey Alvin Bond
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Life every voice and sing. Till earth and heaven ring. Ring with the harmonies ofLiberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling seas; Sing a songfull ofthe faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a songfull ofthe hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun Ofour new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.
God ofour weary years. God ofour silent tears, Thou Who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou Who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray, Lest ourfeet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee. Lest our hearts drunk with the wine ofthe world we forget Thee. Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, true to our Native Land.
(James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson)
The family extends sincere appreciation for the many expressions of sympathy. Your messages of condolences, floral tributes, kind deeds, calls and prayers were strengthening in our period of bereavement.
Carl M. Williams Funeral Directors, Inc.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007 -3:00PM-
Sister's Chapel At Spelman College
Atlanta, Georgia
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Julia Agnes Washington Bond was born on June 20, 1908, in Nashville, Tennessee, where her mother, Daisy Agnes Turner Washington, worked as a teacher before her marriage and her father, George Elihu Washington, was Principal of Pearl High School, then Nashville's only black high school. The family included her siblings Alvin and Marguerite Washington, both now deceased, and Joe Brown, her remaining sister.
Julia Bond graduated from Pearl High in 1924 when she was 16 years old. Like her parents and siblings she attended Fisk University, graduating with a B.A. degree in English in 1929. In her senior year at Fisk, she met a young instructor, one of the few African American teachers at Fisk, Horace Mann Bond. Soon, they were courting. They both attended graduate school at the University of Chicago where they married in 1929 but later reenacted their marriage ceremony in Nashville to satisfy their parents. She then dropped out of school while her husband earned his PhD.
Dr. Horace Mann Bond became the first Dean at Dillard University, and in 1942, he was appointed President of Georgia's Fort Valley State College (for Negroes). In 1945 he became President of his alma mater, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. After leaving Lincoln in 1957, he was named Dean of the School of Education at Atlanta University. Julia Bond acted as Hostess and First Lady for her husband in these positions. She also traveled with her husband to Europe and Africa. They attended the inauguration of Kwame Nkrumah as Ghana's first president in 1957. Dr. Bond died in 1972.
Returning to school at Atlanta University, Julia Bond earned a degree in Library Science at age 56 and was Circulation Librarian at the University's Trevor Arnett Library for seven years. She retired from the Atlanta University Library in 2000, at the age of 92 years.
She became an author at the age of 89. In 1934 she and her husband spent several months living in Washington Parish in rural southeastern Louisiana. Horace Bond had been sent there by the Rosenwald Fund to conduct a study of rural black schools but kept a journal detailing a lynching and the lives of the poor black farm families among whom they lived. The journal was published in 1997 as The Star Creek Papers with Horace and Julia Bond listed as authors.
She was a Charter Board Member of the Friends of the Atlanta Public Library, member of the First Congregational Church of Atlanta, and belonged to the Chautauqua Circle. She served as President of Beta Phi Mu Honorary Society and was a Board Member of the Georgia Council on Aging and Life Member of the NAACP.
She is survived by her children, Jane Marguerite Bond Moore of Berkeley, California, Horace Julian Bond of Washington, DC. and James George Bond of Atlanta, Georgia; grandchildren, Phyllis Jane Bond-McMillan, Horace Mann Bond II, Michael Julian Bond, Jeffrey Alvin Bond, Julia Louise Bond, Grace Moore, Constance Moore, Kojo Moore; eight great grand-children and numerous nieces and nephews.
Organ Prelude and Processional .................. Fantasie in 'G' BWV, 572-J. S. Bach Dr. Joyce F. Johnson, College Organist
Welcome and Invocation ................... . ..... The Reverend Dr. Dwight D. Andrews Senior Minister, First Congregational Church, UCC, Atlanta
Congregational Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Lizfit Every V4oz.ce and szng "
Scripture Reading: The Reverend Dr. Lisa Rhodes, Dean, Sisters Chapel, Spelman College Old Testament: Psalm 23 New Testament: Revelation 21: 1-4
Prayer .................. The Reverend Norman M Rates, Dean Emeritus, Sisters Chapel, Spelman College
Musical Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . "0 Freedom" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ms. Pamela Dillard, Soloist
Tributes: Mrs. Jane Marguerite Bond Moore The Honorable Horace Julian Bond Mr. Michael Julian Bond
Musical Selection . . . . . . . "His Eye Is On the Sparrow" .... . . . Ms. Pamela Dillard, Soloist
The Eulogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Reverend Dr. Norman M. Rates Dean Emeritus, The Sisters Chapel
A Medley ofHymns
Letters ofCommendation ... ....... . ..... .. ............... .. Mr. Michael Julian Bond
Acknowledgements
Recessional . ...... . ............ "Carillon Francais" . ... . ............ Craig Penfield
(The Benediction will be given at the private interment)