DIXIE SPARKS

LAMAR-Services will be held at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday) at Daniel Funeral Home for Dixie Marie Sparks, 85, Lamar, who died Friday, May 22, 2015, at her home, following an illness. Burial will be in Martin Cemetery, El Dorado Springs.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include a son, Robert Sparks and wife Amy, Sheldon; two daughters, Linda Enochs and Roger Box, Marshall, Texas and Janice Seaton and husband Wayne, Lamar; 16 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, William Bud Thompson and wife Maxine, Nevada, Mo. and James Thompson and wife Virginia, El Dorado Springs; two sisters, Alice Meek, Pittsburg, Kan. and Martha Sparks, Lamar; numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great-nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Sparks was born June 30, 1929, at El Dorado Springs, to Royston and Gladys I (McCudy) Thompson. She grew up and attended school in El Dorado Springs. Her passion was bowling and she bowled many years with her children, grandchildren and friends. She also enjoyed playing cards, board games, crocheting and plastic canvas. She was a big fan of the Atlanta Braves, as well as the Springfield Cardinals and was involved in her grandchildren's sports. She always had a smile for her family and friends, who will greatly miss her.

She married Lindsey Clyde Sparks on Nov. 15, 1952, in Nevada, Mo. He died March 29, 2002.