Dougherty-Worth County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rivers, Florence J. Lumpkin May 12, 2006
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The Albany Herald - Obituaries
Florence J. Lumpkin Rivers

SYLVESTER — Florence J. Lumpkin Rivers of W. Franklin Street, Sylvester, died 
Friday, May 12, 2006, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA.

The funeral will be at 12 noon Saturday at First African Baptist Church, 
Sylvester with interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Sylvester. The Rev. Robert Rice 
Jr. will be officiating.

Born November 24, 1933, in Worth County, Mrs. Rivers was educated in the Worth 
County Public School System at that time. She graduated from Oak Hill High 
School, Sylvester. She was a 1956 graduate of Morris Brown College. Mrs. Rivers 
was a retired educator. She was a member of Jones Chapel AME Church in 
Sylvester, where she served as church musician for many years. She worked 
diligently in the community, where she organized the first federally-funded 
Summer Food Program in Worth County, along with the first Summer Recreation 
Program in Worth County as well.

She was affiliated with many organizations such as the National Association of 
Colored Women-La Primedes; Cherokee Rose Garden Club (Served as former vice 
president), NAACP, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Gamma Zeta Chapter, Morris Brown 
College, Atlanta, GA 53 years). Also served as the president of the Women's 
Missionary Society of the AME Church-the Sarah Allen Women's Missionary Society 
of Jones Chapel AME Church, Sylvester of the Albany-Valdosta District of the 
South Georgia Conference, where she was honored as Motivator of the Year.

Survivors include her husband, James Rivers of Wando, SC; three daughters, 
Chiquita E. Rivers, Calorence E. Rivers, both of Sylvester, and Connie Rivers 
Mitchell of Daytona Beach, FL; sister-in-law, Ruth Lumpkin of Sylvester; niece, 
Rosa L. Roberts of Marietta; mother-in-law, Elizabeth Rivers of Wando, SC; six 
grandchildren.

Shipp's Funeral Home 
Sylvester 229/776-1355 



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