- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Obsequies for Mrs. Carolyn Clowers McDonald, Friday, June 2, 1995 4:00 P.M., New Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church 795 Maynard Street, macon, Georgia, Rev. Richard Gammage, Officiating, "Hutchings Services"
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1995-06-02
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Macon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Carolyn Clowers McDonald. Birth date: May 5, 1928. Death date: January 1, 1997. Funeral date: January 8, 1997. Church: A. Barrett Funeral Services (Brooklyn, N.Y.). 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_mcdonaldcarolynclowers19950602
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_mcdonaldcarolynclowers19950602
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
PALLBEARERS
Mr. Farfield Spikes Mr. Richard Spikes Mr. Roy Fox
Mr. Lewis Rou se Mr. Roscoe Morgan Mr. Stanley Earley
A Mother's Love
A Mother's love is something no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. ... It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking And it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking. ... It believes beyond believing when the world around condemns And it glows with all the beauty of the rarest, brightest gems,
It is far beyond defining, it defies all explanation, And it still remains a secret like the mysteries of creation. . ..
A many splendored miracle man cannot understand And another wondrous evidence of God's tender guiding hand.
ACKNOWLE DGMENT
T he fa mily would like to thank everyone for t he kind deeds shown both in life and death and for the kind words of encouragement, flowers and fruit that she was capable of seeing and tasting before her untimely death.
Special thanks goes to the Hospice Foundation for the loving care and consideration given in her last hours. May God bless and keep each of you.
The Family
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FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1995 4 :00 P .M.
NEW PLEASANT GROVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
795 MAYNARD STREET MACON, GEORGIA
REV. RICHARD GAMMAGE, OFFICIATING
OBITUARY
A firm faith and belief in God is absolutely necessary for Christian salvation. A belief in God is essential for one to have a relationship with God for without faith it is impossible to please God. There is no part of one's life that can successfully be lived without faith. It has been said that faith is the source of all graces and thus the basis for successful Christian living.
Mrs. Carolyn Clowers McDonald was born in Macon, Georgia, on April 4, 1935, to the parentage of Mrs. Geneva Clowers and the late Mr. Ernest Clowers.
She received her formal education in the Bibb County School System. She joined the New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church at an early age and as a teenager was pianist for the Sunday School. As an adult, she served for many years on the Senior Ushers Board. She was employed for twenty-five (25) years and four (4) months at the Youth Development Center until her retirement from failing health in March 1995. She was married to the late Bennie McDonald and to this union four (4) children were born.
The apples of her eyes were two (2) daughters, Valery M. Harris of Oceanside, California, LaConia M. Adams of Alpharetta, Georgia; two sons, Reginald McDonald and Daryl McDonald of Macon, Georgia; a devoted mother, Mrs. Geneva Clowers of Macon, Georgia; two sisters, Gwendolyn C. Barksdale and Sadie LaVerne C. Campbell of Macon, Georgia; t hree brothers, Alton Clowers and David Clowers of Macon, Georgia and Ernest Clowers of Rochester, New York; two brothersin-law, Waders Campbell of Macon, Georgia and David McDonald of Cleveland, Ohio; three sisters-in-law, Bettye Clowers of Macon, Georgia, Creacy Clowers of Rochester, New York and Edna Phelps of Cleveland, Ohio; eleven grandchildren, one great grandchild, four aunts, one uncle, nineteen nieces and nephews and a host of cousins, relatives and friends.
PROGRAM
PROCESSIONAL .............................. Viewing of Remains SELECTION ... ........................................ Combined Choirs SCRIPTURES
Old Testament ................... Rev. Larry E. Newton New Testament ....................... Rev. David Stanley INVOCATION ...................................... Rev. Otis Andrews SELECTION ... ...... .. ..... .................. ......... Combined Choirs SILE NT READING ............................................... Obituary SOLO .................................................. Mrs. Kimberly Lary E ULOGY .................................................. Pastor Gammage RECESSIONAL INTERMENT ................................... Woodlawn Cemetery
