Maggie O. Atkins

Maggie Atkins, affectionately know as Muddy, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at Regents Park Nursing Facility where she was was under Community Hospice Care.  She was born July 21, 1927 and at a young age moved with her family to Georgetown, Fl where she grew up.  As a child and throughout life she always enjoyed the water and the activities surrounding it such as swimming and fishing. She frequently took her family on summer vacations to Fernandina Beach, FL. She was a huge Los Angeles Dodger baseball fan.

Maggie attended Jacksonville‘s local schools and early on was employed in the hospital industry working for Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, FL. She loved her family and friends and most of all loved her Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

Those left to cherish her memory are her daughter Diana Sessions and son James (Juanita) E. Bryant Jr and grandchildren Eric, Saletta, Melissa, April, Andre, Toya, Nikki, Delina, Nikki, Jamesia, James III, Brandon, Jordan, and sister Ophelia Walker. Maggie is also survived by a host of great-grand children, great-great grand children, many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends residing in many places around the USA.

She is predeceased by parents Mary Oxendine and Jessie Oxendine and daughter Dollie Jean Flood.

A celebration of life for condolences for the family will be held Friday August 2, 2019 from 10:00am until 11:00am at Community Hospice and Palliative Care Center, 4266 Sunbeam Road, Jacksonville, Fl 32257.  A private ceremony for the family will follow beginning at 11:00am with Chaplain Brent Beaird presiding. Arrangements have been placed under the care of A Dignified Alternative (Hatcher Cremations). In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Community Hospice & Palliative Care in memory of Maggie Atkins. http://www.communityhospice.com/give