- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- Funeral Services for Mr. Oscar T. Wright, Sunday, January 11, 1976, 1:00 O'Clock P.M., Little Salem Christian Church, Reidsville, N.C., Reverend Junior Wimbush, Pastor
- Contributor to Resource:
- African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter
Wesley Chapel Genealogy Group - Date of Original:
- 1976-01-11
- Subject:
- African American men--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--North Carolina--Reidsville---History--20th century
Funeral service--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
Mourning customs--North Carolina--Reidsville--History--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Reidsville--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Rockingham County, Reidsville, 36.35486, -79.66447
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Oscar Thomas Wright. Birth date: (not recorded). Death date: January 8, 1976. Funeral date: January 11, 1976. Church: Little Salem Christian Church (Reidsville, N.C.). 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.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 247
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_wrightoscarthomas19760111
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_wrightoscarthomas19760111
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
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CASKET BEARERS Officers of Little Salem Christian Church
FLORAL BEARERS Friends and Neighbors
The family sincerely appreciates every act of kindness extended them during these hours of trial. Each card, call, telegram, flower, or service rendered has greatly aided them in bearing their great loss.
721 East Morehead Street
Reidsville, North Carolina
-for-
Mr. Oscar T. Wright
Sunday, January 11, 1976 1:00 O'Clock P. M.
Little Salem Ch.ristian Church
Reidsville, N. C. Reverend Junior Wimbush, Pastor
Mr. Oscar Thomas Wright was born in Rockingham County to the late Thomas Jefferson and Sarah McClease Wright. It was in this county. where he had lived, that he departed this life on Thursday. January 8. 1976.
He accepted Christ and joined the Little Salem Christian Church where he served faithfully until his death. He was a retired elder with a great ambition to encourage people to be humble and Christ-like. He was a retired employee of the American Tobacco Company.
He is survived by a devoted wife, Mrs. Carrie T. Wright; one sister, Mrs. Marian Jones of Reidsville; other relatives and friends.
How blessed is the tie that binds Our hearts in lasting love.
The comradeship ofkindred minds Is like to that above.
So when at last we have to part In sorrow and in pain,
We know we still are joined in hearts Until we meet again. -The Family
PROCESSIONAL HYMN ................................................ Choir SCRIPTURE ................................ Rev. M. L. Lambert PRAYER HYMN ................................................ Choir REMARKS .................................... Rev. P. E. Carter RESOLUTIONS SOLO - "Unclouded Day" EULOGY.................................. Rev. Junior Wimbush RECESSIONAL
INTERMENT Greenview Cemetery, Reidsville. N.C.