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Welcome Georgia Funeral Service
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Call Day or Night. Business Phone: (912) 233-2175 or (91 Z| 233-2176
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Phone- {91 -) 214-7-- £k Kaat (9?21 2*3-41100
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African American funer
al directors have had vast
involvement with many histor
ical events.
During the 1800’s and
the Yellow Fever epidemic, the
Free African Society furnished
volunteers to assist the stricken
whites.
These activities included
gathering the human remains
and carrying them away.
In 1978, African
American funeral directors
traveled to Dover Air Force
Base in Delaware to recover
victims of the Rev. Jim Jones
Mass Casualty from Guyana.
Many of these victims were
transported to African
American funeral homes to be
buried by their loved ones.
The NFD&MA member
and past national treasurer,
Andrew W. Nix, Jr., owner of
the Nix Funeral Service, in
Philadelphia, PA had the gov
ernment contract and was in
charge of handling the human
remains from this tragedy.
There were 913 bodies,
including those of Jim Jones
and his family.
The NFD&MA's State
Association, The Georgia
Funeral Service Practitioners
assisted during the mass flood
ing in Albany, Georgia in 1994
where more than 400 caskets
were displaced from ceme
teries throughout Albany.
For more info, visit
www.nfdma.com.
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1012E. Gwinnett St.* Savannah, GA3ND1
{912)234-1634
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Savannah, GA 31415
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National Funeral Directors
and Morticians Association
is a membership association
of professional funeral direc
tors and morticians and
embalmers, whose members
and members-at-large are
also members of state associ
ations of funeral directors,
morticians and embalmers
dedicated to promoting the
common professional and
business interests of its mem
bers.
The National Funeral
Directors and Morticians
Association was organized
under the name of the
Independent National Funeral
Directors Association in 1924
under the leadership of R.R.
Reed. It was organized by a
group of licensed funeral direc
tors seeking to maintain high
professional standards for the
benefit of the public and their
own business community.
The funeral directors had
been meeting with the National
Business League, but there was
a feeling that the funeral direc
tors were not able to develop
their frill potential in the
Business League because it was
made up of general business
groups.
The first official president
of the National Association was
G. William Saffell, Jr. of
Shelbyville, KY. In 1926 the
name of the Association was
changed to the Progressive
National Funeral Directors
Association.
In 1940, a merger of the
National Colored Undertakers
Association and those mem
bers still a part of the
Independent National Funeral
Directors Association took
place to become the National
Negro Funeral Directors
Association.
In 1949, Robert "Bob"
Miller, a Chicago funeral home
owner, was elected the first
General Secretary of the
Association and in 1957, its
present name was adopted, the
National Funeral Directors and
Morticians Association.
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Complete
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Burial Service
* Viiitation
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* PrvLvikvijl Servfcts
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Adams Funeral Services
“A licfliii11til J'iiial 1 rihute^
5 in Stephenson Avenue
Savannah Georgia 31405
OftTce: |412| 354^6260 Fax; (2 ) 354-626 1
Mr. F. Bruce Adams, Owner/Morticisin
Mr. Amari 111 Triple A*' Adams, Owner/Apprentice
Mrs. Laura Singleton, Office Manager
'Call tfs Witn Conndent:e \Vh^n Vou Truly Need A Friend^
"41 'licautifuCfinaf Tribute"
James R, Barnes Mortuary, Inc.
30 James Sired
PO Box 965
Staiesboro. Georgia 30459
OfTlca (9121 744-9742 ~ Fax {912) 4M*4506
James R. Barnes, Matliciun/Ouiger Shirley Odcni’Biintcs.Oivncr
Jarvis (Rohiit) Barnes. MortKiaii'Bookkeeper
* Offering: 24 hour services
* Traditional and Non-Traditional Chapel, Church. Cremation, and
Graveside Services
■ Pre-Need/Ai-Need Plans
* Accepts Pre-AIrani’ementa from any funeral home
* On si le Insurance Agent
* Notary Public
* Printing Services