- Collection:
- African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
- Title:
- Julia Starks, August 7, 1906-December 4, 1995
- Date of Original:
- 1995-12
- Subject:
- African American women--Pennsylvania--Braddock--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Pennsylvania--Braddock--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Braddock--History--20th century
Funeral service--Pennsylvania--Braddock--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Pennsylvania--Braddock--History--20th century
African Americans--Pennsylvania--Braddock--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Braddock, 40.4034, -79.86838
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/jpeg - Description:
- Program for the December 1995 funeral of Julia Starks.
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:starks19951204
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_fpro_starks19951204
- 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:
-
JULIA STARKS
AUGUST 7 1906 - DECEMBER 4 1995
JULIA "AUNT SISSY" STARKS WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. LACE AND LIZA ROUSE. SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1995 AT BRADDOCK MEDICAL CENTER, BRADDOCK, PA. SHE WAS BORN AUGUST 7,1906 IN WILLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA AND MOVED TO LINCOLNTON, GA. AT AN EARLY AGE. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. SHE MARRIED ISIAH NORMAN. TO THIS UNION THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN. LIZA HARPER OF PIEDMONT, SOUTH CAROLINA, PAT NORMAN , CAMILLA PARTLOW AND THE LATE BERTHA NORMAN OF SWISSVALE, PA. AFTER THE DEATH OF ISIAH NORMAN SHE MARRIED THE LATE OTIS STARKS. SHE MOVED TO PITTSBURGH, PA AND JOINED EMANUAL BAPTIST CHURCH IN RANKIN, PA. LATER SHE JOINED FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRADDOCK HILLS AND WAS A DEVOTED MEMBER UNTIL HER ILLNESS. SHE LEAVES TO MOURN THREE CHILDREN, ONE SISTER CIARA WYNN OF LINCOLNTON, GA. TWO SONIN-LAWS REV. THOMAS HARPER OF PIEDMONT SOUTH CAROLINA AND STONEWALL PARTLOW SR. OF SWISSVALE, PA. THREE SISTER-IN-LAWS IDA KATE KELLY AND MARIA ROUSE OF PITTSBURGH, PA. AND HATTIE LOUISE ROUSE OF TIGNALL GA. TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTY EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, SEVENTEEN GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, COUSINS AND FRIENDS..
ORDER OF SERVICE
PROCESSIONAL
INVOCATION
SOLO
MINISTER AVIS WILLIAMS
SCRIPTURE
PRAYER FOR COMFORT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REMARKS SOLO
VISITING MINISTERS
'- .;.
MAUDELL McCALLUM
READING OF THE OBITUARY
EULOGY
REV. ROBERT TEDDER
RECESSIONAL ORGANIST
INTERMENT MONONGAHELA CEMETERY
A MOTHER FAREWELL TO HER FAMILY
WHEN I MUST LEAVE YOU FOR A LITTLE WHILE PLEASE DO NOT GRIEVE AND SHED WILD TEARS AND HUG YOUR SORROW TO YOU THROUGH THE YEARS, BUT START OUT BRAVELY WITH A GALLANT SMILE; AND FOR MY SAKE AND IN MY NAME LIVE ON AN DO ALL THINGS THE SAME, FEED NOT YOUR LONELINESS ON EMPTY DAYS, BUT FILL EACH WAKING HOUR IN USEFUL WAYS, REACH OUT YOUR HAND IN COMFORT AND IN CHEER AND I IN TURN WILL COMFORT YOU AND HOLD YOU NEAR; AND NEVER, NEVER BE AFRAID TO DIE FOR I AM WAITING FOR YOU IN THE SKY!
THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS DEEP APPRECIATION TO THE MANY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS FOR THEIR EXPRESSIONS OF KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY IN OUR HOUR OF BEREAVEMENT.
PALLBEARERS
ANDRE GREEN
LEONARD HAMMONDS
JEMAR HAMMONDS TIM CHILLERS
JAMES BROWN
BUD HARPER
JR. PARTLOW
JOHNNY NORMAN
