- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Mrs. Callie Olyra Ford, Monday - March 8, 1982, 5:00 P.M., St. Paul A.M.E. Church, 989 Morrow Avenue - Macon, Georgia, Rev. E.S. Mallory, Officiating, Interment, Middle Georgia Memory Gardens, Hutchings Services
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1982-03-08
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Macon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Callie Olyra Ford. Birth date: (not recorded). Death date: March 4, 1982. Funeral date: March 8, 1982. Church: Saint Paul A.M.E. Church (Macon, 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_fordcallieolyra19820308
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_fordcallieolyra19820308
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
PALLBEARERS :
Mr. James Jones Mr. Freddie Stewart Mr. Matthew Vinson
Mr. Aaron Coo~ Mr. Richard Mathis, Sr.
Mr. Jimmy Simonton
HONORARY PALLBEARERS Chautauqua Civic and Social Club
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
No one knows pain except one who has been afflicted by it. No one knows sorrow lest he has been caused to grieve by it . And there is no heart that can bear those grievances w ithout the w armness shown it by friends.
We wish you to know that our hearts have been made to feel warm by the ktndness, condolences, flowers, and all such sympathies shown at our ttme of bereavement .
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MONDAY - MARCH 8 , 1982 5 :00P .M.
ST . PAUL A.M.E. CHURCH 989 MOR ROW AVEN UE MACON , GEORGIA
R V . .S. MALLORY , OFFICIAT ING INT AMENT
MIDD I F- G ORGIA MEMORY GARDENS
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OBITUARY
Mrs. Callie Olyra Ford was born in Rome, Georgia to the parentage of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas. She departed this life, March 4, 1982.
She attended school in Rome and was a graduate of Morris Brown College. She received her master's degree from the Atlanta University. She taught school in Wilkinson and Bibb Counties before retiring last year. She was a member of the Chatauqua Civic and Social Club and was a member of the St. Paul A.M.E. Church where she sang in the gospel choir and was a member of the Friendship Club.
Survivors include her husband, Charles Ford of Macon; a son, Charles Jonathan Ford of Macon; a daughter, Mrs. Danita Ford Runnels of Macon; a step-son, Theodore Bowman of Atlanta; a brother, Dr. John Thomas of Nashville, Tennessee; four sisters, Mrs. Delores Thornton, Mrs. Sarah Hixon, Mrs. Lila Thomas and Mrs. Edith Lyons all of Rome; six grandchildren; several nieces and nephews .
PROGRAM
Processional
Hymn .......... . .. . .... . . . Come Ye Disconsolate
Prayer and Scripture . . . . .. . .. . . ... . Rev. Van Malone
Psalm 27
Solo . ... .
.. .. . Mr. Julius Vinson
Obituary . .
. ... (Silence Music)
Eulogy . ..... .. .. . ............. Rev. E.S. Mallory
No Viewing of Remains ... .. .. . ..... . . . ....... .
Recessional ....... ... ... .. ............. . .. .