Viola Screws Bustos was born December 25, 1928 in Wrightsville, Johnson County, GA. She is the oldest daughter of Myrtle and Gaynor Screws. Her siblings: Grady Screws, Cleo Screws, Herschel Screws, Benny Screws, Dot Screws Whited, Rosa Screws Brown, Billy Screws, Mary Anne Screws and Glenda Screws Gilliland. Viola is the mother of Rafael Thomas Bustos of Bloomington, Minnesota and Raquel Bustos Studstill of Canton, Georgia. She has four grandchildren, Dora Bustos-Villa, Elena Marie Miller, Carina Rose Bustos and Colin Thomas Bustos. She has two Great-grandchildren, Edward Stephen Beitzel and Jack Ryan Beitzel. Viola died July 8, 2019 at the Brian Center Nursing and Rehabilitation in Canton, Cherokee County, GA.

The family lived on a farm and Viola worked very hard helping take care of her siblings. Viola moved to Atlanta in 1947 and married Jerry Tyson. They lived together on Hill Street in Grant Park until they divorced a few years later. Viola met her second husband, Rafael Bustos, and married in 1955.  They lived in Atlanta, had two children together and divorced in 1974.

She was brilliant and gifted in so many ways; as a homemaker, gardener, a beautiful singer and dancer and devoted mother. Everyone who met Viola loved her. Lakeside Funeral Home, 121 Claremore Drive, Woodstock, GA 30188, PH: 770-293-2757 is honored to assist the Bustos family with the arrangements. Those wishing to send online condolences may do so at www.lakesidefuneralhomega.com

If donations are preferred, send to: The Volunteer Aging Counsel of Cherokee County, PO Box 291, Lebanon, GA 30146. https://www.vac-cherokeega.org