- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- In Loving Memory of Mrs. Herbert Lee Safford, Sunday, August 23, 1992, Lewis Brothers Funeral Home Chapel, Selma, Alabama, Officiating, Rev. Stephen Smith, Directing, Lewis Brothers Funeral Home, Interment, Elmwood Cemetery
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1992-08-23
- Subject:
- African American women--Alabama--Selma--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Alabama--Selma--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Alabama--Selma--History--20th century
Funeral service--Alabama--Selma--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Alabama--Selma--History--20th century
African Americans--Alabama--Selma--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Herbert Lee Safford. Birth date: February 1, 1935. Death date: January 10, 2014. Funeral date: January 25, 2014. Church: Covington Drive Church of God of Prophecy (Decatur, 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: 351
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_saffordherbertlee19920823
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_saffordherbertlee19920823
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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PALL BEARERS
FRIENDS & RELATIVES
FLOWER BEARERS
FRIENDS & RELATIVES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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_The family of the late Sis. Herbert Lee Safford wishes to sincerely express their thanks for the prayers, visitations, and many acts of kindness, services, cards and telegrams during our loved one's passing. May God bless each of you.
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INTERMENT ~ Elmwood Cemetery
OBITUARY
Mrs. Herbert Lee Safford was born February 18, 1940 to the late Mr. Arceious and Lucy Watson in Dallas County. She was later raised by Mrs. Francis Watson of Selma, Alabama.
She confessed Christ at an early age and joined the Mt. Ararat Baptist Church then later moved to Brooklyn, New York and joined the Antioch Baptist Church where she remained a member until her death.
She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star Universal Masonic Brotherhood Chapel No. 162.
She was employed for twenty years by Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development . Center.
On Saturday evening, August 15, 1992 our Heavenly F3ther saWfit to call His set-vant, Sis. Herbert Lee Safford to her Heavenly home.
Sis. Safford bids farewell to her loving family: a devoted husband, Mr. James Safford, Sr.; two daughters: Lucy Watson, Nettie Landcaster (Bruce); two sons, James Safford Jr. (Geraldine) and Dexter Safford (Denise) all of Brooklyn, New York; five sisters-in-law: Dorothy Porter, Mary Frades Pettaway, Dora Keith (Willie), and Mattie Phillips, all of Selma, AL, Mrs. Pear lie McDonald ( Randale) of Cincinnatti, OH; one brother-in-law, John Weaver Jr. of Selma; one aunt; four uncles, eight grand children, one great grand, and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
PROGRAM
PROCESSIONAL
SONG 11 Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross 11
SCRIPTURE AND PRAYER
SOLO
Marie Parker
~CKNOWLEDGEMENT
OBITUARY
EULOGY
Rev. Stephen Smith
RECESSIONAL
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A precious one from us is gone A voice we loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled.
She will never be forgotten, Though on earth she is no more
But in memory she is with us As she always was before.
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