- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Erma Ruth Ware, January 15, 1903- April 6, 2003, Friday, April 11, 2003, 1:00 P.M., St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, 209 Second Street S.W., Massillon, Ohio 44646, Rev. Robert Lewis, Officiating
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2003-04-11
- Subject:
- African American women--Ohio--Massillon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Ohio--Massillon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Ohio--Massillon---History--20th century
Funeral service--Ohio--Massillon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Ohio--Massillon--History--20th century
African Americans--Ohio--Massillon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Ohio, Stark County, Massillon, 40.79672, -81.52151
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Erma Ruth Ware. Birth date: January 15, 1903. Death date: April 6, 2003. Funeral date: April 11, 2003. Church: St. James A.M.E. Zion Church (Massillon, Ohio). 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_wareermaruth20030411
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_wareermaruth20030411
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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PALLBEARERS
Bill Murphy
Roland Ware
Jamie Murphy
Ralph Ware
fvfichael Robinson
Michael Robinson
FLOWER BEARERS
Family and Friends
THIS I KNOW
I Know not what tomorrow brings, Nor do I fret and (ear,
For it be better or (or worse, I know if I succeed in life Or fail as I may do,
God will be cfrere Co show and lead And help me start anew.
One thing is certain, this I know My faith is strong and true,
And God will always li~1ht my way Each day my whole life through.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The family of ERMA RUTH WARE 1vishes to ackno1vledge 1vith deep appreciation, the many comforting messages, floral tributes, prayers and many other expressions of kindness and concenz.
Services C onducted By:
M't~Wt-t lk Iboun :run~~al J)om~
529 W. Thornton Street Akron, Ohio 44307 Phont> : 5 .'1S - 1 S4:l
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
ERMA RLITH WARE
January 15, /903 - April 6, 2003 Friday, April I I, 2003 1:00 P.M.
St. Ja111e.\ A.M. E. Zion Cllurcll 209 Second StreetS. JV. Massillon, Ohio 44646
Rev. Robert Lewis, Officiating
THE OBITUARY
ERMA RUTH WARE, 100, passed away April 6, 2003 at Meadowind Health Care Center. . Born in Cleveland, ohio. She had lived in the Massillon community for eighty-eight years. She attended Washington High School. She was a homemaker and a excellent cook. Preceded in death by _husband, Ralph Ware; daughters, Margena Robinson and Joyce Ware; she is survived by sons, , ~alph (Laura) Ware, Roland (Betty) Ware of Massillon; daughter, Janet (Bill) Murphy of Akron, Ohio; brother, Edward (Barbara) Bush of Chicago, IL; many grandchildren; great-grandchildren; . great-great. grandchildren; a host ofother relatives and friends.
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ORDER OF SERVICE
ORGAN PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL SONG
SCRIPTURE Old Testament New Testament
PRAYER SONG
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS/CONDOLENCES REMARKS OBITUARY
(To Be Read Silently) SONG
EULOGY Rev. Robert Lewis
INTERMENT Massillon Cemetery Garden of the Cross
"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he Were dead, yet shall he live: And liveth and believeth in me shall never die. "
St.john 11:25-26