Charlie Bankhead Sr.
Posted: February 2, 2009
SULLIGENT, Ala. — Charlie James Bankhead Sr., 78, died Jan. 30, 2009, at University of Alabama–Birmingham, Ala.Services are Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Otts Funeral Home Chapel in Sulligent with Murry Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at Gilmer Addition of Sulligent City Cemetery. Visitation is Tuesday for three hours prior to services at the funeral home.Mr. Bankhead was born Feb. 8, 1930, in Lamar County, Ala., to the late Houston and Jenny Fleming Bankhead. He was a member of Powell Chapel CME Church. He was a Mason and had worked 31 years for Burlington Northern Railroad.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers, Jake Miller and Earlie Bankhead.He is survived by his wife, Florida Ogden Bankhead of Sulligent, Ala.; sons, Charlie James Bankhead Jr. of Calera, Ala., Theodore Pennington of Aberdeen, Kenneth Bankhead of Hamilton, Ala., and Michael and Douglas Alan Bankhead, both of Sulligent; daughters, Carol Caine of Winfield, Ala., and Jenny Gail Metcalfe, and Patricia and Barbara Bankhead, all of Sulligent; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.Pallbearers will be Billy Wayne Evans, Bobby and Collis Metcalfe, Daniel Stewart and Ronald Blanchard..a