- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Homegoing Celebration for Mrs. Bettye Wimbush, Friday, June 20, 2014, 11:00 A.M., Salem Baptist Church, 2283 Baker Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30331, Reverend Jasper Williams, Jr., Senior Pastor, Dr. Joseph L. Williams, Pastor
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 2014-06-20
- 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 Bettye Wimbush. Birth date: June 16, 1936. Death date: (not recorded). Funeral date: June 20, 2014. Church: Salem Bible 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_wimbushbettye20140620
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_wimbushbettye20140620
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
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!fthe sun Jhould n".Je andfind_your ~yeJ / illjilled JPith tecm)or me.
I u;z".Jb Jo mud1 you wouldn 't cry The JJk!Y)'~H did todqy, -
U7hile thinking ofthe met'!)' thing.r lVe didn't get to sqy.
I knmv hozv much)'OU love me ~ -1J much aJ I loveyou;
.._4nd each tz!m that_you think ofme, 1 knmvyou'll miJJ me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me Please !'f)' to ttnderstand, That an angel tame and mlled m)' name .And took me ~y the hand
/ ind when I thought ofJ-vorld!J thing.r I might miss t:ome tomorrow;
I thought ofyou, and when I did, J\t0J heart wa.rJilled with Jorrou;.
But 2vben I 1valked through heaz,en 'sgateJ
!felt so much at home; lt./hen God looked dmvn
and .rmiled at me F1vm His great ,golden throne.
He Jaid, "Thi.r iJ eternity
./lnd all I've promiJed_you,
So tvhen tomonmv stmts ;vithout me,
Don't think we're far apart ... For eve1)' timeyou think ~~me, I'm right here ... in_your heart.
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would hke to express our si re appreciation for the many kind deeds sho\vn during our time of bereavement.
May God continue to bless each of you.
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3000 :tvfartin Luther King Jr. Dr. Atlanta, Georgia 30310 404.691.3810
Darryl Allen', PLUS 404.755.0965
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Manufacturing Company.
She attended David T. Howard High School 1n Atlanta, Georgia. She was employed with Empire
She \Vas preceded in death by her sister, Burnell I\tfance.
Bettye leaves to cherish her tnemory: daughter, .i\1s. Sabrina I\1. Wimbush; son, David B. Wimbush both of Atlanta, Georgia; two grandchildren: Iman i\. Wimbush of Atlanta, Georgia and Dayved S. Wimbush of Douglasville, .(]eorgia; sisters, Delores Pittman of College Park, Georgia; .L-\donica Thon1as of College, Park, Sansi Jordan of College Park; Veronica Mance of Washington, D.C.; and Arlen .i\1ance of Cleveland' Ohio' special friend, Thorton Simmons I\tfattie and Fay 1-1artin; great-grandnieces, nephews, cousins and other relative ,ahd friends.
Adonica Thomas Pastor Leonard Perryman ',.c -
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 2275 Joseph E. Boone Boulevard N.W.
-At~anta, Ge_orgia 30314