To Irene with Love, Mrs. Irene M. King, Thursday, May 15, 1986, 2:00 PM, Allen Temple A.M.E. Church, Rev. Benjamin Gay, Pastor

To Irene with Love
Mrs. Irene M. King
Thursday, May 15, 1986 2:00PM
Allen Temple AME Church Rev. Benjamin Gay, Pastor
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"Be thou faithful until death and I will give thee a crown of life." The Bible
Irene Morgan King began her sojourn on planet earth February 24, 1934, the third daughter and baby child of Mr. Lee Morgan and Mrs. Jennie Lue Brown
Morgan of Hogansville, Georgia. AB a young child her effervescent personality and
outgoing way became her most recognized talents. She attended and graduated from West End Consolidated Elementary and High School. Many of her teachers have remained her friends and supporters throughout her short life. Her further education was a government sponsored training program which served as her entrance into the business world.
Irene and her two sons moved to Atlanta in the middle sixties. Allen Temple A.M.E. Church became their church home and Davison's Department store was her place of employment.
In an effort to grow professionally she went to work for Equifax Services, while there she received numerous promotions and awards serving as a supervisor and her fmal position as a Telecommunications Specialist and Career Development Consultant.
May 26, 1984 Charles King and Irene Morgan King became as one - husband and wife. Irene was the loving mother of five children; Stanley W. Byrd, Charles A. Byrd, and triplets, Ricky, Dicky, and Vicky Byrd. The triplets preceded her in death.
She was sought as a speaker and received many awards for her service to mankind. She will be remembered as one of the first women to be named to Allen Temple's Steward Board and served faithfully until the end of her life.
Irene always recognized God as the head of her life. Her last public appearance was the revival meeting on Monday night, April28, 1986. On Tuesday, April29, 1986 she entered Georgia Baptist Hospital. Mter having made her peace she bade her loving husband, devoted sons, her mother, sisters and friends goodbye until we meet again. On Saturday, May 10, 1986, at 2:35p.m. she took her flight.
Her survivors are loving husband, Charles King, sons, Stanley W. and Charles A. Byrd, Mother, Mrs. Jennie Lue Morgan, sisters, Mrs. Mattie W. Bell and family, Mrs. Effie L. Farley and family, grandson, Ernest Pruitt, stepdaughters Kimberly and Adrian King, Aunts, Mrs. Pauline Frager, Mrs. Lillie M. Parks and Mrs. Georgia B. Underwood, Uncles, Mr. George Brown, Mr. Samuel Morgan and Mr. Hughley Morgan.
She leaves further four nieces, and one grand niece, one nephew, two sisters-inlaw, five brothers-in-law and numerous other relatives and friends.
Her friendly smile and kind words will keep her fondly in our memory.
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Irene was always asked to say ''For My People" Emancipation Day on the program for Troup County.
For My People/Margaret Walker
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly to an unseen power;
For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;
For my playmates in the clay and dust and sand of Alabama backyards playing baptizing and preaching, and doctor and jail and soldier and school and mama and cooking and playhouse and concert and store and Miss Choomby and hair and company;
Then one dark day she put a spell On a young gal-bride just come to dwell In the lane just down from Molly's shack And when her husband come riding back His wife was barking like a dog And on all fours like a common hog.
0 Molly, Molly, Molly Means Where is the ghost of Molly Means?
The neighbors come and they went away And said she'd die before break of day But her husband held her in his arms And swore he'd break the wicked charms; He'd search all up and down the land And tum the spell on Molly's hand.
0 Molly, Molly, :Molly Means Sharp is the ghost of Molly Means.
So he rode all day and he rode all night And at the dawn he come in sight Of a man who said he could move the spell And cause the awful thing to dwell On Molly Means, to bark and bleed Till she died at the hands of her evil deed.
Old Molly, Molly, Molly Means This is the ghost of Molly Means.
Sometimes at night through the shadowy trees She rides along on a winter breeze. You can hear her holler and whine and cry. Her voice is thin and her moan is high, And her cackling laugh or her barking cold Bring terror to the young and old.
0 Molly, Molly, Molly Means Lean is the ghost of Molly Means,
strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take controll

A HOMEGOING CELEBRATION FOR
IRENE MORGAN KING

The Processional

The Selection

When I Can Read My Title Clear

Allen Temple Mass Choir

The Invocation

Bishop Frederick Hilborn Talbot

The Scripture

Old Testament- Dr. Clayton W. Wilkerson

New Testament- Rev. A.R. Smith

The Solo

"The Lord's Prayer" Malotte

Ms. Dayle Fowler

The Reflections

Dean D.W. Jacobs, Former Pastor

A Friend

George A. Harris, President of Steward Council

The Solo

Mr. Tracey Cody

The Acknowledgements

Dr. Ruth H. Pace

The Obituary

(Read Silently)

The Medley of Hymns

Mr. Clifford Marshall

"0 God, Our Help In Ages Past"

"There's Something Mighty Sweet About the Lord"

"There's a Sweet, Sweet Spirit"

The Words of Comfort

Rev. Benjamin Gay

The Recessional

"It is Well With My Soul"

Only a memory of by gone days And a sigh for a face unseen,
Treasured thoughts of one so dear Often bring a silent tear,
But a constant feeling that God Alone Knows just what should have been Until memory fades and life departs You will live forever in our hearts

FLOWER LADIES
Missionary Society Stewardesses of Allen Temple

HONORARY PALLBEARERS
Stewards and Trustees

ACTIVE PALLBEARERS

Mr. James King

Mr. Robert Parks

Mr. Harvey King

Mr. AI Parks

Mr. Jo Billy Parks

Mr. Ben Parks

Mr. Rupert Littleton

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The family acknowledges the many kind deeds extended during the illness and homegoing of our loved one, Irene. Thanks to all of you for these deeds.
INTERMENT LINCOLN CEMETERY
THRASH and SONS FUNERAL HOME 117 West Main Street Hogansville, Georgia