- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Celebation for Mrs. Ethel Mae Nelson, Earthly Arrival October 14, 1924, Eternal Transition October 5, 2007, Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12 Noon, Willie A. Watkins Funeral Home Chapel, 1003 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. Atlanta, Georgia 30010, The Reverend Christopher Brittain, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2007-10-10
- Subject:
- African American women--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 Ethel Mae Nelson. Birth date: April 16, 1911. Death date: March 17, 1999. Funeral date: March 22, 1999. Church: Antioch Baptist Church (Macon, 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.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 403
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_nelsonethelmae20071010
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_nelsonethelmae20071010
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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Earthly Arrival October 14, 1924
Eternal Transition October 5, 2007
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The Family ofMrs. Ethel Mae Nelson wishes to express our deepest and most sincere appreciation for the concern, kindness, and love shown to us and our beloved during her
lifetime, illness and bereavement. We further would like to send a special thanks to Crawford Long Hospital and the staffofNursecare ofBuckhead.
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on October 14, 1924. She was born the first of two daughters to Mr. Tom Dix and Mrs. Ella Gates Dix in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Sister to friends and Momo by her grandchildren, grew up in Southwest Atlanta. At the age of fourteen, she gave her life to Christ and became a member of Whitesville Missionary Baptist Church. In November of 1946, she was joined in Holy Matrimony to the late Theodore R. Nelson, to which six children were born. She enjoyed travelling with her husband, selling Avon, baking cakes, ra1s1ng her five children, and subsequently, two granddaughters Sonequa and Nikki.
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member of the Senior Choir. She was also very active in her community, serving as a mother and disciplinarian to all, and a comedian to most. Momo was well known for speaking her mind and demanding respect from everyone she encountered. Her opinion was in abundance and given freely to those who requested it as well as those that did not. If you met her only once, you surely remembered her forever. She was small in stature, but her personality made her bigger than life.
~({f. Q/V~ a, life came to its eternal end on
October 5, 2007. She was preceded in death by her father and mother, sister Tommie Dix, brothers Frank and Albert Dix, one young daughter Tara V. Nelson, and her husband.
She leaves to cherish her memory, sharp tongue, colorful sayings, and tough love to her five children; Gwendolyn Nelson Mabry, Frank L. Nelson, Astrid Nelson Dixon, Philbert Nelson (Rose Merry Nelson), and Thaddeus Nelson; sixteen grandchildren; daughters-in-law Lilly Nelson and Jesse Mae Nelson; and a host of cousins nieces, nephews, great grandchildren, and friends.
Processional ............... "Order My Step"
Hymn of Celebration .... "Amazing Grace"
Scriptures: .........................................................Minister Old Testament .........23rd psalm New Testament
Prayer.............................................................. Minister
In remembrance of a firecracker ("Don't tell no lies" - Momo 1965-2007)
Sonequa L. Dixon, granddaughter Leshon Nelson Stewart, granddaughter
Nicole Dixon, granddaughter
Reflections (3 minutes) ................... .Other family and friends
Obituary (read silently)
Solo..... ............... ... .... ... ............... ...... ........ Lillie Nelson
Eulogy ..... .. ..... ..................... Reverend Christopher Brittain
Acknowledgement .............................. Family and Friends
Recessional
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Crest lawn Cemetery 2000 Marietta Blvd Atlanta, Georgia 30318
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Nelson Family Home 1455 Allegheny St. , Atlanta, GA
I will remember the way you laughed The face you made when you got mad They funny way you moved when you danced They way you scorned me when I was bad Or the way you saved me when I deserved The beating Thedo ' threatened when I got on his nerves How though miles away our names you'd scream And had us coming running at full steam We 'd ball up our faces but dare not speak "She had me run ten miles to turn the TV" I will remember you baking many cakes and pies Andfreezing anything that wasn't alive you asking why I never stopped by or phone But as soon as I did you'd insist I go home They way your words were never coated with honey And how you would say "pay me my money " The way you said no to requests we would say And behind our backs, do it anyway I 'll remember how you offered good advice Though at the time it wasn 't realized I will remember you loved us in your own way
I will remember yesterday
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