Elbert County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bond, Thelma Elizabeth September 1979
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 18 Sep 1979
MISSION'S MISS BOND DIES AT 72. Graveside services for Thelma Elizabeth Bond, 
72, who spent most of her life helping people through her work with the Felton 
Williams Mission, will be at 11 am Thursday at the Concord United Methodist 
Church in Elbert County, GA. Miss Bond, of 1678 Tanglewood Road, Jonesboro, 
died Monday. She was secretary of the mission for 47 years before retiring 
because of ill health. Herbert Mullenix, chairman of the board of the Felton 
Williams Mission, which collects clothes and food and helps the poor and needy 
in the inner city of Atlanta, said at one time the mission took in young people 
who needed a home and that Miss Bond helped in rearing and educating as many as 
70 of them. Miss Bond, who also worked as associate director of the mission, 
once explained in an interview that the Felton Williams Mission was born during 
the Depression when peoople were lost and hungry. Back in the early days of the 
mission, she said, "when eggs were selling for 10 cents a dozen and dimes were 
hard to come by, we used to give away food and coal and let the homeless sleep 
in the church." Mullenix said Miss Bond committed her life to that end. In lieu 
of flowers, the family has requested that contributions be made to the Felton 
Williams Mission, 630 Hill St., Atlanta. Surviving are nieces and nephews. 

Additional Comments:
The deceased, born on 18 Oct 1906 in Elbert Co. was the daughter of Boykin 
Rayford Bond (1860-1929) and Agnes Sanders (1869-1915), both buried beside her 
at Concord UMC, Elbert Co. 

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