- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- In Loving Memory Celebrating the Life of Willie Norman Mason, Sr. (Buddy), 1930-2007, Friday, August 3, 2007, 11:00 a.m., Watkins and Sons Chapel, 452 North Hill Street, Griffin, Georgia, Elder Walter Campbell, Officiating, "Take Everything To God In Prayer"
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2007-08-03
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Griffin--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Griffin--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Griffin---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Griffin--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Griffin--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Griffin--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Spalding County, Griffin, 33.24678, -84.26409
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Willie Norman Mason, Sr. Birth date: May 19, 1930. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: August 3, 2007. Church: Watkins and Sons Chapel (Griffin, 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.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_masonwillienormansr20070803
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_masonwillienormansr20070803
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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PJ>ai~ Family and Friends
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A Chapter Completed, A Page Turned A Life Well Lived, A Rest Well Earned.
We would like to thank everyone
for your thoughts and prayers,
now and in the days, weeks and years
to come. We appreciate your encouraging
words, warm embraces, gifts and time
that everyone has given our family.
May God who is gracious in all things
bless and keep us all is our prayer.
At a later date we will thank you
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The Farnily
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IN LOVING MEMORY
lYJVilli& W'arrnan 'MacJ((Utv, Sr. (!Buddy)
1930-2007
Friday, August 3, 2007 11:00 a.m.
Watkins and Sons Chapel 452 North Hill Street Griffin, Georgia
Elder Walter Campbell, Officiating
"TAKE EVERYfHING T0 GOD I~-.! PRAYER"
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o6ituary
On May 19, 1930, a baby boy was welcomed into this world by the
late Blanchie and Willie Mason. Willie Norman Mason,
affectionately (Will) was hom in Accomack County, Virginia.
Will was taught to fear and trust the Lord God. He served in the United States Army and the Reserves. He joined Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1987 and he later moved to Jackson, Georgia and joined Dickerson Seventh Day Adventist Church. He was a faithful Deacon and member until his health began to fail.
He leaves to cherish his memory his loving and devoted wife, Teretha Mason; five sons, Willie Mason, Jr., Larry Mason, Tyrone Singleton, Larry Singleton (Cynthia), and Kevin Sullivan, Sr.; three daughters, Arletha Hood (Bruce, Sr.), Tiffany Sullivan, and Jessica Mason (deceased); five brothers, Vernon Bunting, Elwood Mapp, Raymond Mason, Lester Bunting, Jr. (deceased), and Albert Bunting (deceased); five sisters, Viola Bunting, Virginia Mason, .Florence Strand, Gertrude Scales, and Julia Quivers, (all deceased); many grandchildren: Norman Sumler, Kevin Sullivan, Jr., Bruce Hood, Jr., Adrian Hood, Micah Sullivan, Aniya Sullivan, Nyla Sullivan, Tavar Singleton, Travon Singleton, Tyrone Singleton, Jr., Ahmaad Singleton, Valentino Singleton, and Demetrius Bryant; three godchildren, Paulette Bell, Trevon Hutchinson and Keyuna ""Woodbury; brothers..in..law, Jerome Burgess (Corlette), Gus Burgess and Henry Lee Sutton (deceased); sisters..in..law, Patricia Glinton (Barry), and Shelia Darville (Leon) ; mother..in..law, Hattie Burgess; father..in..law, King Burgess (deceased) and a host of other loving relatives and friends.
GOD SAW THE ROAD WAS GETTING ROUGH
THE HILLS WERE HARD TO CLIMB
HE GENTLY CLOSED HIS LOVING EYES 1
AND WHISPERED 1 PEACE BE THINE
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Oraer ofService
PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLERGY, FAMILY AND FRIENDS
SCRIPTURES:
OLD TESTAMENT (PSALM 100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . RABBI SCKULOW NEW TESTAMENT (II TIMOTHY 4:7-8) . . . . . . . . . RABBI SCKULOW
PRAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELDER JAMES VERNOM
SELECTION .................................. HATTIE BURGESS
REFLECTIONS ............................ PASTOR JOHNNIE HOOD ARLETHA HOOD (DAUGHTER)
OBITUARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . READ SILENTLY
SELECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELDER BEEMON JOHNSON
THE SPOKEN WORD/ APPEAL .................... ElDER WALTER CAMPBELL
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................. WATKIN'S STAFF
SELECTION:
"WHEN WE ALL GET To HEAVEN" ....... ELDER NORMAN SMITH
RECESSIONAL ......... : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLERGY, FAMILY AND FRIENDS
INTERMENT ............................. GRIFFIN MEMORIAL GARDENS
When I come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me.
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room . Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little but not too long. And not with your head bowed low. Remember the love we once shared
Miss me but let me go. For this is a journey that we all must ta
And each must go alone. It's all part of the Master's plan, A step on the road to home.
