Born on the family farm in Ruthsburg, MD, she was the daughter of the late James Oscar Sparks and Bernice Morris Everngam. Olive was a graduate of Centreville High School, and worked in various jobs, including as a seamstress, and cleaning homes, the Tidewater Bank and St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Ingleside, where she also taught Sunday school in the 1970s. In her spare time, Olive enjoyed clipping newspapers.
She is survived by her children: Beverly, Frank, Jr., Louis and John; brothers, Alvin and Kenny Sparks; five grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death in 2005 by her daughter, Marleen.
A funeral service will be held at 11 am on Tuesday, October 13 at the Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, P.A. in Centreville, MD, where friends and family may visit beginning at 10 am. Burial will follow at Chesterfield Cemetery in Centreville, MD.
Born on the family farm in Ruthsburg, MD, she was the daughter of the late James Oscar Sparks and Bernice Morris Everngam. Olive was a graduate of Centreville High School, and worked in various jobs, including as a seamstress, and cleaning homes, the Tidewater Bank and St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Ingleside, where she also taught Sunday school in the 1970s. In her spare time, Olive enjoyed clipping newspapers.
She is survived by her children: Beverly, Frank, Jr., Louis and John; brothers, Alvin and Kenny Sparks; five grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death in 2005 by her daughter, Marleen.
A funeral service will be held at 11 am on Tuesday, October 13 at the Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, P.A. in Centreville, MD, where friends and family may visit beginning at 10 am. Burial will follow at Chesterfield Cemetery in Centreville, MD.
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