Ollie Faye Hawkins Newman, age 83, of Bolivar, departed this life early Sunday morning, April 29, 2018 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
The widow of Edward G. Newman, who died in 2008 after 21 years of marriage, she was a homemaker, also working as a CNA at Collierville Nursing Home and as a factory worker at Kilgore in Toone. She was born September 20, 1934, daughter of the late Bob Neely Hawkins and Euphia Earnest Hawkins and spent most of her life in the county. She was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Toone.
Survivors include 8 step children; two nieces, Betty Wiggins of Pocahontas and Susie Cornelius of Ripley, MS; three nephews, Christopher Hawkins of Pocahontas and Franklin and Kenneth James Hawkins, both of Ripley, MS; and several great nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Alex James Hawkins and Horace Willie Hawkins; and two nephews, James Wayne Hawkins and Freddie Hawkins.