Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home, Inc. - will be Celebrating 100 Years of Service to Coweta County and Surrounding Areas with a Parade on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 4:00 P.M. We invite you to participate in this Celebration and Anticipate a Great Turnout! We are also asking that you please partner with us throughout the month of March to collect can goods for One Roof/Coweta County Food Bank.

There will be no entry fee, however we require each participant to donate can goods (Minimum of one can per individual). All donations will be collected by One Roof/Coweta County Food Pantry at parade line-up or donations can be brought to us.

Your entry can be a automobile, float, flatbed truck, drill team, step team, dance team, marching or walking group, etc.

Participating in the parade is an excellent way to promote your business or organization and give back to the community. We thank you and appreciate your support and participation in advance.

If you have any questions, please contact Linette Ward or Octavia Mahone 770-253-1232.

Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home was founded in 1911 by Roscoe Conklin Jenkins. He was a second generation funeral director. His mother, Fannie Wright Jenkins established The Coweta Burial Association in the early 1900’s. It was the first funeral home for African Americans in Coweta County. The business was located on Robinson Street. He married Octavia Smith in 1917. Together, they owned and operated the business. Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home relocated to Perry Street in 1933, and then to East Broad Street in 1937.

Roscoe Jenkins passed away on July 8, 1964, and his daughter, Octavia Jenkins Mahone began working full time at the business in 1965. Octavia completed her apprenticeship under Alfred Jennings and her mother’s guidance, and became a licensed funeral director in 1975.

On May 17, 1992 Octavia Smith Jenkins passed away at the age of 94, leaving her daughter to be the sole proprietor and third generation to lead the funeral home.

Octavia Smith Jenkins was honored as Mortician Of The Year in 1978 by the Fifth District Georgia Funeral Service Practitioners Association, Inc.

In 1992 Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home began the tradition of honoring local high school seniors with scholarships annually.

Octavia J. Mahone was honored as Mortician Of The Year in 1996 and in 2004 received the Chairpersons Award by the Fifth District Georgia Funeral Service Practitioners Association, Inc. In 2007 she received the Living Legend Award by 100 Black Women of Funeral Service.

Jacquelyn Flowers, the fourth generation, completed her apprenticeship under the guidance of Reverend Dr. Willie T. Edmondson and her mother, Octavia J. Mahone and graduated from Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service in 1998 with honors.

In December 2006, Octavia, her daughter, Jacquelyn Mahone Flowers and their friend Linette C. Ward became partners and co-owners of Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home, Inc. The business moved from East Broad Street, where it had been located for 70 years, to 182 Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard in 2007.

Linette C. Ward completed her apprenticeship under the guidance of Reverend Dr. Willie T. Edmondson and her partner Octavia J. Mahone, and graduated from Gupton Jones College of Funeral Service in 2009 and received the Bill Pierce Award. Linette became a licensed funeral director and embalmer in 2010.

In December of every year Roscoe Jenkins Funeral home, Inc. honors the lives of loved ones with a candle light memorial service. Also, annually funeral home high school graduate employees are honored with a graduation celebration.

The partners are members of the Fifth District Georgia Funeral Service Practitioners Association, Incorporated; the State Georgia Funeral Service Practitioners Association, Incorporated; and The National Funeral Directors and Mortician Association, Incorporated. Also, they are members of several local and national organizations.

Roscoe Jenkins Funeral Home, Incorporated has been blessed to render over 100 years of uninterrupted, professional funeral service to the citizens of Coweta County and surrounding areas.

Look out for the next issue of the SCOPE. Send in your articles and stories about what’s going on in your funeral home, cemetery and your community. Send all information to thescope@nfdma.com. For advertising opportunities please contact Innovative publishing at 502-423-8350