Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Sparks, Willie Gray Thomas March 2, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak jkodak@charter.net March 21, 2006, 5:07 pm Mitchell News-Journal 3/15/06 WILLIE GRAY THOMAS SPARKS BENTON, TN - Willie Gray Thomas Sparks, 72, formerly of Spruce Pine, died Thursday, March 2, 2006 in a Cleveland, TN hospital. She was the daughter of Corb and Geneva Thomas, and wife of the late Paul Sparks. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Ben and Claude Thomas; and three sisters, Dorothy Stuart, Madge Gurley and Mae Hollifield. Survivors include three sons, Dennis and Jerry Roberts, both of Durham, and Jayson Sparks of Greencove Springs, FL; three daughters, Vicki Seilheimer and Jewell Burch, both of Benton, and Lori Roberts of Ft. Wayne, IN; two sisters, Gladys Richards of Shelby, and Maude Roberts of Bahama; nine grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday at Big Crabtree Baptist Church. Rev. Dean Honeycutt officiated. Burial followed in the church cemetery. The family received friends from 3-5 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Webb Funeral Home in Spruce Pine. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/obits/s/sparks158gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb