Mrs. Pauline Scott Tucker, 72, of Fitzgerald, died Sunday, August 31 at Dorminy Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held at 2 P.M. Thursday, September 4, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald with Sister Charlotte Lawrence officiating. Interment will follow in Brushy Creek Cemetery. The body will lie-in-state Tuesday evening at 264 Bowen’s Mill Hwy. Apt. B. The family will receive friends 7-9 Wednesday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Tucker was born August 7, 1936 in Tift County to the late Clinton and Virginia Doles Scott. She lived in many places around the world as an Air Force wife. Mrs. Tucker was a homemaker and a former seamstress with SWS Sportswear, Fitzgerald Underwear and the Champion Company. She was a former employee of The Huddle House, Tifton Country Club and the Osceola Restaurant. She was a member of Brushy Creek Primitive Baptist Church.
Mrs. Tucker is survived by her daughter, Theresa Diane Gillespie Nettles of Fitzgerald; grandchildren, Christy Gordon of Fitzgerald, Billy and Amber Walker of Grand Junction, CO and Jonathon Walker of Fitzgerald; great grandchildren, Joshua Walker and Amber Gordon both of Fitzgerald; sister, Betty Carol and Bobby Grimsley of Orange Park, FL as well as several nieces and nephews. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband William Alfred Tucker, 2 sisters and 1 brother.