Anita Louise Jarrett McConnell, age 64, of Gainesville was called home on Sunday, January 4, 2009 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following a brief illness. She was born on August 14, 1944 in Fulton County. She was a graduate of Fulton High School, Piedmont School of nursing with a bachelor's degree from the Georgia School of Medicine. The past 20 years she had owned and operated Joyland Child Development Center in Gainesville, GA. She was a member of Riverbend Baptist Church of Gainesville. Her parents Foster Lee and Pearl Millan Jarrett, Jr. precede her in death.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 7, 2009 in the Chapel of Little & Davenport Funeral Home. Rev. Matt Withington and Rev. Cecil Holcomb will officiate. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 6, 2009. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Gardens.
She is survived by her best friend and loving husband David Arnold McConnell, three sons and daughters-in-law; David Arnold(Artie) and Maria McConnell, Jr., Sean Lee and Emily McConnell, Derick Stephen and Tina McConnell; grandsons, David Christopher McConnell III and Derick Foster McConnell, Jr., brother and sister-in-law Foster Lee Jarrett III and Anna.
In lieu of flowers the family request that donations be made to the Georgia Mountain Food Bank, P.O. Box 233 Gainesville, GA 30503 or For Her Glory at North Georgia Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1583 Gainesville, GA 30503.
On line condolences can be made at littledavenport.com
Little Davenport Funeral Home 355 Dawsonville Hwy, Gainesville, GA is in charge of arrangements.
