- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Services for Mrs. Willie Mae Tiggs, Saturday, May 31, 2014, 12:00 Noon, Brown Avenue Baptist Church, 1480 Jonesboro Road, SE, Atlanta, Georgia, Reverend Dr. Robert Rice, Jr., Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2014-05-31
- 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 Willie Mae Tiggs. Birth date: (not recorded). Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: November 29, 2014. Church: Shiloh Missionary 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_tiggswilliemaetiggs20140531
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_tiggswilliemaetiggs20140531
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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When I r-ome to the end of the road,
And the sun has setfor me,
I zvant no rites in gloom-filled rooms,
w~ cry for a soul Jetfree?
j_\IJ.iJJ me a little--but not too long,
/-.lnd not withyour head bowed low;
Remember the love that we ome Jhared
MiJJ me--but let me go.
For this is ajournry that we all must take,
And eath mustgo alone.
It's all apart ~fthe Master's plan,
A step on the road to home.
When you are lone!J and sick at heart,
..
Go to the jn'ends we know,
And bu.ryyour sorrows in doing good deeds.
Miss me - but let me go.
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Family and Friends
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The family of Mrs. Willie Mae Tiggs expresses our sincere gratitude for your prayers, cards, flowers, and all acts of kindness
shown during this celebration of life. May God continue to bless and keep each of you is our prayer.
Goolsby Mortuary 404.588.0128 Darryl Allen's PLUS 404.755.0965
Mrs. Willie Mae Burt Tiggs was born on June 2, 1930 in McDonough, Georgia to the late Mr. Robert Burt and Mrs. Onelus Rogers Burt.
While living in McDonough, she matriculated in the Henry County School System. Willie Mae met and married Charles Tiggs who later preceded her in death.
Mrs. Tiggs moved to Historic South Atlanta, and became a member of Providence Baptist Church. She later joined Brown Avenue Baptist Church and seryed faithfully until her health declined.
Mae Mae, as she was fondly called by her family, vvas the most giving person you could meet. She vvas loving, caring, and kind and would take care of the children in the community as if they were her own. You could count on getting a good wholesome meal at Mrs. Willie Mae's house and she never ever turned anyone avvay.
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Mrs. Willie Mae Tiggs went home to be with the Lord. She will be missed by every life she touched.
Others who preceded her in death are her siblings, Willie Frank Collier, Ted Collier, Michael Collier, James Thaxton and Clydie Collier.
She leaves to cherish her memory: two daughters, Geraldine Carroll-
Maddox 0fernon) and Catherine Duffy; son, Tad Collier; sister, Diane
Collier; brother, Danny Collier; granddaughter, Tanis Flagg (I<irk); grandson, Wayne Perry; six great-grandchildren, Trenecia, Tanisha, I<irk II, I<irnesha, Rodney, and Terez; and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Prelude
Processional
Selection
Brown Avenue Baptist Church Choir
ScriptUre Readings Old Testament New Testament
Reverend James Harris Reverend Deon Weems
In Honor~ ofMy Mother
Reverend Deon Weems Mrs. Geraldine Carroll-Maddox
Remarks (fhree Minutes, Please)
Obituary (Read Silently)
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Selection
Brown Avenue Baptist Church Choir
Eulogy
J\cknowl~dgemen ts
Recessional
./
Reverend Dr. Robert Rice, Jr. Goolsby Mortuary Staff
Postlude
Interment South-View Cemetery 1990 Jonesboro Road
Atlanta, Georgia Repast will be held at Brown Avenue Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.