Gladys Rewis Deloach

Gladys Rewis DeLoach (July 27, 1923 - April 4, 2014), passed away Friday evening at her daughter's home. She was the daughter of the late Will and Bashie Rewis.

Her friends and relatives knew her for many things. First was her strong faith and constant prayers for her loved ones and many a stranger that she saw in need, went to, and put her hands on them while she prayed. She has been a spiritual inspiration for many including a grandson, Rev. Austin DeLoach, Jr., and a missionary grandson, Danny DeLoach.

She was a strong physical person. She played basketball for Haylow as well as Echols County in 1938 where she was the Valedictorian of her 1942 Class.

Anyone who ever ate at her house at the farm where she was born, never forgot it. She would fill up the table she ate at as a child as well as a second table with food. A third smaller table would be covered with desserts. She was in her element "putting up" vegetables for her family or making that special dish any of her family liked best. Then thirty or more people on a holiday or hunting day would sit and eat. She was raised using a wood stove in that same kitchen.

She loved her flowers, having as many as two hundred blooming in her front yard at the same time. Once, she took the Christmas tree and put it in the ground by the front steps. That tree is twenty feet high today!

She really didn't care for politics, but she was her husband's best "politician". She helped him win seven state and county offices.

Mrs. DeLoach is survived by her three children and their spouses, Austin DeLoach, Sr. and Gail DeLoach of Homerville, Ashley and Fadwa DeLoach of Statenville, and Donna and Jack Hart of Homerville; fourteen grandchildren and their spouses: Lisa and Stanley Greene, Michael and Carolee Henderson, Danny and Rebecca DeLoach, Jamie and Brandi DeLoach, Ash'lyn Carter and John Robert Peagler, Brack and Erin DeLoach, Stephanie and Craig Ganas, Austin DeLoach, Jr. and Jennifer, Ashlee and Michael McRae, Jake and Angie Hart, Jarred and Mary Hart, Janna and David Cason, Jennifer Hart, and Wayne Lee; twenty-nine great-grandchildren, Amanda Pittman, Kristin and husband Dustin Patterson, Alexis Henderson, Anna DeLoach, Joshua DeLoach, Wesley DeLoach, Kaden DeLoach, Konnor DeLoach, Laurel Malette, Jenral DeLoach, Daylon Manning, Buck Ganas, Monica Ganas, Bankes Ganas, Alora Gail DeLoach, KenLee DeLoach, Dempsey Anna DeLoach, John Michael McRae, Laura Ashlee McRae, Mac McRae, Kaitie Lee, Kolby Lee, Emma Kate Hart, Jackson Hart, Andrew Hart, Caleb Cason, Zachary Cason, Trenton Cason, Gabriella Grace Hart; and one great-great-grandchild, Tinley Patterson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of fifty-six years, Daniel J. DeLoach; a grandson, Robin DeLoach; and her siblings and their spouses, Sue and Winston Howell, Magdalene and Edgar Anderson, Martha and Herman Bennett, Alton and Ethel Rewis, J.W. and Nell Rewis, Sally and Joe Collier, and Bashie and Leon Raulerson.

The Funeral Service for Mrs. DeLoach will be held at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2014, at Wayfare Primitive Baptist Church, with Elder Dwight Marshall and Rev. Austin DeLoach, Jr. officiating. Interment will follow at the church's cemetery, alongside her husband. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Sunday at the Carson McLane Funeral Home, Valdosta. Condolences may be conveyed to the family at www.mclanecares.com. Carson McLane Funeral Home.

Funeral Home:
Carson McLane Funeral Home
2215 North Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA
US 31602