Funeral Services For Sarah Stokes McCord - Our Mother

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Jan 21 2015 3:05 PM

DOTHAN:   This morning, Sarah Helms Stokes McCord, age 87, left this world and entered into the gates of heaven.

Celebration services will be Friday, January 23, 2015 at 2 PM at the chapel of Ward Wilson Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.

Visitation will Thursday evening, January 22, 2015 from 6 PM until 8 PM at Ward Wilson Funeral Home.

Officiating the services are Rev. Billy Rich and Dr. Cecil Sanders. Ward Wilson Funeral home is in charge of the funeral arrangements.

Flowers are ommited. Donations can be made to Southside Baptist Church or the television ministry of First Baptist Church of Dothan.

Family will be at 1255 County Road 13 Headland Alabama.

Sarah Stokes McCord was born in Geneva County. She and her husband Curtis Stokes started Stokes Floor Covering in the early 1950’s. They operated it until they sold it in 1984.

For 63 years Sarah Stokes McCord was a member of Southside Baptist Church where she served as a Sunday School teacher for many years. But it is her personal profession of faith and belief in Jesus that allowed her to enter into heaven.

Sarah Stokes McCord was preceeded in death by her husband of 39 years, Curtis Stokes. Then three years ago by her husband of 18 years, Terrell McCord.

Sarah Stokes McCord was also preceeded in death by her two brothers, James L. ( Tim ) Helms and his wife Ruby, and Gerald E. ( Edward ) Helms. She was also preceeded in death by her sisters, Gladys Vinson and husband Curvy, Lorene Hawkins and husband Roy, and Annie Martha ( Dot ) McKinney and husband J.W.

Surviviors include: Daughter - Sandra and Terry Walden of Headland, Terry Stokes and special friend Diane Reynolds, Rickey and Marsha Stokes, Step Son Gary and Angie McCord, and Step Daughter Terry and Robert Lowe: Sister in Law Mary Lois Helms and Brother in Law Doy Stokes, and Mae Nell Stokes and her husband Edsel, and Mae Walker

Grandchildren:  Tricia Knowles Burgess, Tracy and wife Cheri Knowles, Kim and husband Tracey McCord, Elizabeth and husband Chris Dunnan, Marita Lynn and husband John Gaines, Emily Stokes, John Curtis Stokes, Spencer Stokes.

Step Grandchildren: Jake McCord, Emily McCord, Jamie Crane, Aaron Lowe, Chip Walden and wife Trudy, and Lea Walden Everett.

Great Grand Children:  Abby Burgess, Alex Burgess, Anna Kate Burgess, Benson Knowles, Charlie Knowles, Kelsey McCord, Casey McCord, Kinley McCord, Micah Dunnam, Makayala Dunnam, Lucas Gaines, and Brantley Bradley.

Special friends are many, but some are: Raymond Barnes, Anna Mae Walker, and Mary Turner.

Palbearers:  Tracy Knowles, Tracey McCord, John Curtis Stokes, Spencer Stokes, John Gaines, Chris Dunnam, Jim McKinney, Alex Burgess, and Charlie Knowles.

Mother and daddy met with mother walking down the road with a cane pole and a prince Albert can with fish bait in her pocket going fishing. 

 They knew each other two weeks and then daddy went to war with the Navy for two years. They were pen pals for the two years. When daddy returned for two weeks, they married. Then, mother had to graduate from high school following their marriage.

On Sunday evening, suffering from Alzheimers, while going from the Emergency Room to the hospital room, mother said " I am going fishing".

Mother and Daddy spent their life together in business. And their free time at Lake Seminole and traveling to St. John’s River fishing. 

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