Lois Mize Bailey, 86, of Rome, Georgia, died Sunday, May 2, 2010 at Winter Park Memorial Hospital in Winter Park, Florida.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M., Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald with Dr. Joel Snider officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 Wednesday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Bailey was born February 24, 1924 in Rockdale County, Georgia to the late George R. and Mary Bishop Mize. She lived for many years in Lady Lake, FL before moving to Rome, GA in 1987. Mrs. Bailey graduated from Conyers High School in 1941 and attended business college for two years. She was a former secretary for the IRS and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Rome.
Mrs. Bailey is survived by a brother: John Thomas Mize of Acworth; several nieces and nephews including, niece and caregiver, Diane & Hermann Santini of Winter Park, FL and local niece, Brenda & Roger Parrish of Fitzgerald. Along with her parents she was preceeded in death by her husband Homer L. Bailey.