Flora Dismukes
Posted: December 7, 2012
BUFORD, Ga. — Flora L. Patterson Dismukes, 85, died Dec. 2, 2012, at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Ga. Services are Saturday at 11 a.m. at Macedonia Baptist Church with the Rev. Johnny L. Moore officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation is today from noon to 5 p.m. at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home Chapel in Macon. Ms. Dismukes was born Oct. 14, 1927, to the late Johnny and Addie Draper Patterson. She was a member of Northside MB Church and was formerly employed as a dietician at Columbus Air Force Base. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by six sisters; and six brothers. Survivors include her daughters, Shirley D. Harris of Buford, Ga., and Hazel D. White of Lawrenceville; son, Lloyd Dismukes of Decatur, Ga.; sister, Alter Bankhead of Charleston, S.C.; brother Earnest Patterson of Macon; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.