- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Oliver R. Sueing Sings a New Song, His Song Began, May 17, 1950, His New Song Began, February 16, 2016, Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 12:00 Noon, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 400 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30312, Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, P.h.D., Senior Pastor, Pastor Montele Crawford, Officiating, First Baptist Church of East Point
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2016-02-23
- 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 Oliver R. Sueing. Birth date: October 20, 1993. Death date: April 18, 2014. Funeral date: April 26, 2014. Church: Gus Thornhill's Chapel (East Point, 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_sueingoliverr20160223
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_sueingoliverr20160223
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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@ n 0N fEBRUARY, I6, 20I6, Goo, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, OPENED HEAVEN'S GATES AND CALLED HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT
HOME TO BE WITH HIM. OLIVER, A NATIVE MEMPHIAN' IS THE SON OF MRS. BENNIE WESTBROOK WILSON AND THE LATE MR. CHARLES A . SumNG, SR. OLIVER ACCEPTED CHRIST AND wAs BAPTIZED AT METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHuRCH IN MEMPHIS, TN AT AN EARLY AGE. HE LATER JOINED AND MAINTAINED His MEMBERSHIP WITH FIRST BAPTIST CHuRcH oF EAsT PoiNT.
BoRN IN MEMPHIS, OLIVER's CHRIST-LIKE SPIRIT KNEW NO BOUNDARIES AND TOUCHED THAT OF COUNTLESS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE
woRLD. AN HONORS GRADUATE oF GEoRGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH ScHOOL IN MEMPHIS, TN, HE SERVED AS STUDENT
CouNCIL PRESIDENT, ROTC BATTALION CoMMANDER, IN coMMAND OF FIVE CITY SCHOOLS, AND wAs A CHOIR SOLOIST. AwAY FROM SCHOOL, HE WAS AN EAGLE SCOUT AND A CERTIFIED SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR. HIS VOCAL GIFT WAS RECOGNIZED EARLY ON BY HIS MOTHER, A MUSIC TEACHER AND OUTSTANDING SINGER IN HER OWN RIGHT. SHE ENROLLED HIM IN FORMAL VOICE TRAINING WHEN HE WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF MADAME ADRIA BRUNATI.
AFTER GRADUATING FROM CARVER, OLIVER WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE LATE MRS . THELMA WHALUM, MOTHER OF THE LATE DR.
WENDELL P. WHALUM, TO ATTEND MoREHOUSE CoLLEGE WHERE HE wAs IMMEDIATELY ACCEPTED INTO THE MoREHOUSE CoLLEGE
GLEE CLuB. WHILE AT MoREHousE, OLIVER wAs AWARDED A CHARLES E. MERRILL OvERSEAS TRAvEL ScHOLARSHIP TO STUDY IN VIENNA, AusTRIA. THERE, H E ENROLLED IN THE INSTITUTE FOR EuROPEAN STUDIES, AND WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE VIENNA AcADEMY OF MuSIC WHERE HE STUDIED VOICE AND PERFORMED IN jEROME KERN's " SHOW BOAT" WITH THE RENOWNED VIENNA VOLKSOPER.
OLIVER HAS PERFORMED soLo oRCHESTRAL RENDITIONS WITH THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE CoLuMBus GEoRGIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, EMORY UNIVERSITY, AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OPERA COMPANIES. BY SPECIAL REQUEST, OLIVER SANG AT THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT jiMMY CARTER, THE FUNERAL OF MAYOR MAYNARD jACKSON, AND THE FUNERAL OF THE ESTEEMED MoREHousE CoLLEGE PREsiDENT EMERITus AND ATLANTA ScHooL BoARD CHAIRMAN, BENJAMIN E . MAYs.
FoR SEVERAL YEARS, OLIVER SANG WITH THE GRAMMY AwARD WINNING BoBBY ]oNES AND THE NEw LIFE SINGERS ON THE NASHVILLE GosPEL TELEVISION SHow.
IN I 99 5, OLIVER AND TWO OF HIS DEAREST FRIENDS AND CLASSICALLY TRAINED TENORS, DECIDED TO FORM THEIR OWN VERSION OF
"THE THREE TENORs" FocusiNG ON CHRISTIAN Musrc, THus NAMING THEMSELVES, "THE THREE INsPIRATIONAL TENORs ." THEIR REPERTOIRE INCLUDED CLASSICAL SONGS, BELOVED HYMNS AND SPIRITUALS. IN 2007, THEY RELEASED A CD ENTITLED "OLE TIME RELIGION ."
HErs SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, JoANN, Two DAUGHTERS, jESSICA SALERNO (VINCENT) OF EGG HARBoR, NJ; AMARYLIS SuEING, OF FoRT WAYNE, IN; ONE soN, ADRIAN SuEING; THREE STEP-CHILDREN, KrusTI GursE (DoN); TrFANY WILLIAMS, AND SEAN WILLIAMS; _--zo;.---- GRANDCHILDREN, IsABELLA SALERNO, LucA SALERNO, AND SoPHIA SALERNo; FOUR STEP-GRANDCHILDREN, RYAN ........,.....,Jtd.>llll!!i
TN; WILLIAMS, PEYTON GursE AND ADRIANA GursE; HIS MOTHER, Ms. BENNIE WESTBROOK WILSON OF MEMPHIS,
ANDREA SuEING OF MEMPHIS, TN AND CHERYL SuEING-]oNES (WILLIAM) OF SAN DIEGO, CA; TWO BROTHERS,
~ ........,. .....,...., OF MEMPHIS, TN, AND CHARLES SuEING, ]R. (MARIE) OF NASHVILLE, TN; A LOVING
M.EM:PH[Is.TN, AND HIS FAVORITE UNCLE, FRANK WESTBROOK OF OwAsso, OK.
..... SuEING, SR. CHERISHING LOVING MEMORIES OF THEIR ""''"''' ~
PEACE, MY HEART, LET THE TIME FOR THE PARTING BE SWEET.
LET IT NOT BE A DEATH BUT COMPLETENESS.
LET LOVE MELT INTO MEMORY AND PAIN INTO SONGS.
LET THE FLIGHT THROUGH THE SKY
END IN THE FOLDING OF THE WINGS OVER THE NEST.
LET THE LAST TOUCH OF YOUR HANDS
BE GENTLE LIKE THE FLOWER OF THE NIGHT.
0 S T I L L , ~............;, ...
BEAUTIFUL END, FOR A MOMENT,
WEAR NO FORCED
IT IS THE SAME TaAT IT EVER WAS. THERE IS ABSOLUTE UNBROKEN CONTINl..1Jn.
WHY SHOULD I BE OUT OF MIND
ALLIS WELL.