Celebration of The Life of Jean Childs Young, July 1,1933-September 16, 1994, "Jean Young, Now That Was A Woman", Monday, September 19, 1994 11:00am, First Congregational Church U.C.C. Atlanta, Georgia, The Reverend Dr. Susan Newman Senior Minister

MoNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19T 1994 11 :OOA.M.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
u.c.c.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
The Reverend Dr. Susan Newman Senior Minister

]EAN CHILDS YOUNG
)ean Childs Young was born on July 1, 1933 in Marion, Alabama, the youngest daughter of Norman and !della Childs. Guided lovingly into adulthood, Jean grew
through the restrictions of the segregated South and blossomed into a clear-headed young woman with a wry
sense of humor and a serious intention to teach. She received a bachelor of science degree in elementary
education from Manchester College, where she was crowned the May Queen. Jean earned her master's degree in education from Queens College in New York and was awarded honorary doctorates from Loyola University, Manchester College and The City University
of New York.
On June 7, 1954, Jean married Andrew Young, a young Congregational minister. Jean and Andrew were blessed with three daughters and one son. Their forty-year partnership took them from the Civil Rights movement to the halls of Congress, to the United Nations and on to
become the First Family of the City of Atlanta, where Andrew served as Mayor.
)ean was an educator, lecturer, civil and human rights activist and community volunteer with lifelong concerns for national and international issues, particularly those
related to women and children. She taught in the classrooms of Hartford, Connecticut; Thomasville and Atlanta, Georgia. Jean was the coordinator of elementary and pre-school programs for the Atlanta Public Schools and was a lead teacher in the Teacher Corps. She was a key member of the leadership team that developed Atlanta Metropolitan College - selecting original staff, establishing policy, serving as its first public relations officer and as an instructor, and later serving on its Board of Advisors.
Jean also worked as an educational consultant with IBM in the development of an historical multimedia
software program.
One of her most enduring contributions was the Mayor's Task Force on Public Education, which she founded
during Andrew's tenure as Atlanta's mayor, and chaired for seven years. The Task Force developed the annual
"Dream Jamboree" and the Mayor's Scholars programs. Thanks in large part to these innovative programs initiated
under Jean's leadership, the value of the scholarships received by Atlanta Public Schools students rose from
$3 million to $20 million per year.

Most recently, Jean was the driving force behind the establishment of the Atlanta/Fulton Commission on Children and Youth. She was co-founder and co-chair of the advocacy organization that promotes the well-being of children by involving them in the decision-making
processes that affect their lives.
As a civil rights activist, Jean was intimately involved in numerous demonstrations and marches for human rights, including the 1963 March on Washington, the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, the
1966 March in Mississippi and the Poor Peoples Campaign in 1968. Jean's home and kitchen were always
open to feeding the hungry and sometimes homeless foot soldiers of the movement. In 1978, President
Carter appointed Jean chairperson of the United States National Commission of the International Year of the
Child, taking her activism to the world stage. Jean traveled extensively on behalf of the United Nations and as First Lady of Atlanta, leading tours to Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Soviet Georgia. More recently, Jean
led a Friendship Force tour to South Africa.
)ean was an active member of First Congregational Church, UCC and served as superintendent of the Sunday School for many years. Jean was a frequent lecturer and played a prominent role in a variety of fundraising, publicity and support activities for numerous groups, including the United Negro College Fund, the Georgia Council on Child Abuse and the King Center. Jean chaired the board of directors of the African-American Panoramic Experience (APEX) Museum and served on numerous advisory boards including Outward Bound, UNICEF, Families First and Habitat for Humanity.
)ean is survived by her husband, Andrew; four children -Andrea Young, Lisa Alston, Paula Shelton and Andrew "Bo" Young, Ill; six grandchildren - Lena and Kemet Alston; Taylor Marie, Kathryn and Nathaniel Stanley; and baby Shelton. She is also survived by her mother, !della J. Childs; two sisters - Cora Childs Moore and Norma Childs de Paur; two brothers - Norman Childs and William Childs;
one uncle, Louis Childs; and many other devoted relatives and friends.
)ean Childs Young will be missed by those who knew and loved her. To us all, even those who never knew the
blessing of her personal touch, Jean leaves a vibrant legacy of love, understanding, commitment, forgiveness
and compassion.

ORDER OF SERVICE
THE PRELUDE
Hampton I Andrews
'Angel Eyes"
THE CALL TO CELEBRATION
THE HYMN OF CELEBRATION BEECHER
"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling"
THE SCRIPTURE LESSON
PSALM 139 ISAIAH 40 SusAN Ross FIRST CORINTHIANS 13 )OHN 14 & 16
MAE KENDALL
THE PRAYEROFTHANKSGIVING
Elizabeth Clement
THE HYMN OF PRAISE WARD
"Think of His Goodness to Me"
ZELDA KENNEDY
THE TESTIMONIAL MOMENTS ON THE LIFE OF ]EAN CHILDS YOUNG
]EAN THE COMMITTED CHRISTIAN ALICE WASHINGTON
]EAN THE EDUCATOR AND CHILD ADVOCATE DAISY HARRIS CAROL TICE LUCY VANCE
THE HYMN OF FAITH ADESTES FIDELES
"How Firm A Foundation, Ye Saints of The Lord"
]EAN THE SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE BILLYE AARON ANN BASSARAB )0 EDWARDS MARIAN )ONES

