Mildred Sloan Wages

Glover Funeral Home

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Posted by: Glover Funeral Home
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Date: Jan 11 2023 2:27 PM

Mildred Sloan Wages, age 98, passed away peacefully Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, AL surrounded by family.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 13, 2023 at Glover Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Mike Grimes officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Cemetery with Glover Funeral home directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1:00 until 1:45 prior to service time on Friday.

Mildred was born December 21, 1924, in Crows Bluff, Florida. She was the youngest child of David Walter and Maggie Rozier Sloan. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Madison Augustus Wages, Jr.; infant son, Arthur Paul Wages; brothers, Otis, Ward, and Melton Sloan; sisters, Ruth Arnold and Christine Holder; and other siblings who died during infancy and childhood.

Mildred is survived by her children, Linda (Wayne) Brackin (Rehobeth, AL), Robert (Jessica) Wages (Dothan), and Beth (Don) Johnson (Mobile, AL); grandchildren, Justin Wages, Haley Wages Johnson, Heather Wages Sanchez, Elisha Wages (Chris) Hollis, Sloan Wages, Austin Smith, Brice Johnson, and Kelsey Johnson (Craig) Wade; great-grandchildren, Beau and Presley Wages; Alyssa (Jeb) Maund; Alden (Riley Hickman), Dionna, Ryland, Mikeal, and Grace Johnson; Quinten Mims, Lucas Lopez, and Joseph Sanchez; Mary Madison, Elizabeth "Libby," and Joseph Wade; great-great-grandson, Jameson Johnson; sister-in-law, Bettie Stanfield Sloan Van Alen (DeLand, FL); and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mildred loved babies, sunrises, mornings, working in her yard, going for car rides with an ice cream cone in her hand, and having her family gather at her house for Sunday dinner which was her love expressed in delicious southern cooking. She spent much of her childhood on a houseboat, the Alma May, and loved the water, especially the St. John’s River which was where she grew up with the boy who was her pretend husband during childhood play and her real husband in adulthood.

Mildred was always happy with, and grateful for, what she had. She rejoiced in the successes of others without envy and joyfully shared whatever she had. She made the world a better place. Her children were blessed in that when they encountered people who found out she was their mother, they were usually told of something she had done to make that person’s life brighter. She was a true representative of God’s love.

Mildred was a decades-long member of Grandview Baptist Church where she loved and was loved by her church family. Special thanks to the ladies of Camella Veazey’s Mixed Blessings Sunday School Class who always celebrated Mildred and made her feel special. She loved each of you.

Pallbearers will be grandsons and great-grandsons.

Flowers will be accepted, or donations may be made to the Grandview Baptist Church Building Fund, 2400 Forrester Road, Dothan, AL, 36301 or to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN, 38105.

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