- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Services for Otis Clifford Turner, Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 11:00 A.M., Church of Atlanta, Lighthouse, 1380 Boulevard, SE, Atlanta, Georgia, Bishop M.D. Spires, Pastor, Reverend Charles Smith, Officiating
- Date of Original:
- 2002-04-30
- 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 Otis Clifford Turner. Birth date: December 25, 1917. Death date: April 26, 2002. Funeral date: April 30, 2002. Church: Church of Atlanta Lighthouse (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_turnerotisclifford20020430
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_turnerotisclifford20020430
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
Family and Friends
Grandchildren
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Please don't say that I gave up, just say that I gave in. Don't say that I lost the battle, for it was God's to lose or win.
Please don't say how good I was, but that I did my best to give the most, I could not do less.
Please don't give me wings or halos, that's for God to do. I want no more than I deserve, no extra, just my due.
Don't talk about what could have been, it's over and it's done. Just see to all my family's needs the battle has been won. When you paint a picture ofme, don't draw me as a saint.
I've done some good, I've done some wrong, so use all ofyour paint. Not just bright and light tones, use some gray and dark.
In fact, don't put me down in canvas. Paint me in your heart!
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The family wishes you to know that they are sincerely grateful to their many friends for the kindness, sympathy and love shown them during this time ofsadness. Appreciation for those acts ofconcern cannot be expressed in words. It is their prayer that God will bless each ofyou.
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County and resided in Atlanta for 72 years. He was one of two children of Lem and Daisy Turner. Otis is preceded in death by his sister, Eva Pierce.
Otis married December 24, 1939 to the late Nellie Williams. To this union four children were born, Carrie, Patricia, Dorothy and Ronnie.
Otis was educated in the Atlanta Public School System at South Atlanta Elementary, Howard and Washington High Schools. He was a meat cutter by trade and worked for Star Market (Zimmerman) for over forty years. He also enjoyed hunting, fishing and playing checkers at Newell's Barber Shop with his friends. In his later years, he became an avid gardener.
He departed this life on Friday, April 26, 2002.
Otis leaves to cherish his memory three daughters, Carrie Turner, Patricia Turner and Dorothy Thompson; son and daughter-in-law, Ronnie and Virginia Turner; grandchildren, Victor Turner, Tracy (Cheree) Turner, Stephaine (Michael), Afari, Eric (Phyllis) Thompson, Tyrone (Tamika) Jones, Ronnetta (Coker) Babatunde, Deloris Edwards, Shanyon Storey, Tara (Kirby) Carswell, Natheniel McBride, Ill, Ronetta Turner, Ronnie Turner, Jr., fifteen great-grand children; two nephews, Norman Turner and Warren Williams; niece, Yvonne Pierce and a host of other relatives and friends.
He will always be remembered affectionately as "Big Daddy".
PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL PRAYER......................................................................Bishop M.D. Spires SOLO SCRIPTURE
Old Testament. .....................................................Dorothy Thompson New Testament. .......................................Reverend Dr. J. C. Reynolds REMARKS (Three Minutes, Please) OBITUARY (Read Silently-Soft Music) SOLO EULOGY................................................................Reverend Charles Smith ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................Virginia Turner RECESSIONAL
Washington Memorial Park Cemetery 700 Jordan Lane
Decatur, Georgia 30033