Mrs. Isabelle Angela Sparks

February 10, 1942– March 31, 2026

Isabelle Angela Sparks, known to all who loved her simply as Angela, passed peacefully into the next great adventure on March 31 at 5:55 in the morning. She was 84 years old, and she filled her years with style, laughter, and an extraordinary devotion to the people she loved.

A native Atlantan and granddaughter of Cator Woolford, founder of Equifax, Angela grew up in Buckhead in a time when the property where Lenox Mall is located was still a working farm.

She was a great patron of the arts, attending the opera and exhibits at the High Museum and the Botanical Gardens.

She married young and made a life in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she welcomed her two daughters, Happy and Angela. Returning to Atlanta, she found her great love in Andy Sparks. They built a life together that spanned 50 years, a son named Cator, 25 glorious years on the shores of Lake Lanier, and a vibrant community at University Yacht Club.

Angela had a gift for making things — beautiful, useful, lasting things. She had a brilliant talent for business and money management. Queen of the “green eyeshade”, she stewarded the finances at Sandy Springs Christian Church for almost two decades while pursuing her own entrepreneurial interests, including Amway (she loved the vitamins) and eventually Daddy’s Money, a beloved clothing boutique on the square in Gainesville, Georgia. At home, she knitted and sewed with exceptional skill, creating garments and artwork that her family will treasure for generations. In the kitchen, she was pure instinct and joy — a recipe was merely a suggestion, and her parties were the stuff of legend.

She was stylish, wickedly witty, intellectually intimidating, a true asset to any venture she lent a hand to, and there were many. A lover of lifelong learning, she studied effective communication, was an early consumer and enthusiast of home computers, and learned tax law and preparation. She used all of these talents in Steven’s Ministry, volunteering to prepare taxes for the elderly and countless other ways of giving back. As recently as 2020, she was still enrolled in continuing education classes at the center for lifetime study at Brenau University.

Annual family trips to Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, holidays gathered around her table, the particular delight she took in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren — these are the textures of a life lived fully and generously.

Angela is survived by her three children, Happy Jordan (husband Mark), Angela Brossard (husband Brian), and Cator Sparks; her grandchildren, Ashley Brett, Gordon Brossard, Leah Brossard, and Danielle and Greg Jordan; and her beloved great-grandchildren Charlotte and Victoria Brett.

In lieu of flowers, Angela would want you to know she would prefer a donation to The Frazer Center. https://www.frazercenter.org/