Katie Maude Parks

Katie Parks

Funeral services for Mrs. Katie Maude Parks, of Augusta, Georgia, will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2019, at 11 AM at the Rocky Creek Baptist Church, 2130 Georgia Hwy 338 in Dexter, Georgia. Reverend Charlie Robinson will deliver the eulogy. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.

Born as Katie Maude Pittman on April 3, 1942, to the late Crawford and Lelia Mae Pittman, she was the oldest of her fourteen siblings.

She was united in holy matrimony to the late Mr. Elijah Parks in Sept of 1955. This union was blessed with four children.

Mrs. Parks joined Rocky Creek Baptist Church at an early age. She professed her life to Christ and cherished praising the Lord, and attending church until her health failed her. She served on the Ushers Board for fifty years and she enjoyed helping others.

She devoted much of her time and energy as a caregiver to family members including her mother until she passed at the age 74, and her aunt until she passed. She enjoyed eating crab legs, watermelon, cake, and drinking bottled peach tea. She raised five granddaughters, Natasha, Sherika, Shenita, Renita, and the late Belinda Parks,as her own children, Mrs. Parks passed away on September 24, 2019.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was also preceded in death by her son, Herbert Lee Parks; granddaughter, Belinda Parks; grandmother, Lottie Napier; aunt, Pearlie Hurst; sister, Lottie Mae Pittman; brothers, Willie, James, and Lonnie Pittman and a host of other uncle, aunt, cousin.

Mrs. Parks leaves to cherish her loving memory three children, Arthur Lee (Versey) Parks, Ronnie, and Gloria Jean Parks, all of Dublin, Georgia, eleven granddaughters, Natasha Parks (Craig) Jackson a devoted caregiver of Byron; Sherika Parks, Shenita Parks (Jvette) Payne, a devoted granddaughter, Renita Parks (Sonja) Lee, a devoted granddaughter, Diona McNear, Chanessia Rozier, Chenevrion Parks, aka Keisha, Jonquil Robinson all of Dublin; Jody West of Savannah; Lasheika Butts (Daniel) Wilcox of Warner Robins; and Sierra Parks of Hawkinsville; ten grandsons, Ricois ”Cois” (Mia) Parks, Richenara Parks, Ronnie Bloodsaw, Timothy Bloodsaw, Damion Byrd, Christoper Wright, all of Dublin, Shonta (Monica) Parks, Christoper Parks, and Antonio (Stephanie) Parks, all of Rentz; and Josh West of Savannah, three brothers, Pastor Edward (Reatha) Pittman, a devoted loving brother of Lake Wales, Florida; Leon (Juanita) Pittman of Dublin; and Ulysses (Doris) Pittman of Dexter, three sisters, Willie Mae Pittman Moss of Winter Haven, Annie Mae Pittman Jones, and Harriett Pittman Alford of Dublin, two daughters-in-law, Versey Parks of Dublin, and Jesse Parks Blue of Rentz; and thirty-five great-grandchildren, and one great great-grandchild, and a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

The family will receive friends at the home of her granddaughter, Shenita (Javette) Payne, 713 Brookdale Drive in Dublin, and on Friday, October 4, 6-7 pm at the Dudley Funeral Home.

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Services by Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin