- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Mr. George W. Robertson, Jr., Sunday, January 20, 1980, 2:30 O'Clock P.M., Little Salem Christian Church, Reidsville, North Carolina, Reverend Junior Wimbush, Pastor
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1980-01-20
- Subject:
- African American men--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--Reidsville---History--20th century
Funeral service--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Reidsville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Rockingham County, Reidsville, 36.35486, -79.66447
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for George W. Robertson, Jr. Birth date: February 27, 1922. Death date: May 27, 2014. Funeral date: June 5, 2014. Church: First St. Paul A.M.E. Church (Lithonia, 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: 240
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_robertsongeorgewjr19800120
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_robertsongeorgewjr19800120
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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FLOWER GIRLS
Christian Women's Fellowship and
Gladiola Flower Club
-for-
Mr. George W. Robertson, Jr.
CASKET BEARERS
Officers Little Salem Christian Church
721 East Morehead Street
Reidsville, North Carolina
Sunday, January 20, 1980 2:30 O'Clock P. M.
Little Salem Christian Church
Reidsville, North Carolina
Reverend Junior Wimbush, Pastor
<!JGitua'lY
George W. Robertson, Jr., a son of the late George W. and Eliza McCollum Robertson, was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
At an early age, he joined Little Salem Christian Church; and was President of the Senior Choir until his illness.
In 1956, he was united in Holy Wedlock to Carleen Rivers Dillard in Reidsville, North Carolina.
"Bud," as he was lovingly known, was a former employee of the American Tobacco Company and later became Owner and Operator of Robertson's Taxi Service. He was the oldest taxi driver in Reidsville, North Carolina.
He was well-known and well-liked in his community. His pleasant personality endeared him to his family and friends.
He died Thursday, January 17, 1980 at Annie Penn Memorial Hospital, Reidsville, North Carolina.
Lamenting his demise are: wife, Mrs. Carleen Rivers Robertson; one brother, John H. Robertson, Reidsville, North Carolina; two nieces, Mrs. Willie A. Jordan and Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings, New York City; one nephew, Haywood Vaughn, Maryland Park, Maryland; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Sophronia Robertson, Reidsville, North Carolina; other relatives and friends.
We do not lose the ones we love, They only go before,
Where there is everlasting life, Where sorrow is no more.
There the soul will always live And peace is everywhere;
We do not lose the ones we loveGod takes them in His care.
-ACKNOWLEDGMENT-
Whatever you did to console our hearts during our bereavement, we thank you so very much. May God bless each of you.
-The Family
Presiding- Rev. Junior Wimbush PROCESSIONAL HYMN........................................... Senior Choir SCRIPTURE .................................... Rev. A. C. Hill PRAYER ..................................... Rev. C. H. Wilson HYMN........................................... Senior Choir CHURCH RESOLUTIONS ..................... Mrs. Mabel Lindsey WORDS OF COMFORT ........................... Dr. E. L. Kirby ACKNOWLEDGMENT and OBITUARY .... (Read Silently to Soft Music) EULOGY.................................... Rev. G. W. Roland RECESSIONAL
SERVICE OF COMMITTAL and
INTERMENT Greenview Cemetery Reidsville, North Carolina