The celebration service for the life of Lavonia Sparks Ricketson of Warrenton was held Wednesday, June 30, 2010, at the First Baptist Church in Warrenton. Interment was in Sallie Hill Cemetery. She died Sunday, June 27, 2010, on her 85th birthday.
Mrs. Sparks was born in Thomasville, and reared in Washington- Wilkes. She moved to Warrenton in 1954 when she married Edward Doughty Ricketson Jr. She was an accomplished artist all her life and was active in the community and her church, the First Baptist Church of Warrenton.
Survivors include her husband, Edward D. Ricketson Jr.; her children, Carroll Ricketson Bolton and her husband Buster of Bainbridge, Edward D. Ricketson III, Thomson, Rusty Ricketson and his wife Sharon of Cumming, and Carrie Ricketson Neal and her husband Linton of Thomson ; grandchildren, Sarah Bolton and Parks Bolton, Atlanta, Lyndsay Ricketson, Cumming, Rush Ricketson, Athens, Ric Ricketson,Thomson, Marcus Ricketson, Thomson, and Matt Neal and his wife Meghan of Warrenton; and a brother, Dr. Henry Sparks of Metter.
Pallbearers included Dennis Coxwell, Larry Rachels, Walley Thigpen, Palmer Hadden, and Dan Crumpton.
Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Warrenton, 201 Norwood Street, Warrenton 30828.
Lowe Funeral Home of Warrenton was in charge of arrangements.
