Sonja Maxine Gaskins

Sonja Maxine Gaskins, age 83 of Hoschton, passed away on June 2, 2023 at The Phoenix at Braselton.

The family will have a private memorial and inurnment at 12:30 P.M.  Thursday, June 15, 2023 at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton.

Mrs. Gaskins was born February 20, 1940, in Paris, TX, she was the daughter of the late Burly Preston Martin and Flossy Levois Foote. After graduating from Paris High School in 1958, she worked as a secretary at San Marcus TX Airfield where she met and married a young Army lieutenant, Philip “Wayne” Gaskins.  Sonja was the consummate Army wife being an active member of Officers’ Wives Club, and volunteering for the American Red Cross and the Girl Scouts Association.  She moved to 39 locations during her husband’s military career with the final homestead being in Lavonia, GA after Wayne’s retirement. She was a member of the Lake Hartwell Association, the Brittany Harbor Property Owner’s Association, and Lavonia First United Methodist Church. 

She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law: Karen and Edwin “Buddy” Gratton; and two granddaughters and a grandson-in-law: Kelsey Gratton and Samantha & Hayes Parker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Philip “Wayne” Gaskins.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the BrightFocus Foundation for Alzheimer ’s disease Research (https://support.brightfocus.org/).

Memorial Park South Funeral Home, 4121 Falcon Parkway, Flowery Branch, Georgia 30542 is in charge of arrangements. Send on-line condolences to www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com.