- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- In Loving Memory, Melvin Stone, February 24, 1948 to January 31, 2010
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2010-02-05
- Subject:
- African American men--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 Melvin Stone. Birth date: October 16, 1944. Death date: June 26, 2014. Funeral date: July 5, 2014. Church: Donald Trimble Mortuary Chapel (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: 91
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_stonemelvin20100205
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_stonemelvin20100205
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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The family of Melvin Stone wishes to express our sincere thanks for the many expressions of love during our time of bereavement. -The Family
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FUNERAL SERVICE Friday, February 5, 2010
11:00 a.m. Gregory B Levett and Sons
Funeral Home
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Melvin Gene Stone (Big Daddy) enter this world on Feb. 24, 1948 to the union of Eugene & Carrie Lee (Betty) Stone. He was hom in Cleveland, Ohio. Soon after his birth the family moved back to Atlanta where . Melvin attended elementary and Washington High School.
Processional...................................................Soft Music
Melvin dearly loved his family. He and his wife Shirley cared for his envalid brother Larry Stone for many yeats until his passing. Melvin was a funny guy, he was easy to joke and laugh with. He had a kind heart and he tried to help his family as much as he could.
Melvin was a loving husband, son, brother, father, grandfather, uncle and cousin; he will be dearly missed. Melvin will live on in our hearts and memories forever.
He will live on in the memories of his wife (Shirley), his father Eugene Stone, his sister Carolyn Hairston(Ronald); brothers Danny Stone (Angela); Gregory, Keefe, Dexter, and Detrick Stone; his daughters Betty, Carolyn, Kristina and Veronica Smith; and Sand Terrance Jenkins; and son Charles Smith; 30 grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins; sister-in-laws Sarah Lynch and Mary McMillon; brother-in-laws Johnnie, Jordan and Lawrence Lynch; and a host of beloved friends.
Solo..................Walk Around Heaven.................Betty Smith
Poem..........................................................Betty" Smith Remarks....................3 min please...................Family/Friends The Resurrection Hope-John 5:28, 29 ............Ronald L. Hairston Solo.........................................................Danny Stone Musical Arrangements by ........................ Marvin WhiteHead
Acknowledgements
The family of Melvin Stone wishes to express out sincere thanks for
the many expressions of love during our time of bereavement.
-The Stone Family-
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