OBITUARIES

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Local Obituaries for Valdosta, Hahira, Lake Park, Lowndes County, GA & Surrounding Areas

Annual Remembrance Service

Annual Remembrance Service

Oct 31, 2024

You Are Invited

To Attend Our

 

Annual Remembrance Service

 

Sunday, 4:00 P.M.

December 8, 2024

 

Carson McLane Funeral Home 

2215 N Patterson Street

Valdosta, Georgia 31602

 

Each December we take time to remember and honor those who have passed. We hold a special remembrance service in our chapel. Our service this year will honor those families we have served whose loved ones have passed from:

 

November 1, 2023 

to October...

Jessie "Pearl" Atkison

Jessie "Pearl" Atkison

Dec 3, 2024

Jessie “Pearl” Atkison, 82, of Lake Park, passed away on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at Langdale Hospice House. She was born in Valdosta, on December 3, 1942 to the late Harvey M. Hardee and Jessie Crews Hardee. Mrs. Atkison worked as a schoolteacher and school administrator with her husband at Victory Baptist School for 20 years. She was a caregiver,...

Maynard Herring

Maynard Herring

Dec 2, 2024

Maynard Herring, 86, of Valdosta, died on Monday, December 2, 2024 at Fellowship Home. Born in Lake Park to the late Leland & Marie Tomlinson Herring, he had been a lifelong resident of this area. Growing up in Lake Park, he graduated from Lake Park High School in 1956. At a young age, Maynard began helping his father on the...

Leon Albert Swilley

Leon Albert Swilley

Nov 30, 2024

Leon Albert Swilley, 88, of Valdosta, died peacefully on Saturday, November 30, 2024, surrounded by his family. He was born in Lowndes County on May 6, 1936, to the late Leon Alphonso and Opal Newsom Swilley and has been a lifelong resident of this area. Upon graduating from Lake Park High School, where he served as president of the school...

Michele Lynn Gardner

Michele Lynn Gardner

Nov 28, 2024

Michele Lynn Gardner, 63, of Nashville, passed away on Thursday, November 28, 2024, at South Georgia Medical Center following a lengthy illness. She was born on March 26, 1961, in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, to Noel Leitzman and the late L. Marlene Leitzman. Michele was a bookkeeper with Stevens and Keesling P.C. in Valdosta, and she was of the Christian faith.

She...

Thomas Rudolph Austin

Thomas Rudolph Austin

Nov 26, 2024

Thomas Rudolph Austin, 79, of Lake Park, passed away on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at the Lakeland Villas, in Lakeland, GA. He was born in Milledgeville, GA on August 13, 1945, to the late James and Lynnette Austin. Tom graduated from the University of Georgia in 1968, and he had many fond memories of his time in Athens, especially watching...

Leonard Ira Jacobs

Leonard Ira Jacobs

Nov 21, 2024

SMSGT Leonard I. Jacobs, Ret. USAF, 85, of Hahira, passed away on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at his home. He was born in Clothier, West Virginia on August 2, 1939, to the late Ira Jacobs and Maude Ethel Hatfield Jacobs. He was the oldest of eight children, and a very joyful person. He was a proud veteran of the U.S....

Irvin David Casey

Irvin David Casey

Nov 20, 2024

Irvin David Casey, 78, of Quitman, passed away at his home in Brooks County on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. Born in Doerun, Georgia on August 18, 1946, Irvin was the son of the late Dave and Blanche Casey. He retired after 34 years of working as a service technician for Colquitt EMC. He was a member of First Church of...

Jiu Chuan (John) Lin

Jiu Chuan (John) Lin

Nov 18, 2024

Jiu Chuan (John) Lin, 49, of Valdosta, died on Monday, November 18, 2024, at South Georgia Medical Center. Born in Fuzhou, China on May 4, 1975, John moved to the San Francisco in 1992, he soon started working in restaurants in California and then in Philadelphia before moving to Atlanta in 1995. He worked in Feng Mei when he moved...

Shirley Riley Mixon

Shirley Riley Mixon

Nov 18, 2024

Shirley Riley Mixon

August 11, 1936 – November 18, 2024

Shirley Riley Mixon, 88, of Barney, GA passed away on November 18, 2024, with her family beside her. Shirley was born on August 11, 1936, in Macon, Georgia to the late Gene and Elizabeth Riley. Once she married Billy they resided in Wrightsville, GA for over 50 years which is where...

