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Marlene Leitzman
Feb 26, 2018
Marlene Leitzman, 79, of Valdosta passed away Monday, February 26, 2018 at Langdale Hospice House. She was born on April 30, 1938 in Fort Wayne, IN to the late Carl Henry Smith and Dorothy Eloise Jackson Smith. Mrs. Leitzman was a homemaker and was affliated with the Church of the Nazarene in Fort Wayne, IN. She enjoyed geology and she...
Donna T. Miller
Feb 24, 2018
Donna T. Miller, 72, of Lake Park, passed away on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at her residence. She was born on November 17, 1945 in Elberton, GA to the late Ben and Melba Gulley Teasley. Donna was a member of Lake Park United Methodist Church. She worked for the Lowndes County School system as a secretary. She attended Georgia Southern...
Glenn Thomas O'Neal, Sr.
Feb 24, 2018
Glenn Thomas O’Neal, age 92, of Valdosta, passed away on Saturday, February 24, 2018. Born on November 11, 1925, he was one of eleven children to John Robert O’Neal and Maude Lee (McLeod) O’Neal. Glenn will be remembered as a faithful servant of the Lord, for his service to his country, his community, and immeasurable love for his family and...
Ruth Harper Babb
Feb 23, 2018
Ruth Harper Babb, 99, of Valdosta, passed away Friday, February 23, 2018 at South Georgia Medical Center. Ruth was born August 2, 1918 in Lone Oak, KY to the late Joe and Delma Skaggs Harper. She worked as a secretary for her husband’s plumbing company. She was a member of Central Avenue Church of Christ and Lone Oak Church of...
Claude Lavel "Buster" Christie
Feb 23, 2018
Claude Lavel “Buster” Christie, 81, of Valdosta, died Friday, February 23, 2018 at Lakeland Villa in Lakeland, GA. He was born on September 27, 1936 in Echols County, GA to the late Judson Claude Christie and Lula Mae Fletcher Christie. Buster was a machinist for NAPA, a veteran of the United States Army and of the Church of Christ faith....
Frances "Fran" Chewning
Feb 21, 2018
Frances “Fran” Chewning, 62, of Crystal River passed away on Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Fran was born on January 12, 1956 in Lake City, Florida to the late James Lee Jr. and Frances Dunaway. Fran is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University with a degree in Education and continued on to receive her Master’s of Education with an emphasis on...
Jacob D. Sellers
Feb 21, 2018
Jacob D. (Jay) Sellers, 32, of Hahira, passed away on Wednesday, February 21, 2018. He was born in Athens, GA on May 5, 1985 and grew up in Moultrie and Albany. He went into the U.S. Army at an early age, attending basic at Ft. Benning and then was assigned to 1-32 as a Mortar Sgt. for the 10th Mountain...
Danny Mansukhani
Feb 20, 2018
Danny Mansukhani, 75, of Valdosta, died suddenly on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at his residence. He was born in India, to a Hindu family, in the part of India that became Pakistan after the Great Partition. Danny, was one of seventeen siblings. Their family endured much, having to flee to Amritsar and then to Jaipur after the Partition. The Mansukhani...
Betty J. Sorenson
Feb 20, 2018
Betty J. Sorenson, age 78, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 after a lengthy illness. She was born in Macon, on December 24, 1939, daughter of Eldridge and Ollie Mae Sikes Suddeth. Prior to meeting the love of her life and moving to Valdosta, she was a hairdresser for eighteen and a half years in the Atlanta area....
Royce Eugene Oliver, Jr.
Feb 20, 2018
Royce Eugene Oliver, Jr., 81, of Valdosta passed away on February 20, 2018 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on November 19, 1936 in Middleboro, MA to the late Royce E. Oliver, Sr. and Maria Butkus Oliver. Mr. Oliver was a retired USAF Lt. Colonel, a Vietnam veteran, and the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He earned...
