Funeral service for Mrs. Ora Mae Franklin will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 6, 2019, at
Riverwood Family, with interment at Riverwood Memorial Park. Friends may visit the
family from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Friday, April 5, at Riverwood.
Mrs. Ora Mae Franklin, 79, of Brookhaven, passed from this life, April 3, 2019, at
King’s Daughters Medical Center. She was born in Union Mississippi, May 20, 1939,
to her parents, Albert Arthur Tune and Ollie Everett Tune. She was the Owner/Operator
of Hickman’s Used Furniture. Mrs. Franklin was truly a treasure, teaching Sunday School
and singing in the choir at Central Baptist Church, where she was a long-time member and
servant of the Lord. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother, and will be greatly
missed by all who loved her.
She is preceded in death by her parents and brother, William Tune and sister, Eunice Dickerson.
Those left to cherish her memory are, her husband, Charles Franklin; son, Philip Hickman; daughters,
Patricia Elkins, Rhonda White and husband, Keith; step-sons, Eugene Franklin, Royce Hickman;
step daughter, Joyce Gilbert; brother, W.T. Tune; and sister, Mecia McKee. She also leaves behind
eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren that she loved dearly as well as a host of nieces,
nephews, and other family members and friends.
