Ms. Mary Alice Lumpkin was born Athens, Georgia to the late Rosa Bell Watkins and the late Henry Lumpkin.

In addition to her parents she was preceeded in death by her sister, Mattie Lou Lumpkin; and grandson, Lazavier Shamar Cook.

Ms. Lumpkin is survived by her son, Tony Lamar (LaToyia) Lumpkin; daughters, Mary Denise McGuire (Marshall Norman), Rosa Mae (Reginald) Anderson, Judy Gwinette McGuire (Larry Johnson), Barbara Ann McGuire and Juanita Renee Davis; aunt, Florine Lindsay; former husband, Walter McGuire; twenty-one grandchildren, fourteen great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews and cousins.