- Collection:
- African American Funeral Programs, 1960-2022
- Title:
- Funeral program for Little, LaToya Shwaun Oglesby
- Date of Original:
- 1984-04-07
- Subject:
- African American girls--Georgia--Claxton--20th century
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Evans County, Claxton, 32.16158, -81.904
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Little, LaToya Shwaun Oglesby. Date of funeral service: April 7, 1984. Location of funeral service: Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, Claxton, Georgia, 2:00 p.m. Birth date: April 6, 1979. Death date: April 02, 1984.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:eccca_aafp-ec_ecaaam-091
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:eccca_aafp-ec_ecaaam-091
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- Original Collection:
- African American Funeral Programg Collection, Evans County African American Archive Museum, Evans County Community Center (Claxton, Ga.)
- Holding Institution:
- Evans County Community Center (Claxton, Ga.)
- Rights:
-
Obsequies
FOR
Little, LaToya Shwann
Oglesby
Saturday, April 7,1984
2:00 P.M.
Mt. Pleasant Missionary
Baptist Church
CLAXTON, GEORGIA
REV. WILLIAM WRIGHT, PASTOR
REV. SAMUEL CARLYLE, OFFICIATING
INTERMENT- CEDER CREEK CEMETERY
MANASSAS, GEORGIA
HARPERS FUNERALHOME
CLAXTON, GEORGIA
OBITUARY
Little LaToya Shwann Oglesby was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Adolphus Oglesby, on April 6, 1979, at Bulloch Memorial
Hospital, Statesboro, Georgia. She departed on April 2,1984
at Talmadge Memorial Hospital, Augusta, Georgia.
LaToya was the granddaughter of Mr. Emmit Oglesby,
Claxton, Ga., and the late Mrs. Ceola H. Oglesby, and Mr.
Wilden E. Harris and Mrs. Bereatha P. Harris of Manassas,
Georgia. She was a student of the 1983-84 Head Start Class of
Evans Co., and she was a courageous little girl who always
believed that God had smiled on her.
To cherish her precious memory; She leaves her devoted
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Oglesby Sr., Claxton,
Georgia: her brother, Adolphus Oglesby, Jr., Grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Emmit Oglesby, Claxton, Georgia., Mr. and
Mrs. Wilden E. Harris, Manassas, Georgia., aunts and
uncles, Mrs. Peggie Harden and husband Jerry, Edward
Oglesby and wife Yvonne, LaVon Oglesby and wife
Margaret, all of Savannah, Georgia., Charles Oglesby and
wife Clara, Virginia, Mrs. Barbara Ann Washington and
husband, Willie, Newark, N.J., Wilden E. Harris, Jr., and
wife LaDanna, Savannah, Georgia; Mrs. Freda Brewton and
husband Barry, Germany; Jerry McCall and his wife Valarie,
Connecticutt, her great grandmother, Mrs. Etta Oglesby,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., her great grandfather, Willie Duff
Johnson, Connecticutt; and a host of great aunts and uncles
other relatives and friends.
We know that the fight was hard
daughter dear.
But you fought your very best
So sleep on now our dear daughter;
Yes; sleep on and take your rest.
ORDER OFSERVICE
Prelude ..............................................Music
Processional
Hymn (What A Friend We Have In Jesus) ..............Choir
Scripture
Prayer
Selection (Jesus Love Me) ............................Choir
Remarks.............Mrs. Julie Ann E, Hendrix
Acknowledgements and Obituary......Mrs. Neta B. Baker
Solo, (God Has Smiled On Me).......Mr. Anthony Collins
Eulogy.............................Rev. Samuel Carlyle
Viewing
Recessional
Lamar Barnes
Blake Jones
Travis Brewton
ACTIVE PALLBEARERS
Claude Robbins
Edwin Blitch
Jessie Collins, Jr.
Freddy Geiger
Edward Oglesby
Jerry Harden
HONORARY BEARERS
LaVon Oglesby
Wilden Harris, Jr.
Georgi Hagan
FLOWER BEARERS
Ushers of the Church and Friends of the Family
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thank you. Our hearts are filled with sorrow over the
passing of our loved one. Yet during this sad time you have
helped to lift our burdens, for which we are deeply grateful.
Your calls, telegrams, visits, cards and expressions of
concern, kindness, and love, shall never be forgotten. May
God ever bless and keep each of you in our prayer.
The Oglesby Family