- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Services for Mrs. Sylvia Leon Lambert, Friday, February 14, 2014, Christians for Change Baptist Church, 2110 Bethsaida Road, Riverdale, Georgia 30292, Brother Orpheus J. Heyward, Pastor, Brother Wesley R. Brown, Officiating
- Date of Original:
- 2014-02-14
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Riverdale--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Riverdale--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Riverdale---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Riverdale--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Riverdale--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Riverdale--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clayton County, Riverdale, 33.57261, -84.41326
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Sylvia Leon Lambert. Birth date: January 6, 1933. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: February 14, 2014. Church: Christians for Change Baptist Church (Riverdale, 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: 393
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_lambertsylvialeon20140214
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_lambertsylvialeon20140214
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Family and Friends
Family and Friends
The family of Mrs. Sylvia Leon Lambert wishes to express their heartfelt appreciation for all of the calls, visits, prayers, cards and others acts of kindness extended to us during the illness and celebration of life for our loved one. May God bless you.
:FrtOO ~~ WOH,
I'm at rest, so don't cry. It'll be easier as time goes by I've done my best to live a good life for I know ifI did, I would be with Christ. As my body lies here, it's only a shell
God called me home and my job, I've done well Now I am happy and very content; for the things I've done wrong,
I did repent, as I see your faces and that makes me sad But I have made it, for that I am glad. You and I know that it's hard on earth.
So you shouldn't cry at death, but at birth. I have no worries, no pain orfears, because I'm with God. So dry your tears, I love you all and this is what I want you to do.
Put Godfirst in your life and "I'll be seeing you".
Willie A. Watkins Funeral Home, Inc.
West End Chapel
Douglasville Chapel
Lithonia Chapel
1003 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd.
8312 Dallas Hwy.
5843 Redan Road
Atlanta, GA 30310
Douglasville, GA 30134
Lithonia, GA 30058
404-758-1731
770-489-6751
770-482-2376
Carrollton Chapel
Riverdale Chapel
602 Newnan Road Carrollton, GA 30117
770-836-0044
6580 Church St. Riverdale, GA 30274
770-909-8800
DARRYL ALLEN'S PLUS 404.755.0965
Friday, February 14, 2014 11:00 A.M.
Christians for Change Baptist Church
2110 Bethsaida Road Riverdale, Georgia 30292
Brother Orpheus J. Heyward, Pastor
Brother Wesley R. Brown, Officiating
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Ms. Sylvia Leon Lambert was born January 6, 1933 to the late Odell and Camilla Gideon in Atlanta, Georgia. She was educated in the Atlanta Public School System and attended Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. She also attended Azusa Pacific College in Azusa, California where she earned a Master's degree in Elementary Education.
Sylvia's first teaching job was at E. R. Carter Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1959 where she taught at Clarence A. Dickerson Elementary School from 1959 to 1979. She later transferred to McKinley Elementary School in Compton, California in 1979 where she taught until she retired in June of 2000.
She was a devoted and faithful member of the Mothers' Board at Christians for Change Baptist Church until her health started to decline. "She loved the Mothers' Board."
Sylvia was preceded in death by her parents, Odell and Camilla Gideon and her brother, James Gideon.
She leaves to cherish her memory and celebrate her life a son, Darryl Glenn Lambert; a granddaughter, Keisha D. Lambert; two nephews, James and Vincent Gideon; a special niece, Barbara Scott Tyus and many other relatives and friends.
Prelude
Processional
Selection
"Order My Steps In Your Word"
Scripture The Old Testament ................................................Minister The New Testament..............................................Minister
Prayer........................................................................Minister
Selection..................................................... .... . .............Choir
Remarks (Three Minutes Please)
Ms. JoAnn Cross Mrs. Nikki Jones
Eulogy ........... . . ... ............................ . ... Reverend Michael Baldwin
Acknowledgement
Recessional
Postlude
Forest Hills Cemetery Forest Park, Georgia