Myrtice Paulk Whitley, 91, of Ocilla, Georgia died Sunday, April 18, 2004, at Osceola Nursing Home in Ocilla, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held at 2 P.M. Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Ocilla with Revs. Charles Nichols, Huey Nichols, and Gerald Thomas officiating. Interment will follow at Brushy Creek Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 Monday evening.
Mrs. Whitley was born September 8, 1912, in Irwin County, Georgia to the late Willie Paulk and Bessie Barfield Paulk Archer. She had lived in the community all of her life. Mrs. Whitley was a member of the Pine Hill Missionary Baptist Church. She was a homemaker, a loving mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Whitley, two grandsons, one brother, and one sister.
Mrs. Whitley is survived by four sons: Carlton Whitley, Marvin Whitley, Billy Whitley, and Bobby Whitley, all of Ocilla; one daughter: Dorothy Kelly of Ocilla; two grandsons: Stanley Whitley and Joey Whitley; four great-grandsons: Chris, Al, and Kenny Whitley and Jason Parks; and one sister: Sarah Hull of Jacksonville, Florida.