A graduate of Lamar County High School, Felicie Suzette O'Neal Dumas continued her education at Fort Valley State University. She then furthered her education at Flint River Technical College, receiving a diploma in Business. She later received an Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education.

Felicie Suzette O'Neal Dumas accepted Christ at an early age and joined the East Mount Sinai Baptist Church under the pastoral leadership of the late Reverend K. D. Williams.

Felicie Suzette O'Neal was joined in holy matrimony with Kendrick Demond Dumas on February 23, 2008.

Our prayers and thoughts are with her family including her devoted daughter Dajha Bacote; brothers Samuel O'Neal, Jr. (Marilou Atkins), Tampa, Florida and Dr. Eric O'Neal, San Diego, California; sister-in-law Gwen O'Neal, Warner Robins, Georgia; step-parents Tommy and Gretchen Ellerby, Barnesville; step-brothers Jamal Henderson, Ellenwood, Georgia, and Patrick Crawley, Barnesville, and Adrien Ellerby, Barnesville; nieces D'Amber O'Neal, Perry, Georgia, and Alex O'Neal, Tampa, Florida; four nephews Juwan Taylor (Paloma), Macon, Georgia, Allen O'Neal, Tampa, Florida, Devin O'Neal Warner Robins, Georgia, and Andricus Rogers, Zebulon, Georgia; two great nephews Carson O'Neal and Jeremiah Taylor; special friends Veronica Parks-Wall, Hester Washington-Cooper, and Faye Mays Brice; special friend Larry Bacote, and her aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends