- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Celebration For Mrs. Tommie Lucille Owens Reeves, Wednesday, February 8, 1995, 11:00 a.m., West Hunter Street Baptist Church, 1040 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd., S.W., Atlanta, GA 30310, Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Smith, Jr., Officiating Minister
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1995-02-08
- 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 Tommie Lucille Owens Reeves. Birth date: March 28, 1920. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: August 22, 2004. Church: St. Paul A.M.E. Church (Hogansville, 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_reevestommielucilleowens19950208
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_reevestommielucilleowens19950208
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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MISS ME, BUT LET ME GO
When I come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom filled room. Why cry for a.soul that's free? Miss me a little But not too long,
And not with your head bowed low Remember the love that we once shared...
Miss me, but let me go For this is a journey that we all must take,
And each must go alone, It's all a part of the Master's plan
A step on the road to home When you are lonely and sick of heart,
Go to the friends we know And bury your sorrow in doing good d~eds ...
Miss me, l;mt let.me go!
Author Unknown
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The family of the late Mrs. Tommie Lucille Owens Reeves is
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Tommie Lucille Owens Reeves was born on October 25, 1926 in
Orangeburg, South Carolina ro Rev. Thomas F. Owens and Mae Gilyard
Owens. Tommie was educatedin the public schools ofFarRockaway,
New York.
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She married Lloyd Bowden in -1950 and from this union came one daughter Mae Patricia Bowden..In August of 1964 she married John
Reeves, Sr., who _pr~ceded her in death in 1982.
She was baptized.at an early age in her~father' s church in FarRockaway, .
New York. She remained a membei' of First Baptist Church until she moved her membership to Macedonia Baptist Church in 1964. 'Here she worshipped as a faithful member until she moved to Atlanta,. Georgia in 1991. During her life as a Christian she served- several churches in the
alld Long Island area as- an organist faithful servant. (First Baptist
Church, Mount :camel Baptis(Ch_~rch and Macedonia Baptist Church). She later became..a member of West Hunter Street Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georgiti. '
Tommie Reeves-,retired as a :feeeptionist from the New.York City Housing Autho~ty inl9,91 and _moved to Atlanta, Georgia to be near her beloved daughter and granddaughter. She spent die last few years of tier life in Friendship Towers Senior High-rise. There she served as the vice-president ofthe tenant association.
She leaves to mourn, her daughter Mae P. Bowden, her granddaughtet Raven N. Bowden, one sister: Mattie J. Amaker, from Skokie, lllinois,
three bro~hers: Harry A. Owens, from Orangebu~g, S.C., Charles J.
Owens, from Hempstead, New York and Timothy R. Owens from . FarRockaway, New York. She leaves twelve nieces and seven nephews and a host of cousins, relatives and friends.
Processional
Hymn of Praise................... ~ .. ~ ...........In The Garden ......................... Choir
Scripture Lessons Old Testament .....................................................................Psalm 24 New Testament ...................................................... I Thessalonians
Solo.................................Amazing Grace .............................. Patricia Grey Prayer Solo.............................."I Won-'tComplain" .................... Aubrey Maddox
1ri6utes (3 Minutes, Please) Willie B. Owens (Family) DOris Clark -(Friend) George Samples - Manager of Friendship Tower
Acknowfedgments Obituary (ReactSilently) Ministry ofM.usic ...................................................,........~ ...... Pass Me Not Message of Hope .....................: ......_............. Rev. Dr. ,T. DeWitt Smith, Jr.
Recessional Hymn ............................................................. "Fll Fly Away"
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