- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Celebration of Life for Gloria D. Maxie, Sunrise: August 6, 1939 - Sunset: January 26, 2016, Saturday, February 6, 2016, 1:00 p.m., Green Forest Community Baptist Church, 3250 Rainbow Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30034, Rev. Dennis W. Mitchell, Senior Pastor, Rev. Herman Cody, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2016-02-06
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Decatur--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Decatur, 33.77483, -84.29631
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Gloria Dean Maxie. Birth date: August 6, 1939. Death date: January 26, 2016. Funeral date: February 6, 2016. Church: Green Forest Community Baptist Church (Decatur, 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_maxiegloriadean20160206
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_maxiegloriadean20160206
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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The family acknowledges with immense gratitude, the many prayers, telephone calls, visits, gifts, and other acts of kindness that have been of considerable comfort to us. May God bless you richly for these expressions during our time of need.
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Rev. Herman Cody, Officiating
It was 19 55 when I learned the last stanza of this poem and knew then that
I wanted it to be a part of my obituary.
THANATOPSIS
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves
to that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave afnight, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach th grave Like one who wraps the drapery of h1s coach About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
My Promise of Marriage
As I look back today on all that we shared, there's nothing I'd want to miss, Not one smile, not one frown, not one up, not one down,
Not one word, not one touch, not one kiss. For it took everything, all the goods
and bads and the just-in-betweens put together, to make you and me what we will always be55 years, and forever, Oliver
She was a summa cum laude from Southern University's Class of 1961, and would draw out each Latin syllable just so you knew. It means "with highest distinction" and speaks not only to how Gloria Dean Yearby Maxie graduated college, but how she lived out her 76 years on Earth.
The first girl born to Henry Newman and Willie Lee (Nazareth Carrington) Yearby in Clarks, LA, and the third of nine children, Gloria had to grow up fast after losing her mother at a young age. That fed a stubborn independent streak in which she would do what she supposedly couldn't. Her artwork around the house says so. The tax-preparing business she began in 1977, instead of working for H&R Block, proclaimed as much.
A member of Decatur's Greenforest Baptist Church, Gloria believed in prayer, if not long prayer, blessing her food with the Bible's shortest verse -- John 11:35, 'Jesus wept" -- and then often shortening even that to "He wept."
During her 55-year marriage to a valedictorian engineer from Pelican, Oliver Dell Maxie, she was "Doll" and he was "Dear." They had two sons, Oliver Dell Maxie Jr. and Osric Darryl Maxie, and a daughter, Stephanie Diane Maxie Gunter. Oliver Jr. (1962) and Stephanie (1968-2011) predeceased her, as did her brothers, Benny (194 7-1974), Calvin (1938-2001), Charles (1948-2004) and William (1937-2012).
Blunt-spoken, she would lovingly admonish the kids who would reach adulthood not to be stupid all their lives. The even more direct "KILL HIMTT" -- delivered at ear-splitting level -- let you know it was football season, aimed at TV gladiators threatening the Cowboys, Raiders or beloved Southern.
Once, she got so engrossed in a Bayou Classic, she tore a rotator cuff. When she lived in New Orleans, bluntness brought her dirty looks when she blurt out her disdain for the Saints.
She faced mortality just as matter-of-factly and is survived by: her husband, Oliver; son, Darryl; grandsons, Michael Davis and Jalen Gunter; granddaughter, Janay Davis; and a newborn great-grandson, Jace. Also left to cherish her memory are: two brothers, Jimmy Yearby of Seattle, WA and Bobby Yearby of Castro Valley, CA; and two sisters, Maxine Moore of Baton Rouge, LA, and Ann Johnson of Shreveport, LA.
Intennent Kennedy Memorial Gardens
2500 River Road Ellenwood, Georgia 30294
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Greenforest Community Baptist Church 3250 Rainbow Drive
Decatur, Georgia 30034