Annie Bell (Green) Sparks
Jan 21, 1911 - Aug 24, 2004
Posted by Martha Reddout

©Marietta Monitor
3 Sep 2004,  Page 4

Mrs. Sparks was born January 21, 1911, at Paris, Texas, the daughter of George Washington and Sallie Austin Green. She died Tuesday, August 24, 2004, in Lake Country Nursing Center, Marietta. She had been a resident of Love County most of her life, and moved to Marietta from Thackerville in 1968.

She and John Gilbert Sparks were married September 28, 1944, in Love County. He preceded her in death on December 3, 1995.

A homemaker, Mrs. Sparks was a Baptist an attended church at Bomar.

Survivors include two sons and daughter-in-law, Willis Dee and Donna Grantham of Ardmore and Gilbert Lee Sparks of Marietta; three daughters and son-in-law, Augustine Vaughn, Barbara Brewer and Linda and Melvin Mayes, all of Marietta; 7 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Sparks was also preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Leta Mae Baker on September 26, 1995; two grandsons, Gerald Wayne Baker and Arnold Eugene Baker; two great-granddaughters, Lisa Marie Baker and Holly Baker; a brother, Earl Lloyd Green; three sisters, Della, Goldie and Effie; three half brothers, Marvin J. Powell, Marion Eldridge Powell, and Verbie “Bud” Powell; a half sister, Leta Myrtle; and a son-in-law, Wallace Vaughn.

Honorary pallbearers were members of the Lake Country Nursing Center staff and Royal Crest Hospice staff. Services were under the direction of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home, Marietta.