Obituary published 7 Sep 1989 in "The Paris News" of Paris, Texas:
Mrs. Stance (Ludie) Mae Sparks, 79, Rt. 1 Powderly, died Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 3:55 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at the Gospel Lighthouse Church in Powderly with the Rev. James Sparks officiating. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make burial in Forest Chapel Cemetery. The body will lie at the church from 2 p.m. until service time.
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Sparks was born April 21, 1910, in Palamino County, Texas, a daughter of John Robert and Rena McCann Armstrong. She attended Chicota schools and married Mr. Sparks on May 9, 1927, in Hugo, Okla.
She and her husband lived in Chicota and Powderly until moving to California where they lived for 20 years. They returned to Lamar County in 1968. She was a member of the Gospel Lighthouse Church and its adult Sunday school class. She had worked at Pleasant Grove Nursing Home as a licensed vocational nurse.
Surviving are her husband; three daughters, Frances Cooper of Paris, Amelia Harris of Powderly and Mrs. Howard (Gloria) Shadwell of Powderly; six sons, Jack Sparks of Chicota, Gene Sparks of Powderly, Jerry Sparks of Powderly, Wayne Sparks of San Jose, Calif., Mike Sparks of Sonora, Calif., and the Rev. James Sparks of Powderly; 29 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild, and a sister, Lucy Gentry of Paris.
Mrs. Stance (Ludie) Mae Sparks, 79, Rt. 1 Powderly, died Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 3:55 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at the Gospel Lighthouse Church in Powderly with the Rev. James Sparks officiating. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make burial in Forest Chapel Cemetery. The body will lie at the church from 2 p.m. until service time.
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Sparks was born April 21, 1910, in Palamino County, Texas, a daughter of John Robert and Rena McCann Armstrong. She attended Chicota schools and married Mr. Sparks on May 9, 1927, in Hugo, Okla.
She and her husband lived in Chicota and Powderly until moving to California where they lived for 20 years. They returned to Lamar County in 1968. She was a member of the Gospel Lighthouse Church and its adult Sunday school class. She had worked at Pleasant Grove Nursing Home as a licensed vocational nurse.
Surviving are her husband; three daughters, Frances Cooper of Paris, Amelia Harris of Powderly and Mrs. Howard (Gloria) Shadwell of Powderly; six sons, Jack Sparks of Chicota, Gene Sparks of Powderly, Jerry Sparks of Powderly, Wayne Sparks of San Jose, Calif., Mike Sparks of Sonora, Calif., and the Rev. James Sparks of Powderly; 29 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild, and a sister, Lucy Gentry of Paris.
Obituary published 7 Sep 1989 in "The Paris News" of Paris, Texas:
Mrs. Stance (Ludie) Mae Sparks, 79, Rt. 1 Powderly, died Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 3:55 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at the Gospel Lighthouse Church in Powderly with the Rev. James Sparks officiating. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make burial in Forest Chapel Cemetery. The body will lie at the church from 2 p.m. until service time.
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Sparks was born April 21, 1910, in Palamino County, Texas, a daughter of John Robert and Rena McCann Armstrong. She attended Chicota schools and married Mr. Sparks on May 9, 1927, in Hugo, Okla.
She and her husband lived in Chicota and Powderly until moving to California where they lived for 20 years. They returned to Lamar County in 1968. She was a member of the Gospel Lighthouse Church and its adult Sunday school class. She had worked at Pleasant Grove Nursing Home as a licensed vocational nurse.
Surviving are her husband; three daughters, Frances Cooper of Paris, Amelia Harris of Powderly and Mrs. Howard (Gloria) Shadwell of Powderly; six sons, Jack Sparks of Chicota, Gene Sparks of Powderly, Jerry Sparks of Powderly, Wayne Sparks of San Jose, Calif., Mike Sparks of Sonora, Calif., and the Rev. James Sparks of Powderly; 29 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild, and a sister, Lucy Gentry of Paris.
Mrs. Stance (Ludie) Mae Sparks, 79, Rt. 1 Powderly, died Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 3:55 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at the Gospel Lighthouse Church in Powderly with the Rev. James Sparks officiating. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make burial in Forest Chapel Cemetery. The body will lie at the church from 2 p.m. until service time.
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Sparks was born April 21, 1910, in Palamino County, Texas, a daughter of John Robert and Rena McCann Armstrong. She attended Chicota schools and married Mr. Sparks on May 9, 1927, in Hugo, Okla.
She and her husband lived in Chicota and Powderly until moving to California where they lived for 20 years. They returned to Lamar County in 1968. She was a member of the Gospel Lighthouse Church and its adult Sunday school class. She had worked at Pleasant Grove Nursing Home as a licensed vocational nurse.
Surviving are her husband; three daughters, Frances Cooper of Paris, Amelia Harris of Powderly and Mrs. Howard (Gloria) Shadwell of Powderly; six sons, Jack Sparks of Chicota, Gene Sparks of Powderly, Jerry Sparks of Powderly, Wayne Sparks of San Jose, Calif., Mike Sparks of Sonora, Calif., and the Rev. James Sparks of Powderly; 29 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild, and a sister, Lucy Gentry of Paris.
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