We respectfully announce the passing of Mrs. Dovie Mae Bailey, age 79, of LaGrange, Georgia on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at Piedmont Columbus Regional Medical Center.

Celebration of Life Services will be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 1:00 PM, Meadoway Gardens Cemetery, 3293 Hamilton Road in LaGrange. Rev. Michael Jackson (Pastor of Confidence Missionary Baptist Church) will officiate.

Public viewing will be Monday from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Funeral Home.

The Family will be at the home of Mr. Ronnie and Arnetha Sands (Sister), 1011 Troup Street in LaGrange.

Due to COVID-19 concerns everyone in attendance at the Graveside Service and the viewing must wear a mask and social distancing is encouraged.

Dovie Mae Bailey was born in LaGrange, GA on June 20, 1941 to the late Bessie and Burt Jackson and Tom Meredith. Dovie was 2nd oldest child of seven children. Dovie was raised in LaGrange, GA in a community were your neighbors were your extended family. She attended Jones Street Elementary School and graduated from Ethel Kight High School. In later years Dovie moved to Atlanta, GA and began a career in Child Development. She married the love of her life Ray Bailey and they shared over 40 years of some of her most precious memories until his death.

Dovie was a loving person and she loved the Lord. When you seen Dovie she was always wearing a smile and she loved to laugh. She loved her nieces and nephews like they were her own.

Dovie joined in Second Mount Vernon in Atlanta, GA and was a faithful servant in several organizations until she moved back home to LaGrange, GA. She joined Valley Grove Baptist Church where she faithful served on the Mother’s Ministry. God moved her to Confidence Baptist Church to where she was known as “the candy lady and $1 dollar lady. She was a faithful Church Mother and friend to many.

In addition to her parents and husband she was proceed in death by brothers & sisters: Charlie Kennedy, Nathaniel, Fred Kennedy, William Meredith, Tom Meredith Jr., and Patricia Kennedy. Dovie leaves to cherish her loving memories; Her Sisters & Brothers: Arentha (Marvin)Sands, Johnny (Diane)Jackson, Christine Culverson, Catherine Ballard, Patricia (Roger) Bonner, Sarah Kennedy, Mamie Kennedy, Diane Stinson, Raymond Kennedy, and Ralph Kennedy all of LaGrange, GA: Mary Louise (Chicago, IL) Rickey Meredith (Ypsilanti, MI), and a host of nieces and nephews that she reared as her own children, cousins, Confidence Mother’s Ministry, and Caregivers: Brenda Jackson & Mary Tucker, Special Friends: Mrs. Allene Lewis , Voncile Mormon, Virginia Purnell, Mrs. Carol Dixon, Betty Cox, and the Red Hat Ladies.

Arrangements entrusted to Thrash and Sons Funeral Home.