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Ida "Vivian" Stone Tucker
March 12, 2018

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Ida “Vivian” Stone Tucker, 94, of Tifton passed away Monday, March 12, 2018, at the Rehabilitation Center of South Georgia in Tifton. Her funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 15, 2018, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with the Rev. Gerald Purvis and the Rev. Michael Marchant officiating. Mrs. Tucker will be laid to rest at Pinetta Baptist Church Cemetery in Irwin County. The family will receive friends Wednesday, March 14, 2018, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.

Richie Tucker, Charlie Tucker, Dereck Tucker, Steve Tucker, Darin Sanders and Wesley Stephens will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Joy Sunday school class at New River Baptist Church in Tifton.

Born March 31, 1923 in Gwinnett County, Mrs. Tucker was the daughter of the late General Jackson “G. J.” Stone and Ollie Ashworth Stone. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Winston Tucker; three sons, Ander Tucker, Robert Tucker and Larry Tucker; a great-grandson, Josh Tucker; three brothers, Samuel Stone, Eddie Stone and Henry Stone; and one sister, Frances Stone. She was a homemaker and loved to sew and cook coconut cakes, dumplings and biscuits. She enjoyed yardwork, fishing and shooting her 410. She was known for killing two squirrels with one shot! She was the first employee hired at Larkin Coil, which is now Heat Craft and a member of New River Baptist Church in Tifton.

Mrs. Tucker is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Jane and Ricky Justice of Tifton; two daughters-in-law, Evelyn Tucker and Dona Tucker, both of Tifton; one brother, Jim Stone of Lakeland, Florida; one sister, Zona Bell Daniels Selph of Tifton; her grandchildren and their spouses, Richie and April Tucker of Tifton, Charlie and Kathy Tucker of Moultrie, Dereck Tucker of Georgetown, Kelly and Roger Cherry of Tifton, Patti Pack of Newnan, Steve and Connie Tucker of Tifton, Brent and Alisha Justice of Bundibugyo, Uganda, Africa and Brooke and Darin Sanders of Tifton; her great-grandchildren and their spouses, Erica Tucker, Kaitlin Tucker, Emily and Stephen Tyus, Bodey Tucker, Lawson Kelly, Mary Pierce Kelly, Kyle Pack, Russell and Keree Pack, Zack Tucker and Ty Sanders; and her great-great grandchildren, William Pack, Kolton Pack, Cheston Pack and Ridge Kelly.

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BOWEN-DONALDSON HOME FOR FUNERALS
420 Love Avenue
Tifton, GA 31794
229-382-4255