- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Final Rites for Mrs. Bernece Latimer Dowdy, Tuesday, February 20, 1996, 11:00am, Sellers Brothers Chapel, 889 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia, The Reverend Edmond Kemp, Officiating
- Date of Original:
- 1996-02-20
- 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 Bernece Latimer Dowdy. Birth date: August 27, 1916. Death date: February 16, 1996. Funeral date: February 20, 1996. Church: Sellers Brothers 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: 20
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_dowdybernecelatimer19960220
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_dowdybernecelatimer19960220
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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Arthur Griggs William H. Killian, Jr. James T. Middlebrooks
James A. (Tony) Patrick, Jr. Michael Robinson James Stokes
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The family is sincerely grateful for every act and expression of kindness and love that have helped sustain us during this period of transition. May God bless each and everyone of you.
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS & MORTICIANS
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923 McDaniel Street, S.W . Atlanta, Georgia 30310 404-522-2591
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Tuesday, February 20, 1996 -11:00 A.M.-
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Bernece Latimer Dowdy, the third of five children, was born on August 27, 1916 in Toccoa, Georgia to John Newton Franklin Latimer, M.D. and Helen Walker Latimer. The family lived in Toccoa where Dr. Latimer practiced medicine until 1927 when they moved to Atlanta, Georgia.
Bernece graduated from Booker T. Washington High School, attended Spelman College, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina in 1939.
At Benedict, she met Sam Bernard Dowdy, who would become her loving and devoted husband of more than fiftyfour years. Two daughters were born to this union, Bernice LaMelle and Hope Alexis.
Mrs. Dowdy taught in the public schools in Bennettsville, South Carolina for three years. She then became a fulltime homemaker and worked part-time for the U.S. Department of Labor for sixteen years.
She was a long time member of Wheat Street Baptist Church and President and Treasurer of the KisKis Bridge Club. But most of all, she was a loving and devoted wife and mother, and a supportive family member.
Bernece Latimer Dowdy was called from labor to reward on Friday, February 16, 1996. In addition to her husband, Sam Dowdy, and children, Bernice Dowdy McDaniel, Columbus, Ohio and Hope Dowdy, Atlanta, Georgia, she is survived by sisters, Ruth Johnson Jackson, Atlanta and E. Clas Latimer, Cleveland, Ohio; grandsons, William T. "Teddy" McDaniel, Brooklyn, New York and Elliot B. McDaniel, Columbus, Ohio; son-in-law, Dr. William T. McDaniel, Jr., Columbus, Ohio; nephew, William Jefferson, Jr. and his wife Miranda and children Natalie and Louis, Atlanta; and a host of other relatives and friends.
While parting pains us all, her love is everlasting. "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven... "
PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL
HYMN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Blessed Assurance" SCRIPTURE:
The Old Testament, Psalm 46 The New Testament, II Corinthians 1:1-9
PRAYER
SELECTION ............................... "Just As I Am"
TRIBUTE .. .. ........................... Dr. Willie Bolden
OBITUARY (Read Silently)
SOLO ................. . . . ... . ...... . . .. . .. Oliver Sueing
CELEBRATION OF LIFE ... . .......... .. .... The Reverend Edmond T. Kemp
Pastor, Alexander Memorial A. M.E. Church ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
RECESSIONAL
POSTLUDE
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Westview Cemetery 1680 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd., Southwest
Atlanta, Georgia