Funeral services for Sister Willie Mae Searles McElvy, Monday, March 19, 1984, 4:00 p.m., Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1223 Laney Walker Boulevard, Augusta, Georgia, Dr. C. S. Hamilton, officiating

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SISTER WILLIE MAE SEARLES MCELVY
Monday, March 19, 1984 4:00 p.m. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH
1223 Laney Walker Boulevard Augusta, Georgia
Dr. C. S. Hamilton, Officiating

OBITUARY
July 18, 1930 - March 16, 1984
Willie Mae Searles McElvy was a native of Augusta, and the daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Searles. She attended the Catholic School in Augusta. As a child, she became a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. She played the piano and taught Sunday School until she grew up. She later married Staff Sgt. Retired Willie L. McElvy, and to that union four children were bom; daughter, Patricia Haynes of Augusta, and three sons, Virgil McElvy of Athens, GA., Arthur McElvy of Dallas, Texas and Woodrow McElvy of Augusta. She later became am member of the E. L. Stewart choir of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. She was a former employee of Civil Service at Fort Gordon, and the University Hospital. She leaves her two grandchildren, LaShanda Hayes, and Shakeya Clark; two uncles, Johnny McKinney of Aiken, S.C., and Theodore McKinney of Los Angeles, California; great step-grandmother, Mrs. Bell McKinney, cousins in Augusta, McCormick, S.C., Washington, D.C., and Decatur, GA.; one son-inlaw, Oakley Haynes, Jr., and one daughter-in-law, Patricia McElvy; special friends, Mrs. Charlie Mae Slaughter, Mrs. Eunice Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Burton, Mrs. Mildred Davis, and a host of other very special friends.

FUNERAL SERVICE

PROCESSIONAL

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SCRIPTURE................ Revelation 21: 1-6.......... Rev. Inez Smith

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RECESSIONAL

BURIAL.

Southview Cemetery

** PALLBEARERS **

Virgil McElvy Woodrow McElvy Arthur McElvy

Carl Thornton Willie Carter, Jr.
William Sherrod

" IN A LITTLE WHILE"

In a while her last breath left her, And her spirit fled away To a land where all is brightness, To a land where all is day.

How our sorrowed hearts would have her In this world no longer roam, But our precious Lord had called her To a far more glorious home.

Death at last had claimed her captive; Breathed on her his icy breath, But the Lord has freed the captive, For the Lord has conquered death.

She is talking now with Jesus, In an land of pure delight Where no tears Eire ever flowing And where Jesus is the Light.

In a while we'll all be over, In that land where angels sing; In that land where fear are ended; In the land where Christ is King.

WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME

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