The Marquand Chapel service will be a site of commemoration of the funerary rites of Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair. The funeral of these three girls, like all Black funerals, is a generative source for the fields of Religious History, Black Studies, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies in its unique position to illuminate black(en) gendered performances that subsist through death. My approach to curating this service is to situate the liturgy within the original funeral liturgy taken place on September 18th, 1963. This approach claims that funeral liturgies are instructive for understanding how Black christian communities mourn and grieve violent death, especially that of children.