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Emma Jane Autry Garrison
Mar 10, 2012
Emma Jane Autry Garrison, 91, of Ray City died on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the South Georgia Medical Center following a lengthy illness. She was born in Guyton, Georgia to the late Theodore and Emma Jane Foushee Autry and has been a resident of this area since 1948. She was the co-owner/operator of the family's agriculture business until her...
Ben Belue
Mar 9, 2012
Ben Belue, 71, of Valdosta was a devoted family man and lifetime sales executive, born in Anniston, Alabama on November 28, 1940 and raised in Macon, Georgia where he attended Lanier High School. The only child of a J. C. Penney executive and went onto graduate from Georgia State University with a degree in business administration in 1963. The majority...
Velma Juanell Wheeler Long
Mar 7, 2012
Velma Juanell Wheeler Long, 77, of Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee died Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at her home. She was born on February 9, 1935 in Nachtee, Florida to the late Lloyd Carroll and Zola Irene Barrs Wheeler. Mrs. Long was a member of the Church of God and was raised in Echols County. Mrs. Long was preceded in death by...
Henry Alford "H. A." Miley, Jr.
Mar 7, 2012
H. A. Miley, 89, of Hahira, died Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at Heritage Healthcare at Heritage House Nursing Home. He was born in Hahira on June 23, 1922 to the late Alford Miley and Doshia Rebecca Griffin Miley. Mr. Miley was a retired clerk from the Hahira Post Office after working there 34 ½ years. He was a member of...
Constance (Connie) K. Christie
Mar 7, 2012
Constance "Connie" K. Christie, 87, of Valdosta, passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at Lakehaven Nursing Home after a lengthy illness.She was born December 28, 1924 in Arlington, GA, the daughter of the late E.H. and Bobbie Lumley Kinsler. She graduated from Valdosta State College for Women and taught Biology at Griffin High School, where she was also the Cheerleading...
David Wayne Cardwell
Mar 6, 2012
David Wayne Cardwell, 74, of Valdosta died Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after a lengthy illness. He was born on November 9, 1937 in Kingsport, Tennessee to the late Leonard and Hazel Martin Cardwell and had lived in Valdosta for many years. Mr. Cardwell attended Antioch Church and was a veteran of the United States...
Olive Fogg Scott
Mar 4, 2012
Olive Fogg Scott, 88, of Gainesville, Florida died on Sunday, March 4, 2012 at the Clinch Healthcare Center in Homerville following a lengthy illness. A graveside service for Olive Scott will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at Dasher Cemetery with Mr. Mike Black officiating. In lieu of flowers donation may be made to the Georgia...
Sadie Deloach Oliver
Mar 1, 2012
Sadie DeLoach Oliver, 84, of Valdosta died on Thursday, March 1, 2012, after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Oliver was born in Echols County, on August 22, 1927, to the late Abran & Heneritta Justice DeLoach. Having grown up in Echols County, she moved to Ocoee, FL as a young lady and met and married her husband, the late Fitzhugh Huston...
Angela P. Carter
Feb 29, 2012
Angela P. Carter, 71, of Naylor, died on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at her home. Born in Fitzgerald on November 2, 1940, she was the daughter of the late Keith William Chaple and Vesta Floyd Chaple. Angela was employed as a switchboard operator with civil service at Moody Air Force Base. She was a Baptist. Survivors are her son and...
Thomas Roy Henderson
Feb 26, 2012
Thomas Roy Henderson, long-time resident of Sandy Springs, passed away peacefully on February 26, 2012. Born in Detroit on June 21, 1918 to the late Irene and Ross James Henderson, Mr. Henderson's family moved to Atlanta when he was just 8 months old, Mr. Henderson was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, the former Mary Theron Roberts...
