Obituary for Markie M. Thomas
Markie M.Thomas was born 93 years ago to the union of Booker T. and Emma Woodard McClendon. Her sunset was January 25, 2021. She was the wife of the late George E. Thomas for 58 years before his death on September 7, 2007.
They loved and raised six children:Tommy, Gwendolyn(Phillip Gregory Jr), Rickey(Retha), Margo (deceased March 20, 2016) Darryl(Juanita) and Harold.
Her legacy will live on through her grandchildren Marcus Gregory Sr, Lawanda T. Williams, Atalia Robinson, Tanisha Jones, Nigel Gregory, Lauryn Wilson, Tabitha Gregory, William Gregory, Tamedren Jackson, Jennifer Gregory, and Simone Wilson. Those grandchildren blessed her with: Ashley, Marcus Jr, and Jayden Gregory, Amir, Aniya, and Askia Williams, LaDarion Robinson and Keyshawn Tricksey, Isaiah, Nathan and Seth Gregory, Nova Wilson, LaDasia Sheffield, Sincere Sheffield, Saniya Kirkland and Jada Gregory, Destiny and Bryson Palmer and Evan Wilson. She recently became a great great grandmother to Malia Flemister and Journiyah Moore.
Markie will be sorely missed by her remaining siblings: Emma Myers, Marvin(Dorothy) McClendon, Deborah McClendon and Jennifer McClendon. Her brother and sister, Melvin and Patricia Chapman preceded her in death.
Markie has a host of nieces and nephews. Special to her were, Langford and Nettie Morrisette, Sean McClendon, Tyra M. Bendolph, Midge Pope, Jauron McClendon, Jarvis McClendon, and Melvin Vincent Chapman.
Her cousins are located all over this country and England. She considered Leon and Rose Frye her children. She was a friend to many, a good neighbor and never met a spade game she couldn't win. Laughter with and at you was her forte.
Nazaree Full Gospel Church was her home church for more than forty years. There she learned to nurture her relationship with God through Bible study, weekly sermons and songs. There is a "forever empty" chair there.
It is fitting that Mama went home at this time. She absolutely loved all things Mobile Mardi Gras. She was even crowned the first queen of Wragg Swamp in Trinity Gardens, rode a float and threw Moonpies, candy and trinkets. Boy, did she love that!
With all she accomplished in her 93 years; breaking the color barrier in hotel management, traveling in an airplane, visiting thirty of these fifty states, obtaining her GED, working for over fifty years, and going to Disney World, she was most proud of her civil rights work. She, along with community leaders in Trinity Gardens registered over a thousand voters there in 1965, organized trips to the polls, volunteered at Trinity Gardens school in the PTA and boycotted buses here in Mobile at the same time buses were boycotted in Montgomery. She too crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge the second time.
The space between her earthly beginning and end was well filled. God has rested her soul.
We thank Rachel Conners (Apria Health Care)whom she loved and the 4th floor ICU nurses Bailey and Ashley of Mobile Infirmary for their care of our Mother.
Be blessed and safe
They loved and raised six children:Tommy, Gwendolyn(Phillip Gregory Jr), Rickey(Retha), Margo (deceased March 20, 2016) Darryl(Juanita) and Harold.
Her legacy will live on through her grandchildren Marcus Gregory Sr, Lawanda T. Williams, Atalia Robinson, Tanisha Jones, Nigel Gregory, Lauryn Wilson, Tabitha Gregory, William Gregory, Tamedren Jackson, Jennifer Gregory, and Simone Wilson. Those grandchildren blessed her with: Ashley, Marcus Jr, and Jayden Gregory, Amir, Aniya, and Askia Williams, LaDarion Robinson and Keyshawn Tricksey, Isaiah, Nathan and Seth Gregory, Nova Wilson, LaDasia Sheffield, Sincere Sheffield, Saniya Kirkland and Jada Gregory, Destiny and Bryson Palmer and Evan Wilson. She recently became a great great grandmother to Malia Flemister and Journiyah Moore.
Markie will be sorely missed by her remaining siblings: Emma Myers, Marvin(Dorothy) McClendon, Deborah McClendon and Jennifer McClendon. Her brother and sister, Melvin and Patricia Chapman preceded her in death.
Markie has a host of nieces and nephews. Special to her were, Langford and Nettie Morrisette, Sean McClendon, Tyra M. Bendolph, Midge Pope, Jauron McClendon, Jarvis McClendon, and Melvin Vincent Chapman.
Her cousins are located all over this country and England. She considered Leon and Rose Frye her children. She was a friend to many, a good neighbor and never met a spade game she couldn't win. Laughter with and at you was her forte.
Nazaree Full Gospel Church was her home church for more than forty years. There she learned to nurture her relationship with God through Bible study, weekly sermons and songs. There is a "forever empty" chair there.
It is fitting that Mama went home at this time. She absolutely loved all things Mobile Mardi Gras. She was even crowned the first queen of Wragg Swamp in Trinity Gardens, rode a float and threw Moonpies, candy and trinkets. Boy, did she love that!
With all she accomplished in her 93 years; breaking the color barrier in hotel management, traveling in an airplane, visiting thirty of these fifty states, obtaining her GED, working for over fifty years, and going to Disney World, she was most proud of her civil rights work. She, along with community leaders in Trinity Gardens registered over a thousand voters there in 1965, organized trips to the polls, volunteered at Trinity Gardens school in the PTA and boycotted buses here in Mobile at the same time buses were boycotted in Montgomery. She too crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge the second time.
The space between her earthly beginning and end was well filled. God has rested her soul.
We thank Rachel Conners (Apria Health Care)whom she loved and the 4th floor ICU nurses Bailey and Ashley of Mobile Infirmary for their care of our Mother.
Be blessed and safe