- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Life Celebration for Mother Dorothy Dixie Cook Nuckles, Friday, August 8, 2003, 1:00 P.M., Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 888 Zion Circle, Roswell, Georgia, The Reverend Dr. Frank Lewis, Pastor, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2003-08-08
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Roswell--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Roswell--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Roswell---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Roswell--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Roswell--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Roswell--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Roswell, 34.02316, -84.36159
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Dorothy Dixie Cook Nuckles. Birth date: September 3, 1919. Death date: March 8, 2003. Funeral date: March 14, 2003. Church: Zion Baptist Church (Roswell, 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: 34
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_nucklesdorothydixiecook20030808
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_nucklesdorothydixiecook20030808
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
"She Was Different"
She was different, she was special Unique in a thousand ways, She was giving, she was loving, And we'll miss her all our days.
Her legacy was friendship She was so giving of her time, Her bequest was her faith in God, Her family, and all mankind.
She knew sorrow in great measure And was stung by illness, too. But neither could defeat her, Nothing her faith subdue.
And so instead of mourning As we remember her this hour, We really should be celebrating The blooming of a flower.
Because you see She was different, she was special Unique in a thousand ways. She was loving, she was giving And we'll miss her, miss her, all our days.
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The Board of Mothers and Deaconesses
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We acknowledge with grateful appreciation the many kind expressions of sympathy and love extended to us by our friends, neighbors, Pastor and our Zion Missionary Baptist Church family during the illness and loss of our loved one. We have been comforted and strengthened by your thoughtfulness and deeds of kindness. We shall forever remember and thank God for you. May God Almighty forever bless and keep each of you.
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888 Zion Circle Roswell, Georgia The Reverend Dr. Frank Lewis, Pastor
Officiating
By the infinite wisdom of God, it has pleased God to take another soul into rest. It would be an unwise thing to try to fathom the why's and how come's of God. Therefore, we pause today just to say thank you for this life that was planted in the midst of our life.
Dorothy Dixie Cook Nuckles' sunrise was October 26, 1917 to the late Frank and Marie Cook in Roswell, Milton County, Georgia. She was the third of four children to that union. She was educated in the public schools of
Milton County. Mother Nuckles joined Zion Missionary Baptist Church at an early age
and served faithfully and diligently until her health declined. As a member of Zion, she served in many capacities such as Sunday School Teacher, President of the Matrons Department, Missionary Society, Baptist Training Union (BTU) Teacher, a member of the Senior Choir, Mother's Board, Chairperson of Zion's History Committee and her personal favorite Zion's Welcome and Hospitality Committee. She was very active in the Hopewell Sunday School and BTU Association.
Mother Nuckles not only served her church with distinction and honor, but also her community. She served as a Den Mother to Boy Scout Troop 206 for fifteen years. This was the first Boy Scout Troop in North Fulton County that was founded by her father-in-law, the late Alexander Nuckles, Sr. This troop served African American males from the Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, and Duluth communities. Dorothy was the first female to receive the distinguished "Silver Beaver" award for outstanding service with the Cub Scouts. Also, she was a member of Groveway Community Group, the Heroine of Jericho and the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post 7583 Ladies'
Auxiliary. She was united in holy matrimony to Alexander "Sudie" Nuckles, Jr. on
September 30, 1935. While her new husband was away serving in World War II, Dorothy graduated from the noted Madam C. J. Walker School of Beauty Culture in Chicago, Illinois.
The sunset for Dorothy Dixie Cook Nuckles on Sunday, August 3, 2003 was when she went home to spend eternity with the Lord. She leaves to celebrate her homegoing and cherish an abundance of precious memories to her loving devoted husband, Alexander Nuckles, Jr.; one daughter, Dorothy Renee Nuckles; one son, Tom Henry Bryant (Mary); seven grandchildren, Adrian L. Guest, Toconnicer Daretha Guest-Byrd, Taviana Desheia Frazier, Tommy Lee Bryant, Mercedes Gober (Tony), Wayman Bryant, and Tressa Banks (Walter); seven great-grandchildren; three sisters-in-law, Mother Margaret Nuckles Washington, Mrs. Slety Randall, and Mother Lodie Cook; godgrandson, Charles "Charley" Manning Patterson; special granddaughter, Maria L. Griffith; special friend, Carla K. Brice; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.
We loved her, yes we loved her. But the Angels loved her more; And God has sweetly called her to younder's peaceful shore. The Golden Gates were open and a gentle voice said come; Without a word spoken, she calmly
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The Reverend Everett Harrington Presiding
PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL
HYMN .......................................................................................... The Choir
SCRIPTURE: Lesson from the Old Testament .............. The Reverend Sabin Strickland Lesson from the New Testament .............. The Reverend Frank Johnson
PRAYER OF COMFORT ................................... The Reverend Willis Peete
MUSICAL SELECTION ............................................................... The Choir
REFLECTIONS: Mother Grethel Lovelace Mother Mary Jackson Deacon Hugh D. Manning Mother Anne Strickland Sister Lois Chambers The Reverend B. J. Johnson, Jr.
SOLO ......................................................................... Ms. Edwina Andrews
OBITUARY (R.ead Silently)
PROCLAMATIONS
MUSICAL SELECTION ............................................................... The Choir
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .... ........................................ Sister Gail Bohannon
SOLO .................................................................. Mother Elizabeth Reeves Springfield Baptist Church and Hopewell Association
EULOGY ..................................................... The Reverend Dr. Frank Lewis
RECESSIONAL
POSTLUDE
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Greenlawn Cemetery Roswell, Georgia
BENEDICTION
Dinner will be served at the church