Lt. Col. Joe Burwell Stallings
Feb 20, 2018
Lt. Col. Joe Burwell Stallings, age 83, of Jennings, FL, passed away on the morning of Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at Shands in Gainesville, FL. Joe was born April 19, 1934, in Berrien County, Georgia to the late Roscoe Arnold and Sarah Frances Brown Stallings. After growing up on a tobacco farm in Nashville, Joe attended Emory University where he...
Dr. Charles A. Hodges, Jr.
Feb 19, 2018
Dr. Charles A. Hodges, Jr., 87, of Valdosta, passed away on Monday, February 19, 2018 at his home. He was born in Dublin, GA on January 4, 1931, to the late Charles Augustus Hodges, Sr. and Anne Williamson Hodges. He graduated from Dublin High School in 1948 and University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in 1953. He received...
James Neil Anderson
Feb 19, 2018
James Neil Anderson July 25, 1947 – 19 February 2018 Mr. James Neil Anderson passed away on February 19, 2018 at the South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta Georgia following a brief illness. Neil, formally of Rhine Georgia, was born on July 25, 1947 in Hawkinsville, GA and was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Anderson, formally of...
Virginia Ann Bell
Feb 19, 2018
Virginia Ann Bell, 89, of Valdosta, passed away at Lakehaven Nursing Home on Monday, February 19, 2018. The daughter of the late Roy Wisenbaker and Maybell Carroll Wisenbaker Johnson, she was born in Valdosta on April 4, 1928. A retired substitute teacher, Mrs. Bell had worked with both the Lowndes County and Valdosta City School systems. At the age of...
Emma Jeanette Moon
Feb 18, 2018
Emma Jeanette Moon, 89, of Valdosta died Sunday, February 18, 2018. She was born on October 24, 1928 in Cordele, Georgia to the late James E. Waldrip, Sr. and Velma Veal Waldrip. Mrs. Moon was a lifelong resident of this area, a homemaker and a member of the Northside Baptist Church. She was a wonderful mother who enjoyed working in...
Harold Vivian (Jim) Folsom
Feb 17, 2018
Harold Vivian (Jim) Folsom, 89, of Hahira, passed away on Saturday, February 17, 2018. He was a lifelong resident of this area, he was born on December 30, 1928 to the late Thomas Herbert and Nona Mae Harris Folsom. He retired from the U. S. Air Force and was an automobile mechanic. Mr. Folsom is survived by his daughter and...
Janet Wasson Robinson
Feb 14, 2018
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, gardener, neighbor and friend Janet Robinson, age 85, of Valdosta, Ga., had dinner plans this Valentine’s Day. So on Feb. 14, 2018, she settled into the chair her late husband, Robbie, had used in the last days of his life and waited for him to pick her up for a long-awaited date. This year’s Valentine’s Day...
Daniel Wayne Mcmillan
Feb 14, 2018
Daniel Wayne McMillan, 77, of Lake Park and Leesburg, GA passed away on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. He was born in Andalusia, AL on August 26, 1940 to the late Joseph Edward and Rose Eleanor DeLoach McMillan. He retired after 28 years from Pittsburg Paint and later from Richards Paint. He played football for the Georgia Bulldogs at the University...
Helen King Smith
Feb 14, 2018
Helen King Smith, a longtime resident of Valdosta, died on February 14; she was 97. Helen Irene King was born in 1920, in Hesston, Kansas, the fourth of eight children of Ezra King, a Mennonite bridge builder, and Mary Longenecker King, a homemaker. When in elementary school, she walked one mile each way with her brothers and sisters to the...
Velma Laverne Tucker Tyler
Feb 13, 2018
Velma LaVerne Tucker Tyler, 86, of Hahira passed away peacefully Tuesday morning on February 13, 2018 after her long battle with dementia at the home of her caretakers, her daughter and son in law, Judy and John Pike of Hahira. Miss Velma will always be remembered for her many years of service as a Lowndes County school bus driver in...
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