GEORGIE PARKS
ADA-Services for Georgie Jo Parks, 94, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at the Philemon Baptist Church, Rev. Ronnie Amos will officiate. Burial will follow at Athens Cemetery.
Mrs. Parks died Thursday, June 10, 2010 at a local nursing home. She was born September 1, 1915 at Tishomingo, Oklahoma to ___ and Mary Chaney Potts.
She married Lee Parks. He preceded her in death in 1974. Mrs. Parks was a domestic worker until her retirement and a member of Philemon Baptist Church.
Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Mae Parks, Shawnee; four cousins, Odessa Thompson, Purcell, Lucille Luper, Norman, Norma Faye Craven, Oklahoma City and Estella Bonner, California.
She was preceded in death by her husband and a step-son, Raymond Parks.
Bearers will be Herbert Colbert, Wilfred Anderson, Rufus Clark and Custer McFalls. Honorary bearers will be Walter Grant Sr., Walter Grant Jr., Eddie Weaver and Glen Shelton.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada