- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Celebration of the Life of David L. Mells, Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 11:00 A.M., Friendship Baptist Church, 437 Mitchell Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia, The Reverend Dr. William V. Guy, Pastor, Officiating
- Date of Original:
- 2003-02-26
- 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 David Lizell Mells. Birth date: November 3, 1915. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: February 26, 2003. Church: Friendship Baptist 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_mellsdavidlizell20030226
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_mellsdavidlizell20030226
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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Deacons of Friendship Baptist Church
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Deaconesses of Friendship Baptist Church Members of the Friendship Service Guild
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The family of David L. Mells acknowledges with grateful
appreciation, the many kind expressions of sympathy and love extended to us by our friends and neighbors during our hours of sadness. God bless each and everyone.
Carl M. Williams Funeral Directors, Inc.
"The Tradition Continues"
Carl M Williams
Licensed Funeral Director & Embalmer
492 Larkin Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30313
(404) 522-8454
MKO Graphics & Printers (404) 523-1560
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437 Mitchell Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia
The Reverend Dr. William V. Guy, Pastor Officiating
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Mr. David Lizell Mells, son of the late Joseph H. Mells and Etta Sutton Melis, was born November 3, 1915. During his early childhood, he grew up in Rush Memorial A.M. E. Church.
He was educated in the Atlanta public schools, graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in 1936, and continued his studies at Morehouse College and graduated in 1940. He entered the workforce in the Atlanta area. He changed his membership to Friendship Baptist Church where he served and loved. Music was his passion, and he was always involved in musical activities around the city.
He served and held various offices in different organizations and was devoted to his church.
Those left to celebrate his life and cherish his memory
are cousin, Katie L. Benton; a devoted friend, Mrs. Bernice
Connally; and a host of other relatives and extended family.
Dear Heavenly Father. You are the God of both the living and the dead.
Death has removed in a moment what see1ned so permanent. Indeed we are strangers and sojourners on the land, travelers and pilgrims passing through the earth.
The length of our lives is as uncertain as the morning fog. Seventy years are given us and some may even live to eighty. But even the best of these years are often emptiness and pain.
How frail is man, how few his days. He blossoms for a moment like a flower- and withers; as the shadow ofa passing cloud, he quickly disappears, gone so soon from us.
Never again will we see our beloved David in this world. But Lord you are the Redeemer of our lives and we know that after his body has decayed that his body shall see God.
Thank you Father for giving us such a glorious hope, the hope of immortality beyond the grave provided for us in Christ Jesus.
Written by E'aida V. Riley
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ORGAN PRELUDE ............................ Mr. Kenneth Wynn
PROCESSIONAL AND SENTENCES FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE
INVOCATION
HYMN, No. 25 ............................. "How Great Thou Art"
READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT: The Reverend Earnest Augcomfar
PRAYER ..................... The Reverend Dr. J. C. Reynolds Pastor, Turner Monumental A.M. E. Church
SELECTION .......................................... Friendship Choir "Give Me Jesus"
READING FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT: The Reverend Randy Johnson
REMARKS:
Mr. Bryant Bass, Class of 1936 Booker T. Washington High School The Reverend Harold Matthews Mrs. Marva Jean Bledsoe
SELECTION .......................................... Friendship Choir "Soon-A- Will Be Done"
MEDITATION ....................................... Pastor W. V. Guy
ORGAN MEDLEY ............................................ Mr. Wynn
PRAYER RECESSIONAL
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