- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life.
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1980-06-16
- Subject:
- African American women--United States--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--United States--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States---History--20th century
Funeral service--United States--History--20th century
Mourning customs--United States--History--20th century
African Americans--United States--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Martha Jane Rector Clark. Birth date: August 10, 1907. Death date: June 12, 1980. Funeral date: June 16, 1980. Church: Shiloh Baptist Church. 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: 847
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_clarkmarthajane19800616
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_clarkmarthajane19800616
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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children "" l~"lf of .tl.1.ese young p~o~le b:.pt i."1. touch. 't..rith.
0l.iow-_.d.e~ and o:ve n iJ0rtion of t~4eir success in life. to
the ~;uidance they received uhil ~ residin3 ~vith thl~
Clarlr~ o
:Ja:1ie lInte' t7.3.S alw.:J.ys hn?J.?iest ~ihen she unf doinb
cv~ethin~ for her f~~i ly or so~eone elaeG Her unfailL~g f~it'~ in Godgs l0ve nnd care resulted in her nccetting
tcr::.~i.!.al illness ~lit~ an =r 9o all ri;:):..t:-how about you?n
Last Thursday 9 God in his infi:.1.ite l.Jisdo:J dec:idecl. t hot he l:.:1d ne:ed of anot.Ler nssistant nnd called l:.ar to coue hv~a nnd t;ive. ir.~ n hand o
In addition to her husbend 9 . 3ons nnd daug3tet, she
leaves to ..nurn ti1~ir loss one sister:> Lola. Lo i1ir._or;
three brothers 9 Janes IJ. 9 Ju~son : .::.. o and .A~b~rt D.; one ~ra.nC.dnu ~i1.tar, Lisa 2lnmT9 ~T~~o resided vJit~ her :=;landparents for tue.lv~ years~ and eisLt ct~er ~randci1i ldren;
five ercn t ~~ran~c~ildren anJ n host of other relatives .:ll'ld friends
:Jo nut stnnd nt ';_..Y t;rav8 end ueep .. I ~~ 30t thGre. I do ~ot Gl2epo
I ut:.L a thou sane l>Ti:1ds that blow. I aLl the diaLonrl (jlir:ts on SLOU.
I a~~ the sunlis:'lt on ri~e :1ed c;;rnin. I ou the ~ent le nutuo ruL~.
Hh.:.n you a~roke in the Lotning 9 s hush I at: the. sHift unflinsing rush 0 qui~t birds i11 circlin..::; f lit:~1t.
I ~: the noft st~r shinins at ni6ht.
Do. not stn~cl nt u~ ~ rave a~d cry.
I nr_: not t here. I did not dieo
Th~ F~r2.ily
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Funeral Arrnngewents by
Revelation 2:1 0 Pictorial by Robert Cushman Hayes
Guest Fu::1.;ral I...:r2e
1980, CPH
84 -5607 Printed in U.S.A.
Be thou faithful
unto de-ath,
and I will give thee a crown of life.
A SEl..VICE OF LOVE AND HOHEGO!l~G
for HA~hA J.ANE (JANIE NATT) CL..A.RK
June 16, 1980
Shiloh Baptist Chur~
ORDER Or SERVICE
1-.tus:tcal Prelude oo o ooooooo'-'oo Pianist
Processional
Invocation
Opaninb H.{mn ........... o o .. I Am Thine, Oh. Lord
Scripture e oo Goooooo.o.l;o.o- The Jld Testament The Nel.r Testament
Acknowledgments a nd Family P a~er
Betty liontgomery
11usicsl 3elect~on oooo ooo :Ielen Sn:tth Elaine Trivers
Eul_o ~~ o 0 . . . . ,. 0
0 0 .. ..
l~ev. Bro~nburr
Part~g 1-lymn. o T ak~ the" L~aue of Jesus u ith You
:O.en~dic t ion Interment o o Church Cem<itary
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PALLBEARERS Friends of the Fauily
The fanily ackno'j7ledges with apprecintion the kind ~xpr~sions of sywpathy end the sinc~re ~ray~rs offered durL11.g thes~ hours of bereavetaent. Tl!ey hav~ :~elp~d to
wake our burden a little easier to 0ear.
19~7 .
HARTHA JANE CLARK
19R1
There oust be a reason we csn't s?.e There nus t be a reaso!l Hhy,
on A reason that ~.Ye must take :'on faith 77
A'3 ~:re do the sun high.
There r:.:ust b'e an ans,.Yer why it is TI1at one who 'enjoved life so~
~lhy soneone Hho is so dear to us 9 Suddenly had tc go
Life is a journey~ so ~ve ~.re told,
For so~e 9 long others~ brief, A .i ourney on 1;..rh ich l~Te all find joy -Ii!.'lgled ,..:rith sadness and grief
He try to re:.1enber the 1ov toda.,,,
Ho~:rever h~rrl i t ::1ny be,
And trust ue'll :ind confort
When He knm7 The reaso:1. ~re nol.Y can't se.e.
l1artha Jane Rector Clark, ~~ughter of the late
Hilliau Anb rose and Florence ~laybell Rector, "t-Jas born
August 10, 1907, in Roppnhannock ~ounty, Virginia, and departed this lif~ on June 12, 1980.
vJ~nie"' or '7J3.nie :'htt !ll z~ as she we.s affection~
at ely called by all >;Tho knel-l her } received her edu-
cetion at Scrabble School. At an early a~e she
accepted Christ as her personal Savior and joined
the Shiloh . BR!>tist Church in r,Yoodville, Vir~inia.
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She werried Frank Clark on r,1.ay 2 7, 1n 31 o Thev
~oved to l?oche~tcr, Neu ~7 u rk nnd lived there until
t~eir retircnent i~ 1q73, uhen the.., returned to Ra?-
ryah3nnocl': County. To this union tuo sons 9 Frank Jr. ~nd JCl.Dcs l'J. vJer8 born. '!'hey :!dcmted a daughters }! Lorraine. r!~ile in Rnchester , she un:f_ted ';-7ith
the Ht. Olive Ba?tiRt Church~
If r1e could use one -:1ord to describe ' 1Janie
:-tate ' it ~~Tould be qelfless. Her selflessness caused
her to oryen ~~r he~rt and h o:.:e to t1:lirty-five foster