- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Lee Jeffries Ellis, 1955-1977, Saturday July 16, 1977, 3:00 O'Clock P.M. Bethel A.M.E Church 112 Holderby Street. Reidville, North Carolina
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1977-07-16
- Subject:
- African American men--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--Reidsville---History--20th century
Funeral service--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Reidsville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Rockingham County, Reidsville, 36.35486, -79.66447
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Lee Jeffries Ellis. Birth date: April 10, 1955. Death date: July 12, 1977. Funeral date: July 16, 1977. Church: Bethel A.M.E Church (Reidsville, N.C.). 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: 224
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_ellisleejeffries19770716
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_ellisleejeffries19770716
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
FLOWER BEARERS Classmates and Friends
CASKET BEARERS
Donnie Wingate Zack Martin James Vaughn, III Milton Peele
John Burns Charles Jumper Marcus Johnson Gregory Vaughn
~:4 Beautiful Final Tribute"
JOHNSON & SONS FUNERAL SERVICE
Telephone 342-1327
Reidsville, N.C.
-for-
Lee Jeffries Ellis
1955-1977
Saturday, July 16, 1977 3:00 O'Clock P. M.
Bethel A. M. E. Church
112 Holderby Street Reidsville, North Carolina
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Lee Jeffries Ellis was born in New York, New York on April 10, 1955 to the late William and Margaret Curry Ellis. Death came to him suddenly on Tuesday evening, July 12, 1977.
He was a member of the Bethel A. M. E. Church, a 1973 graduate of Reidsville Senior High School, a member of Company Delta, 230th Support Battalion National Guard, Reidsville Unit, and a member of Reidsville Y. M. C. A.
The immediate survivors are: one brother, William C. Ellis of Reidsville; his foster parents, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Falls, one aunt, Mrs. Lillian Vaughn, one uncle, C. W. Curry, a foster uncle, Joseph Johnson; all of Reidsville; one great uncle, Jimmy Lee Curry of Springfield, Massachusetts; other relatives and friends.
In sorrow we can't understand. And so we question, "Why?" But God in His omnipotence Is listeningfrom on high.
He hears when we cry out in pain. He knows the griefwe bear, And through a love that reaches out. He holds us in His care.
-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThank you for your thoughful kindness at a time when it was greatly appreciated. Your expressions of friendship and sympathy will always remain in our memories.
-The Family
PROCESSIONAL HYMN ................................................. Choir SCRIPTURE ................................... Rev. Earl Brown PRAYER ................................... Rev. Charles Wilson HYMN ................................................ Choir CHURCH PAPER .............................. Mrs. Ossie Bolden SOLO.................................... Mrs. E\'elyn Morehead
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EULOGY ................................... Rev. Richard Spain -JOHNSON & SONS FUNERAL DIRECTORS IN CHARGE-
RECESSIONAL INTERMENT ............................... Greenview Cemetery
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"Thy mercy. 0 Lord. endurethforever."
-Psalm 138:1?