OMER SHERMER ALFORD

AAFA #0086 (Wife of John Inzer Alford)

1902–2005

TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT

Tallahassee, Leon Co., FL—Wednesday, 24 August 2005

[A very similar article was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

on 23 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.

AAFA NOTES: SSDI records show that Omer S. Alford (SS #252-72-8298 issued in GA) was born 10 June 1902.

            Omer was the active AAFA member—her husband died in January 1984 [SSDI #253-10-9735], before AAFA was founded.

            Her husband’s lineage: John Inzer 1899 GA¹, James Alvin 1852 GA², Joseph about 1825 SC³, Lodwick 1802 NC⁴.