Services for Valerie Knight Page, age 53 of Sparta, will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 14, 2017 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Rev. Michael Tatum, Rev. Mike Peacock and Rev. Larry Waldrep will officiate. Burial will follow in Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM Monday at Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Valerie was a native of Laurens County. She was a member of Antioch Baptist Church and a graduate of West Laurens High School, Class of 1981. Mrs. Page was an assistant branch manager of the Exchange Bank in Milledgeville. She loved her family and friends and the time she spent at the lake and the beach. Valerie passed away Friday, March 10, 2017. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Alfred and Jeanette Knight, Etheridge and Geneva Myers, uncles; Gene Myers, Robert Knight, Donald Knight and Eldridge Knight.

Survivors include her husband, Jody Page of Sparta, parents; Burney and Sandra Knight of Dudley, sister Vanessa (Andy) Smith of Dexter, son; Derrick (Shanna) Page of East Dublin, Granddaughter; Jaycee Page of East Dublin, mother and father in law; Harold and Jean Martin of East Dublin, nieces; Jenna (Dusty) Williams of Rincon, Jamie Smith Tyson of Dexter, great nephew and niece; Cam and Avery Williams of Rincon, brother in law, Larry (Debbie) Reid, sisters in law; Debra (Art) Harrison, Mary (Harold) Peavey, and Janet Page. Jonathan Pope, Melvin Couey, Alan Myers, Mitchell Alligood, Scott Knight and Whitney Alligood will serve as pallbearers. Flowers accepted or donations may be made to Antioch Baptist Church, P.O. Box 57, Dexter, GA 31019.