Velma Ilavay Cordilla Wiyott Pee Obituary (1933

Velma Ilavay Cordilla Wiyott Pee, age 82, died Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. She was born June 24, 1933, in Morris Chapel, AL to the late George Wheeler Sparks and Lula Lucille McCarter Sparks. She was a homemaker who loved cooking, tending to her flowers, picking her guitar, writing songs and religious tracks. She loved her family, but most of all she loved her God. Velma was a member of the New Life Church, and Faith Temple. Services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, January 30, 2016, at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Melvin Harrison, Bro. Willie Gardner, and Sister Brenda Duncan Johns officiating. Burial will be in the Booneville Cemetery. Booneville Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. She is survived by her husband Mark Anthony Pee of Booneville, three daughters Joangela “Jo” Whitley (Kenny) and Rhonda Honeycutt (Darrel) both of Booneville, and Sondra Wright of Collinwood, TN, two sisters Dorthy Rhoads of Booneville and Fern White of Paris, CA, six grandchildren Anna Tilley, Jeffery Honeycutt, Amanda Honeycutt, Tiffany Honeycutt, and Brittney Wright all of Booneville, and Jonathan Wright of Collinwood, TN, and eight great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband and father of her children Barney Wiyott, two sisters Lillie Russell and Vada Day, and two brothers George Sparks and Sigars Sparks. Visitation will be Friday, January 29, 2016, from 5 p.m. ‘til 8 p.m. at the funeral home.