Mrs. Peggie Highsmith Warner, of Ozark
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Posted by: Fuqua-Bankston
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Date: Jan 23 2017 2:38 PM
Mrs. Peggie Highsmith Warner, 81, of Ozark, died early Saturday, January 21, 2017, at Gardens of Roswell Assisted Living in Alpharetta, Georgia after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
Funeral services will be held 3:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 2017 at the First United Methodist of Ozark, with Dr. Billy Gaither and Reverend Meghan Kelley officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Memory Gardens with Fuqua-Bankston Funeral Home of Ozark directing. The family will receive friends at the church on Friday from 1:00 p.m. until 2:45 p.m. prior to service time.
Memorials can be made to American Cancer Society, 3054 McGehee Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36111, The American Red Cross, 1004 Montezuma Avenue, Dothan, Alabama 36303, or to First United Methodist Church, 167 East Broad Street, Ozark, Alabama 36360.
Mrs. Warner was born July 28, 1935 in Hickox, Georgia to the late John Milton Highsmith and Alice McDonald Highsmith. She was a graduate of Nahunta High School. She was married in 1952 and made a life as a military wife until 1966 when the Warner’s settled in Ozark, Alabama. She suffered with breast cancer and metastatic lung cancer at an early age. As a result, she used her experience to help others by volunteering as a Red Cross Volunteer at Lyster Army Hospital and a Reach to Recovery volunteer for the American Cancer Society. She was a member of the Eastern Star Fraternal Organization in Ozark. She loved her family and supported the endeavors of her daughters as they grew up and later provided support to her daughters by helping to care for her grandchildren. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the John Wesley Sunday School Class.
In addition to her parents, she is predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Ernest Mills Warner, one sister, Retha Snowden, two brothers, Donald Highsmith and Warren Highsmith.
She is survived by her loving daughters, Lessie Warner Sutherland of Sugar Land, Texas, Lisa Warner Northcutt and her husband, Kenneth Hampton Northcutt of Alpharetta, Georgia; four grandchildren, Justin Warner Sutherland and his wife, Tiffany Sutherland of Fulshear, Texas, Amanda Christine Olson and her husband, Scott Olson of Sugar Land, Texas, Jarrett Mills Northcutt and his fiancé, Jordan Keseric, of Alpharetta, Georgia, Lauren Julia Schumann and her husband, Glenn Schumann of Watkinsville, Georgia; two great granddaughters, Gracelee Sutherland and Emmalee Sutherland of Fulshear, Texas; one sister-in-law, Bertha Tabb of Indian Beach, North Carolina. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
Members of the John Wesley Sunday School Class will serve as honorary pallbearers.
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