Flora Mae Gentle, 89, of Athens, Georgia (formerly of Fitzgerald, Georgia) died Tuesday, March 6 at the Family Life Enrichment Center in High Shoals, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held 2 PM, Friday, March 9 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald, with Rev. John K. Mobley officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to services at the funeral home.
Mrs. Gentle was born April 7, 1917 in Franklin County, Alabama, to the late L.A. and Adell Hester Arthur. She moved to Athens in 1999 from Fitzgerald, where she lived since 1941. She worked at Fitzgerald Cotton Mill for over twenty years and was a member of New Prospect Baptist Church.
Mrs. Gentle is survived by her daughter & son-in-law, Ella Gentle Howell & Wayne of Athens; son & daughter-in-law, John Wayne Gentle & Harriet of Harpersville, AL; 5 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren; sisters, Ophelia Daner, Pauline Franklin, both of Vero Beach, FL and Nadine Wallace of Mobile, AL. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Lucian Gentle.