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Horace W. "Cowboy" Adams
Nov 2, 2013
Horace W. "Cowboy"Adams, 70, of Lake Park, died on Saturday, November 02, 2013 at the Langdale Hospice House following a lengthy illness. He was born on September 8, 1943 in Statenville, Georgia to the late Claude and Ruth Wright Adams and has been a resident of this area his whole life. Mr. Adams was of the Church of God faith.Survivors...
Loren Drue Dodson
Oct 30, 2013
Loren Drue Dodson, 57, of Valdosta, GA, passed away on October 30, 2013, in Ocala, FL. He was born on October 2, 1956, in Valdosta. He graduated from Valdosta High School in 1974 and attended Valdosta State College. While at VHS, he played football for the Wildcats under Coach Wright Bazemore and proudly wore #73. Loren was employed by Tri-State...
Keith Conley
Oct 28, 2013
Keith A. Conley, 47, of Valdosta, died on Monday, October 28, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center after a sudden illness. Born in Landstuhl, Germany, he had lived in Valdosta for just over a year now and was formerly of St. Augustine, Ft. Myers and Tallahassee, FL. Keith was a deeply loved father, son, brother, uncle, and friend. He graduated...
Betty Meeks Bass Thackrey
Oct 28, 2013
Betty Bass Thackrey, 80, of Valdosta died Monday, October 28, 2013 at Langdale Hospice House after a lengthy illness. She was born on February 10, 1933 in Sandersville, Georgia to the late George Marion Meeks and Irene Jenny Brown Meeks and had lived in Valdosta since 1961. Mrs. Thackrey was a member of the Northside Baptist Church and a retired...
Lamar W. Mckee
Oct 27, 2013
Lamar W. McKee, 81, of Hahira, died Sunday, October 27, 2013 at his residence. He was born in Bailey, Mississippi on February 20, 1932 to the late Levi Wesley and Willie Mae Williamson McKee. Mr. McKee was retired from Davis Air Conditioning. He was a well loved and respected husband, father and grandfather. Mr. McKee was a faithful and longtime...
Clara Beatrice (Bea) Drazdowski
Oct 26, 2013
Clara Beatrice (Bea) Drazdowski, 91, of Valdosta, died on Saturday, October 26, 2013 at Presbyterian Home in Quitman after a lengthy illness. She was born in South Georgia to the late Edward Daniel Freeman & Estelle Bostick Freeman. After growing up in South Georgia, she moved to New York City where she started her family. In 1959 she moved back...
L. S. Daniels
Oct 25, 2013
L. S. Daniels, 97, of Quitman, died on Friday October 25, 2013 following a lengthy illness. Born in Thomasville on May 4, 1916 to the late James Thomas & Alma Cobb Daniels, he had been a lifelong resident of this area. Mr. Daniels briefly served in the U.S. Navy during WW II, then, having grown up on a farm in...
Jacqueline (Jackie) Stalvey Bayless
Oct 25, 2013
Jacqueline (Jackie) Stalvey Bayless, 80, of Valdosta, died Friday, October 25, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Cook County, GA on September 24, 1933 to the late Thomas Eason and Annie Bell Futch Stalvey. Mrs. Bayless was a 1950 graduate of Cook County High School in Adel, worked as a telephone operator with Southern Bell and...
Carmen Etteinne Davis Boatwright
Oct 25, 2013
Carmen Etteinne Davis Boatwright, 78, of Valdosta died on October 25, 2013 at the Langdale Hospice House. She was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia on January 9, 1935 to the late Ralph Alexander and Etteinne McCranie Davis. Mrs. Boatwright attended Martha Berry School for Girls in high school and was a graduate of Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, Georgia...
Albert "Bubba" Brantley
Oct 21, 2013
Albert "Bubba" Brantley, 64, of Lake Park died on Monday, October 21, 2013 at his residence following a lengthy illness. A memorial service for Albert Brantley will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, October 25, 2013 in the chapel of the Carson McLane Funeral Home. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from 5-7 p.m. at the funeral...
