- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Service for Millicent Dobbs Jordan, Saturday, February 2, 1991, 11:00am, First Congregational Church, UCC, 105 Courtland Street, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia, The Reverend George Thomas, Pastor
- Date of Original:
- 1991-02-02
- 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 Millicent Dobbs Jordan. Birth date: December 19, 1911. Death date: January 31, 1991. Funeral date: February 2, 1991. Church: First Congregational Church, U.C.C. (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: 16
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_jordanmillicentdobbs19910202
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_jordanmillicentdobbs19910202
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of
human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes
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Millicent Dobbs Jordan was born in Atlanta, Georgia, December 19, 1911, the third daughter of six, to John Wesley and Irene Thompson Dobbs. After attending the old Houston Street Public School, she entered the eighth grade in Giles Hall at Spelman College. There, she completed high school and graduated from Spelman College in 1933.
Always a lover of the arts, she received a Master's degree in Speech and Drama from Columbia University in 1939 after beginning her teaching career at Booker T. Washington and David T. Howard High Schools. Her early college teaching experience was gained at Savannah State and Morris Brown Colleges. It was at Arkansas State College, Pine Bluff, that she met Robert H. Jordan. They were married in 1942 and assumed teaching posts at Tennessee State University in Nashville. Three sons were born to this union, Robert, Jr., Dobbs and James (now deceased). After Robert, Sr. completed dental studies and internship at Meharry Dental School, the family moved to Atlanta where Robert set up his dental practice which he enjoyed until illness and death in 1980.
During her busy years of homemaking as wife and mother, and in addition to her teaching career, Millicent was actively involved with the arts in Atlanta. She served on many boards including The Arts Alliance, The High Museum Alliance Theater, Atlanta Arts Festival, Center for Puppetry Arts, The Gate City Day Nursery, Center for Africare and Afro-American Studies Program of Atlanta University; The Neighborhood Arts Center, Ad Hoc Committee for Arts for The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and The Atlanta Sister Cities (Lagos, Nigeria). She was an active member of The Dental Auxiliary, The Inquirers Club, The Utopian Literary Club and numerous civic endeavors as well.
Extensive travels carried her to the West Indies, Europe, Israel, South America and to her favorite, Africa on eleven separate tours.
In 1989 declining health slowed Millicent's enthusiastic pace and her myriad contributions to Atlanta's art community. Untiringly, her children attended and nurtured her with love and devotion. She departed this life January 31, 1991. Mourning her death but grateful for her life are her children, Robert and Sharon Jordan and granddaughter, Karen, Dobbs and Michelle Jordan and granddaughter, Alexandra; her sisters, Irene Dobbs Jackson, Willie Dobbs Blackburn, Josephine Dobbs Clement, Mattiwilda Dobbs Janzon, June Dobbs Butts, their families, and a host of friends.
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Dr. G. Johnson Hubert, Organist
PRELUDE .................. "Chorale" ................. J. S. Bach
PROCESSIONAL ............. Largo" (Xerxes) ............. Handel
SCRIPTURE LESSON The Old Testament Psalm 23 The New Testament Revelation 7:9-17
PRAYER .......................... The Reverend George Thomas
SOLO ......................................... Ms. Zelda Kennedy "How Lovely Are Thy Dwelling" "Liddle"
REMARKS: Richard A. Long, Emory University Beverly Gui-Sheftall, Spelman College Vince Anthony, Center For Puppetry Arts Tandi Gcabashe, American Friends Service Committee
EULOGY ...................... The Honorable Maynard Jackson Mayor, City of Atlanta
RECESSIONAL .................. "Largo" .................. Dvorak (New World Symphony)