Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-03
GENEROUS TRIBUTE IS
PAID MEMORY Of CLARK
IN FUNERAL SERVICES
Handsome Floral Designs Cover
Casket Containing Remains
Of Popular Business Boy
TRIBUTES PAID
Clean Life Of Deceased Held Up
AS indicative Of High Charc-
ter of Accident Victim


and with tears of tenderest sympa-
thv for the bereaved family, hun
dreds of sorrowing friends gathered
this morning in the First Baptist
church to pay last tribute of love
and respect to Carroll j. Clark, Jr.
who met an untimely death late
Thursday afternoon.
Against the choir rail which was
draped for the absence of one OF
it's sweetest singers, thousands OF
flowers were grouped as silent mes
sages of love and sympathy which
have been showered upon the family
since the great hour of sorrow came
upon them. From high and the low,
from civic organizations and irater-
nal orders, from business houses and
individuals, from various denomna-
tions, and from Sunday school and
day classes, came beautiful designs
in tribute to the splendid young life
snuffed out in it's zenith of useful
ness.
The cortege, led by DR.. Carl W.
Minor, pastor of the First Baptist
church, of which Carroll was men,
ber, with w. A. Joyner, leader of
the Christian church and life long
friend of the family, was escorted
by r. L. Crawford, commander of
John D. Mathis Post, American Le-
gion and members F. M. Flournoy,
James A. Fort, Dan Chappell, Rob
ert C. Lane, Cecil w. Walters, r.
p. Ewing and Evan T. Mathis, hon
orary pallbearers. Theron Jennings,
Charles Lanier, James Davenport, S.
A. Hargrove, Ned Johnson, Frank
Sheffield, Jr., A. j. Bel, 7. F.. Gate
wood, Jr., and Emmett Earl Bolton
served as pallbearers.
DR.. Minor, taking his place before
the gray casket blanketed with flow
ers, stated that no song service would
be held out of Difference to the fam
lily in order not to prolong the grief
Of it's members. The service began
with words of comfort from the 14th
chapter of John which says, LET
not your heart be troubled" This
was followed by sweet story of the
resurrection as spoken between Jesus
and Martha, when she asked the
question which has since rung down
the ages, "Shall my brother live
again" The concluding verses were
words of hope in that Christ, being
raised from the dead, became the
first fruits of them that slept.
Mr.. Joyner then offered a prayer,
in which the clean life of Carroll
Clark was held up as an example for
the community, especially the young
people among whom he was greatly
loved. Mr.. Joyner then told Of his
association with Carroll since his
early youth. 81 knew him when he
was very little fellow" said Mr..
Joyner, in his earliest boyhood Gays.
| knew him in the early Sunday
school classes, when he came, a shy
J little blue-eyed boy, almost afraid
to speak. l knew him in his later
years, after he had received the call
and answered for service, as he took
his place among the ranks of young
men in the older classes, and of his
unflagging interest and faith in the
words which were heard each Sun
day. / knew him in the musical de-
partment Of the church, and l knew
him never to turn deaf ears to any
| call which was made upon his time
or talent. His life reminded me of
the life of that young man who came
to Jesus and asked what might he
do to inherit enternal life. And upon
being told that he must keep the
commandments, he said that all this
he had done. Carroll went one step
further than the young man for
whom Jesus professed the deepest
love. Not only did Carroll honor his
mother and father, but he sold his
goods and gave generously to every
opportunity. To know Carroll was
to love him. Universally was Car
roll beloved, by the old and the
young, the children and all who came
in contact with him. Carrolls con-
| ception of life was exalted, and he
lived his own life according to his
visualization.
1--WE think of this as sad, heart
breaking occasion. Would heaven,
do you think, be perfectly happy if
1t were peopled with old and gray,
the wrinkled and the hating of step?
Is not our thought sweeter today for
knowing that sweet young lives like
Carroll Clark's are among those who
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