Eunice Prescott Sparks was born on January 12, 1932 in Austin, Texas, to the parents of Ellis and Etherene Freeman. She was the fourth oldest of five siblings, Yvonne, the eldest child, who died from an injury at a young age, Ellis Jr. (who went by the nickname man), Dolly, John & Betty Freeman.
In 1946, her family moved to Seattle, Washington, in the Magnolia neighborhood with the five surviving siblings. She attended Cleveland High school and was an aspiring songwriter. At 16, Prescott Sparks entered a beauty contest called brown sugar. She had natural beauty and didn’t wear makeup at that time, and by the end of the contest, she went home feeling as sweet as brown sugar upon winning first place. She graduated from high school at 17, on June 15, 1949; within the same year, October 24, 1949, she was catapulted into adulthood after exchanging marital vows to Ison Douglas Prescott, a U.S. military soldier at Fort Lewis Washington.
Following Prescott Sparks 18th year, she gave birth to her first child. Altogether, she gave birth to nine children: Junior, Jeffery, Tony, Rex, Douglas, Ralph, Mark, Zanza, and Tanny. In the late 1960s, Prescott Sparks and her husband entered the ministry, and adding to her titles; she became the mother of the Church of God Revival Center. Their children were not selfish with their parents, sharing them with many children in church and the neighborhood who referred to them as mom and pops.
Prescott Sparks had a servanthood heart in the church as she and her husband fed the hungry and clothed the poor. If you needed assistance and they knew about it, help was on the way.
In 1973, her husband died, and she was left to care for the five youngest children on her own. Prescott Sparks decided that a change of environment was the answer at that time. Her second to the eldest child assisted her in relocating to Lakeview Terrace, in the county of Los Angeles, California. After about five years, she moved to North Hollywood, California, and resided there for twenty years before moving back to Seattle, Washington in the 1990s with her daughter Tanny. However, during Prescott Sparks’s twenty years in North Hollywood, she had a friend named Charlotte, who passed away at a young age, leaving behind an eight-year-old daughter named Janet O’Hara.
Prescott Sparks took her under her motherly wings, raising her as if she had come from her womb, never showing any favoritism. Only love as Janet quickly became the tenth and youngest child of the Prescott family. Prescott Sparks married her longtime friend /fiancé in 1997, Jerry Sparks, and was with him until he died in 2004 of diabetes complications.
In 1994, in Seattle, Washington, Prescott Sparks started a singing group called the “Angels of Mercy.” They began to minister throughout the Seattle area. Prescott Sparks recorded her first CD, “Must Be About My Father’s Business,” at 80 years old. She wrote four of the songs on her album while traveling on a train. Her obituary photo is her CD picture of her at 80 and is on youtube in its entirety.
On March 11, 2022, at the beautiful age of 90, God called Mother Eunice Prescott Sparks home, and her work has now ceased on earth, but her praises in Heaven will be glorified unto our Heavenly Father forevermore.
Prescott Sparks is survived by her children, Jeffery Prescott, Tony Prescott, Rex Prescott, Ralph Prescott, Mark Prescott, Zanza Prescott, Tanny Jackson, and Janet O’Hara. Her sister Betty Freeman, 26 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her father, Ellis Freeman, her mother Etherene Freeman, her first husband Ison Douglas Prescott, her second husband Jerry Sparks, her eldest son, Junior Prescott, Her fifth child, Douglas Prescott, her sister Yvonne, her brother, Ellis Jr (Man), her sister Dolly, and her brother John Freeman.
Services will be at Bethel Christian Church on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 1:00 P.M. Bethel Christian is located at 200 24th Ave. S. in Seattle, Washington.