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Local Obituaries for Valdosta, Hahira, Lake Park, Lowndes County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Frederick Ware, Jr.
Apr 15, 2023
Frederick Anderson Ware, Jr., Ph.D., 87, passed away on Saturday, April 15, 2023, at Presbyterian Home in Quitman, GA. Born of American parentage in Melbourne, Australia on April 27, 1935, he was reared in Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Ware was Emeritus Professor of Management at Valdosta State University, having retired in December of 2012 after 42 years on the faculty.
Dr. Ware’s...
Dorothy Allbritton Simpson
Apr 15, 2023
Dorothy Allbritton Simpson, 96, of Valdosta passed away at her home in Valdosta on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Born in Ousley on December 20, 1926, she was the daughter of the late George Isaac Allbritton and Gladys Minton Allbritton. Dorothy was a beauty school graduate and an accomplished hairdresser. While in San Diego with her husband who was in the...
Anna Marie (Driggers) Lassetter
Apr 14, 2023
Anna Marie (Driggers) Lassetter, 63, of Valdosta, passed away peacefully in her home on Friday, April 14, 2023. The family is deeply saddened by her sudden death. She was born in Lowndes County, on November 20, 1959, to the late Mary Haywood Paulk and Henry Charles Driggers.
Anna was a longtime local resident of Lowndes County. Over the years, she loved...
Samuel James Boone
Apr 13, 2023
Samuel James Boone, 86, of Valdosta, passed on April 13, 2023, at South Georgia Medical Center. Born in Valdosta, GA, on February 13, 1937, he is the son of the late Alton J. and Anna R. Boone. He was a graduate of Valdosta High School and the University of Georgia. After college he worked in dairy management for several years...
Denise Pauline Carter
Apr 12, 2023
Denise Pauline Carter, 77, of Lanett, Alabama, died on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at the Arbor Springs Rehab in Opelika, Alabama, following a period of declining health. She was born on March 27, 1946, in Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk County, England to the late Dennis Wilfred and Dorothy Selina Allen Moore. She was a homemaker and a member of St. John...
Charles Alexander Powell Iii
Apr 12, 2023
Charles Alexander Powell, III, 81, of Valdosta, passed away at South Georgia Medical Center on April 12, 2023. Born in Rahway, Union County, New Jersey on January 30, 1942, Charles was the son of the late Charles Augustus Powell and Christina McKenzie McAllister Powell. A retired educator, Mr. Powell taught high school history, and law, for thirty years in the...
Ealie Doyle Herring
Apr 11, 2023
Ealie Doyle Herring, 86, of Lake Park, passed away on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Fellowship Home in Brooks County. He was born on June 2, 1936, in Lake Park, GA, to the late Leland Herring and Marie Tomlinson Herring. He was a FFA member during his high school years and went on to become a farmer, winning outstanding young...
Robert Jerome Mathis Sr.
Apr 10, 2023
Robert Jerome Mathis, Sr., of Ray City, died on Monday, April 10, 2023, at Tift Regional Hospital. Born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 7, 1946, he was the son of the late Robert Lee Mathis and Charlie Ethel Nash Mathis.
Robert loved family reunions, spending time with family, and he especially loved his grandchildren. He loved the Christmas season and dressing...
Lamar Goble
Apr 8, 2023
Lamar Goble, 87, of Valdosta, passed away on Saturday, April 8, 2023, at Fellowship Home at Brookside. He was born in Moultrie on December 24, 1935 to the late Thomas Claude Goble and Ella Murphy Goble. He was a faithful member of Morningside Baptist Church until his health began failing. Lamar was successful entrepreneur, in 1969 he established Goble’s Grocery...
Betty Jo Coddington
Apr 7, 2023
Betty Jo Coddington, age 81, wife of Neil A. Coddington and daughter of Snowden and Maetrelle Shehan, departed this Earth peacefully into the loving arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ, on Good Friday, April 7, 2023 surrounded by family and beloved friends.
Born December 16,1941, in Valdosta, Georgia, this southern lady was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. When...
