Augustus Knight

Published 5:00 am Thursday, May 29, 2003

Services for Augustus Knight of Brookhaven are 2 p.m., Friday,May 30, at Tyler Funeral Home with burial in Carver HeightsCemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 1:30-2 p.m., at the funeral home.

Mr. Knight, 103, died May 25, 2003, at Haven Hall Nursing Home.He was born in Brookhaven on April 23, 1900, to John Knight and LouAda Watkins Knight.

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He was a former butler and chief cook for the Jayne CarterFamily in California, serving five generations of the family. Hewas a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wasan army veteran.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his sisters, JosieBrowder, Carrie Knight Edwards, and Gussie Brown, his twin; and hisbrothers, Sammie Knight and Louis Knight.

Survivors are his sisters, Ada L. Knight Robinson of Cleveland,Ohio, and Gertrude Knight of Brookhaven; his twin niece and nephew,Gwendolyn Knight-Bell and Sammie George Bell of Los Angeles,Calif.