- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Celebration Service honoring, Kenneth Alan Strickland, Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 11:00 AM, Ben hill United Methodist Church 2099 Fairburn Road, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30331, Reverend Dr. Byron E. Thomas, pastor, Reverend Arundel Hope, Eulogist
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2016-10-25
- Subject:
- African American men--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 Kenneth Alan Strickland. Birth date: December 5, 1921. Death date: June 10, 2011. Funeral date: June 16, 2011. Church: Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church (Roswell, 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_stricklandkennethalan20161025
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_stricklandkennethalan20161025
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
We needed you here, But God called you there, And while we cannot understand, Why things happen as they do, The One who hangs the rainbows out, Has His own plans for you.
Class of 1979 ~ D.M. Therrell High School
The family of Kenneth A. Strickland deeply appreciates your many acts of love and kindness during our time of bereavement. The Lord will not forget your labors of love and neither will we.
Murray Brothers Funeral Home
Valerie Eccles Carey 404.797.1067
Musical Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Processional ............. .
. . . . . . . . Mr. Keith Wilson usic and Worship, BHUMC
. . Family and Clergy
Congregational Hymn ..... .
Blessed Assurance" Page 369
Scriptures ................ .
nfi.,....AM James Wallace Testament- Psalm- 46 New Testaments -1 Corinthians 15:51-58
Prayer of Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............... Mrs. Sheralyn Byrdsong
Musical Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. "I'll Fly Away" .. ................ Mr. Keith Wilson
Reflections .............. .
. .................. Mr. Ronnie Harper- Co-worker ~.r~r~~vid Gibson- Classmate, D.M. Therrell High School
Mr. Matthew Strickland- Family
..... Mr. Keith Wilson
In his magnificent wisdom, God sent an angel to visit Kenneth A. Strickland on the morning of October 20, 2016. Our beloved Kenneth was born on August 5, 1961 to Claude and Ernestine Strickland. He was the middle child with one older and one younger sister. This birth order prepared him to be the family diplomat with a no-nonsense disposition for his siblings and extended family.
~~ graduated from D.M. Therrell High School in 1979. He served in the United
States Navy from 1979 - 1982 and also studied at Georgia State University. He married the love of his life, Theresa Dallas Strickland in 1986. She possessed the soft spoken, sweet spirit that he had always admired in his mom. He was a devoted husband, and to this union three children were born: Matthew Claude, Mark Dallas and Brittany Angel. He was a proud father and stern disciplinarian with his sons, but a softy with the light of his life, baby girl, Angel. He cherished the time spent with his only grandson, Mark.
~~ loved celebrating life and enjoyed people, especially his family and beloved
classmates of 1979. He coordinated class outings like cookouts and "Flashback" concerts. He enjoyed pick-up basketball games with close friends and Joe Brown and Lawrence Williams, who he considered as brothers.
~~ began a long, successful career with the United States Postal Service in 1985.
At work he displayed a jovial personality and enjoyed sharing jokes on the job and at their favorite hang-out, Dairy Queen. He remained employed there until his untimely departure.
~~ leaves to cherish his memory, wife, Theresa; sons, Matthew and Mark, daughter,
Angel; grandson, Mark, Jr., parents, Claude and Ernestine Strickland; mother-in law, Edna Dallas, two sisters, Michelle Strickland Williams and Tamra Strickland Hall (John); one sister-in -law, Deborah Dallas Maye, three brothers-in-law, Joseph J. Dallas (Pamela), James Dallas (Celeste) and Waymond Dallas (Tynese); twenty-one nieces and nephews, and a host of aunts, great nieces and nephews, cousins, extended relatives and friends.