Mary Catherine Rowe, 77, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Saturday, July 27, 2024, at Coffee Regional Medical Center in Douglas, Georgia.
A visitation will be held 6-8 PM, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at The Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Ocilla, Georgia. Interment will be private.
Ms. Rowe was born March 18, 1947, in Ocilla, Georgia, to the late Melvin Cleo & Ruth Calhoun Spicer. She was a graduate of Irwin County High School. She was a typesetter for The Ocilla Star and worked as an x-ray technician at Irwin County Hospital. She enjoyed reading and loved to fish. She also enjoyed playing games on her computer, singing Karaoke, and dancing. She was a member of Sturgeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church.
She is survived by her children: Charles & Jill Rowe of Cochran, Dale & Todd Ricks of Tifton, and Rachel & Ricky Newton of Ocilla; 12 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; a sister, Carolyn Waller of Fitzgerald; a brother, Melvin Cleon Spicer and his wife, Debi of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; and special friends: Monnica & Ernest Alexander and Ricci, all of Fitzgerald. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a great-granddaughter, Presleigh Lee; and an infant sister.
Paulk Funeral Home, Ocilla, is in charge of arrangements.