Polly A Jeter

October 22, 1936 - December 21, 2019

Polly A Jeter of Fayetteville passed this life on Saturday, December 21, 2019 at Lincoln Medical Center in Fayetteville at the age of 83. Funeral Services are scheduled for 1 PM, Saturday, December 28 at St. Paul AME Church in Fayetteville with burial to follow at Pleasant View Cemetery in Fayetteville. The family will receive friends from 12 Noon until the service time at the church. Polly was born to James Arthur and Alene McDonald Eslick and raised by grandmother Cordie Hickman McDonald (Samuel) and Aunt Katie McDonald Carrethers (Harold). Polly had two children: Benita Cordelia Waller Brooks (deceased (Wayne), and James Eslick Waller; four grandkids: Tyrall Shavod Waller, Sukura Kiota Waller Solivan (Mike), Mariah Brooks Jones (Antonio) and Garland Samuel Brooks (Jessica); and seven great grandkids. She is preceded in death by siblings Billy Eslick, James Norman Eslick, Dean Arthur Eslick (Lou), Sinia Eslick Myrick (Robert), and Frances French (Howard). She is survived by siblings Bobby Eslick (Barbara), Peggy Eslick Goodrich (William), Lillian Eslick Patterson, Marie Eslick, Gloria Eslick, Dorinda Eslick Jackson (John), Calinda Eslick Shull (Jerry), Jacqueline Eslick (Andrew) and Patricia Bailey (James). Polly attended Tennessee State University, Peabody College, Shelbyville Tennessee Vocational School, and graduated from West End High School. In her life, Polly was a member and officer of the NAACP and enjoyed employment as: (1) a substitute teacher; (2) the first Black female staffer and teacher of the Headstart Program; (3) a services representative for both Lincoln and Giles County, Tennessee Health Departments; (4) the first Black to work at Joe Sir’s Department store; (5) a reserve law enforcement officer and retired as an Emergency Dispatch officer, for Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, after 31 years of service. Special Friends: Geraldine Moore, Joyce Eady, Dorothy Small and Althea-Darlene Jackson. Online condolences may be made at www.lynchburgfuneralhome.com LYNCHBURG FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS