ODELL SPARKMAN AGE 87 PASSED AWAY IN JOHNSON CITY TX NOV.15, 2006. SHE WAS BORN ON MARCH 21,1919 NEAR AGUA DULCE, TX. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER FATHER AND MOTHER CHARLIE AND MINNIE FREER AND HER FIRST HUSBAND CECIL SPARKMAN AND HER SECOND HUSBAND CHARLIE STARKE. SHE IS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO BROTHERS, ARLIE FREER AND WILBURN FREER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THERE SONS, JERRY D SPARKMAN OF CARROLLTON, TX DENNIS A SPARKMAN OF JOHNSON CITY, TX AND LARRY W SPARKMAN OF SPRING BRANCH, TX ,ONE SISTER MYRTLE MCLENDON OF JOHNSON CITY, TX. THREE GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY STEP CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SOON AFTER SHE WAS BORN HER FAMILY MOVED TO ROSITA VALLEY WHERE HER FAMILY HAD SETTLED IN 1916. SHE GREW UP THERE AND WHEN OIL WAS DISCOVERED A TOWN GREW UP AND WAS NAMED FREER, AFTER HER GRANDFATHER DANIEL J FREER. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST SCHOOL CLASS OF FREER. WHEN THE FIRST POST OFFICE OPENED HER MOTHER MINNIE FREER WAS NAMED, POSTMASTER. THERE SHE MEETS CECIL SPARKMAN WHO WORKED IN THE POST OFFICE AND THEY MARRIED IN 1936. IN 1942 THEY MOVED TO ALICE, TX. AND RAISED THREE SONS. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND CECIL SHE MOVED TO SAN ANTONIO, AND WORKED THERE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. IN 1982 SHE MEET AND MARRIED CHARLIE CHARLIE STARKE AND MOVED TO HOLLAND , TX. AFTER HIS DEATH SHE MOVED TO JOHNSON CITY, TX WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, JOHNSON CITY, TX. SHE WAS A FOLLOWER OF JESUS CHRIST