- Collection:
- African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
- Title:
- Funeral services for Mr. Tony Clark, Saturday, January 16, 1988, 2:00 p.m., First Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Amos Adams, officiating
- Date of Original:
- 1988-01-16
- Subject:
- African American men--Georgia--Hephzibah--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Hephzibah--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Hephzibah--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Hephzibah--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Hephzibah--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Hephzibah--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Hephzibah, 33.31403, -82.09679
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/jpeg - Description:
- Program for the January 16, 1988 funeral of Tony Clark.
Original program scanned by OCLC for the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System and described and presented by the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of Georgia HomePLACE: an initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service and GALILEO. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/funeral/id:clark19880116
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_fpro_clark19880116
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of program], Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System System, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System, Augusta, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Augusta-Richmond County Public Library
- Rights:
-
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MR. TONY CLARK
Saturday, January 16, 1988 - 2:00 P. M. FIRST EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Amos Adams, Officiating
** OBITUARY **
Mr Tony Clark departed this life Tuesday, January 12, 1988, at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.
He was born January 23,1961, to Miss Betty Jean Clark, Augusta, Georgia and Mr. Joe David Fair, Atlanta, Georgia.
At an early age he was converted and baptized into the membership of First Ebenezer Baptist Church, Hephzibah, Georgia, under the leadership of Rev. J. D. Williams; where he served on the usher board for a number of years. For several years he was a member of the Boys Scout Troup of Hephzibah, Ga. He is also a 1979 graduate of Hephzibah High School. After going to Atlanta, he attended the Greater Newlight Missionary Baptist Church.
He leaves to mourn; his mother, Miss Betty Jean Clark, Augusta, Ga.; father Joe David Fair, Atlanta, Georgia; one sister, Miss Carolyn Freeman, Augusta, Ga.; four brothers, Mr. Anthony Freeman, Michael Eberhart, Ricky Eberhart and Ronald Eberhart, Augusta, Georgia; grandmother, Mrs. Mary Lue Taylor, Augusta, Ga.; four aunts Mrs. Marjorie Fair Ruffin, Hephzibah, Ga., Mrs. Joyce Fair Glover, Mrs. Annie Mae McBride and Mrs. Elnora Stokes, Augusta, Ga.; four uncles, Mr. George Clark, Ronald Cheaton, Donald Cheaton and Charles Glover, Augusta, Ga.; four great aunts, Mrs. Nora Nelson, Augusta, Georgia, Mrs Hattie Williams, Mrs. Alma Jones and Mrs. Gladys Cambell, Hephzibah, Ga.; two great uncles, Dea. Richard Carter and Mr. Lucious Cambell, Hephzibah, Ga.; one great-great aunt, Ms. Fannie Burton; one great-great uncle, Mr. George Lovette, Gracewood, Ga.; three dear friends, Mr. Cecil McKithan, Reginald Walton and Richard Butler, Atlanta, Georgia; two nephews, one niece, cousins and other relatives a friends.
** PROGRAM **
PROCESSIONAL SCRIPTURE PRAYER SELECTION ....................................... Choir REMARKS ............................ Mrs. Tcssie Tillman ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & OBITUARY ......................... Mrs. Vanessa Pooser SOLO ............................... Mrs. Barbara Meyers EULOGY ............................ Rev. Amos E. Adams
** PALLBEARERS **
Willie James Thomas George Edward Thomas
William Johnson, Jr. Dwayne Dawson
Elmore Williams, Jr. Ray Carl Bell
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God saw the road was getting rough, The hill was hard to climb,
He gently closed those loving eyes And whispered "peace be thine" The weary hours, the days of pain, The sleepless nights are passed The ever patient worn out frame
Has found sweet rest at last.
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DENTS UNDERTAKING ESTABLISHMENT In Charge