James Lawrence (Jim) Haire
Feb 26, 2012
James Lawrence (Jim) Haire, 64, of Hahira died Sunday, February 26, 2012 at his home. He was born on May 21, 1947 in Fitzgerald to Audrey Grimes Haire and the late Lawrence Lee Haire. Mr. Haire was the service manager for Valdosta Lincoln Mercury and had served in the Merchant Marines. Survivors include his children, Jamey Haire of Hahira, Steve...
Kenneth William Schmidt
Feb 24, 2012
Kenneth William Schmidt, 80, of Hahira died Friday, February 24, 2012 at his home. He was born on September 6, 1931 in Rising City, Nebraska to the late William P. and Leona Mary Jaxson Schmidt and had lived in Hahira for the past six years. Mr. Schmidt was a retired heavy equipment operator for the Halifax Company. He was a...
Inez Parker Steedley
Feb 23, 2012
Inez Parker Steedley, 88, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at her home. Born in Brooks County, Georgia on December 15, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Joseph Brown Parker and Cora Alma Guess Parker. Mrs. Steedley was a member of Perimeter Road Baptist Church and she always enjoyed the fellowship she shared with her Sunday...
Laura Jean Bartow
Feb 23, 2012
Laura Jean Bartow, 60, of Hahira died Thursday, February 23, 2012 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy battle with heart disease. She was born on May 3, 1951 in Granite City, Illinois and had lived in this area for the past thirty years. Mrs. Bartow was an active member of Calvary Temple Church. She loved sharing Jesus with...
Catherine Montague Holt
Feb 22, 2012
Catherine Montague Holt, 98, of Valdosta, passed away Wednesday, February 22, 2012. She was born May 1, 1913 in Lake City, Florida, a daughter of the late Robert and Sarah Johnson Montague. She graduated from Florida Southern with a Bachelor's Degree in Education, and taught elementary school in Lake City, Florida and Valdosta.Mrs. Holt was an active member of the...
Ronald Hamby
Feb 18, 2012
Ronald Hamby, (Lt.Col. USAF, Retired), 87, of Valdosta died Saturday, February 18, 2012 at Smith Northview Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was born in Boaz, Alabama on April 17, 1924 to the late A.J. and Beatrice Hamby. He served in the United States Air Force where he was a jet fighter pilot, flight instructor and a wing air inspector....
Bernice Catherine Boughton
Feb 18, 2012
Bernice Catherine Boughton, 87, of Valdosta, died on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at her residence following a short illness. She was born on September 27, 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana to the late George and Alma Schmidt Hausz. Mrs. Boughton was a homemaker and a member of the Messiah Lutheran Church. She was also a long-time member of the Valdosta Country...
Carmen Zanae Carter
Feb 16, 2012
Carmen Zanae Carter, of Montezuma, GA, infant daughter of Carmesia Freeman and Laquavius Carter died Thursday, February 16, 2012 at Houston County Medical Center in Warner Robins, GA.In addition to her parents she is survived by her maternal grandparents, Lucille Brown and Kelvin Freeman, paternal grandparents, Vernessa Carter and Corey Tyson, maternal great grandparents, Mattie Walker, Jimmy Brown, Fletcher and...
John Vernon Hinely
Feb 16, 2012
Obituary for J. Vernon Hinely J. Vernon Hinely passed from this life to be with the Lord on Thursday, February 16. He was born in Miami, Fl. on March 23, 1924 to Robert Iley Hinely and Annie Pearl Pringle Hinely. He had 4 older sisters and 1 older brother: Mertie Clyde Carter, Louise Hamilton, Hilda Heard, Montine Franklin and William...
Lillian D. Rowan
Feb 15, 2012
Lillian D. Rowan, 87, of Lake Park, died on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at South Georgia Medical Center. Born in Morven on June 25, 1924, she was the daughter of the late N.A. and Pearlie Hightower Thomas. Mrs. Rowan was a member of Francis Lake Baptist Church. She operated Bearly Sick Daycare for South Georgia Medical Center and she and...
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