- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Eulogistic Services for Mrs. Marion W. Jones, Wednesday, June 12, 1985, 3:00 O'Clock p.m., Little Salem Christian Church, Reidsville, North Carolina, Reverend Junior Wimbush, Pastor
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1985-06-12
- Subject:
- African American women--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--Reidsville---History--20th century
Funeral service--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Reidsville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Rockingham County, Reidsville, 36.35486, -79.66447
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Marion W. Jones. Birth date: June 24, 1900. Death date: June 9, 1985. Funeral date: June 12, 1985. Church: Little Salem Christian Church (Reidsville, N.C.). 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: 233
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_jonesmarionw19850612
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_jonesmarionw19850612
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
CASKET BEARERS Board of Deacons
Little Salem Christian Church
FLOWER BEARERS Christian Women's Fellowship Little Salem Christian Church
Service by McLaurin
Reidsville, North Carolina Telephone 349-8286
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Mrs. Marion W. Jones
Wednesday, June 12, 1985 3:00 O'Clock P. M.
Little Salem Christian Church
Reidsville, North Carolina Reverend Junior Wimbush, Pastor
Marion Wright Jones was born June 24, 1900 in Rockingham County, North Carolina. She was the daughter of the late Thomas and Sara McClease Wright, and the founder of the Wright and Brown Family Reunion.
She was a dedicated member of Little Salem Christian Church, and served as president of the Christian Women's Fellowship for a number of years. She was an honorary member of the White Rose Court of Calanthe.
She succumbed to death on Sunday, June 9, 1985, at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital in Reidsville, North Carolina.
She is survived by two daughters, Miss Dorothy Jones of New York City, New York and Mrs. Reita Hamlet of Reidsville, North Carolina; one sonin-law, Charlie Hamlet of Reidsville, North Carolina; five grandchildren; four nephews and one niece; and many other relatives and friends.
Swing, softly, beauteous gates ofdeath, To let a waiting soul pass on; Achievement crowns life 's purposes And victory is forever won.
Swing softly, softly, heavenly gate, Thy portal passed, no more to roam; Our traveler finds herjourney o'er And rest at last in "Home Sweet Home."
-ACKNOWLEDGMENT-
"And now abideth faith , hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ''
- I CORINTHIANS 13:13
May God bless you for your Christian Charity. -The Family
PROCESSIONAL
HYMN ................................................ Choir
SCRIPTURE ................................. Rev. G. W. Roland
PRAYER .................................... Rev. C. H. Wilson
HYMN ................................................ Choir
CHURCH RESOLUTION...................... Mrs. Mable Lindsey OBITUARY and ACKNOWLEDGMENT ............... Read Silently SOLO ..................................... Rev. Elijah Galloway
EULOGY ................................. Rev. Junior Wimbush RECESSIONAL
SERVICE OF COMMITTAL and
INTERMENT Greenview Cemetery Reidsville, North Carolina