- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Home Coming Celebration for Robert "Bob" Phillips, Saturday, July 26, 1997, 1:00 pm, Wages and Sons Funeral Home, 1040 Main Street, Stone Mountain, GA 30083
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1997-07-26
- 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, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Robert Phillips. Birth date: November 26, 1941. Death date: May 16, 2008. Funeral date: May 21, 2008. 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.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_phillipsrobert19970726
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_phillipsrobert19970726
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Ack~owledgme~t
We find gt<eat comfo..-t in knowing that we at<e not alone dtAt<ing this diffictAit time
\'otAt< expt<essions of concet<n fa..- exceeded evet<}:'thing we cotAid imagine
\'ot.-\t' visits to Ot.-\t' homes, meals, telephone calls, and pt<ayet<s St.-\bmitted on Ot.-\t' behalf have helped t.-\S to St.-\stain Ot.-\t' faith.
We thank yo'-'\ so mt.-\Ch fo..- shat<ing Ot.-\t' bt.-\t<den
Please do ~ot weep fa~ me fa~
:J have lived my life. \:'aLA~ lives a~e jLAst begi~~i~g1
e~joy each blessed day a~d live it like it is yoLA~ last.
We shall meet agai~....
Home Coming Ce[e6ration for
Ro6ert 11Bo611 Plii[[ips
Saturday, JuLy 26, 1997
1:00pm
Wages anc Sons Funera[ Home 1040 Main Street
Stone Mountain, GA 30083
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaveni a time to be born,
and a time to die
Ecclesiastes 3:1
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Robert "Bob" Phillips was born in Savannah/ Georgia on December 131 19231 the only child ofWillie and Rosa Phi/Ups. Bob attended elementary school in Georgia/ at the age of 13 came to New York to live with his Aunt and Uncle. He entered the US Army in 19431 receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946.
Bob was employed in various positions until joining the Lowes Summit Hotel and Restaurant Chain where he retired in 1993. While living in New York1 he met his life long companion jeanette Hawkins. Afier suffering illness Bob and jeanette recently moved to Stone Mountain1 Georgia to reside with their daughter and loved grandson.
The angel ofdeath visited and took our beloved one
on july 211 1997. Bob is survived by jeanette
(Hawkins) 1 his daughter Deborah j ohannes1 Fernando Hill ofNew York1 Curtis Brown of New York and grandson (soul-mate) Brandon
j ohannes1
sister
in
laws1
nieces 1
nephews
and
a host ofother grandchildren/ relatives and friends.
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