Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jordon, Edna April 24, 2004
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The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA, April 29, 2004
Edna Jane Brown Spinks Jordan, 84, of 101 White Circle, Rockmart, passed away 
Saturday, April 24, 2004. She was born on March 19, 1920 in Lincoln County, 
Kentucky, daughter of the late Clara Warfield Brown and the late Charles Brown. 
Mrs. Jordan was preceded in death by her sisters, Mayme Ezzell, Jean Brumby and 
Charleen Jordan. She became a resident of Polk County in 1937 and married 
former Rockmart Mayor, Milas Spinks in 1939 and in 1946, together owned and 
operated City Drug Company in downtown Rockmart until his death in 1967. She 
was a Rockmart merchant for a total of 59 years. She was the organist at First 
Baptist Church in Rockmart for 37 years and in 1984, she was voted the Rockmart 
Chamber of Commerce Woman of the Year. In 1987, she was one of the first five 
women invited to join the Rockmart Rotary Club, where she continued to serve as 
secretary and pianist. Survivors include: her son, George Milas Spinks, Jr. of 
St. Simons Island; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and 
 several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, April 
28, at 2 p.m., in the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Rockmart with 
Rev. Paul Cleveland and T.A. Wilingham officiating. Interment followed in the 
family lot at Rose Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers included Leslie Vogel, Sloan 
Barrow, Mason Brumby, Hugh McRae, Nathan Dean, Duck Mintz, Stewart Mintz and 
Billy Weaver. Honorary Pallbearers were Steve Noland, Jimmy Lester, Herb 
Jordan, Joe Kinney, Melton Moss, Dr. Charlie Smith, Ron Brackett, Kirk Chaplin, 
Dr. Harry Long, Wayne Odom, Bob Abbott, Bill Cummings, Roger Waldrop, Frank 
Paris, jr. and Buck Whitehead. The Freeman Harris Funeral Home was in charge of 
the arrangements. (The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA, April 29, 2004)


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