Ouida McKie Tucker, 84, of Fitzgerald, died Monday, August 7, 2006 at the Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, August 8, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Barry Gordon officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be held 7-9, Monday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Tucker was born May 5, 1922, in Telfair County, Georgia, to the late Olius F. and Lola Wells Tedders. She lived in the community most of her life and was a former resident of Eastman. Mrs. Tucker was a homemaker, a former lunchroom lady at Ashton School, former employee of White Swan Laundry and she retired from H.R. Kaminsky & Sons. She was a member of Westside Baptist Church.
Mrs. Tucker is survived by her children: Shirley Dobbins of Fitzgerald, Marvin McKie of Summerville, SC, Cindy Tucker of Ocilla, Mike Tucker of Pace, FL, Zelna Nunn and Sandra Singletary, both of Fitzgerald and Larry Tucker of Lake City, FL; 19 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren; brothers: Felix Tedders of Macon and Grady Tedders of Eastman. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Marvin McKie and William B. (W.B.) Tucker and two brothers.