- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- The Homegoing Service of Mrs. Willie Lee Porterfield, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 2:00 P.M., Baptist Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Brewton, Alabama, Reverend S.C. Tucker, Pastor, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2002-12-04
- Subject:
- African American women--Texas--Brewton--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Texas--Brewton--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Texas--Brewton---History--20th century
Funeral service--Texas--Brewton--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Texas--Brewton--History--20th century
African Americans--Texas--Brewton--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Texas, Jefferson County, Brewton, 30.1027845, -94.162394
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Willie Lee Porterfield. Birth date: June 7, 1987. Death date: September 11, 2015. Funeral date: September 19, 2015. Church: Bethlehem Baptist Church (Covington, 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_porterfieldwillielee20021204
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_porterfieldwillielee20021204
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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Steve Langdon
Lewis Wilson
Trajan Langdon
Dale Hamel
Rufus Brown
Ray Kennon
Willie Frank Moore, Jr.
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Baptist Hill Cemetery Brewton, Alabama
Acknowledgment
The Langdon Family would like to express their sincere appreciation for your acts of kindness, love and support during their time of
bereavement. May God continue to bless each of you and keep you in His care.
Final Arrangements Entrusted to
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Willie Lee Porterfield was born on May 24, 1922, in Lowndes County, Alabama to Willie and Mary Patterson. She departed this life November 28, 2002 in Brewton, Alabama.
After spending her formative years in Montgomery County, she moved to Brewton in the early 1940's. She became a member of the Baptist Hill Church and Community; serving in the Baptist Hill Women's Missionary and other church organizations. She was an active member of her community and was known for her kindness, warm smile and outgoing personality.
Willie Lee Porterfield was employed as an assembler at Rivermill Textiles, where she retired. Upon retirement, she traveled to Alaska, North Carolina and Chicago to visit family and friends. She took pride in the accomplishments of her daughter, Gladys and was a loving grandmother to Trajan and Trista. Willie enjoyed shopping and socializing with her many friends in Brewton.
Cherished memories she leaves to her devoted and beloved daughter, Gladys Louise Langdon and son-in-law Steve Langdon of Anchorage, Alaska; her grandson Trajan S. Langdon of Virginia; granddaughter, Trista K. Langdon of Anchorage, Alaska; her nephew, Willie Frank Moore, Jr., a host of other relatives and friends, including her church family at Baptist Hill.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Henry Patterson and sister, Mary Moore.
Order of Service
Family Processional Invocation................................................Rev. S. C. Tucker Scriptures of Comfort.....................................Rev. W. Brown
(Ecclesiastes 3:18) (23'd Psalms)
Musical Selection.......................................Baptist Hill Choir Acknowledgments & Resolution............... Sister Priscilla Johnson
SHent '%ading of the O&ituar~
Musical Selection......... "Keep on Believing" ....... .. Baptist Hill Choir Eulogy....................................................Rev. S.C. Tucker Recessional