The Graveside Service for Mrs. Margaret Odom of Oglethorpe, Georgia will be held on Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. at Oglethorpe Memorial Gardens, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Due to COVID-19 concerns, we ask that you please MASK UP and continue social distancing for your protection and for the safety of others. The family requests that there be no public viewing.
Ms. Margaret Tookes Odom was born on September 30th in Oglethorpe, Macon County, Georgia to the late Lenton and Sallie Mahomes Tookes. At an early age, she joined Corinth Baptist Church of Garden Valley, under the leadership of Rev. G.G. McCarter. In 2000, she moved her membership to Jehovah Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. G.W. Nealey. She was a faithful member of the church she loved so well. After the passing of Rev. G.W. Nealey, she continued to worship with the pastor, Pastor Glenn Martin Bryant, Sr. She was educated in the public school system of Macon County, where she attended Oglethorpe Grammar School and D.F. Douglass High School. She was employed at Blue Bird Bus Company of Fort Valley, Georgia from 1970 to 1972. After twenty-seven years of dedicated service, she retired from the Macon County Board of Education as a cook.
She was united in holy matrimony to the late Robert Odom on December 10, 1960. To this union, one daughter, Peggy Odom Ridley, was born. On October 13, 2020, Margaret Tookes Odom accepted her call to rest in the loving arms of Jesus Christ. She was preceded in death by three siblings, Minnie T. Nelson, Annie Lois T. Martin and David Tookes, as well as eight aunts and four uncles. She was also preceded in death by her father-in-law, Timothy Odom, Sr. and mother-in-law, Eria Mae (Howard) Sullivan.
Those left to carry on her legacy and cherish her beautiful memories are her devoted daughter, Peggy Odom Ridley and Eugene Burnam of Montezuma, Georgia; three loving and devoted granddaughters whom she loved so very much: Nikki Ridley, Jerneisha Ridley and Megan (Marquez) Belvin all of Warner Robins, Georgia; a great-grandson, Ju’Cario Daniely; a great-granddaughter on the way; two loving godchildren: Pastor Glenn and Deborah Bryant whom she loved so well; a host of special and devoted friends; a host of nieces and nephews, her mother-in-law, Alberta Odom of Montezuma, Georgia; a host of sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, other relatives and friends.
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