Willow Hill Center awarded $100,000 grant to advance funeral brochures archiving work

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Bruce Asberry, left, reacts as Camille Mendez, seated, and Barbara Mitchell show him obituaries and other original historical documents during the archiving portion of a Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center event in August 2024. Mitchell was working as a digital scanning analyst for Willow Hill, and Mendez as an intern from Georgia Southern University helping with the work of scanning obituaries and entering them into a university-maintained database. (SCOTT BRYANT/Herald file)

Willow Hill grant — Bruce Asberry, left, reacts as Camille Mendez, seated, and Barbara Mitchell show him obituaries and other original historical documents during the archiving portion of a Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center event in August 2024. Mitchell was working as a digital scanning analyst for Willow Hill, and Mendez as an intern from Georgia Southern University helping with the work of scanning obituaries and entering them into a university-maintained database. (SCOTT BRYANT/Herald file)

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, or IMLS, has awarded the Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center another $100,000 grant to continue and advance its work in preserving, digitizing and interpreting printed and written programs from African American funerals, the Willow Hill Center announced Monday.

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