- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Services for Mrs. Lealer Rosser Thomas, Saturday, May 25, 1991, One O'Clock P.M., Bowen United Methodist Church, 211 Joyland Place, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia, Reverend Cornelius E. Minor, Pastor, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1991-05-25
- Subject:
- African American women--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 Lealer Rosser Thomas. Birth date: September 27, 1949. Death date: April 22, 2008. Funeral date: April 28, 2008. Church: M.D. Walker Funeral Home Chapel (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.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 138
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_thomaslealerrosser19910525
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_thomaslealerrosser19910525
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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Louise Arnold Thelma Sander Inez Mahone Jackie Meyer
Sandra Bradley Angela Patten Bettye Parrott
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Calvin Smith Horace Bald Horace Hoit, Jr. Allen Moon
Reldford Smith Frampton Colover Alfonso Taylor Robert Bennett
We the family wish to extend our sincere thanks and deep appreciation to all for your acts of kindness, comforting words and prayers during these past times. May God bless and sustain each of you.
-The Family
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of our most sincere thanks. We, therefore, desire to express
our appreciation of your confidence and we sincerely hope
that our service has been in every way satisfactory and com-
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Saturday, May 25, 1991 -One O'Clock P.M.-
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She entered this world October 24, 1896 in Coweta County. She later married Mr. Alvin Thomas in 1911, of this union there were seven children.
She was a faithful member or'Bowen United Methodist Church until her illness prevented her from attending as she would have liked.
She leaves to mourn her departure three (3) devoted sons, Mr. Horace Sr., Mr. Warren and Mr. Edgar Thomas;
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one (1) loving daughter, Mrs. Ruby Travis; she also leaves sixteen (16) grandchildren, thirty-one (31) great grandchildren, twelve (12) great great grandchildren, two (2) nephews, a devoted friend, Mary E. Hooks and a host of other relatives and friends.
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