Sara Alberta Hunnicutt Pritchett

Sara Alberta Hunnicutt Pritchett passed away peacefully on March 4, 2025, at the age of 92 after a long and beautiful life of service to all that she loved. She truly lived her life to the fullest and gave her life for her family and friends. She was dear to everyone she came across, and those who knew her remember her sweet smile and her ability to love through a non-judgmental lens. An angel on earth, her warmth and happiness touched so many throughout her life.

She was born on January 12, 1933, in Oconee County, Georgia, to Eli Alfonzo Hunnicutt and Cora Lee Willoughby Hunnicutt. Her daddy passed away when she was five months old leaving her mother with eight children under seventeen years of age. They relocated to Apalachee, GA, in 1934 where Alberta was residing at the time of her death. She attended school in Apalachee, Bostwick, and at Morgan County High School in Madison. She was a member of Apalachee Methodist Church in Apalachee, GA.

Alberta was a homemaker, but she never shied away from work and blessing everyone she met. She worked part time on occasion at Bailey’s 5 & 10 in Madison, Mack’s Department Store in Madison, as well as at the Shirt Plant in the Beacon Heights area of Madison.

Whether you called her Alberta, Bert, Berta, Mama, Ma-Ma, Mamaw, or Maw-Maw, she was loved in a special way by each one who knew and loved her. She had a special gift of making each person she encountered feel that he/she was her favorite. She fed you delicious teacakes, hot buttered biscuits, homemade preserves, and would not take “I’m not hungry” for an answer. Coffee and cobbler or a delicious pound cake often greeted each one that stopped by. She liked to cook an abundance of food "just in case" and often had a stove full of extra biscuits and sausage.

Alberta was successful at whatever she put her hands to–sewing, organizing, crocheting, and cooking delicious breakfasts and Sunday dinners. Cooking and feeding others was her love language, almost an obsession. Having her family together regularly for special occasions or just for a time for coffee and pound cake or cobbler made her heart happy. Her divinity candy was a treat for her doctors and hairdresser as she always wanted to take them “a little something.” She also shared this delicacy each year at the Pritchett Reunion in Watkinsville. She had a heart of gold and blessed everyone through kindness and delicious baked goods.

She loved the River Valley Campground in Cherokee, NC, where she met some of the best friends of her lifetime. Whether climbing onto the back of a motorcycle or into a bright red convertible with a friend at the campground, she was always ready to have fun. Each year as the campground closed for the winter, she walked RV to RV delivering her small gifts to each of her special friends. She was a giver with a servant's heart.

Alberta leaves her husband of 74 years, Herbert Johnson Pritchett, with whom she lived a beautiful, full life of love and happiness. Throughout their marriage, they opened their home to three foster children and several nieces and nephews who needed a home for a while. With a true servant’s heart, she took care of her mother and mother-in-law without complaints and was instrumental in raising many.

She also leaves five children: Mike Pritchett (Deborah), Kenny Pritchett (Linda), Harold Pritchett (Cindy), Sara Lynn Holbert (Leonard), and Gary Pritchett (Stacey), 20 grandchildren, 37 great-grands, and 2 great-great grands. She was preceded in death by an infant grandson (Michael), her parents, and her siblings and their spouses: William Grady Hunnicutt, Cap Hunnicutt (Louine), Tommie Hunnicutt (Evelyn), Buddy Hunnicutt (Annie), Darrow Hunnicutt (Bulia), Jeanette Stancil (George), Rena Ashley (Bill), and Susie Bellew (Mark). Many nieces and nephews who loved her dearly remain, as well as three dear sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 8, at 1:00 p.m., at New Hope Baptist Church, 1400 Farmington Road, Madison (Greshamville). Interment will follow in Willoughby Cemetery, Greensboro Highway, Watkinsville.

The family will receive friends Friday, March 7, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Bernstein Funeral Home, 3195 Atlanta Highway, Athens.

Bernstein Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.