Lola V. Thompkins

Lola Thompkins

Funeral services for Mrs. Lola V. Gillis Thompkins, of East Dublin, Georgia, will be held on Sunday, May 3 ,2020, at 2 PM, at the graveside in the Brown Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, 1210 Buckeye Road in East Dublin. Reverend Cecil Moore Jr., will deliver the eulogy.

Mrs. Thompkins, known to many as “the Praying Lady”, and the Mother of Brown Grove Baptist Church, was born on May 18, 1932, to the late L. C. Gillis and Minnie Lee Gillis of Lyons.

Mrs. Thompkins passed away on April 29, 2020. She was preceded in death by her husband, Reverend Laron S. Thompkins, her son, Robert Gillis, her three sisters, Lillie Mae Wells, Mary Gillis, and Everlean Hightower, her three brothers, Hubert Gillis, Henry Gillis, and Jimmy Gillis, and by a son-in-law Willie Paul.

She leaves to mourn her daughters, Adell Coleman, Jacquelyn Thompkins, and Anita (Tim) Blue of East Dublin, her sons, Layron Thompkins, Elijah Thompkins, and Joseph Thompkins of East Dublin, her brothers, Ben (Betty) Gillis, A. D. (Margaret) Gillis, Willie ( Vernell) Gillis, Milo Gillis, Johnny (Valerie) Gillis, L. V. Scott. Iseller (Ulysses) Robinson, L. C. Gillis, and J. B. Gillis, her seven grandchildren D’Netra (Travis) Smith, Amanda Chambers, Junior Cummings Elijah Jermaine Thompkins, Chelsea Montford, Jaylan Montford, and Gena Gillmore, her seven great-grandchildren, Travion Smith, Tristen Smith, Taylon Smith, Aniyah Thompkins, Khloe Thompkins, Elijah Thompkins Jr, and Milani Montford, a brother-in-law, J. C. Hightower, and a devoted cousin Natalie Mitchell, and other family and friends.

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Services by Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin.