OBSEQUIES for
MRS. WILLIE MAE BURLEY POLK

Friday, October 10, 1980 - 3:30 P. M.

MILES MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 2014 Milledgeville Road Augusta, Georgia
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Rev. Timothy R. Green, Jr., Officiating

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** OBITUARY **
It is said thai there are three words in the English vocabulary that are more solemn than all of the others. They are Life, Death and Eternity. Life is more solemn than death; to live is more serious than to die. The ob ject of Christs death was life. A Christians death gives them a more abun dant life. Death is a joyful messenger of peace whose kind hand opens to the weary pilgrim the gate of immortality and lets the oppressed go free.
Mrs. Willie Mae Burley Polk departed this life Tuesday, October 7, 1980 at a local hospital.
A native of Augusta, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late Rev. William and Mrs. Mary F. Burley. She attended the public schools of Richmond County, graduated from Paine Col lege and did further study at Atlanta University.
She taught in the Public School System for 27 years. On July 27, 1952, she was married to Coles R. Polk and to this union was born one son, William Duane Polk.
At an early age she joined Miles Memorial C.M.E. Church and remained a faithful member until death.
She was a devoted wife and mother, a faithful and dutiful church worker and she was active in many civic affairs.
Survivors are a devoted husband, Coles R. Polk; one son, William Duane Polk, Augusta; three sisters, Alma Ollie, Detroit, Thomasina Wright, Augusta, Ga., and Carrie Anderson, Morgan Hill, Calif.; one brother, Lloyd Murray, Vallejo, Calif.; motherin-law, Beulah Polk, Augusta, Ga.; two sisters-in-law, Ophelia Polk, Augusta, and Estelle Murray, Vallejo, Calif.; two brothersin-law, Ralf Ollie, Detroit and Minus Polk, Augusta; God daughter, Yushonda Midgette; four nieces; one nephew; cousins, Mr. Willie Freeman and Miss Margaret Freeman, Augusta; and a host of other relatives and friends.
We enter the world from "The Great Unknown" And God gives each spirit a form of its own
And endows this form with a heart and a soul To spur man on to his ultimate goal ...
The purpose of death which is but to gain L^e everlasting in Gods Great Domain ...
And no one need make this journey alone For God has promised to take care of His own.
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** PROGRAM **
ORGAN PRELUDE ......................................... Mr. Clinton Brown PROCESSIONAL HYMN ................................................................... Near the Cross SCRIPTURE .................................... Old Testament 90th Psalm
Rev. R. Anthony Lark New Testament Ephesians, 6:13-17
Rev. L. R. Neal PRAYER ........................................................... Rev. L. W. Cade
SELECTION ........................................................................ Choir
REMARKS (3 minutes) Neighbor-Mrs. Alda Lott National Association of University Women-Ms. Ruth B. Crawford Church-Mr. Edward Settlers ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................. Mrs. W. M. Ingram
SOLO ...................................................... Mrs. Emma Lou Starks "God Will Take Care of You"
EULOGY ............................................... Rev. Timothy R. Green
VIEWING OF REMAINS
RECESSIONAL
INTERMENT .................................... Mt. Olive Memorial Garden

** HONORARY PALLBEARERS ** National Association of University Women
Stewardess Board 1 and 2
** FLORAL BEARERS ** Usher Board - -i< *.
** PALLBEARERS ** Steward Board
Williams Funeral Home