Amelia Pollard Kilpatrick

Mrs. Amelia Pollard Kilpatrick, age 88 of Sugar Valley, passed away Tuesday morning October 9th in Gordon Health Care. Amelia was born in Fulton County, March 15, 1924, daughter of the late Andrew Jackson Pollard and Bessie Shaw Pollard. She was a ordain minister who had spent much of her time prior to her retirement ministering to inmates at the Atlanta City Stockades including those on death row. Amelia and her husband, Joe Kilpatrick who preceded her in death in July 2009 moved here in 1970 from Atlanta. She was a member of the East Calhoun Church of God and a substitute teacher for both the city and county school systems. Besides her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her brother, Charles Pollard and five sisters; Willie Jean Bilbo, Ida Mae Cornette, Kate Corley, Frances West, and Christine Brigman. Survivors include one son, Dwayne Kilpatrick and his wife Karen of Sugar Valley, three daughters; Brenda Watkins of Sugar Valley, Deborah Steele and her husband John of Calhoun, and Marsha Wilson and her husband Gary of Sugar Valley, one sister, Elizabeth Reese of Calhoun. Ten grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be conducted Friday October 12th at 2pm from the Sugar Valley Baptist Church with Rev. Mitch Phillips and Pastor Keith Reid officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery with grandsons serving as pallbearers. The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 4 until 8pm at the funeral home. You may send condolences to the family at www.thomasfuneralhome.com Thomas Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Mrs. Amelia Pollard Kilpatrick.