Sarah Jane Hood, age 96, of Summerville, Georgia, Telloga Community, passed away Monday, January 22, 2018, in a Chattanooga hospital.
A native of Summerville, she was born to the late Willie Calvin and Mittie Gertrude Cook Cooper, on December 13, 1921. Mrs. Hood was a member of Beersheba Presbyterian Church, retired from the spinning department of Reigel Textile Corporation, and was preceded in death by her husband, the late J. B. Hood and son, the late Ralph Hood.
Surviving are daughter and son-in-law, Christie and John Westall; granddaughters and husbands, Sandra Hood Woods and Mark Woods, Ariel and Jorge Martinez; grandson, Zachary Westall; great-granddaughter, Tiffany Woods; and nieces and nephews, Joan DuBois, H.D. “Bud” Cooper, Ann Ward, Lee Cooper, Tim Cooper, Gina Smith, Paul Cooper, Stevie Gillman, Brian Cooper, Gary Cooper, Danny Lee Cooper, and Tommy Cooper.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Jan. 26, at 1 p.m. from the J. D. Hill Memorial Chapel of Earle Rainwater Funeral Home with Pastor Jack Westlund officiating, interment in Greenhills Memory Garden. Active pallbearers will be members of the Telloga Fire Department. Honorary pallbearers will be Donald, Russ, John, and Rodney Blackwell, Gene Wesson, John Knox, Jeff Ward, Jeff Eubanks, and Lee Cooper.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers the family suggest contributions to the Beersheba Presbyterian Church.
Earle Rainwater Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for Sarah Jane Hood who passed away Monday.