Olive Glenice Peters Floyd
Olive Floyd, known affectionately as Dimple, a nickname given to her by her father when she was a little girl, passed away on March 12, 2019, at the age of 100, in Auburn. She was born in Woodville, AL on December 22, 1918 as the youngest of seven children born to Samuel and Ida Bulman Peters.
After graduating from Woodville High School, Dimple attended Massey Business College in Birmingham where she learned skills and a work ethic she applied all her life. She adapted to the numerous changes that occurred during her long life and demonstrated all the characteristics attributed to her generation such as strength, determination, unselfishness, self-reliance and service to others. Following a period working in Guntersville where she met her husband, Paul Floyd, who was from Sheffield, she moved with him to Sheffield, where they worked, reared their children and were active in the community. Shortly after the death of her husband in 1985, Dimple moved to Muscle Shoals where she lived independently and stayed active in church and community affairs until 2016, when, at 97, she moved to Auburn to live with her daughter.
For 28 years, Dimple was the school secretary at Annapolis Avenue Elementary School, Sheffield Junior High School and the L.E. Wilson School. She is still fondly remembered by students that attended during those years. She was an active and supportive member of First Baptist Church Sheffield for over 60 years. Her strong Christian faith was a blessing for others and a comfort to her, especially in her later years.
Dimple loved children and made charitable giving for children’s causes a priority. She dearly loved her immediate and extended family and tirelessly preserved family traditions through cooking and baking marathons before and during each visit and holiday. She kept her family connected and found joy in caring for them as well as helping her friends. She was a devoted wife, loving mother, faithful friend and her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren’s biggest fan. Her life was a blessing and example to all that knew her.
Dimple was preceded in death by her devoted husband of 46 years, David Paul Floyd II; parents, Samuel and Ida Bulman Peters and siblings, Gladys Olean Kimbrough, Bertice Amanda McCarly, Samuel Aubrey Peters, Clara Elizabeth “Tad” Jacoby, Robert Edward “Dick” Peters, and a twin sister who died at birth.
She is survived by her son, David Paul Floyd III (Vicky), Decatur; daughter Brenda Lee McCord (Warren), Auburn; grandchildren, Lee Ann Coffey (Bobby), Birmingham; Brian David Floyd (Kimberle), Decatur; Gregory Warren McCord (Carolina), Houston, TX; and Michele Lee Krista (Mathew), Dothan, AL; 12 great-grandchildren, Rachel Reeder (Austin), Harrison Coffey, Spencer Coffey, Shelby Floyd, Kaitlyn Floyd, Nicholas Krista (Katie), Elizabeth Krista, Kathryn Krista, Caroline Krista (Kevin Jackson), David Krista, Joshua McCord and Daniel McCord; four great-great-grandchildren, Charlee Reeder, Georgia Reeder, Mavis Krista and Karter Jackson, and several nieces and nephews in the Peters and Floyd families.
Dimple’s funeral will be at Morrison Funeral Home, Tuscumbia, at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 17, 2019. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery in Sheffield. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home one hour before the service. The service will be officiated by Robert Shirley and directed by Morrison’s Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Sheffield First Baptist Church, PO Box 716, Sheffield, AL 35660-0716, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis TN 38105 or a charity of your choice.
