- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Memorial Service for Mrs. Nancy Robert Evans
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2014-12-13
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Decatur--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Decatur, 33.77483, -84.29631
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Nancy Robert Evans. Birth date: September 19, 1937. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: December 13, 2014. Church: Donald Trimble Mortuary Chapel (Decatur, 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_evansnancyrobert20141213
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_evansnancyrobert20141213
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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I see the countless Christmas trees around the world below With tif!)' lights like Heaven 's stairs, reflecting on the snow.
The sight is so spectacular, please wipe awqy the tear For I am spending Christmas with Jesus Christ thisyear. I hear the maf!J' Christmas songs that people hold so dear But the sounds ofmusic can't compare with the Christmas choir up here.
I have no words to tellyou, thejqy their voices brin~
For it is bryond description, to hear the angels sing. I know how muchyou miss me, I see the pain insideyour heart.
But I am not so far awqy, we real!J aren't apart. So be happyfor me, dear ones,you know I holdyou dear. And be glad I'm spending Christmas with Jesus Christ thisyear. I sentyou each a specialgift, from my heaven!J home above,
I sentyou each a memory ofmy unqying love. After all love is a gift more precious than pure gold. It was alwqys most important in the stories Jesus told. Please love and keep each other, as my Father said to do. For I can't count the blessing or love he hasfor each ofyou. So have a Merry Christmas and wipe awqy that tear. Remember, I am spending Christmas with Jesus Christ thisyear.
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The family of Mrs. Nancy Robert Evans thank you most sincerely for your kind expression of sympathy in their time of bereavement.
Services Entrusted To: Donald Trimble Mortuary, Inc.
404.371.0772
Darryl Allen's PLUS 404.755.0965
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
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Nancy Rena Jackson Roberts Evans, the oldest of eleven children born to the late Gullie and the late Russia Jackson, was born September 19, 1937.
She was educated in the Atlanta Public School System. Nancy was a graduate of George Washington Craver Vocational School majoring in Cosmetology and graduating third in her class. She opened Nancy's Beauty Box at Ashby Street, NW, then Ashby Circle, NW, and eventually moving to Ashby Street, SW across from Morehouse College Tennis Court.
Nancy passed the Georgia State Cosmetology Teachers Exam and was licensed to teach Cosmetology in 1970 in Georgia. During her career she earned one Bachelor of Science Degree and two Doctoral Degrees in Cosmetology Chemistry. She wrote the Cosmetology program and was the first Cosmetology instructor of color to become employed upon the opening of Atlanta Technical School, which is now Atlanta Technical College. She also taught in two of Atlanta's Private Cosmetology schools. Nancy was one of an elite group of cosmetologist from around the United States of America who helped to revolutionize the art of Cosmetology for all Afro American women, by helping formulate and teach the chemical process of straightening hair. She traveled first with Ultra Sheen products, and then she became a "rep" for French perm products, traveling in a 5state area for ten years. She helped formulate Lotta Body Setting Lotion and Creme of Nature Shampoo for this company.
Nancy was an ardent gardener and fisherwoman, stating that all Virgo's Love the Earth. She learned to drive a stick shift automobile at the age of 60 and started learning to play bridge at the age of 65.
She is survived by her loving husband, Arthur Evans, Jr.; sisters, Marjorie Jackson, Bronx, NY; Patsy Jackson, Atlanta, GA; Cleopatra Jackson-Dean, Stone Mountain, GA; one brother, Gullie L. Jackson, Jr., Tucker, GA; eleven nieces, two nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great nieces, great-great nephews, other relatives and friends.
Nancy is preceded in death by her parents, Mrs. Russia W. Jackson and Mr. Gullie L. Jackson; sisters, Juanita Jackson, Addie and Henry Pyatt, Norma Jackson, and Essie Lois Jackson; two brothers, Tommy L. Jackson and Clark Jackson, Sr.
Prelude Processional
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Saturday, December 13, 2014 2:30P.M.
Donald Trimble Mortuary 1876 Second Avenue Decatur, Georgia
Selection
Scripture Readings Old Testament: Psalm 27 New Testament
Prayer
Selection
Remarks (Three Minutes, Please)
Olivia Rock Family and Friends
Obituary (Read Silently)
Eulogy
Acknowledgements
Donald Trimble Staff
Recessional
Postlude