- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Home Going of Lavonnia Lonja' Johnson-Wright, Friday, June 18, 2004, 12 Noon, Wilson Family Funeral Chapel of Livermore, 3070 East Avenue, Livermore, California, (925) 443-4500
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2004-06-18
- Subject:
- African American women--California--Livermore--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--California--Livermore--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Livermore--History--20th century
Funeral service--California--Livermore--History--20th century
Mourning customs--California--Livermore--History--20th century
African Americans--California--Livermore--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, California, Alameda County, Livermore, 37.68187, -121.76801
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Lavonnia Lonja' Johnson-Wright. Birth date: June 26, 1982. Death date: June 10, 2004. Funeral date: June 18, 2004. Church: Wilson Family Funeral Chapel of Livermore (Livermore, Calif.). 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_johnson-wrightlavonnialonja20040618
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_johnson-wrightlavonnialonja20040618
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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Home Going Of
Lavonnia Lonja' Johnson-Wright . '
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2004 12NOON
WILSON FAMILY FUNERAL CHAPEL OF
LIVERMORE 3070 EAST AVENUE LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA
(925) 443-4500
OE>ITUARY
LAVON IA LO N.IA' JOHNSON-WRIGHT WAS BORN JUNE 26, 1982 IN S/\N JOSE CALIF URN IA, THE DAUGHTER OF CYNTHIA JOHNSON AND CARLOS DANIEL WRIGHT SR. SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON TJ IURSDAY .I UNE 10. 2004. LONJA' ACCEPTED CHRIST INTO HER EARLY LIFE AT BAPTIST HILL .lvllSSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH AND SERVED UNDER PA STOR TUCKER AS A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, VACATION BIBLE SCIJOOLSUPERVISORANDTEACHERAND SANG IN TilE CII OIR. LON JA ' 'WAS A GRADUATE OF T.R.MILLER HIGH SCHOOL IN BRI~ W J'ON, ALABAivlA, CLASS OF 2000, WITH A SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND TI -l E ED REED COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE. SHE MOVED BACK TO CAL IFORNI A AND ATTENDED LANEY COLLEGE AND TH E I3RYivlAN INST ITUT E fOR BUILDING AND CODING.
SHE \VAS A LOV ING MOTHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS TAUHJA' TRENNYCE JOHNSON-W RIGHT 5MOS. AND TIALIYAH DESMONE' .J OJl NSON -WR IGHT 3YRS . LONJA' LEAVES TO CHERISH HER tv1Etv10 RY; HER TWO DAUGHTERS, SIX SISTERS; JESSICA CHARLENE REED, JOLISSA CHRISTINE REED, KRISTEN EILEEN REED,CRYSTAL SHANELLE MCLAURIN, SHARI WRIGHT-CARTER AND SHADORA WRIGI-IT-JvJJLLOT, ONE BROTHER CARLOS DANIEL WRIGHT JR. T\VO GREAT GRANDMOTHERS; QUEEN ESTER HARRISON AND FRANCES ANNETTE GRAY. TWO GRANDMOTHERS; JOANN HARRISON OF BREWTON, ALA13 /\tvlAAND SHARON J WRIGHT OF' SAN JOSE. TWO GRANDFATERS C' I: LLARS JOHNSON OF FLORIDA AND JOHN LYNN \VRI GHT OF SAN .lOSE. HER DEVOTED UNCLES; SEAN AND NICKI WlLLIAiVIS, KENNETH JOHNSON AND ERIC AUGMON. HER LOVING GODMOT II ER AND AUNT SHERYL WRIGHT-HAMILTON. LAVONNIA LONJA' 'vV/\S \VE lJ . .BY A GREAT HOST OF AUNTS AND UNCLES AND COUS IN S.
PALLBEARERS
HONORARY
PVT KENNETH A HAMILTON II ANDRE' LYNN WRIGHT JOl-IN ERIC WRIGHT JEFFREY JEROME vVRIGHT IvllCI-lAELA. WOODS KARL ALLEN THORNER
ACTIVE
SEAN WILLIAMS KENNETH JOHNSON ERICAUGMON KENNETI-i A. HAMILTON ROBERT CARTER XZAVIA MILLOT.
IN APPRECIATION
THE FAMILY \VISHES TO EXPRESS SINCERE THANKS TO EACH AND EYERYONE OF YOU, FOR YOUR PRAYERS
- SUPPOl~T-CALLS- FOOD, FLOWERS AND ALL OTHER ACTS 0 F
KINDNESS. PLEAS F CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE FAMILY.
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A PSALM OF LIFE TELL ME NOT IN MOURNFUL NUMBERS LIFE IS BUT AN EMPTY DREAM! FOR THE SOUL IS DEAD THAT SLUMBERS AND THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM. LIFE IS REALI LIFE IS EARNEST! AND TI-lE GRAVE IS NOT ITS GOAL; DUST THOU ART, TO DUST RETUNEST, WAS NOT SPOKEN OF THE SOUL.
ART IS LONG, AND TIME IS FLEETING, AND OUR HEARTS, THOUGH STOUT AND BRAVE, STILL, LIKE MUFFLED DRUMS ARE BEATING FUNERAL MARCHES TO THE GRAVE. TRUST'NO FUTURE, HOWEVER PLEASANT! LET TilE DEAD PAST BURY ITS DEAD! ACT,- ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT! llEART WITHIN, AND GOD O'ERHEAD!
LI'{ES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US WE CAN MAKE OUR UVES
SU~UME, AND, DEPARTING, LEAVE BEHIND US
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME. FOOTPRINTS, THAT PERHAPS ANOTHER, SAILING O'bR UFE'S SOLEMN MAIN, A FORLORN AND SHIPWRECKED BROTHER, SEEING SHALL TAKE HEART AGAIN. LET US, THEN, BE UP AND DOING, WITH A HEART FOR ANY FATE ; STILL ACHIEVING, STILL PURSUING, LEARN TO LABOUR AND TO WAIT. ..
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PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL PRAYER
SCRIPTURE SELECTION EXPRESSIONS
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OBITUARY SELECTION EULOGY RECESSIONAL
PASTOR CAL COOK GAMWOC
PASTOR CAL COOK
TANIA ALEXANDER
DEACON CELLARS JOHNSON GRANDFATHER FAMILY AND FRIENDS
SHARON TAYLOR
DELTRICE & TISH THORNER
PASTOR STEVEN THORNER COMMUNITY c OGIC I'LL FLY AWAY INTERNMENT
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