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Mrs. Emma Spearman of Tifton, Georgia departed this life on January 17, 2019. He Homegoing Celebration service will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 12:00 P.M. at Greater Joy Cathedral in Albany, Georgia with committal services to follow in Floral Memory Gardens.
Emma J. Spearman, affectionately known by friends and family as Emma Jean, was the first of twelve children born to Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Brown Sr. and Viola Brown, formally Viola Barney on Sunday, August 11, 1940 in Poulan, Georgia. Emma Jean grew up in Mount Zion Baptist Church in Poulan, Georgia and attended Poulan Elementary School and Oak Hill High School before graduating from Holly High School in 1959. Upon relocating to New Jersey, Emma Jean married the late Lonnie Spearman Jr. and had three children, Bonny, Sharon, and Lonnie III. The couple also raised their granddaughter, Melissa. Emma Jean joined the Volunteer Faith Center under the late, Mother Derris Cargile and remained a member of the Volunteer Faith Center for the rest of her life. Emma Jean dedicated herself to a life of service to others as an honorarium to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
In 1988, Emma Jean pursued her dream to become a nurse and dedicated her entire career to the care of veterans at the Veteran's Administration Hospitals in East Orange, New Jersey, and Dublin, Georgia until retiring in 2003 and moving to Tifton. Never one to truly retire, Emma Jean shared her medical knowledge freely and helped to care for others as long as she could.
Emma Jean is preceded by her husband, Lonnie Spearman, Jr.; her father, Abbott Brown Sr.; four brothers, Artchester Brown, Abbott Brown Jr., Allen Brown, and Andrew Brown; three sisters, Myrtice Lindsey, Carolyn McIntyre and Diane McFarley; and one brother-in-law, Bishop Phillip Cargile Sr. Emma Jean is survived by her mother, Viola Brown; three children,Bonny Banks, Sharon Spearman and Lonnie Spearman III; one son-in-law, Jeffery Banks; one granddaughter, Ruth Cargile, Annie Singletary, and Dr. Shirley Scruggs; two brother-in-laws, Earnest Jefferson and Willie Singletary; two brothers, Lynn A. Brown and Larry Brown; one sister-in-law, Mary Brown; special brother, Robert Rhymes; special sisters, Helen Hall and Emma Orr; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and neighbors in all of whose hearts Emma Jean will live on into eternity.
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