- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Mr. John Wesley McKenzie, Sr., Friday, September 15, 2000, 12:00 P.M., Turner Monumental A.M.E., Rev. Dr. J.C. Reynolds, Senior Pastor, Officiating
- Date of Original:
- 2000-09-15
- Subject:
- African American men--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 John Wesley McKenzie, Sr. Birth date: December 13, 1908. Death date: September 8, 2000. Funeral date: September 15, 2000. Church: Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church (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.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_mckenziejohnwesleysr20000915
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_mckenziejohnwesleysr20000915
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
The family ofMr. .fohn Wesley McKenzie Sr. wishes to thank their manyfrienck for all ofyour prayers, carck, visits and many acts ofkindness shown to us during
our time ofbereavement. May God bless and keep you.
Special Thanks
The brothers and sisters wish to extend their heartfelt gratitude and thanks to our sister, Mrs. Carrie E. McKenzie Hodge, for the untiring hours of care, comfort andjoy she provided our father during his declining years. Her devotion to daddy was a remarkable outburst ofunse/ftsh
love and we shall be forever thankful.
PALLBEARERS
Janres R. Daniels Jr. Andre' McKenzie Kip McKenzie Greg01y Spivey
Derrick Rogers Eric Spivey
Samuel Poole Vicent Rogers
1-IONORARY PALLBEARERS
Curtis L. McKenzie Bennie J. McKenzie
Joseph H McKenzie Kenneth L. McKenzie
Flower Attendants
Ushers
Funeral Arrangements Entrusted To: BENTLEY'S FUNERAL I-lOME Reynolds, Georgia
Distinctive Touch Publications *Atlanta, GA * 7709070866
Service of Thanksgiving for The Life of
Mr. John Wesley McKenzie, Sr.
Friday, September 15, 2000
-12:00P.M.-
Rev. Dr. J.C. Reynolds, Senior Pastor Officiating
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John Wesley McKenie, Sr., a devoted Christian and a Loving and nwturing father and grandfather, died at the age ofninety-one (91) on. Friday, September 8, 2000 at Dekalb Medical Center in. Decatur, Georgia.
.He was born. on December 13, 1908 in the town of Byronwille, Dooly County, Georgia, to the Late Monroe and Mariah Royal McKenzie. On May 20, 1929, he was united in. m.arriage to Eva Mae Patterson. in Peny, Georgia. They had been married sixty-eight (68) yews when. she prededed him. in death on April 21, 1997. Together this blessed couple had sixteen. (16) children (nine girls and seven. boys) .
At an early age, John. Wesky cotrUnitted himself to Christ and joined the Byrom Chapel C.M.E. Church in Byronwille, Georgia. He joined the Turner Monumental A.M.. Church after his move to Atlanta in.1966 when he reliredfromfwnung. f-Ie Lived in. Atlanta until the Linw ofhis death.
Mr. McKenzie was aJ!ection.ately known. to his friends and fwnily as ''Buck" McKenzie. l-Ie was "big hearted" and had a great Love for children. but a firm disciplin.wian. His own sixteen children were not enough. Often the sw1u1wrs on. the fwm were shared with dozens ofcousins who would conw from the city to spend linw with "Uncle Buck". His brother Enwwll's ten children who also Lived on the fwm, accepted him. as a second father and we all beCOJm fwniliar with "Uncle Buck's bell."
Mr. McKenzie is swvived by twelve of his sixteen children -four sons, Curtis L., Joseph H ., Bennie .1. and Kenneth L. McKenzie (Etta), all ofKansas City, Missouri;
eight daughters - Mrs. Cw.,-ie E. /-lodge of Kansas City, Missouri, Mrs. Carolyn Cainion, Mrs. Celesta SpivGy (Jw1ws), Mrs. Dorothy Merrell, Mrs. Mwrne Rogers (Stw), Mrs. Mwy Laverne Mitchell (.lw1ws), Ms. Arlealha McKenzie and Mrs. Carealha M Daniels, all of Atlanta, Georgia. Two daughters-in-Law, Mrs. 1-/iawalha Bwnes McKenzie of Kansas City, Missouri and Mrs. Edith Merrell McKenzie ofBloomfield, Connecticut; three sisters-in-Law - Mrs. Thelma McKenzie of Fort flalky, Georgia, Mrs. Freddie Mae McKenzie of Byronwille, Georgia, and Mrs. Mattie PewL Sanders ofCordele, Georgia; Thirty-five grandchildren; fifty-nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren and n.u1mrous neices,
nephews and relatives. He is preceded in death by three sons, .fohn W. Jr., Calvin
and Monroe McKenzie; one daughter, Ms. Cynthia Ann McKenzie; six brothers, Eddie, Ebb, Swn, Monroe, Hemy, and Enwwlt McKenzie; and one sister, Mrs. Mollie McKenzie Cook. .fohn W. McKenzie Sr. was the Last surviving child of Monroe and Mariah McKenzie.
***Ow'[ather's sprit will Live forever***
Processional Opening Hymn Prayer Scripture
... ''Father, I Stretch My /-lands to Thee"...
Soft Music Congregation
Rev. Dr. J.C. Reynolds
Solo
... "/Want Jesus To Walk With Me"...
Mr. Reginald McKenzie
Reflections
Ms. Arleatha McKenzie
Selection
Turner Monunwntal Church Choir
Obituwy (read silently)
Soft Music
Eulogy
Rev. Dr.JC. Reynolds
Acknowledgments and Condolences Benediction Recessional
Mrs. Eloyse A. Bentley Lockhwt
''I'll Fly Away" and "When The Saints Go Mwching In"
When I am gone, release me, let me go. I have so many things to see and do. You mustn't tie yourself to me with tears. Be happy that we had so many years. I gave you my love. You can only guess How much you gave to me in happiness. I thank you for the love you each have shown,
But now it's time I traveled on alone. So grieve for me a while if grieve you must, Then let your grief be comforted by trust. It's only for a while that we must part,
So bless the memories within your heart.
-IntenmntLINCOLN CEMETERY 2275 Simpson Road, N W., Atlanta, Georgia
Dinner will be served in the R.R. Wright Dining /-fall inumdiatelyfollowing intemwnt