Funeral Services for Mrs. Annie L. McPheeters 1908-1994, Thursday, December 29, 1994, 11:00am, Warren Memorial United Methodist Church 181 Ashby Street, Southwest, Atlanta, Georgia, the Reverend Wimbley Hale, Jr., Senior Pastor, Officiating, The Reverend Vincent M.D. Miller, Associate Pastor

lt Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
Matthew 25:21
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The Reverend Wimbley Hale, Jr., Senior Pastor Officiating
The Reverend Vincent M. D. Miller, Associate Pastor

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Mrs. Annie L. McPheeters, the daughter of William Augustus and Josephine Watters, was born in Rome, Georgia, on February 22, 1908. She was united in holy matrimony to Dr. Alphonso
McPheeters on August 26, 1940. Her elementary education was completed in the Rome Public Schools. Upon graduation from
Clark University High School, she continued at Clark University and achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a minor in Education. She proceeded to Hampton Library School, Hampton, Virginia, and earned the Bachelor of Science degree. She earned the Master of Science degree in Library Science in 1956 at Columbia University, New York. Further study continued in
Journalism at Georgia State University and Clark College during the 1970s. Mrs. McPheeters began her notable career as a teacher in the Summerville Georgia Public
Schools from 1929- 1930. The following year, she began 41 years of service as a librarian by becoming Acting Librarian at Clark College. She moved on to be Teacher-Librarian at St. Albans County Training School, Simpsonville, South Carolina. Later, she served as City and County Librarian at the Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the Greenville Public Library, Greenville, South Carolina. From 1934-1940, she was Assistant Librarian at Carnegie Library, Auburn Branch, Atlanta, Georgia, and was Librarian at that branch from 1940- 1949. For seventeen years, Mrs. McPheeters was Librarian at the West Hunter Branch of the Atlanta Public Library, 1949-1966. Following that memorable service, she became the first African-American Reference Librarian at Georgia State University, 1966-1975. She was a Library Acquisitions Consultant for Georgia, 1975-1979. During her years of library service, she also was a part-time teacher at the Atlanta
University School of Library Service, 1947- 1949, 1954. Mrs. McPheeters received numerous awards for her outstanding contributions. The awards
include the Bronze Woman of the Year Award and Woman of the Year in Education Award from the Atlanta chapter of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, 1953; a Ford Foundation Fellowship to Teachers College, New York, 1954; the Nat jonal NAACP Outstanding Woman's Award, 1981; the Woman of Excellence Award for Pioneers in Education by the Women 's Life and Development Committee and Alpha Kappa Sorority, Georgia State University, 1983; the Black Women's Coalition of Atlanta, Inc. Pioneer Award, 1983; the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library Award for Outstanding Service; and the Sojourner Truth Award from the Greater Atlanta Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., 1994.
In October, 1993, the West Hunter Branch Library was renamed the Washington Park/Annie L. McPheeters Branch Library in her honor. More recently, the CarylMcPheeters Gallery was established at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History to honor her work since 1934 to collect sources of African American history.This collection, which has grown to over 50,000 materials, is housed at the Auburn Avenue Research Library and is one of the most important sources of African American history in the Southeast.
Added to her contributions are several publications, A Scarcity in Children's Librarians in Public Libraries, 1957; Neyro Progress in Atlanta, Georgia: A Selected Bibliography on Race and Human Relations, vol. 1, 1964, vol. 2, 1972; Library Service in Black and White: Some Personal Recollections, 1921 -1980, 1988. At the end of her life, she was working to edit
volume 3 of Negro Progress in Atlanta. Mrs. McPheeters is listed in Who's Who of American Women, 1970-71, Personalities of the
South, 1973, and the Dictionary of National Biography. She was a member of Warren United Methodist Church, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.,
NAACP, United Methodist Women, Georgia Retired Teachers Association, Metropolitan Atlanta Library Association, Georgia Library Association, American Library Association, and Literacy
Action of America. Survivors include a sister, Velma Watters of Atlanta; a grandnephew, Charles McPheeters and
family of Buffalo, New York; goddaughter, Diane Easley; special friends, Joseph and Iris Robinson, Pickens, South Carolina, Elsie Patton, Henry and Marian Shorter, Cathy Bolden,
Sammye Dennis, and Carmen Holman. Foremost, if we are to be remembered by the content of our character, Mrs. Annie L.
McPheeters deserves our highest regard. She was not only a dedicated scholar, teacher, librarian and renowned researcher, she was also a very caring, patient, generous, helpful, and inspirational woman who nurtured and impacted countless lives. Let us not mourn her absence but celebrate her spirit among God's angels who continue to watch over us.

Mr. David C. Stills, Organist
THE PRELUDE ........ (IMeditation on Assurance" ....... Alvin Whitworth
THE PROCESSIONAL ...... (IBlessed Jesus At Thy Word" ...... J. S. Bach
THE HYMN OF FAITH #378 ..... (IAmazing Grace! How Sweet The Sound"
THE SCRIPTURE LESSONS ............. The Reverend Harvey Palmer, Ill Metropolitan United Methodist Church, Rome, Georgia
The Old Testament, Psalm 23 The New Testament, I Corinthians 13
THE PRAYER OF COMFORT ... . ..... The Reverend Vincent M.D. Miller
THE REMARKS: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. .. . ....... . .... . .. . Mary L. Johnson Utopian Literary Club ......... . .......... .. ........ Dora E. McDonald Georgia State University . .. . .. .. ... .. ...... . .... . . . ... Gayle Christian African American Research Library ... ... . . . .......... .Julie V. Hunter Warren United Methodist Church . . .. . .. . . .. ... . . . .... Wiley S. Bolden
THE SOLO .............. (II've Done My Work " ........ .. .... Carrie Bonds Sylvia Jones, Soloist
THE WORDS OF COMFORT . . . .. . .. . . . . The Reverend Wimbley Hale, Jr.
THE ORGAN MEDLEY:
uo Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go "
(I Great Is Thy Faithfulness" (IJesu, Joy of Man's Desiring "
THE RECESSIONAL ....... (I For All The Saints" ....... Vaughan Williams
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