- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Services for Alfred E. Cain, A Life of Faithful Service, Saturday, January 7, 2012, 2:00 pm, Donald Trimble Chapel, 1876 Second Avenue, Decatur, Georgia 30032, Dr. Walter L. Kimbrough, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2012-01-07
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Decatur---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Decatur--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Decatur, 33.77483, -84.29631
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Alfred Earl Cain. Birth date: October 5, 1921. Death date: December 30, 2011. Funeral date: January 7, 2012. Church: Donald Trimble Mortuary Chapel (Decatur, 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_cainalfredearl20120107
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_cainalfredearl20120107
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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Scripture Reading ............... Prayer ............................................................... Minister Musical Selection ................................... James Barkley Remarks ............................................ F ily & Friends
Eulogy. .......,.......................... Dr. Walter L. Kimbrough Cascade United Met odist Church
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Perhaps you sent a lovely Card, or sat quietly in a chair
Perhaps you sent a floral piece If so, we saw it there.
Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, As and friend could say.
Perhaps you were not there at all, Just thought of us all day.
What ever you did to console our hearts, We thank you so, Whatever the part.
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The Georgia National Cementary 1080 Veterans Cementary Road Canton, Georgia 30114
Donald Trimble Mortuary, Inc.
1876 Second Avenue Decatur, Georgia 30032
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Dr. Walter L. Kimbrough,
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Musical director and writer Alfred Earl Cain was born October 5, 1921 in Warrior, Alabama. He departed this life, December 30, 2011. His late mother was the former Helen Hazel Moore and his late father, Louis Cain , was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. Alfred attended Trinity School in Alabama and Nathan Hale Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in 1939, where he was a member of the school chorus, the Frederick Douglass Society and wrote for the Hamiltonian. Drafted in 1943, Alfred was stationed at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. He earned a B.A. Degree in 1949 and an M.A. Degree from Columbia University in Public law and government in 1951. While there, he became president of the local chapter of the NAACP and formed an NAACP chorus, which featured Doug Pugh Deke Johnson and future opera great, Leontyne Price. Alfred served as a social investigator for the New York City Department of Welfare from 1951 to 1959, when he decided to serve as his church's full time musical director.
Alfred worked as the musical director for Vinette Carroll's production of Dark of the Moon in 1950, and recorded with Fred Norman's The Normanaires Quartet in 1953, featuring Brock Peters and Theresa Merritt. He was also musical director for Trumpets of God and James Baldwin's Amen Corner in 1960. Some of the talent that Alfred worked with include Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Brown , Clarence Williams III, James Earl Jones, Frank Silvera, Juanita Hall and Isabel Sanford. A talented writer, Alfred worked for Educational Heritage of Yonkers as editor of The Negro Heritage Reader for Young People and The Winding Road to Freedom: A Documentary History of Negro Experiences in America, both published in 1965. Alfred also served as an editor of the syndicated insert Tuesday Magazine in the 1970s and as a staff writer at Prentice-Hall Publishers.
Moving to Chicago in 1981, Alfred served as communications director and speechwriter for former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris. Active in his church, the Ingleside-Whitfield United Methodist, Alfred has also served as a columnist for the United Methodist Northern Illinois Conference Reporter. Alfred was a Life Time Member of the American Legion Association.
Alfred leaves to cherish his memories,Caiphas (Vera) Cain- TX, Mary Stampley- MA, Frances Gillispie (Andrew)- GA, Ethel L. Cain- GA, Robirda Cain - GA, Lennett (Mary) Cain- GA, Suzette Cain-Boiling- MA , Larry Cain- TX, Rocile Cain- GA, Ronald E. Cain- GA, and a host of relatives and friends.
An exercise of heart, soul and mind is given in Philippians 4:8-9. Years ago , during World War II a chaplain at Wright Field preached a Sermon that has lingered with me as a positive prescription for living. The text still resonates in my mind and heart. It says: "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report... think on these things." I've never had better advice.
That's a piece ofmy birthday cake I gladly share with everybody.