- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Celebration of Her Life, Dorothy May Smith, Saturday, February 23, 2013, 1:30 P.M., Donald Trimble Mortuary Chapel, 1876 Second Ave. Decatur, Georgia 30032
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2013-02-23
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Decatur--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Decatur--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Decatur, 33.77483, -84.29631
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Dorothy May Smith. Birth date: August 9, 1942. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: January 12, 2009. Church: Zion Hill Baptist Church (Atlanta, 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_smithdorothymay20130223
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_smithdorothymay20130223
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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It is a love story. PlJ~ ~ ~udtJ her life was a love story, for she was a lover of all people and all things and vis-a-vis anyone who knew her loved her. She was born out of the love between Ada May and Fred Jackson on December 21, 1950, and strived to make them proud throughout their lives. Her first loves were reading and learning, and per her mother's request, she tried to learn something new every day. Her love for education placed her at the top of her George Washington Carver High School's 1969 graduating class, which earned her a full scholarship to Wliberforce University.
She always said her name meant "God's gift" and she was certainly that for me. Love brought her into my life in 1972 and forty years later we were still in love and together. Many things made her happy, but her greatest joy was being among family- our children, Laquitta, Trammell and Yohannes, and our eight grandchildren, Trevius, Tyrus, Toi, Tahlia,Tristyn, Asila, lnaya,and Yazid la-Khaafidh, made her exceedingly proud and pleased.
She was a lover of doing and her life was filled with accomplishments. Other than the enjoyment she gained from educating all of us, her most rewarding achievements were receiving her MBA degree from the University of Memphis, where her seminal research paper "Recession and Unemployment: A Retrospective Analysis of the Economic Welfare Lost," was published in the Midsouth Journal of Economics. Her other major accomplishment was her pioneering work involving providing information via the internet was a labor of love that last 15 years. She published an online international weekly newsletter called The DISH at www.thedish.org and it posted to over 10,000 readers.
She is survived by her sister, Erma Gipson Harris, and twin brothers, Robert and Raymond McNeal, as well as many other family members and friends. Those of us left behind rejoice at our loved one's departure, knowing that you were taken by God because He loved you more and there is no greater love story.
OCCASION OPENING PRAYER REMARKS
OBITUARY SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS POEM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CLOSING PRAYER
John Burl Smith, Husband
Philomena Morton
Two Minutes, Please Smith-Grey Family McNeal Family Friends and Colleagues
Read Silently
Reverend Kilen Grey
Yohannes Sharriff Smith, "Thank You "