Ms. Leola Shanks, 94, of Dallas County, passed away Sept. 15, 2015, at Vaughan Regional Hospital. Services are scheduled for Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, 12 p.m. at Good Hope in Pleasant Hill with the Rev. John L. Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Good Hope Cemetery with Randall Miller Funeral Service directing. She is preceded in death by her spouse, Willie Gay Shanks; and parents, John Henry Johnson and Georgia Johnson. She is survived by four sons, John Wesley Shanks (Selma), Willie Lee Shanks (Selma), Rethel Shanks (Selma) and Mark Shanks (Maplesville); four daughters, Thelma Bryant (Detroit), Marie Blockton (Opelika), Arie Lee Shanks (Selma) and Dorothy Richardson (Selma); brother, Leon Smiley (Selma); 39 grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren.