- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Celebration of Life for Sidmel Karen Estes
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2015-10-10
- 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 Sidmel Karen Estes. Birth date: November 27, 1955. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: October 10, 2015. Church: Elizabeth 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.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_estessidmelkaren20151010
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_estessidmelkaren20151010
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
MELODY
SCRIPTURE READINGS
OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT PaJtor Micbtul Terrell
PRAYER AND SOLO
BiJhop Richard B. Lanlcford, Sr.
TRIBUTES
Ann Wead Kimbrough Ce Cole Dillon Marie Shavin Monica Pear,;on Edward .&tu
OBITUARY READ SILENTLY
SOLO
Mr1. Karen G. Lowery
WORDS OF COMFOR
Reverend Dr. Walter L. Kimhrougb
ACKNOWLEDGE
RECESSIONAL
FAMILY OF SIDMEL KAREN ESTES EXTENDS ITS SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE MANY COURTESIES DISPLAYED DURING HER ILLNESS AND TRANSITION. IT IS A BLESSING TO BE SURROUNDED BY CARING AND LOVING FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUCH AS THOSE WHO
HAVE EMBRACED US. MAY GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU.
ANDREWS- CHENNAULT FUNERAL HOME
116 JOSEPH E. LOWERY BOULEVARD, SW ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30314
404.755.0965
~~S SURVIVED BY AND LEAVES TO CHERISH HER
MEMORY: TWO DEDICATED SONS, JOSHUA KHALID SUMPTERAND SIDNEY RASHID SUMPTER; BROTHERS EDWARD AND CHRISTOPHER (SHAQlJITA); SISTER CHERYL (NICK); SEVEN NIECES AND NEPHEWS , STEPMOTHER BARBARA, FORMER HUSBAND B. GARNETT SUMPTER, AND A HOST OF OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS.
FOR NO FOUND
THE
MOST JOURNA
WAS A NATIONALLY INSIDER
E AND BUILD THE PROGRAM,
GA/FOX 5
SHE MADE HISTORY IN 1991 WHEN
SHE WAS ELECTED AS THE FIRST
WOMAN P SIDENT OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK
JOURNALISTS. lN 1993, SHE WAS
LISTED IN EBONY MAGAZINE'S 100
MOST
INFLUENTIAL
BLACK
AMERICANS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
SIDMEL WAS NAMED "MEDIA WOMAN OF THE YEAR' BY THE ATLANTA CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MEDIA WOMEN. THAT FEAT WAS SO IMPRESSIVE THAT THEN MAYOR ANDREW YOUNG PROCLAIMED
NOVEMBER 18, 1988 AS SJDMEL ESTES
SUMPTER DAY. SHE WAS FEATURED
IN EBONY'S 100 MOST INFLUENTlAL BLACK AMERICANS IN 1993, AND IN MORE MAGAZINE'S BOOK 50 OVER 50. SIDMEL WAS ALSO HONORED
WITH THE SILVER CIRCLE AWARD FROM THE TELEVISION ACADEMY.
)
OOL, DID NOT FtND HER PASSION IN
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHING. SIDMEL'S
PASSION WAS IN TELLING STORIES AND THE
NEWS. SHE RECEIVED HER BACHELORS
AND MASTERS DEGREES AS AN HONORS
GRADUATE
OF
NORTHWESTERN
UNIVERSITY'S MEDILL SCHOOL OF
JOURNALISM WHERE SHE WAS INDUCTED
AS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL'S
HALL OF ACHIEVEMENT.
ESTES. SIDMEL'S UNUSUAL NAME WAS A COMBINATION OF THEIR NAMES. SIDMEL'S FATHER, THE LATE DR. SIDNEY HARRISON ESTES WAS A TEACHER, PRINCIPAL, AND ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT IN ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SIDMEL'S MOTHER, THE LATE EMELLEN MITCHELL ESTES WAS A TEACHER IN THE ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS , AND WAS THE FOUNDING PRINCIPAL AT M.
AGNES }ONES SCHOOL