A Celebration of Life for Mrs. Rosemary Fitts Funderburg, Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 11:00 A.M., St. Paul of The Cross Catholic Church, 551 Harwell Road, Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, The Revered Royal Lee, Celebrant

To laugh often and love much; To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of
false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others;
To give one's self To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have laughed with enthusiasm; And sing with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Rosemary Fitts Funderburg was born on May 20, 1923 to the late Howard M. and Elizabeth Plummer Fitts in Wilson, North Carolina. Her parents were educators, church, and community workers. She was educated at the Wilson High School where she finished as valedictorian. She attended Virginia State and graduated from North Carolina Central University. As a student at NCCU, she was one of the original members of Durham's Holy Cross Catholic Church. In 1993, she returned for her fiftieth class reunion at which time she was awarded the Golden Eagle. Graduate studies were done at the Atlanta University School of Social Work, which she completed in 1948.
Until her recent retirement, Mrs. Funderburg served as assistant professor and director of continuing education at Clark Atlanta University School of Social Work. She had extensive experience in social work as a clinician, supervisor, researcher, administrator, and educator. She worked more than fifteen years as program director of Families First in Atlanta. She had previously been affiliated with the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry and Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Department of Child Psychiatry, as well as the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Some of Mrs. Funderburg's professional, community and social involvements were: In 1986 appointed by Governor Joe Frank Harris to serve on Georgia's Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage (at the time, she was the first and only AfricanAmerican appointed to the Board); The Executive Board of the American Association of State Social Workers, The National Foundation of The Links, Inc.; Friends of The Atlanta Fulton Public Library; The Sadie G. Mays Memorial Nursing Home and The Fulton County Central Senior Services, as well as, The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., The Atlanta Girl Friends, The Utopian Literary Club, Jovial Coterie Bridge Club, Bridges Across Atlanta and Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library; and also The Tuesday Morning Study Club which she founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1962.
Mrs. Funderburg received numerous honors and awards in recognition of her dedicated professional and community service. Some of them included: NAACP Woman of the Year (1985), Atlanta University Frankie V. Adams Award for Excellence in Social Work Practice (1985), Honors for Lifetime in Social Work, Georgia NASW (1989), Families First establishment of the Rosemary Fitts Funderburg Library Fund for Professional Literature (1990), Establishment of the R.F. Funderburg Annual Training Session (1991 ); Pioneer Award Georgia Chapter of National Association of Social Workers (1994) and Induction into the National Honorary Group "Pioneers in Social Work" (1997).
Mrs. Funderburg departed this life on Tuesday, November 21, 2000. She is survived by two sons and daughter in-law, lion Owen, Jr. and Douglas Westmoreland and Nettie Mency Funderburg; grandchildren, Christopher Douglas, Chen Nicole and Paul Mency, ChadwyckWestmoreland, and Peter DiVonn Funderburg; brother and sister in-law, Howard M. and AI bertha Fitts of Durham, North Carolina; nieces, nephews, cousins, and a host of other relatives, extended family members and caring friends.

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PRELUDE ........................................................................ Mr. Steve Dalton
INTRODUCTORY RITE ............................. Greeting and sprinkling of body in the rear of the church
PROCESSIONAL HYMN .................. "How Great Thou Art", LMGM #181
PLACING OF PALL AND CHRISTIAN SYMBOL
OPENING PRAYER
LITURGY OF THE WORD First Reading, Isaiah 25:6a, 7-9 .......................... Carolyn Funderburg Responsorial Psalms, Psalms 42 and 43 ............. Repeat after Cantor Second Reading, 2 Corinthians 4:31-5:1 .......................... Ken Gooch Gospel Acclamation Gospel, John 6:37-40 Homily General Intercessions Response ................ ................. ........... .. ......... "Lord Hear our Prayer"
LITURGY OF EUCHARIST
PREPARATION OF THE TABLE
SOLO .................. ........ ............................. .. ....... ........... ... Keith A. Chaplain
EUCHARIST PRAYER
COMMUNION
TRIBUTES : Dorcas D. Bowles Patricia Whatley Showell Karen Starks Canada Brenda Twyner Robinson
SOLO .............................................................................. . Michelle Williams
FINAL COMMENDATION
SONG OF FAREWELL
PRAYER OF COMMENDATION
PROCESSION TO PLACE OF COMMITTAL
SONG .................................. "Let There Be Peace on Earth': LMGM #300
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METRO/O~ITUARIES

ATLANTA
Rosemary

Funderburg,

77,

social

wqrker

and

educator

By Erin Behan
ebehan@ajc.com
Helping people came naturally to Rosemary Funderburg.
In social work for nearly 50 years, Mrs. Funderburg was most recently director of continuing education at Clark Atlanta University's School of Social Work and assistant director at the Atlanta-based Families First.
"It was just absolutely a part of who she was," said Pat Showeij of Atlanta, associate executive director at Families First. "She would see a need and go about working to meet that need."
Mrs. Funderburg worked at ...F~es First from 1975 through

.1989. The cen-

ter now serves

90,000 people

in the metro Atlanta area,

Ms. Showell

said.

