Ms. Mildred Sue Raper Bruce, age 68 of Heflin, Alabama, passed away Monday, August 9, 2021. She was born June 25, 1953 in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of the late Mr. Odice Raper and the late Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Brooks Raper. Ms. Bruce loved to shop and played cards regularly with her church friends. She was a very Godly, Christian woman who attended Mount Holly Church of God.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her brothers, Robert Raper and Odice Raper.
Ms. Bruce is survived by her husband, Lamar Bruce; her daughters and sons-in-law, Becky and Robert Hester of Villa Rica, Renee and Donnie Denton of Taylorsville, Georgia and Brandi and Whitney Burgess of Heflin, Alabama; her sisters, Joyce Creath of Griffin and Betty Nix of Tunnel Hill; her brother, Johnny Raper of Gainesville; eight grandchildren, Anthony, Johnathan, Aaron, Jacob, Cameron, Jordan, Kaitlyn and Emily; four great-grandchildren, Jackson, John Luke, Atlas and Carter; and several nieces and several nephews also survive.
The family will receive friends at Jones-Wynn Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Villa Rica, Thursday, August 12, 2021 from 5:00PM until 8:00PM. Funeral Services will be conducted Friday, August 13, 2021 at 2:00PM from the Chapel of Jones-Wynn Funeral Home, Villa Rica. Interment will follow in Meadowbrook Memory Gardens on Hickory Level Road in Villa Rica, Georgia.
Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at www.jones-wynn.com. Jones-Wynn Funeral Home, Inc. and Cremation Services of Villa Rica is in charge of the arrangements 770-459-3694.