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The Homegoing Celebration

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Georgia Lee Sutton

Sunrise Sunset

Sept. 20, 1915 Aug. 31, 2018

SERVICES

Saturday, September 08, 2018

2:00pm

Bethlehem Baptist Church

Magnolia, AR

INTERMENT

23rd Psalm Cemetery

Magnolia, AR

CLERGY

Rev. Robert Willingham

VISITATION

Friday, September 07, 2018 between the hours of 11:30am until 430pm

Obituary

Georgia Lee Edwards Allen Sutton was born in Columbia County, Arkansas on September 20, 1915. She was the youngest child of Joe and Hattie Edwards. Her mother died suddenly when Georgia was only three years old. She and her siblings were taught that hard work and honesty were essential assets for themselves, their family, and their community. Georgia finished eighth grade, attending a school that was located on the land where she and her family lived.

While a relatively young woman, she fell in love and married Walter Ulysses Allen. This union was blessed with six children. When she became a wife and mother, young Georgia sought to instill the values of hard work and honesty in her children by teaching them that life would not allow them to live on beds of ease; they would be required to work for life’s basic necessities. She taught them these values, not by word alone, but by deed and example. Although her education was limited, she did what she could and made many sacrifices to motivate her children to seek higher education. During these years she became an active member of the Eastern Star and participated in many of their civic activities. Her husband preceded her in death and several years later in 1958 Georgia married Reverend Robert Sutton. They formed a blended family as his adult children became her children. Sadly, Reverend Sutton also passed away in 1973.

The challenges Georgia faced during her lifetime were many and varied. However, as a child she had responded to the call to accept Jesus Christ as her Savior and was baptized into membership at Friendship Baptist Church in Mt. Holly, Arkansas. She grew in grace and learned to trust her God for whatever would be her lot in life. She constantly demonstrated her deep sense of love for her children, teaching them that trusting God was the road to a productive and ultimately bright future.

During her days of illnesses, she never seemed to demonstrate a sense of frustration, but calm and contentment characterized her life. When the negative was rapping at her door and she was passing through the valley of strife and struggle, she was even more thankfully proud of her children. Although three of her children and her husbands preceded her in death, she refused to allow those painful experiences to interrupt her relationship with God or destroy her Christian faith.

After residing in Magnolia, Arkansas, for over 20 years, Georgia relocated to Texarkana, where her two daughters and several grandchildren were living. While her name was never written in the newspapers, nor was she ever interviewed on television, she has left a contribution that is worthy of imitation irrespective of ethnicity or national origin.

Georgia was preceded in death by four children, A. J. Allen, Milrene (Lee) Allen Hamilton, Julius Caesar (Susan) Allen, and Arleatha Beal. She leaves to cherish her memory and cultivate her legacy one daughter, Ezell Allen Lavan of Texarkana, TX; two sons, James Sterling (Henrietta) Allen of Philadelphia, PA, and Walter Ulysses (Julia) Allen of Decatur, GA; twenty grandchildren; and a host of great grandchildren, other relatives and friends.