OMER INEZ SHERMER ALFORD
AAFA #0086 (Wife of John Inzer Alford)
1902 NC –2005 GA
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
Tallahassee, Leon Co., FL—Wednesday, 24 August 2005
ATLANTA [GA]—Omer Alford, 103, died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005.
The service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at H.M. Patterson & Son, Spring
Hill Chapel, 1020 Spring St. N.W., Atlanta (404-876-1022), with burial at
Westview Cemetery....
Mrs. Alford was born in Clay County, N.C., the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.D. Shermer. She joined and was baptized into the
fellowship of Baptist Tabernacle of Atlanta in 1926 and attended public schools
in Atlanta. She served the Georgia and Southern Baptist Conventions faithfully
and effectively as president of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Stone
Mountain Baptist Association. She was president of the Woman's Missionary Union
of the Georgia Baptist Convention; president of the Woman's Missionary Union
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention; vice president of the Georgia Baptist
Convention; a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Baptist
Convention and the Administration Committee of the Executive Committee, the
Public Affairs Committee, the Resolutions Committee and the Nominations
Committee; a member of the Georgia Temperance League; a member of the Committee
to Study Southern Baptist Convention Program; and the Southern Baptist
Con-vention's Committee on Committees, Committee on Boards and the Foreign
Mission Board. In her church, Mrs. Alford served as an adult Sunday school
teacher and as an officer in the Woman's Missionary Union....
Mrs. Alford is survived by a son, Denny Shermer
Alford; six grandchildren, including John Alford, Catherine Mann, Phoebe Alford
and Jeff Alford, all of Tallahassee; 16 great-grandchildren; and a
daughter-in-law, Lorena Alford of Tallahassee.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John
Inzer Alford, and a son, John I. Alford Jr.
In another
article:
THE
JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA—23 August 2005
Mrs. Omer Alford, 103, of Atlanta, died August
20, 2005. Mrs. Alford was born in Clay County, NC the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
D.D. Shermer. She joined and was baptized into the fellowship of Baptist
Tabernacle of Atlanta in 1926 and attended public schools in Atlanta. She
served the Georgia and Southern Baptist Conventions faithfully and effectively
as President of the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) of the Stone Mountain
Baptist Association; President of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Georgia
Baptist Convention, member of the Woman's Missionary Union Board of the SBC, Vice
President of the Georgia Baptist Convention, member of the Executive Committee
of the Georgia Baptist Convention and a member of the Administration Committee
of the Executive Committee, the Public Affairs Committee, the Resolutions
Committee, and the Nominations Committee; the Georgia Temperance League; member
of the Committee to Study Southern Baptist Convention Program; the Southern
Baptist Convention's Committee on Committees, Committtee on Boards, and the
Foreign Mission Board. In her church, Mrs. Alford served as an adult Sunday
School teacher and as an officer in the Woman's Missionary Union. Always an
avid supporter of missions and missionary efforts, Mrs. Alford was an inspiring
example of Christs message to "Go ye therefore..."
Mrs. Alford is preceded in death by her husband,
John Inzer Alford, and a son, John I. Alford, Jr.
She is survived by her son, Denny Shermer
Alford, 6 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday,
August 25, 2005 at 10:00 AM in the Chapel of H.M. Patterson & Son, Spring
Hill Chapel. Interment will follow at Westview Cemetery. The family will
receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. In lieu of
flowers, memorials may be made to the Georgia Baptist Women's Missionary Union,
2930 Flowers Road South, Atlanta, GA 30341 in memory of Mrs. Alford.
Arrangements by H.M. Patterson & Son, Spring Hill Chapel, 1020 Spring
Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 876-1022.
AAFA NOTES: SSDI
records show that Omer S. Alford (SS# issued in GA) was born 10 June 1902, last
residence Atlanta, DeKalb Co., GA.
We included the obituaries of her son John Inzer
Alford Jr. in Florida Obituaries; and son Denny Shermer Alford in Texas
Obituaries.
Omer was the active AAFA member—her husband died
in January 1984, before AAFA was founded.
Wedding article:
THE CONSTITUTION
Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA—Tuesday, 8
June 1926
Omer is buried in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta,
Fulton Co., GA, next to her husband and son Denny. Permission to include the
gravestone photos here is denied by the photographer.
For more information about this family, see
AAFA’s published genealogy, Known
Descendants of Lodwick Alford born 1802 SC.
Her husband’s lineage: John Inzer 1899 GA1,
James Alvin 1852 GA2, Joseph about 1822 NC3, Lodwick 1802
NC4, Drewry Cade 1767 NC5.
