- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Celebration for Mrs. Irie B. Davis, Tuesday, November 3, 1998, Twelve O'Clock Noon, israel Baptist Church, 2071 Boulevard Drive, North East, Atlanta, Georgia, Reverend William E. Smith, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1998-11-03
- 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 Irie B. Davis. Birth date: November 29, 1907. Death date: October 29, 1998. Funeral date: November 3, 1998. Church: Israel Baptist 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: 159
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_davisirieb19981103
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_davisirieb19981103
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Rower Ladies
Nieces
Pall Bearers
Nephews
Acknowledgment
The jiimily ofMrs. lrie B. Davis expresses our deepest appreciation and gratitude for your comfort in our hour of bereavernent. Et,ery prayer, visit, phone call. Jlower, card
and rn,;zny other P.xpression: ofsympathy will lvng /ic: remembered. - lhe Family -
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Mrs. Irie B. Davis
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Israel Baptist CJJtt>rciJ
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She departed this life on October 29, 1998 at Grady Memorial
llospital.
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She /eatJes to cherish her memory one daughter, Mr. & Mrs.
['f1illiam Dockett (ldelkz); one brother, Air. EJ Jones ofNew1141l,
t'Yeorgia; one sister, Mrs. Rose Velma Strickland ofNewnan, Georgia; aunt, ..~Irs. Lillie Mae Wallace ofAtlanta, Georgia; a host ofnieces, nephews, other relatives and friends
W?J~ I JJust Leave You
W1len I 1nust leave you for a little while,
.Please do not g1'ieve and shed wild tears
And l:rug your sorrow to you through the years.
But start out bravely with a gallant smile,
And for my sake and in 1ny name
Live on and do all things the same.
R.c:ed not your loneliness on empty days
1?~;,t flU Fach waleing hour in useful wa_vs.
Reli.ch out )'OUi' hil-nd in comfort and in cheer,
And I ln turn will comfort you and hold you near;
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And netJ!r. neuer be aftaid to die For I a j.::- u,a_iting for you in the sky.
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Order ofService
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.!+elude ................................................................ .......... Processional
Song ..................................... ......................................... Scripture .......................................................................... .Minister
Old Testament................. . New Testament............... . Prayer .......... .. .............. .... ................................ .Bishop Zzyd Burns
Obituary .............................................(Read silently by soft music} Soio ...........................................................................lvfr'j..l.:."opki;t..;
Remarks ..... ......................................................... Cecil Rtzpatrick Eulogy ....................................................... .Rev. Williarn E Smith Ackn.owl.edgt1zents ....................... ....................................... . Recessional
Interment
Lincoln Cemetery Ailanta, Georgia
Immediately after Intennent the family request that everyone convene at
113 Hillside Village, Building 100, (404) 378-3753- Mrs. Catherine Tiller for
fellowship dinner.
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Courtesy of Israel Baptist Church
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