LIFE IS BUT A STOPPING PLACE, A PAUSE IN WHAT's TO BE, A RESTING PLACE ALONG THE ROAD To SWEET ETERNITY. WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT JOURNEYS, DIFFERENT PATHS ALONG THE WAY, WE ALL ARE MEANT TO LEARN SOME THINGS BuT NEVER MEANT TO STAY OuR DESTINATION IS A PLACE FAR GREATER THAN WE KNOW FoR soME, THE JOURNEYS QUICKER, FoR SOME, THE JOURNEYS SLOW AND WHEN THE JOURNEY FINALLY ENDS, WE'LL CLAIM A GREAT REWARD AND FIND EVERLASTING PEACE, ToGETHER WITH THE LoRD. ToNY, THE HARD PART WAS LE'ITING GO!! THE HARDEST PART IS LEARNING TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY IN LIFE WITHOUT YOU. I WILL TRULY MISS YOU FROM THE DEPTHS O F MY HEART. You ARE IN Goo's UNCHANGING HANDS. Tuy li/t;;{~ B SEPTEMBER 22, 1955- SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 FAMILY AND FRIENDS F~BU~rers FAMILY AND FRIENDS THE FAMILY WISHES TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH DEEP APPRECIATION THE MANY PRAYERS, EXPRESSIO NS OF LOVE, CO NCERN, AND KIND NESS SHOWN T O US DURING OUR TIME OF BEREAVEMENT. MAY Goo BLESS YO U AN D KEEP YO U IN H IS GRACE . WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO T HANK T H E STAFF OF HARBOR GRACE FOR THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT AND CARE. MEADows MoRTUARY, INc. 419 FLAT SHOALS AVE SE, ATLANTA, GA 30316 (404) 522-7478 Sattu-~ Oct~ 0 201b 11:00 f//.1/U. LINCOLN CEMETERY (CHAPEL) 2275 JosEPH E. BooNE BLvD. ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30318 Pastor Earl Calloway, Officiating ToNY MARTIN BROADNAX, wAs CALLED HOME AT THE LIGHT OF DAY ON SEPTEMBER 27, 20I6. ToNY WAS THE THIRD CHILD BORN TO THE LATE WILLIE C. AND NAOMI BROADNAX Scorr oN SEPTEMBER 22, I 9 55 IN ATLANTA GEoRGIA. ToNY ACCEPTED jEsus CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE. HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF SALEM BIBLE CHURCH. ToNY ATTENDED ANDERSON PARK ELEMENTARY. HE LATER ATTENDED FREDERICK DouGLASS HIGH ScHOOL WHERE HE GRADUATED IN I973 As A PROUD MEMBER OF THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS TO COMPLETION. FoLLOWING HIGH scHOOL, ToNY ENLISTED IN THE U.S. AIR FoRCE AND LATER TRANSITIONED TO THE U.S. ARMY WHERE HE RECEIVED HONORABLE DISCHARGES. ARoUND THIS TIME HE ALSO DISCOVERED A LOVE FOR DRAWING AND MARTIAL ARTS. ToNY AND LASANDRA WERE MARRIED ON OcTOBER I IN ATLANTA. THEY WERE BLESSED WITH TWO CHILDREN, AMBER ToNISE AND ToNY DEMARTIN BROADNAX. AN AVID BELIEVER IN SKILLED TRADES, ToNY STUDIED ELECTRICITY, HEATING AND AIR, CARPENTRY AND HoME INSPECTIONS. HE ALso RECEIVED HIS COL AND HAzMAT LICENSE. IN I984, ToNY BEGAN woRKING FOR LocKHEED MARTIN CoRPORATION IN MARIETTA, GA. AT LocKHEED, HE WAS A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE AERONAUTICAL MACHINISTS LoCAL #709 LABoR UNION, WHERE HE ALSo SERVED AS SHoP STEWARD FOR MANY YEARS. AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS OF SERVICE, ToNY RETIRED FROM LocKHEED MARTIN CoRPORATION. ToNY MARTIN BROADNAX LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORY, A LOVING WIFE WHO SERVED AS CAREGIVER, LASANDRA R. BROADNAX, A DEVOTED DAUGHTER AMBER ToNISE AND A LOVING soN, ToNY DEMARTIN. HE WILL BE MISSED BY HIS LOVING DAUGHTER-IN-CHRIST, TUESDAY TAYLOR AND ONE GRANDSON WHOM HE ADORED, TRENTON D. BROADNAX. HE WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED BY B. SIBLINGS, NADINE B. MoRRis, WILLIE (ALiciA) BRoADNAX AND PHYLLIS LAWRENCE OF ATLANTA; IN-LAWS, SHEILA (WAYMUND) BELL, jAMES (THE SAUNJA) REESE OF ATLANTA; AND A HOST OF LOVING NIECES, NE.PHR\11! PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL PRAYER SoFT Music SoFT Music DEACON EY BRIDGES ScRIPTURES OLD TEs :AMENT NEWTEs ENT SoLo PsALM 2 7 DEACON MICHAEL CoLEY 2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8, I7-r8 DEACON EDMUND CoLEY ALMA THOMPSON REFLECTIONS (3 MINUTES PLEASE) MICHAEL EDWARDS (Former Co- Worker & Friend) SAMUEL CoLEY (Cousin) STANLEY BYRD (Childhood Friend) PoEM OBITUARY SoLo HERDY MENINA Family Friend READ SILENTLY ANGELA MATTHEWS PASTOR EARL CALLOWAY MEADows MoRTUARY LINCOLN CEMETERY 2275 JosEPH E BooNE BLvo ATLANTA, GEORGIA