Jeanette Hutto Paulk, 79, of Ocilla, Georgia died Saturday, May 7, 2011, at Osceola Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 11 A.M. Monday, May 9, 2011 at Union Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Philip Smith officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home in Ocilla from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Sunday evening in Ocilla.
Mrs. Paulk was born September 11, 1931, in Irwin County to the late Floyd Hutto and Lillie Griffin Hutto. After graduating from Ambrose High School in 1947, she worked as a bookkeeper for Gene’s Furniture in Fitzgerald. She retired as manager of Pick ‘N Pay Shoes in Fitzgerald and had worked in Cordele and Brunswick. She was a former member of the Wiregrass Quilter’s Guild and enjoyed sewing and baking for her family and friends. She was a former resident of Shiloh Personal Care Home in Ocilla, and she was a member of Union Primitive Baptist Church near Lax.
Mrs. Paulk is survived by her daughter and son-in-law: Rhonda and Lamar Howell of Tifton, and two sisters: Katheryn Barrett of Fitzgerald and Lucille Lott of Ocilla. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her three brothers: Edison Hutto, Eugene Hutto and Earlie Hutto.
The family requests memorial in lieu of flowers be sent to Union Primitive Baptist Church, % Edward McDonald, 71 McDonald Paulk Rd., Willacoochee, GA 31650