- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Obsequies for Mrs. Amanda J. Johnson, Sunday, September 30, 1979, 12:30 P.M., Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, Rev. Homer Smith, Officiating, Interment: Sawdust Cemetery, Siloam, Georgia
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1979-09-30
- 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 Amanda Jarrell Johnson. Birth date: August 15, 1927. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: September 30, 1979. Church: Mt. Sinai 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.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 317
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_johnsonamandajarrell19790930
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_johnsonamandajarrell19790930
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
OBSEQUIES
FOR
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1979, 12:30 P..M.
Mt. Sinai Baptist Church
Atlanta, Georgia Rev. Homer Smith, Officiating
Interment: Sawdust Cemetery Siloam, Georgia
OBI T-U A R :Y
Mrs. Amanda Jarrell Johnson was born to the late Mr. Ude Mapp and Miss Amanda Boone, August 15, 1927. She attended elementary school in Siloam and Greensboro High.
At an early age she joined the New Springfield Baptist Church under the leadership of Rev. B. R. Watts. She later moved to Atlanta where she joined Mt. Sinai Baptist.
She leaves to mourn: husband, Mr. Edward Johnson, Jr.; mother, Mrs. Amanda B. Mapp of Siloam, Ga.; two daughters, Mrs. Barbara J. Hughley and Mrs. Rossiland V. Middlebrooks; two granddaughters, Misses Alethea D. Chapple and Shameka S. Chapple; sisters and brothers, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Childs and family of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Anthony and family of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Mapp and family of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mapp and family of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. James Claude Mapp and family of Siloam, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Revel, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Howell, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and family of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Mae Fletcher and family, and the Jarrell Family, and a host of nieces, nephews
. . . and other relatives and friends.
POEM
I cannot say, I will not say,
That she is dead;
With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand, She has wondered into an unknown land;
Sleep on, sleep on!
ORDER OF SERVICE
Prelude
Processional Congregational Hymn ________________ "Sweet Hour Of Prayer"
Scripture-Old and New Testament Invocation
Selection -------------------------------------------------- Choir Remarks (Three Minutes) Obituary (read silently)
Eulogy ------------------------------------- Rev. Homer Smith Acknowledgments Viewing Remains Recessional
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PALLBEARERS AND FLOWER BEARERS To Be Selected
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT The family wishes to acknowledge gratefully the many kind expressions of Si)Tmpathy extended during the passing of its loved one. Your concern and thoughtfulness have helped to ease the sorrow of bereavement.