Michelle Stokes

October 19, 1976 - August 26, 2015

Funeral Services for Michelle Stokes will be held 11:00 AM, Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at Zion Baptist Church, 801 Washington Street, Columbia, SC 29201. Interment to follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park. Public Viewing has been scheduled for Today, August 31, 2015 from 1-7PM at A. A. Dicks Funeral Home Sullivan Chapel. Ms. Michelle Theomni Stokes was born in Columbia, SC on October 19, 1976 to Sherman Stokes, Sr. and Gloria Reaves Stokes. She departed this life on August 26, 2015. Michelle accepted Jesus as her personal savior at an early age and attended Zion Baptist Church with her family. She attended the public schools of Richland County and was a graduate of Eau Claire High School. She was continuing her education with the University of Phoenix while she worked as a bus driver for the Richland County School District One. Her brother Sherman, Jr., she affectionately called "Bumpsie", remembers her as a loving, feisty, determined person with a fighting spirit and will to survive any circumstance. Above all, she is remembered as loving her children and working hard to provide for them. she always strived to do better with herself and God. Her mother states that she loved fast food (especially Chic-fil-A) and attended to others needs before her own. Daddy says she was soft spoken and was never a trouble maker. she cooked during the week and loved to treat the children out on weekends. Michelle liked attending concerts and strolling and sitting to relax at the River Bank Park. Left to cherish precious memories are: her sons, Jonathan M. and Keanu D. Pridgen and Brent Scott, Jr.; a daughter, Aliyah Briana Smith; parents Sherman and Gloria Stokes; brother, Sherman "Bumpsie" Stokes, Jr.; fiancé' Tracy Grant and a host of loving aunts, uncles, cousins, other relatives and friends.