David Lewis Singletary, Sr.

David Lewis Singletary, Sr.

Nov 18, 2024

David Lewis Singletary, Sr., 76, of Valdosta, passed away on Monday, November 18, 2024, following a lengthy illness. 

Lewis was born on September 12, 1948 in Gainesville, FL, the second son of the late Joseph Sherwood and Louise Laing Singletary. He spent most of his childhood in Dougherty County, graduating from Albany High School in 1966. After studying for two years...

Thomas Edward Byrne III

Thomas Edward Byrne III

2024

Thomas Edward Byrne III, "Tom", age 90, of Quitman, passed away at the Presbyterian Home on Sunday, November 17, 2024. A memorial service will be held for Mr. Byrne in Hanover, New Hampshire at a later time.  McLane Funeral and Cremation Services.  

Margaret “Teen” Varn Plowden Marshall

Margaret “Teen” Varn Plowden Marshall

Nov 16, 2024

Margaret “Teen” Varn Plowden Marshall 

April 2, 1946 - November 16, 2024

Mrs. Margaret “Teen” Marshall, 78, of Hahira, Ga, passed away November 16, 2024 at home surrounded by her family.

Teen grew up in Cook County on Hutchinson Mill Pond Rd in a strong rural community. As a teenager, she was an honor graduate and majorette at Cook High School. Her academic...

Maria A. Hughes

Maria A. Hughes

Nov 15, 2024

Maria A. Hughes, age 81, passed away peacefully on November 15, 2024, surrounded by her family in Valdosta, Georgia, after a brief illness.

Maria was born in Texas to the late Juanita Mejia Rodriguez and Pablo Rodriguez. She was a stay-at-home mother while being the wife to a career Air Force member, and then later worked at the Army Air Force...

Robert Chester Krawczyk

Robert Chester Krawczyk

Nov 14, 2024

Robert Chester Krawczyk, 76, was born June 19, 1948, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to the late Chester and Rose Krawczyk. He passed away on November 14, 2024, in Valdosta, Georgia. He is survived by his son, Robert Krawczyk (Lauren) of St. Petersburg, Florida, and daughter, Rosemary Sergent (Dennis) of Jacksonville, Florida. 

Robert grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA and as...

John Kenneth Elliott

John Kenneth Elliott

Nov 14, 2024

John Kenneth Elliott, 62, of Quitman, died on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at South Georgia Medical Center following a lengthy illness. He was born on December 28, 1961, in Hahira to the late J.C. and Virginia Parker Elliott. He was a farmer and had worked for several local farms in the area, the last one being with Lawson Farms before...

Charles Eugene King

Charles Eugene King

Nov 14, 2024

Charles Eugene King, 88, of Valdosta, GA passed away peacefully at home on November 14, 2024. Charles was born in Hagerstown, Indiana on March 22, 1936 to Lowell and Mary Katherine Burkhardt King (Coffin). He grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from Emerick Manual Training High School in Indianapolis. While in high school, he served one and a half...

Eleanor E. Weiffenbach

Eleanor E. Weiffenbach

Nov 13, 2024

Eleanor E. Weiffenbach, 87, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at The Canopy at Azalea Grove following a lengthy illness. She was born on May 26, 1937, in Jackson, Kentucky to the late Rader and Margaret Smith Gross. Mrs. Weiffenbach received her undergraduate and post graduate degree from the University of South Florida and had served as a...

Emilia Ann Perez

Emilia Ann Perez

Nov 11, 2024

Emilia Ann Perez, 41, of Lake Park, suddenly passed away on Monday, November 11, 2024, at her residence. She was born on January 8, 1983, in Miami, Florida. Emilia was known for being THE aunt to her nieces and nephews and always went overboard, especially at Christmas, with all the many treasures she would get for them and the Christmas...

Ruth Reynolds Sinclair

Ruth Reynolds Sinclair

2024

Mrs. Ruth Reynolds Sinclair passed away peacefully on November 11, 2024. She was 89.

A private memorial service will be held by the family when all can attend. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to one of her favorite charities, E.S.M. First United Methodist Church of Bogalusa, Louisiana or the Alzheimer's Association.

Mrs. Sinclair was born February 17, 1935 in...

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