Charlie D. Sims
Oct 19, 2013
Charlie D. Sims, 88, of Valdosta, passed away quietly on Saturday, October 19, 2013 of natural causes. He was born in Ficklin, Georgia on March 18, 1925 to the late Emery, Sr. and Corrie Graham Sims and at the age of two years old he moved with his parents to Winter Park, Florida. He joined the Navy after graduating from...
Gayle M. Smith Zeigler
Oct 18, 2013
Gayle M. Smith ZeiglerGayle M. Smith Zeigler, 67, of Valdosta died Friday, October 18, 2013 at her residence surrounded by her family and loved ones. She was born on December 15, 1945 in Valdosta to the late Benjamin Ira Moore and Annie Mae Bailey Moore. Gayle was a graduate of Lowndes High School and attended Valdosta State College where she...
Kenneth Wright Shanklin
Oct 15, 2013
Kenneth Wright Shanklin, 83, of Valdosta died Tuesday, October 13, 2013 at the Presbyterian Home in Quitman after a lengthy illness. He was born on May 25, 1930 in Elkton, Kentucky to the late Linsey and Olen Nickerson Shanklin and had lived in Valdosta for eight years. Mr. Shanklin was a member of Pleasant Way Baptist Church. He was a...
Robert (Bob) Cribley
Oct 15, 2013
Robert (Bob) Cribley, Lt. Col (Ret.), 89, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at his residence. Born in Warren, OH to the late Clifford James & Hilda Marie Rantimake Cribley, he had lived in this area for the past 7 years. Bob joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1944 and was a navigator on a B-17 and...
Royce Carter Hutchinson
Oct 14, 2013
Royce Carter Hutchinson, 69, of Madison, Florida died Monday, October 14, 2013 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital after short illness. He was born in Valdosta on October 7, 1944. Mr. Hutchinson was a member of the Ochlawilla Baptist Church. He retired from Tri County Electric as a dispatcher and a member of the Monticello Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his wife, Carol...
Frances H. Crosby
Oct 14, 2013
Frances H. Crosby, 91, of Valdosta died on Monday, October 14, 2013 at the Langdale Hospice House after a brief illness. She was born on March 3, 1922 to the late Alton and Ena Haywood and had lived in Valdosta for the past ten years moving here from Athens, Georgia. Mrs. Crosby was a loving and devoted mother and grandmother....
Betty Jo Brannon
Oct 11, 2013
Betty Jo Brannon, 84, of Hahira died on Friday, October 11, 2013 at Cook Senior Living Center following a lengthy illness. She was born on July 13, 1929 to the late Sam and Eula Tyler Reeves and has been a resident of the local area for most of her life. She worked for most of her adult life and was...
Charles Lawrence "Chuck" Pitts
Oct 10, 2013
Charles Lawrence "Chuck" Pitts, 58, of Valdosta and formerly of Byron, GA died Thursday, October 10, 2013 at his residence. He was born on July 24, 1955 in Fort Valley, GA to Charles Wesley Pitts and Evie Carrell Churchwell Pitts. Chuck is a retired SSgt from the United States Air Force having served from 1977 until 2001 and worked for...
Willie Mack Turner
Oct 9, 2013
Willie Mack Turner passed away Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at Fellowship Home. Mr. Turner was born February 13, 1932, in Valdosta, Georgia to Willie Alvin Turner and Rose Marie Burch. He was preceded in death by his first wife and mother of his children, Mary Lynch; brothers, Jimmy Turner and Harry Turner and sister, Betty Moore. Survivors are his wife,...
Houston Price, Sr.
Oct 8, 2013
Houston Price, Sr. 81, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 after a long illness. He was born on April 27, 1932 in Statesboro, to the late Hattie Parrish and Millard Bernon (M.B.) Price. He attended schools in Statesboro, Portal, Augusta and Thomasville before graduating from Valdosta High School. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1950 and served...
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