- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Memorial Services for Sonja Maria Randall, Thursday, September 18, 1986, 4 P.M., Lizzie Chapel Baptist Church, 1180 Bartlett Street, Macon, Georgia 31204, Pastor Ellis S. Evans, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1986-09-18
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Macon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Sonja Maria Randall. Birth date: May 17, 1941. Death date: October 22, 2006. Funeral date: October 28, 2006. Church: (not recorded). 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_randallsonjamaria19860918
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_randallsonjamaria19860918
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
. OBITUARY
Cont.
Macon and Mrs. Sante Randall of Kingsland, Ga.; fourteen aunts, Mrs. Barbara- Randall Clark, Orangeburg, S. C., Mrs. Essie Williams, Miss Bobbie Battle, Macon, Mrs . Bessie Calhoun, Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Annie Mae Murray, Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Mildred Richardson, Mrs. Earlene Troutman, Anchorage, Alaska, Mrs. Gracie Vinson, Detroit, Mi., Mrs. Irene Randolph, Connecticut, Mrs . Hattie Randall and Mrs. Carolyn Randall, Atlanta , Ga., Mrs . Eva Roberts, Mrs. Ruth R. Cullins and Mrs . Willie Mae Braswell, Macon; eight uncles, Mr . Robert Randall,Mr. Glenn Randall, and Mr . William Randall, Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Carl Clark, Orangeburg, S. C., Mr. William C. Roberts, Los Angeles, Ca., Mr. W. R. Randolph, Connecticut, Mr. Luther Roberts and Mr . Herman Cullins of Macon; four nieces, Chiquieta, Arielle, LaShonda and Audrey; five nephews, Aubrey, Orlando, Randall Pierre, Xavier and Michael; a host of cousins, other relatives and friends.
ACTIVE PALLBEARERS
Richard Bowman Zackery Evans Gregory Metts
Tom Tabern Joe ~~hi te Tony Wornum
HONORARY PALLBEARERS
Young People's Class Co-Workers - Robins AFB
ACKNOWLEDGEtv1ENT.
We, the family of Sonja Maria Randall gratefully acknowledge all kindness shown during our hour of stress.
"HUTCHINGS MORTUARY SERVICES"
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MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR
SONJA MARIA RANDALL
Thursday, September 18,. 1986 4 P. M.
Lizzie Chapel Baptist Church 1180 Bartlett Street Macon, Georgia 31204 Pastor Ellis S. Evans, Officiating
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Proverbs 3:15
HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION
PROGRAM
PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL
HYMN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Combined Choirs Near the Cross
PRAYER ................. Rev. Andrew Russell
SCRIPTURES: OLD TESTAMENT .... Rev. Walter Glover NEW TESTAMENT .... Rev. Lewis Lockett
HYMN ....................... Combined Choirs Softly and Tenderly
EXPRESSIONS ............ Father Richard Kiel St. Peter Claver Catholic Church
The Church ..... Dea. David Reid
SOLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr . Thomas D. Smith Young People's Class
REMEMBRANCE ............... Ms. Sadie Harris Robins Air Force Base
Ms. Vivian B. Hatcher Young People's Class ORGAN MEDLEY ........... Mr. Harold J. Parks EULOGY ................... Rev. E. S. Evans VIEWING OF REMAINS RECESSIONAL
COMMITTAL RITES
Woodlawn Memorial Park
OBITUARY
"WHEN I CONSIDER LIFE AND ITS FEW YEARS A WISP OF FOG BETWEEN US AND THE SUN; A CALL TO BATTLE AND THE BATTLE DONE, MY LAST ECHO TO THIS WORLD - HEAVEN HAS WON."
Sonja Maria Randall, the youngest child of Alvin Leon and Pearl Bernice Randall was born . December 24, 1958. She attended the Bibb County Public Schools. (M. M. Burdell, Alexander III and Northeast High Schools) She received the Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communication and Masters of Journalism in 1979 from the University of Georgia. Sonja is remembered as being a combination of all her sisters and brothers' goals and ambitions. She joined the Lizzie Chapel Baptist Church and fulfilling her motherly mission and desire, she dedicated her son, Xavier RaShaunte in this church. Her Sunday School participation on the Young People's Class will be a lasting example for this church. She left her earthly home on Saturday, September 13, 1986.
Sonja will be remembered by her son, Xavier RaShaunte Randall, Macon; parents, Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Leon Randall, Sr., Macon; three brothers, Robert Orlando and Alvin Leon Randall, Jr., Macon, Aubrey Lynn Randall of Kingsland, Ga.; two sisters, Miss Sherdena Ray Randall, Macon, and Mrs. Beverly R. Harris of Augusta, Georgia; a devoted friend, Mr. Acie Wilmore, Macon: grandmot hers, Mrs. Rosa Tillman, Gray, Mrs. Julia S. Randall, Macon, and Mrs. Lucille B. Tillman, Macon; grandfather, Mr. Ellis Tillman, Macon; two sisters in-law,, _Mrs. _M_ary Lattimore ~andall,
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