Mrs. Minnie Lula Spence age 91, Bowdon, Ga., passed away Friday, July 8, 2011. She was born March 5, 1920 in Wedowee, Al., the daughter of the late Charlie Gore and Susie Hester Gore. Mrs. Spence was a retired seamstress having worked for National Linen Service and later with Sewell Mfg. Co. She was well known for her Quilting and many friends and family have her quilts to enjoy for generations. Outside of work her main focus was her family and she was a loving and devoted mother and grand-mother. She was Baptist by faith. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Sanford Spence, sons Phillip Eason and Rayford Eason; sisters Sally Jetters and Mattie Shepard; and a brother Shelly Bonds. Survivors include her children Joyce Geraldine Mull of Bowdon, Robert and Marty Eason of Abbeville, SC., Sue and Howard Nash of Stockbridge, Glenda Faye Pace of Dallas and Carol and Stan Davidson of Covington; also surviving are fifteen grandchildren; thirty great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 11:00AM from Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel with Rev. Neil Awbrey officiating. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Messages of condolences may be sent the family at www.martin-hightower.com. Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel has charge of the arrangements.