GLENDA FAYE SHARPE HOVEY WENT HOME TO BE WITH HER LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 25, 2020. SHE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 11, 1952, IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SHE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS WALTER RICHARD SHARPE AND LINNIE LOUISE WASHAM SHARPE; HER OLDEST BROTHER WALTER R. SHARPE (FREIDA); HER SISTER SUSAN ANN BANCROFT; AND HER BROTHER HENRY EARL SHARPE (JACKIE). WHAT A GLORIOUS REUNION THEY HAD! GLENDA LEAVES BEHIND HER HUSBAND OF 54 YEARS- MR. JAMES ELLIS HOVEY; HER THREE SONS- JAMES DAVID HOVEY (CARRIE); CHRISTOPHER DARRELL HOVEY (KRIS); AND SHANNON ELLIS HOVEY; AND MOST FONDLY HER BELOVED DAUGHTER- SHERRY LOUISE HOVEY GARRETTSON (JEFF).
GLENDA ADORED AND THANKED GOD DAILY FOR HER PRECIOUS GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. GLENDA’S TEN GRANDCHILDREN ARE: NATALIE, NOAH, TYLER, MOLLIE, CARRIGAN, BLAKE, ADYSON-GRACE, JUDE, KENEDIE, AND WHITNER. HER TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN ARE JAXON AND ROWAN. GLENDA ALSO LEAVES BEHIND ONE BROTHER, MR. ROBERT DONALD SHARPE (RITA) OF ALBANY, GA. GLENDA WAS A WIFE, A MOTHER, A GRANDMOTHER, A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER AND A HOMEMAKER. SHE SERVED THE LORD WITH GLADNESS AS A MEMBER OF SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH IN SARALAND, ALABAMA FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. HER GREATEST LOVE WAS FOR THE CHILDREN THERE. IN SEPTEMBER OF 1982, ALONG WITH FOUR OTHER LADIES, GLENDA ANSWERED GOD’S CALL TO HELP START SHILOH CHRISTIAN DAYCARE. A VISITATION WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2020 AT SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH IN SARALAND, AL. FROM FOUR UNTIL SEVEN PM. THEN, FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL BE RECEIVED FROM ONE UNTIL TWO PM (EASTERN TIME) AT THE CHAPEL OF THE PINES IN PARKHILL CEMETERY IN COLUMBUS, GA., ON SATURDAY NOVEMEBR 7, 2020. LEE THREADGILL WILL OFFICIATE. ONE OF GLENDA’S FAVORITES BIBLE VERSES WAS NUMBERS 6:24-26: THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU; THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU; THE LORD LIFT UP HIS
COUNTENANCE UPON YOU AND GIVE YOU PEACE. NOW, GLENDA IS WITH THE LORD AND AT PEACE-AMEN!!!
