Tommie Louise Vickers Harper, 89, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Friday, August 19, 2022, at Palemon Gaskins Memorial Nursing Home in Ocilla, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held 2 PM, Monday, August 22, 2022, at The Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Ocilla, Georgia, with the Rev. George Carroll Paulk officiating. Interment will follow in Satilla Cemetery, Irwin County. The family will receive friends from 6-8 Sunday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Harper was born July 24, 1933, in Coffee County, Georgia, to the late Tom & Louise Carter Vickers. She was a homemaker who loved flowers and working in her yard. She also enjoyed cooking and baking cakes. She was a member of Satilla Baptist Church.
She is survived by her daughters: Beverly & Chip Thompson of Fitzgerald, Charlene Harper of Fitzgerald, and Lisa Brigmond of Douglas; grandchildren: Brian Moore, Anthony Anderson, Larry Moore, Wendy Harper, Lacey Cauley, Jody Jewell, Hope Dietz, and Ashley Jewell; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lacey Carrol Harper; three children: Darrell Harper, Diane Harper Jewell, and Rhonda Timmons; two grandchildren: Garrison Anderson and Jonathan Anderson; three brothers; and one sister.
The family wishes to give special thanks to caregivers Chip Thompson and Lessie McElroy.