- Collection:
- African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System
- Title:
- In loving memory of Mrs. Ruby M. Williams, Steward Chapel A.M.E. Church, Saturday, March 16, 1985, 3:00 o'clock p.m., Rev. C.E. Shepheard, officiating
- Date of Original:
- 1985-03-16
- Subject:
- African American women--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Funeral service--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
Mourning customs--Georgia--Macon--History--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Macon--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/jpeg - Description:
- Program for the March 16, 1985 funeral of Ruby M. Williams.
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:williams19850316
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_fpro_williams19850316
- 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:
-
Honing Mrs. iEuhu M. HiUiama
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STEWARD CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH SATURDAY - MARCH 16, 1985 3 OCLOCK P.M.
REV. C.E. SHEPHEARD, OFFICIATING
OBITUARY
Mrs. Ruby Williams was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She was educated in the public schools of Fort Worth and later attended Bishop College. After the death of her parents she moved to Chicago, Illinois to live with her brothers.
It was in Chicago that she met and married her husband, John A. Williams. In the late nineteen-twenties, they moved to Macon, Georgia.
Mrs. Williams was employed for several years as matron at the Georgia Academy For The Blind.
She became actively interested in making life more mean ingful for the people throughout Middle Georgia. She is responsible for organizing the many Bibb County Federated Womens Clubs. She worked diligently as a member of the N.A.A.C.P., Human Relations Council, local integration pro jects, rehabilitation for juvenile deliquency and establishing a public library. She was also instrumental in making young men and women aware of certain job opportunities and the need for voter registration. She was an ardent member of Stewart Chapel A.M.E. Church.
Mrs. Williams is survived by two granddaughters: Mrs. Rose-Marie Mitcham and Mrs. Shirley Twiggs of New York City, New York; three great grandchildren; five nieces: Mrs. Geraline English of Denver, Colorado, Mrs. Alice Williams Home of Dublin, Georgia, Mrs. Carolyn Williams Holmes of Queens, New York, Mrs. Sheila Sheftall Barnes of Macon, Georgia and Mrs. Carol Sheftall of New Jersey; a nephew, Jackson B. Sheftall, Jr.; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Martha Sheftall; and a cousin, Albert Cheeves, Jr.
PROGRAM Organ Medley..................... Mr. Nathan L. Black Processional ....................................... Selection............... "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" Invocation.......................... Rev. Joseph Curry Scriptures. .......................... Rev. E.S. Mallory Obituary. ................... (Soft Music, Read Silently) Solo................................. Mrs. Mary Dean Tribute........................... Mrs. Sammie Jordan
President of Ga. State Federation of Colored Womens Clubs Selection .......................................... Eulogy. .......................... Rev. C.E. Shepheard Recessional........................................
Interment Woodlawn
PALLBEARERS
Richard Thompson Burney Lester
Joseph Melvin
Albert Abrams Lewis Lee
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To Our Dear Friends And Neighbors THANK YOU
For your concern, your signs of love and care, for practical ways of helping us through this difficult period, we are most grateful. God bless and keep each of you in his care.
The Family
THANATOPSIS
So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death. Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Wm. C. Bryant
