- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Celebration of Life for Mother Maggie Bell Maddox, April 20, 1928- August 5, 2000, Thursday, August 10, 2000, 1:00 P.M., Watkins' West End Chapel, 1003 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd., SW, Atlanta, GA 30310, Bishop Roy Blake, Jr., Officiating & Eulogist
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2000-08-10
- 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 Maggie Bell Blake Maddox. Birth date: April 20, 1928. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: August 10, 2000. Church: Willie A. Watkins Historic West End Chapel (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: 6
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_maddoxmaggiebell20000810
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_maddoxmaggiebell20000810
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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"W'here the Name Implies Service" .. 1003 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd., SW
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