THE SONGS OF THE MOVEMENT BERNICE )OHNSON REAGON
]EAN THE CiVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CORETTA SCOTT KING
THE HYMN OF ANCESTRY ROSAMOND )OHNSON
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
]EAN THE fRIEND )EANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE
]EAN THE MOTHER & HOMEMAKER
LISA YOUNG ALSTON THE HYMN OF SALVATION RAMBO
"We Shall Behold Him" Karen Lowery, Soprano
THE EULOGY DR. SUSAN NEWMAN THE HYMN OF BLESSING TRADITIONAL
"This Little Light of Mine"
THE BENEDICTION MAYA ANGELOU
'1\nd Still I Rise"
THE RECESSIONAL HAMPTON/BLACK
"Fiyin' Home" "When The Roll is Called Up Yonder"
Dwight Andrews Ensemble
INTERMENT SOUTH-VIEW CEMETERY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

LOVE DIVINE, ALL LOVES EXCELLING
Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heav'n, to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love thou arti Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.
3 Come, almighty to deliver, Let us all thy life receivej Suddenly return, and never, Nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, Serve thee as thy hosts above, Pray, and praise thee without ceasing, Glory in thy perfect love.
4 Finish, then, thy new creationj Pure and spotless let us bei Let us see thy great salvation Perfectly restored in thee: Changed from glory into glory, Till in heav'n we take our place, Till we cast our crowns before thee, Lost in wonder, love and praise.
How FIRM A FouNDATION, YE SAINTS OF THE LORD
How firm a Foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word! What more can he say than to you he hath said, To you that for refuge to Jesus have fled?
2 "Fear not, I am with theej 0 be not dismayed! For I am thy God, and will still give thee aidi I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand .
3 When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of woe shall not thee overflowj For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress .
4 The soul that to Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to its foesi That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake!"
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LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
Lift every voice and sing, til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea . Sing a song Full of the faith that the harsh past has taught us, Sing a song Full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of a new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.
2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our people sighed? We have come Over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, Treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
3 God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, God who has brought us thus far on the way; God, who by your might, led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet Stray from the places, our God, where we met thee, Lest our hearts, Drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee; Shadowed beneath your hand, may we forever stand, True to our God, true to our native land.

PALLBEARERS
Samuel Bacote Norman Childs Tom Dent Alice Johnson Paul Muldawer Betty Walker Sonjia Young Walter Young

FLOWER BEARERS

Diaconate, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, U.C.C.

Honorary Pallbearers

Juanita Abernathy Dolly Adams John Adams Rebecca Aggrey Ron Allen Douglas Alston !dell Ash Tony Axam Cinque' Axam Clarence Avant Jackie Avant Joyce Bacote President Jimmy Carter Rosalyn Carter Ann Cox Chambers Cynthia Childs Iris Cleveland Hillary R. Clinton Booker Cook Samuel DuBois Cook Stoney Cooks Shirley Cooks Wilma Cordy Dorothy Cotton Clinton Deveaux Jim Dezell Jerry Dunfey Marian Wright Edelman Christine King Farris Marsha Fullard Millard Fuller Dorothy Gall Robert Green Lettie Green Jacqueline Dunmore Griffith Earlene Harris Jesse Hill, Jr. Asa Hilliard Nicholas Hood Jesse Jackson Blaine Kelly Sylvia Kelly Ruth Love Evelyn Lowery

Joseph E. Lowery Dora E. McDonald Yemserach Mengistu Carolyn Moore Dan Moore Sam Moore Edwina Moss Otis Moss Carol Muldawer Bobby Olive Phil Oliver James Orange Cheryl Lowery-Osborne Emily Page William Porter "Billy" Payne Blanche Payne Flora Polk Vince Reynolds Evelyn Roman Hubert Ross Herman Russell R. K. Sehgal Surishta Sehgal Hilary Shelton Deen Day Smith Paul Smith Wayne Smith A. Knighton Stanley Hobby Stripling Seiho Tajiri Sandy Teepen George Thomas Edwin Thompson Neeka Washington Harriett Watkins Levi Watkins Lottie Watkins Carolyn Watson Sam Way Sue Wieland Mack Wilbourn Reginald Wright Nursing Unit 51 North of
Crawford Long Hospital

ACKNOWLEGEMENT
We would like to express our deepest appreciation for the kindness you have shown us during Jean Young's long illness.
You have brought us comfort in so many ways - in the form of food, flowers, your prayers and your caring presence.
We believe your outpouring of love and concern is further testimony to the power and force for good of the
life of our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter - Jean Childs Young.
Thank you for showing us your concern.
Faithfully yours, The Family of Jean Young
Those wishing to make contributions in memory of Jean Young are invited to send them to the APEX Museum, 135 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta: the United Negro College Fund, Jean Young Scholarship, 229 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta :
the Atlanta/Fulton Commission on Children and Youth, 100 Edgewood Avenue, N.E., Atlanta .
SELLERS BROTHERS, INC. 889 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DRIVE
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

WHAT TO REMEMBER ABOUT ME
by Jean Childs Young
I want to be remembered as a caring and understanding person who tried to keep her priorities in order. When they think of the clutter in my kitchen and boxes in the basement they'll say, " People were more important than thing to her.
I know I'm disorganized, collect too much, discard to little. Periodically, I work at it differently, but old habits go slowly.
I would rather sweep the deck and rake the lawn than mop floors or clean closets. I like being outside. I' d like it said that I love and appreciated God's universe. I don't mind repairing and will tackle most. I love reading. especially historical novels.
I'd like to be remembered as a loving mother and wife who didn't indulge in 50/50 relationships, but always believed each family member must give more than half I've tried~to live up it in my own marriage and with my family. Andrew's love has made it work.
Forgiveness is a gracious gift that God gives to us. I think we can do no less for those we love. It is difficult at times especially when your pride is wounded and you are deeply hurt. But I believe the grace of forgiveness has kept our marriage and family strong.
I would like to be remembered as a forgiving person ...
But, finally vanity seeps in and I want it said simply, but with all the underlying implications, ''jean Young, NOW THAT WAS A WOMAN!''