- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for the Late Cleon R. Bonner, 1913-1991, Saturday, February 9, 1991, One O'Clock P.M., St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Rev. Terence R. Gray, Officiating, "My name, and my place, and my tomb all forgotten, The brief race of time well and patiently run, So let me pass away, peacefully, silently, Only remembered by what I have done." -- Bonar, "Hutchings Services"
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1991-02-09
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Macon---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Macon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Cleon R. Bonner. Birth date: November 11, 1913. Death date: February 5, 1991. Funeral date: February 9, 1991. Church: St. Paul A.M.E. Church (Macon, 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_bonnercleonr19910209
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_bonnercleonr19910209
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
NAME:
CLEON RICHARD BONNER
BORN:
Fairhope, Alabama
November 11, 1913
PARENTS: The late William and Hannah
Mitchell Bonner
DEMISE:
February 5, 1991
Medical Center, Macon, GA
EDUCATION: Mobile County Training School
Mobile, Alabama
Tuckegee University, Tuskegee,
Alabama
Bachelor and Master's Degrees
in Agriculture.
Further study: Hamption
Institute University of
Minnesota
POSmONS: Prindpalship at the following:
Keigler Training Schook George-
town_ GA, Shady Dale School,
Jasper County, GA, Teacher of
Vocational AgricUlture, Tooms
boro, GA, and Boggs Academy
in Burke County, Farm Security
SupervisorWaynesboro, GA, Prin-
cipal of the Georgia Academy for
.the Blind. Retired from this posi-
tion August 1975.
CHURCH:
St. Paul A.M.E. Cnurch, Secre-
tary of Church, Steward, Direc-
tor of St. Paul Daycare Center.
COMMUNITY: He served on the Board of Direc-
tors of ARC; Part owner of the Religious Bookstore,
Member of the Homosophians Cub.
Surviving to cherish his memories are: two
brothers, Ira Bonner, Fairhope, Ala., Dr. Leon W.
Bonner, Huntsville, Ala; three daughters, Leona
Walton, Macon, GA, Barbara Bonner, Brooklyn, NY,
Majorie Skillman, Tampa, FL; two sons-in-law,
Roosevelt Walton and Donald Skillman; five grand-
daughters,Trad,TenaeYakra,Yolanda,and Yavonne.
A host of niece, nephews, relatives and friends.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1991 ONE O'CLOCK P.M.
ST. PAUL A.M.E. CHURCH REv. TERENCE R. GRAY, OFFICIATING-
"My name, and my place, and my tomb all forgotten The brief race of time well and patiently run So let me pass away, peacefully, silently, Only remembered by wha.t I have done.
ORDER OF SERVICE
PRESIDING Rev. Terrence R. Gray -Presiding Minister,
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
PRELUDE
VIEWING
PROCESSIONAL ...........................Going Home" Organist
liYMN ............................CorJle Ye Disconsolate" Combined Choirs, St. Paul A.M.E. Church
PRAYER ...............................Rev. E. S. Mallory, Pastor, Turner Tabernacle A.M.E. Church
SCRIPrURE ............................ Rev. C. H. Boddy, Pastor, St. Paul A.M.E. Dublin, GA
SOLO ..............~.....Minister Marietta F. Gilbert
REMARKS ............................Barney G. Lester, Member, Homosophian Club
REMARKS -Brother P. R. Perry, Steward, St. Paul A.M.E.
REMARKS ...............Rev. Gabriel S. Hardeman, Presiding Elder, Atlanta, GA
OBITUARY ......................................Read Silently Soft Music
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SELECTION .......................................It Ia Well" Combined Choirs, St. Paul A.M.E. Church
EULOGY ............The Rev. Harrison D. Bonner, Presiding Elder, Mt. Oliver A.M.E. Zion Church, Waterbury, Conn.
SONG .........."My Faith Looks Up To Thee" (Hymn 415)...All Standing
RECESSIONAL
INTERMENT .............Woodlawn Cemetery
ACTIVE PALLBEARERS
Stewards - St. Paul A.M.E.
Brother P. R. Perry Brother Henry 0. Lamar, Sr.
/
Brother Walter A. Lamar Brother Charlie Powell Brother Charles Watkins Brother Morris Brown
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9{.icliard
'Bonner
HONORARY PALLBEARERS
Barney G. Lester R. J. Martin John H. Turk W. Roy West William Barnes Frank Johnson Samuel T. McCombs
Homosophian Club Members
Charles L. Adams Andrew S. Fields
Willie C. Hill T. B. Hooper Timothy Jones James W. Pitts Andrew W. Sims
1913
1991
EXPRESSIONS OF APPRECIATION
The family of the late Cleon R. Bonner wishes to gratefully acknowledge your thoughtfulness and kind expression of sympathy during their recent bereavement.