Funeral Service For
MR. F R E D M c L A U R I N
Wednesday, January 5, 1983 --2:00 P. M. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH 1223 Laney-Walker Boulevard Augusta, Georgia Dr. C. S. Hamilton, Officiating

** O B I T U A R Y **
Fred McLaurin was bom to Lula Wright--McLaurin and Louis McLaurin, August 7, 1919 in Bennettville, SC. A t an early age he joined the Sawmill Baptist Church o f Bennettville and joined the Tabernacle Baptist Church in 1957 after moving to Augusta. His early education was obtained in Bennettville. He graduated from South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, SC, with a Bachelor o f Science degree and a Masters o f Education degree.
He served for twenty years in the United States Arm y and retired in 1961 with the rank o f Major. A fter retiring from active duty with the Army, he served for nineteen years in the teaching profession as school principal in Edgefield and Johnston counties, respectively. He retired as Principal o f Johnson Elementary in 1980.
Mr. McLaurin served as superintendent o f the Sunday School o f Tabernacle Baptist Church, a member o f the Board o f Deacons and other positions in the Church. He was a 3 3 Prince Hall Mason, a life member o f Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and a member o f the, South Carolina State College Alumni Association and numerous other organizations.
A fter retiring from the teaching profession, he became actively involved in volunteer service to veterans at the Veterans Administation Medical Center in Augusta, where he had recently been recognized for achieving over five hundred hours o f service.
Those left to rejoice in the memory o f the deceased are: his devoted wife, Vivian R. McLaurin, o f Augusta; his mother, Lula Wright McLaurin, Augusta; daughters, Portia Edwards, Albany, Ga., Cassandra McLaurin, MD, Washington, DC; grandchildren, J. Ranard Edwards, Michael B. Edwards, Albany, Ga.; son-in-law, Willie G. Edwards, Albany, Ga.; sister-in-law, Kathrina Bell, Ruth McCollum, Odessa Wright; brothers-in-law, Willard Bell, Cardoza McCollum, Sr.; nieces, Katrice Bell, Rosalyn Coles, Anita McCol lum; nephew, Attorney Bernard Bell and Cardoza McCollum, Jr., Durant and James Wright, an uncle, Johnny Grace, and many friends and other relatives.

** ORDER OF SERVICE **

PROCESSIONAL ................ " Largo" .................................. Handel

SELECTION ........................................" The Last Mile of the Way"

SCRIPTURE ..............................................

PRAYER .................................................... Dr. Samuel G. Hines

SELECTION ..................................................

REMARKS ..................................................

Mrs. Alda Lott

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONDOLENCES ....................................... Mrs. Queenie Lawton (Obituary Read In Silence By The Audience)

SOLO ................ " If I Can Help Somebody" .... Mrs. Emma Starks

EULOGY ....................................................... Dr. C. S. Hamilton

RECESSIONAL

WHEN A L L IS DONE
When all is done, and my last word is said, And ye who loved me murmur, " He is dead" , Let no one weep, for fear that I should know, And sorrow too that ye should sorrow so. When all is done, say not my day is o 'er, And that thro' night I seek a dimmer shore; Say rather that my mourn has just begun; I greet the dawn and not a setting sun,
When all is done. * * * Paul Lawrence Dunbar
* * ACTIVE PALLBEARERS ** Military
** HONORARY PALLBEARERS **
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Deacons -- Tabernacle Baptist Church
People's Funeral Home-Augusta, Georgia And
J. 0. Smith Funeral Home-Florence, South Carolina
Burial in Florence National Cemetery, Florence, South Carolina, January 6, 1983, 2:00 P. M.