Jeanette Sparks, age 84 of Tuscumbia, died Thursday, June 20, 2013. Her family will receive friends Saturday, June 22, 10-12 p.m. at Spring Valley Church of Christ with funeral service following in the church sanctuary. Gerald Pennington will officiate. Burial will be in Colbert Memorial Gardens.
Jeanette was a member of Spring Valley Church of Christ and was preceded in death by her parents, Claude and Alcy Berry and brothers, Willard Berry and Billy Joe Berry.
She is survived by her loving husband of sixty-five years, Hill Sparks; sons, C. H. Sparks (Lynn); daughter, Esther Blanche Sparks; brother, Claude Berry (Alice); sisters, Mary Meadows (Jimmy), Carolyn Woodruff (Bill); sisters-in-law, Wanda Berry and Libby Berry, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are Tony Jones, Bevan Berry, Brian Berry, Curtis Harrison, Johnnie Garrett and Stanley Skipworth.
The family would like to thank our many friends and neighbors for numerous acts of kindness; Cottage of the Shoals, Northwest AL Cancer Center and Tennessee Valley Hospice for their loving care.