The Order of Service For The Burial Of The Dead
The Late George Washington Pyatt
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1971 3:30 P. M.
CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA REV. FATHER S. B. MACKEY, Officiant
THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
Service Begins_________________ Prayer Book, Page 324 Psalm 39 _____________________ Prayer Book, Page 324 Hymn No. 572 ______"O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee" Scripture Lesson--
Romans 8:14-39 ____________ Prayer Book, Page 330 Solo--"The Lord's Prayer" ___________ Miss Sarah Reese
Accompanied by Miss Jackie Goggins The Apostles C reed _____________ Prayer Book, Page 29 Prayers and Benediction________ Prayer Book, Page 332 Recessional Hymn No. 9 1 ___________________ "Victory" Interment ______________ Emmanuel A. M. E. Cemetery
ACKN O W LEDGM EN T
We shall always remember with deep gratitude your comforting expressions of sympathy shown during their hour of bereavement.
OBITUARY
The passing of Mr. George Washington Pyatt has called us together today. There is no death. A n Angel form walks o'er the earth with silent tread, and bears our loved ones away; and then w e call them dead. But they are ever near us, though unseen.
So in the stillness of the evening on April 3, 1971, Mr. George Wash ington Pyatt left this life to join his Heavenly father and the loved ones who had gone before him. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina on February 22, 1929, the son of the late Alonzo A. and Eliza Maybank Pyatt.
He attended the public schools of Charleston where he was gradu ated from Burke High School, receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees from South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, South Carolina and did further studies at Indiana, Furman and Atlanta Universities and the University of South Carolina.
His personable personality, fine attitude and quiet, unassuming man ner endeared him to many.
Attempting to encourage and instill in youth a grasping for knowl edge, he worked in the public school system, working in Greenville County Schools from 1957 to 1961 as social studies instructor at Bryson High School, Fountain Inn. He served as chairman of the social stud ies club where he instigated the idea of collecting and distributing food baskets to needy families at Thanksgiving. From 1961 to 1968 he be came assistant principal at Bryson High School and principal of M or ton Elementary School, Simpsonville, from 1968 until his death.
He served in the army during World W a r II as 2nd Lt. He was af filiated with the N EA, SCEA, G C E A and Department of Elementary Principals of South Carolina; the Phi Alpha Chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity; Calvary Episcopal Church in Charleston and Saint Phillips Episcopal Church in Greenville, S. C., where he was Vestryman and Lay Reader, and also Secretary of Bryson Height Enterprises.
He leaves to cherish many fond memories, six sisters, Mrs. Eula Jackson Nelson of Rochester, N e w York, Mrs. Alice Brown, Mrs. Ruth Brown, Mrs. Mildred Bolton and Miss Ellen R. Pyatt of N ew York and Mrs. M ary Provost of Charleston, S. C.; two aunts, Mrs. Martha M. Harris and Mrs. M ary Drayton of N e w York City; a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
PALLBEARERS MU ALPHA CHAPTER OF OMEGA PSI PHI
FRATERNITY, INCORPORATED Bro. Frank H. Taylor Bro. Joseph A. Moore
Bro. John G. Singletary, Sr. Bro. Cornell M. Hicks
Bro. Nathaniel T. Bennett Bro. W. David Haynes
THE SONG OF THE DEPARTED It singeth low in every heart,
We hear it, each and all -- A song of those who answer not,
However we may call. They throng the silence of the breast;
We see them as of yore -- The kind, the true, the brave, the sweet,
Who talk with us no more. 'Tis hard to take the burden up,
When these have laid it down; They brightened all the joys of life,
They softened every frown. But O, 'tis good to think of them
When we are troubled sore; Thanks be to God that such have been,
Although they are no more. More homelike seems the vast unknown
Since they have entered there; To follow them were not so hard,
Wherever they may fare. They cannot be where God is not,
On any sea or shore: Whate'er betides, Thy love abides,
Our God, forever more. -- John W. Chadwick
Arrangements by Watkins, Garrett & Woods Mortuary Greenville, South Carolina