Fannie Mae Spears Dickens, 86, of Boone County went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, October 2, 2016 after a long illness at CAMC-General Division, Charleston, WV.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Dual Spears.
She is survived by her husband, Marvin Dickens; daughters, Judy Walker (Butch) and Linda Skeens (William); sons, Roger, Mickey, Gary (Mary), Richard (Tina) and Kenny Spears; sisters, Dovey Shaffer, Patricia Huffman, Birdie Lou Pauley and Dorothy Ash; and 11 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
Services will be 3:00 p.m. Friday, October 7, 2016, at Curry Funeral Home, 2097 Childress Road, Alum Creek, with Pastor Richard McCallister officiating. Burial will follow at Midkiff Cemetery at Sumerco. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
SISTERS BROTHER-IN-LAWS, NIECES AND NEPHEWS, AUNT DOROTHY, AUNT BIRDIE, AUNT PAT AND AUNT DEE. OH MY GOODNESS, REMEMBERING SOME OF THE HAPPIEST TIMES SHE HAD WERE SPENDING TIME WITH HER SISTERS , ALL YOU COMING TO SEE HER . SHE WAS SO HAPPY AS THE MCCORMICK FAMILY IS SO LOVING AND ALL SEEM TO ENJOY THE REUNIONS AND THE GET TO GETHERS. YOU ARE TRULY BLESS FROM GOD TO ALL BE SO CLOSE LOVING EACH OTHER THE WAY YOU ALL ARE. LET ME NOT FORGET THE BROTHERS, UNCLE BOYCE AND UNCLE J.R. WERE TAKEN WAY TO EARLY , THAT WAS THE TIME I SAW HER SO SAD, BUT ALSO TO MENTION SHE WAS SO THANKFUL THAT SHE STILL HAD LEFT HER TWO SISTER-IN-LAWS AND THEIR CHILDREN TO LOVE AND SHARE LIFE WITH , AND THAT SHE DID.
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU , I LOVE YOU DEARLY, AS YOU ARE ALL VERY EASY TO LOVE.
I am so very sorry for your loss:
Marvin (DAD) Please remember that there are ANGELS AMONG US , and your “DOLL” as you always called her will be near you until the you can be together again in Heaven. I know how much you, loved her.
TO THE CHILDREN***** A LOVING THOUGHT FOR EACH ONE OF YOU, OVER THE MANY YEARS OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER , MINE AND YOUR MOMMIE I HEARD HER SAY TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU ” I LOVE YOU HONEY.””” SO SOFTY AND SWEET.
GOD BLESS AND SENDING MY LOVE TO ALL OF YOU, SHEILA KAY SPEARS THOMSEN
Sorry for your loss, MARVIN ( DAD ) YOU made your ” DOLL BABY” as you always called her very HAPPY for the years you were together , just remember that there are “ANGELS among us AND YOUR DOLL WILL BE DOWN HERE LOOKING OVER YOU FROM HEAVEN UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED HOME TO BE WITH AGAIN. LOVE YOU DAD.
THE CHILDREN +++ SOME HAPPY MEMORIES FOR EACH ONE OF YOU, SO MANY TIMES I HAVE HEARD HER SAY TO EACH ONE OF YOU OVER MINE AND HER JOURNEY TOGETHER , MANY MANY YEARS ……….TO EACH One YOU SHE ……….WOULD SAY…….. “” I LOVE YOU HONEY”.
SISTERS AUNT DORTHY, AUNT BIRDIE, AUNT PAT, AND AUNT DEE , my PRAYERS ARE WITH EACH ONE OF YOU, ALSO SO MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS, SOME of the HAPPY MEMORIES THAT I CAN REMEMBER IS , SHE WAS THE HAPPEST WHEN SHE GOT TO BE WITH ALL OF YOU, YOU ALL ARE SO BLESSED BY GOD TO HAVE THE CLOSE LOVING FAMILY YOU HAVE HAD TOGETHER. A COUPLE OF THE HURTFUL TIMES SHE HAD WAS LOOSING BOYCE AND JR. THEY WERE BOTH TAKEN WAY TO EARLY IN LIFE, BUT===SHE WAS THANKFUL SHE STILL HAD THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN STILL HERE TO LOVE AND THAT SHE DID, SHE FELT CLOSE TO THEM AS ALL THE B ROTHER -IN-LAWS AND ALL THE NIECES AND NEPHEWS, ALL THE MC CORMICK SIDE ARE BLESSED FROM GOD, YOU ALL HAVE SWEET LOVING MEMORIES OF HER, PRAISE GOD.
LOVING ALL OF YOU FOREVER,
SHEILA KAY SPEARS THOMSEN