Daisy Irene Deaton Reed

Mrs. Daisy Irene Deaton Reed, age 99, passed away January 9, 2018 after a long illness and a brave fight.

Funeral Services will be 11:00 a.m., Friday, January 12, 2018 in the Chapel of Memorial Park South Funeral Home with interment following at Oakwood City Cemetery.  Rev. Myles Brown and Rev. Randall Reed will officiate.  The family will receive friends 10:00 – 11:00 a.m., Friday, January 12, 2017 at Memorial Park South Funeral Home.

Mrs. Reed was born September 19, 1918 to the late Levi & Daisy Deaton in Chestnut Mountain, Georgia and lived most of her life in Oakwood.  She was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Oakwood for 66 years.  She loved her church and most of all her Savior, Jesus Christ.  Mrs. Reed was a homemaker and worked at the South Hall Cafeteria for a number of years.  Cooking, gardening, sewing, traveling, volunteering and taking care of her family were some of the things she enjoyed.

Mrs. Reed is survived by her four children, Robert Reed III (Joyce), Linda Foster (Darrell), Ann Adams (Kermit) and Kenneth Reed; 9 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; 1 great great-grandson; sister-in-law, Christine Deaton; and a host of nieces, nephews and many loving caregivers, who were like her family for the past few years.  She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, who passed away in 1999, Robert Cheston Reed, Jr.; parents; nine siblings and their spouses, Dorothy Bowels (Cecil), Ralph Deaton (Emily), Leonard Deaton, Geraldine Bell (Dean), Wintfred Deaton (Mary), Jew Doris Thomas (John B.); three siblings who died in infancy; daughter-in-law, Linda Coyle Reed; and two grandsons, Ronald Reed and Kent Foster.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Eagle Ranch, P.O. Box 7200, Chestnut Mountain, GA  30502, www.eagleranch.org or First Baptist Church of Oakwood, 3780 Old Oakwood road, Oakwood, GA  30566.