- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Carrie Lee Collins, Saturday, March 31, 1990, 2:00 P.M., Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Chapel, 2275 Simpson Road, Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, The Reverend B.J. Johnson, Jr., Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1990-03-31
- Subject:
- African American women--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 Carrie Lee Collins. Birth date: August 11, 1929. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: March 31, 1990. Church: Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Chapel (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: 116
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_collinscarrielee19900331
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_collinscarrielee19900331
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Betty Rowe Paulette Parlor
Joyce King Marilyn Hughley
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With grateful and appreciative hearts, we acknowledge the many kindnesses bestowed upon us during the passing of our loved one. Each sympathetic gesture served as a source of comfort to us during our sadness and dark hours of distress.
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Ms. Carrie L. Collins was born in the Pittsburgh community of Atlanta on August 11, 1929. She was the fourth of five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Collins.
She was a born-again saint, and last attended Greater Christ Holiness Church of the Pentecostal faith. She was educated in the Atlanta school system. She worked various jobs during her life, earlier on as a clerk in a local grocery market. Later, she proudly served on the staff at the Comprehensive Health Center, but was primarily a homemaker and mother to her children. She often related that her greatest accomplishment of life was to successfully rear her children to responsible adulthood, despite hardships.
Ms. Collins is survived by seven children, Mr. Kenneth Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews (Portia), Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Collins, Mr. John Collins and Ms. Arrie Collins, all of Atlanta, Georgia; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Long and Mrs. Em me Malone of Atlanta, Georgia; one brother, Mr. Robert Collins of Maryland; fifteen grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends.
PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL SELECTION ................................ The Organist
uPrecious Lord" SCRIPTURE:
The Old Testament ............ Bishop Sabry Girgis The New Testament ... Bishop Alvin Andrews, Sr. PRAYER .............. The Reverend B. J. Johnson, Jr. SOLO ........................... Minister Shirley Girgis
uAmazing Grace" REMARKS: (Limit 2 to 3 Minutes) OBITUARY (Read Silently) EULOGY .................... The Reverend Johnson, Jr. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT RECESSIONAL POSTLUDE
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Lincoln Memorial Cemetery Atlanta, Georgia