Theresa Lahood Joseph
Apr 5, 2023
Theresa LaHood Joseph, 87, of Valdosta, peacefully passed away the morning of April 5, 2023. Theresa was born in Valdosta to the late Tofy John “T.J.” LaHood and Sarah Toney LaHood and lived most of her life in this area. Theresa lived for twenty years in Jacksonville Beach, FL following her husband’s death, before returning to Valdosta in 2021. Theresa...
Sybil Taylor Langdale
Apr 4, 2023
Sybil Taylor Langdale, 74 of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at Langdale Hospice House following a lengthy illness. Born in Clyattville to the late Crancie Vernon Taylor & Gladys Hardee Taylor, she had been a lifelong resident of this area. Sybil grew up here and graduated from Lowndes High School in 1966. Soon after high school, Sybil met...
Kenneth Lee Dressel
Apr 2, 2023
Kenneth Lee “Kenny” “Pogo” Dressel, 64, of Gilbert, Arizona passed away on April 2, 2023. Kenny was born on April 15, 1958, to Joan and Thomas Dressel in Long Beach, California. A proud veteran, Kenny devoted over two decades to his country in the United States Air Force. He married the love of his life, Robin, on May 29, 1982,...
Bobbie Marcelle Harvey
Apr 1, 2023
Bobbie Marcelle Abel Harvey, 96, died on 1 April 2023 at Lakehaven Nursing Home in Valdosta, GA after a lengthy struggle with Lewy body dementia. She was born in a log cabin in Hixson, TN on 1 June 1926 to Robert Franklin Abel and Nancy Mae Hixson. In 1928, her family moved to Rockwood, TN where she spent most of...
Violet Weathersbee Villepigue
Mar 31, 2023
Violet Weathersbee Villepigue, 91, of Valdosta, passed away peacefully on March 31st surrounded by her family. She was born in Bath, South Carolina on February 28, 1932, to the late Olin Frampton Weathersbee and Patsy Bridges Weathersbee. She and her late husband, Harrington Yates Villepigue of Camden, South Carolina, were residents of North Augusta, South Carolina for close to fifty...
Ken Courson
Mar 29, 2023
Ken Courson,72, of Valdosta died peacefully at home March 29, 2023, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Valdosta on October 5, 1950, he was the son of Lee L and Otha Watley Courson. He was a graduate of Lowndes County High School and of the Valdosta Technical Institute Machine Technology Program. He then served in the U.S. Navy during...
Aldean (Dean) Dukes, Jr.
Mar 29, 2023
Aldean (Dean) Dukes, Jr., 61, of Valdosta, passed away on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. He was a lifelong resident of Valdosta, born on November 22, 1961 to the late Aldean Franklin Dukes, Sr. and Doris Herman Dukes. He was a 1979 graduate of Lowndes High School where he had played the trumpet. His avid love for music grew from his...
David James Kindschy
Mar 27, 2023
David James Kindschy, 86 of Hahira, died on March 27, 2023, in Cook County. Born in Arcadia, Wisconsin, on April 28, 1936, he was the son of the late Ralph C. and Gertrude Becker Kindschy. He was a 1954 graduate of Blair High School in Blair, Wisconsin. David proudly served his country in the United States Army, Army Reserves and...
Deborah Wooten Watts Hase
Mar 26, 2023
Deborah Wooten Watts Hase passed peacefully March 26, 2023, in Valdosta, at Langdale Hospice House in the company of her loving husband, daughter and grandson. Deborah was born in Lumberton, North Carolina and was the oldest of five children born to Ben and Ethel Wooten. The family later relocated to Savannah, where Ben worked at Union Bag Paper Mill rising...
Lou Nell Culpepper Hughes
Mar 25, 2023
Lou Nell Culpepper Hughes, 85, of Lake Park, died on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Born in Echols County to the late James Euell Culpepper and Cuba Loraine Kinsey Culpepper, she had been a lifelong resident of this area. Growing up in Echols County, she was a 1955 graduate of Echols County High School. Nell grew up with Daniel Hughes. They...
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