Mrs. Rosa Mae Sparks Jenkins, age 68, of Buchanan passed away Thursday, November 12, 2015.  Mrs. Jenkins was born in Harlan County, Kentucky on August 28, 1947.  She was the daughter of the late Chester Sparks and the late Birdie Estes Sparks.  Mrs. Jenkins was a homemaker.  Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by one sister, Pauline Bryan; and one brother, James Sparks.

Survivors include her husband, Marion Howard Jenkins of Buchanan; three daughters, Donna Lynn Jenkins of Buchanan, Lisa Jenkins of Caryville, TN and Tanya Jenkins of Tallapoosa; four sons and three daughters-in-law, Marion and Samantha Jenkins of Pearland, TX, Terry Wayne and Teresa Jenkins of Temple, Houston and Alisha Jenkins of Carrollton and Charlie Jenkins; three sisters, Emma Jewell Callahan of Tallapoosa, Della Hensley of Dallas and Lorene Walters of Douglasville; two brothers, Frank Sparks and Chester Sparks, Jr. both of Douglasville; eighteen grandchildren; sixteen great grandchildren; and a number of other relatives.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday, November 16, 2015 at 2:00 P.M. from Faith Worship Center, 3574 Hwy. 100 South, Bowdon, GA  30108.  Interment will follow in Faith Worship Center Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at Church Monday from 9:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M.

Hutcheson's Memorial Chapel & Crematory of Buchanan is in charge of the arrangements.