Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Jean Fulks will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. at Mount Calvary Primitive Baptist Church in Andersonville, Georgia with Elder Walter Austin officiating. Interment will follow at Oglethorpe City Cemetery.
Mrs. Barbara Jean Fulks, daughter of the late Robert and Mina Mae Tookes Haugabook, was born May 12, 1946. Barbara grew up in Montezuma and was a 1966 graduate of D.F. Douglass High School. At an early age she confessed her faith in Christ and became a member of New Phillip Primitive Baptist Church. She was united in holy matrimony to Henry Lee “Bo” Fulks August 28, 1976. They shared twenty-seven beautiful years together until Bo passed away November 4, 2003. Barbara passed away on Friday, August 1, 2014 at her residence. She will always be remembered for her dedicated years of service to the Montezuma Nursing Home and Magnolia Health and Rehabilitation center of Americus where she retired as Director of Housekeeping in 2005, after twenty-three years of service.
Her beautiful life will forever be cherished in the lives of her two sons: Harry (Carnita Gordon) Wilson of Oglethorpe, Georgia and Eric Williams of Montezuma, Georgia; her grandchildren: Harry Wilson, Jr., Calandra Wilson, Thaddeus Wilson, De’Aundre Wilson, Niambi Wilson, Eriana Williams and Eric Williams, Jr.; great grandchildren: Jermarion Harpe, D’Zyria Harpe, Rontavious Walker, Jr., La’Quavo Wilson and Alaysia Wilson; sisters: Fannie Mae Haugabook and Mariah “Tick” Yisrael of Oglethorpe, Georgia; sisters-in-law: Virginia Fulks, Mary Fulks, Pearlie Fulks and Gwendolyn “Sue” Lockett; nieces: Chemika Harp Haugabook, Melody Felton, Mesha Lockett, Demetria Haugabook, Ashley Fulks and LaRhonda Smith; nephews: Cornelius Haugabook, De’Marco Fulks, Corey Fulks, Robcorneil Bediako and Roytavious Smith; a host of great nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.