- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Celebration of Life for Mr. Benjamin Callahan, Friday, July 23, 2004, 12:00 pm, Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church, 66 Howard Street, Atlanta, Georgia, Reverend Hayward White, Jr., Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2004-07-23
- Subject:
- African American men--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 Benjamin Luther Callahan. Birth date: June 10, 1937. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: July 23, 2004. Church: Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church (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: 310
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_callahanbenjamin20040723
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_callahanbenjamin20040723
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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Trent Forts
Derrick Harris
Sanford Walker Jamal Johnson
Rodney Forts
Cory Callahan
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Valerie Jordan
Sandi Walker
Trina Forts
Tyra Lillard
Chaneta Forts
Toyika Lillard
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Perhaps you sent a lovely card, or sat quietly in a chair,
Perhaps you sent some flowers,
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Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, as any friend could say,
Perhaps you were not there at all, just thought ofus that day.
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Cefe6ration ofLife for
Mr. fJ3enjamin Ca{fafian
Friday, July 23 , 2004 12:00 pm
Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church 66 Howard Street Atlanta, Georgia
Reverend Hayward White, Jr. Officiating
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Mr. Benjamin Luther Callahan was born June 10, 1937 to the late Mr. and Mrs. Phil and Lois Callahan in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Howard High School in 1956. He served in the United States Army. He was united in holy matrimony to Miss Elizabeth Louise Forts on April 10, 1958. To this union three children were born Darrell, twins Sharon and Shira.
Benjamin accepted Christ at an early age. He was a member of Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church, where he served faithfully on the Usher Board until his health failed. Ben was loving, kind, vibrant, joyful, and had a beautiful sense of humor.
He leaves to cherish his wonderful memories, his devoted wife Elizabeth; sons, Darrell and Shira; daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Michael (Sharon) Lillard; granddaughters, Tanesha, Dysharion, Toyika, and Tyra; grandson, Shelldrick; two great-grandchildren; three sisters, Ms. Emma Jean Dodd, Mr. and Mrs. Benny (Dorothy) Evans and Ms. Loretta Albritton; one brother, Mr. and Mrs. Larry (Vera) Callahan; sisters-in-law, Mrs. Betty Callahan, Ms. Joyce Forts, Ms. Carolyn Harris and Ms. Linda Chapman; brothers-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin (Minnie) Forts, Mr. Edwards Forts and a host of devoted nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends, and the many, many others whose lives he touched along his life's journey.
He was preceded in death by his mother Lois Craig Callahan; father Phil Callahan; brothers, Gerald and Charles Callahan.
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Tell me not mournful number, life is but an empty dream
And the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not what they seem.
Life is real, Life is earnest and the grave is not its goal.
Dust thou art, to dust returnest was not spoken ofthe soul.
Not enjoyment and nor sorrow is our destined end or way.
But to act that each tomorrow finds us further than today.
Lives ofgreat men all remind us we can make our lives sublime.
And departing leaves behind us, footprints on the sands oftime.
Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er lives solumn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing may take heart again.
So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
~ Longfellow
Ortfer ofService
Prelude
Processional
Song
" His Eye Is On The Sparrow"
Jeffrey Jackson
Prayer
Reverend C.S. Hardeman
Scripture
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Revered Melvin J. Edmonds Turner Monumental A.M.E.
Remarks Obituary (Read Silently)
Larry Callahan (Brother) Sharon Callah n (Lillard)
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Eulogy
The Reverend Hayward White
Acknowledgement
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Recessional
Toyika Lillard Granddaughter
Postlude
Interment
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 2275 Simpson Road N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30314