- Date Of Birth: June 4, 1916
- Date Of Death: March 19, 2014
- State: Georgia
Elma Idora Jackson Stallings of Newnan died peacefully on March 19, 2014. She was born June 4, 1916, in Heard County, GA.
She was a lifetime homemaker possessing many God-given talents. Among other things, she was an avid reader, a Bible scholar, a crochet master, and a late-blooming artist. Her father was James Amos Jackson and her mother was Sara Devie Kidd. Her brothers were Amos Willis Jackson and Milton Lamar Jackson. Milton gave the ultimate sacrifice of his life in defense of his country in World War II. Elma married Willis Hammond Stallings in 1935 and gave birth to children Sara Ann Stallings Owen (Mack), Willis Milton Stallings (Judy), and Hilda Jean Stallings Nix (Gerald). She was the grandmother to five; great-grandmother to eleven and great-great-grandmother to two. During her lifetime of ninety-seven years, she was witness to vast changes that brought about things she could never have imagined. She later recalled to her children the remembrance of her first sighting of a motor car huffing and puffing down their residential street, frightening all of the neighborhood and sending her and her friends running for the safety of home. In her quest for knowledge and learning, she accumulated libraries of books, mostly Bible commentaries and expositions. Many of these volumes became starter material for “favored” beginners’ libraries. She spent many years traveling around the country with her husband, Willis, a construction superintendent.
