Melba Jane Spires

Mrs. Spires was born on September 3, 1940 in Abbeyville, GA daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Suggs and Mary Ruth Holcum.

Mrs. Spires was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Her greatest joy was spending quality time with her seventeen children and the multitude of grandchildren. She enjoyed cooking for her family for every holiday. She worked for several years as a cook for Five Forks Grocery in Taylorsville. She absolutly loved listening to her favorite records and dancing in her home with her family. She was a true and faithful servant of the Lord and attended church with her children frequently.

She is preceded in death by her loving husband of sixty-one years, Justin Roscoe Spires; a son, Johnny Wesley Spires.

Survivors include her sons, Edmond (Deanna) Spires, Chester (Cindy) Spires, McDillon (Sandra) Spires, David (Paula) Spires, Daniel Spires, Tim (Angela) Spires, Mitchell (Tiffany) Spires and Justin (Danielle) Spires; daughters, Maggie (Ricky) Evans, Becky (Jimmy) Sanford, Virginia (Michael) Abernathy, Katherine (Richard) Payne, Diane (Sammy) Shuler, Mary Tripplett, Melba (Jarrod) Starks and Elizabeth (Jamey) Simmons; fifty-eight grandchildren; eighty-six great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life Service will be conducted at two o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, the 3rd of January 2017 at Mt. Tabor Baptist Church with Rev. Brent Edwards, Rev. David Baker and Rev. Nathan Sanders officiating. Interment will immediately follow in Raccoon Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers are Devon, Dewaine, Dalton, Daniel Jr. and Edmond Spires, Toby and Jason Evans. Honorary pallbearers are Billy and Ricky Evans, David and Travis Spires.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the evening until nine on Monday, the 2nd of January, 2017 at Owen Funeral Home.

Please visit www.owenfunerals.com to post tributes and sign the on-line register.

Owen Funeral Home, 12 Collins Dr., Cartersville, GA 30120 has charge of the arrangements.