- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Mr. Herbert Wilson, Monday, February 9, 1987, 11:00 O'Clock A.M., St. Paul A.M.E. Church, 989 Morrow Avenue, Macon, Georgia, Rev. Gabriel Hardeman, Officiating, Interment: Wilson Cemetery, Stovall, Georgia, "Hutchings Services"
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1987-02-09
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Macon---History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Macon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Herbert Wilson. Birth date: July 1, 1908. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: February 9, 1987. Church: St. Paul A.M.E. Church (Macon, 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_wilsonherbert19870209
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_wilsonherbert19870209
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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PALLBEARERS
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Willie Moseley
Weelie Moseley
Lionel Holmes
Claude H. Grier
Wesley Waters
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Friends of McAfee To~ers
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WALK SLOWLY
If you should leave before me, dear Walk slowly down the ways of death, Well worn and wide. For I would wan t to overtake you quickly and seek the j ou r neys ending by your side. I would not be so forlorn not to descry you. down some sh ining high road when I come: Walk slowly, dear, ~nd often look behind you. And pause to hear if someone calls your name.
Adelarde Love
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The family of the late Herbert Wilson acknowledges with sincere thanks and profound appreciation the many expressions of love and sympathy during these hours of bereavement.
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MR. HERBERT WILSON
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.. HUTCHINGS SERVICES ..
OBITUARY
Mr. Herbert Wilson the only child of Mr. Adolphus Wilson and Mrs. Leila Burton Wilson was born July 1, 1908 in Merriweather County, Stovall, Georgia.
He joined the Wilson Chapel Methodist at an early age, he lived in Atlanta, a few years, and moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1942 and became a member of Saunders Memorial A.M.E. Church, where he served faithfully before moving to Macon in 1977, he then become a member of St. Paul A.M.E., where he remained until his demise.
He married the former Mae Willie Harris and to this union five children were born.
Su rvivors are a devoted and 1ov i ng wife, Mrs. Mae Willie Wilson; three sons, Lucious, Herbert Jr., and Harrison, Detroit, Michigan; two daughters, Mrs. Maudestein Taliaferro, Newark, New Jersey and Mrs. Patricia Ann Bates, Detroit, Michigan; six grandchildren, John Taliaferro III, Edward Taliaferro, Debra Taliaferro-Helmes, Shannon Wilson, Kim Marie Wilson and Shirley Wilson; Four great grandch i 1dren, Dan i sha Ta 1i aferro, John Richard Taliaferro IV, Carissa Taliaferro and Christopher Taliaferro; one son-in-law, John Taliaferro; two daughters-in-law, Sylvia Wilson and Gai 1 Wilson; two step-brothers and four step sisters; one mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law; several nieces, nephews, other re 1at i ves and countless friends.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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ORDER OF SERVICE ORGAN PRELUDE PROCESSIONAL
SELECTION . Choir SCRIPTURE Rev. Alvin Hudson PRAYER Mr. Andrew Jones SOLO .. Mr. A.B. Williams RELECTIONS Mr. Willis Fitzhugh SELECTION .. Choir EULOGY Rev. Gabriel Hardeman
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