The funeral

F nderbu

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for Rosemary Fitts Funder-

burg, 77, of Atlanta is 11 a.m.

today at St. Paul of the Cross .

Catholic Church. Slte died at

Crawford lDng Hospital Nov. 21

of complications from surgery.

Sellers Bros. is in charge of

arrangements. At CAU from 1990 to 1998,
Mrs. Funderburg set up training workshops for social workers in

the field, said Dr. Karen Starks Canada of Atlanta, a CAU assistant professor.
A Wilson, N.C., native, Mrs. Funderburg grew up during the Depression in a home where helping those in need was the . first priority, her brother, Howard Fitts of Durham, N.C., said. . .
She received her bachelor's degree from orth Carolin~ Central University and her master's of social work from Atlanta Unjversity in 1948.
She worked as a case worker in Durham and as an instructor at Duke University and Washington University in St. L6uis. She was one of the first members of the

~orgia Composite Board for social workers, professional coun~ selors and marriage and family therapists in 1985.
"She had wonderful diplomacy, leadership and listening skills, which is so important where you're dealing with many client situations of people in crisis," said Brenda Twyner Robinson of Atlanta, a colleague who now works in Spelman College's student counseling centel'.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be given to the Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work Scholarship Fund, Clark Atlanta University, 223 James P. Brawley Drive SW, Atlanta, GA, 30314-4391.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Rosemary Funderburg, 77, social worker and educator

By Erin Behan
ebehan@ajc.com
Helping people came naturally to Rosemary Funderburg.
In social work for nearly 50 years, Mrs. Funderburg was most recently director of continuing education at Clark Atlanta University's School of Social Work and assistant director at the Atlanta-based Families First.
"It was just absolutely a part of who she was," said Pat Showell of Atlanta, associate executive director at Families First. "She would see a need and go about working to meet that need."
Mrs. Funderburg worked at . .t~anuues First from 1975 through

1989. The center now serves

90,000 people

in the metro

Atlanta area, Ms. Showell

said.

The funeral

Funderburg

for Rosemary Fitts Funder-

burg, 77, of Atlanta is 11 a.m. today at St. Paul of the Cross
Catholic Church. She died at Crawford Long Hospital Nov. 21 of complications from surgery. Sellers Bros. is in charge of

arrangements.

At CAU from 1990 to 1998, Mrs. Funderburg set up training workshops for social workers in

the field, said Dr. Karen Starks Canada of Atlanta, a CAU assistant professor.
AWilson, N.C., native, Mrs. Funderburg grew up during the
Depression in a home where helping those in need was the first priority, her brother, Howard Fitts of Durham, N.C.,
said. She received her bachelor's
degree from North Carolina Central University and her master's of social work from Atlanta University in 1948.
She worked as a case worker in Durham and as an instructor at Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis. She was one of the first members of the

Georgia Composite Board for social workers, professional counselors and marriage and family
therapists in 1985. "She had wonderful diplomacy;
leadership and listening skills, which is so important where you're dealing with many client situations of people in crisis," said Brenda Twyner Robinson of
Atlanta, a colleague who now works in Spelman College's stu-
dent counseling center. In lieu of flowers, the family
requests that contributions be given to the Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work Scholar-
ship Fund, Clark Atlanta University, 223 James P. Brawley Drive SW, Atlanta, GA, 30314-4391 .

FAMILY- PLACED . DEATH NOTICES

ANDERSON
Mrs. Sandi Anderson of Decatur died Monday, November 27. A.S. Turner & Sons Decatur.
BASHAM
Lt. Col. E.O. ("Pete") Basham, U.S. Army, retired, Fayetteville, GA, died Monday, November 27, 2000, at age 78. He was commissioned in the Army Air Corps in August 1944, served in World War II, and was recalled to active duty as a combat aviator during the Korean Conflict. He retired from the military in 1968. Following his military career, he was an instructor and head of the Aviation Department at Atlanta Area Technical School for l6 years. He is survived by his wife, Lee Basham; daughter, Pat Harrison of Atlanta, GA; son, Bob Basham of Woodbury, GA; three grandchildren, Michael Basham, Joy Basham and Shannon Harrison; sister, Aleene Young, Ringgold, GA; brother, Marion Basham, Bowling Green, KY. The family will receive friends at Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home in Peachtree City from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29, 2000. A memorial service will be held at First Presbyterian Church, Peachtree City, GA at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday November 30, 2000. Interment, will be in Mt. Pleasant Church of Christ Cemetery, Bowling Green, KY. Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home, Peachtree City in charge of arrangements.