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Coney Lee Carter
Aug 4, 2008
Coney Lee Carter, 83, of Brooks County, passed away Monday, August 4, 2008 at the Langdale Hospice House following an extended illness. Born on July 14, 1925 in Lowndes County, he was the son of the late Hiram and Pearl Carter. He was a lifelong resident of Brooks Co. Mr. Carter was retired from Strickland Cotton Mills. He began Bass...
Dr. John C. Huxford
Aug 1, 2008
Dr. John C. Huxford, 77, of Valdosta died Friday, August 1, 2008 at the Langdale Hospice House. He was born in Homerville on February 3, 1931 to the late Folks and Orie Kirkland Huxford. Dr. Huxford was a veteran of the Korean War and a retired professor with the College of Fine Arts at Valdosta State University. He was a...
Betty Clayton Carlisle
Aug 1, 2008
Betty Clayton Carlisle, beloved mother and grandmother, 83, of Birmingham, Alabama and formerly of Lake Park died Friday, August 1, 2008 at the Anniston Regional Memorial Hospital in Anniston, Alabama after a lengthy illness. She was born on July 24, 1925 in Evansville, Indiana to the late D. G. and Pearl Evanson Clayton. Mrs. Carlisle was a retired secretary for...
Dorothy Moore Keller
Jul 31, 2008
DOROTHY MOORE KELLER, 81, of Valdosta, died Thursday, July 31, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Berrien County in 1927, a daughter of the late Malcolm Joel Moore and Susan Hall Moore.A resident of Valdosta since 1956, she was active in many community affairs: civic, club, school, cub and boy scouts, and her church, First United...
Susan Hall Darley
Jul 29, 2008
Susan Hall Darley, 49, of Valdosta died Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at home. She was born in Lowndes County on January 8, 1959 to the Lonnie Lee Hall and the late Marjorie Evelyn Moore Hall. Mrs. Darley was a member of the Bemiss Road Baptist Church. Survivors include her daughters and sons in law, Martina and Roger Copeland of Jesup,...
Susie Copeland
Jul 28, 2008
Susie M. Copeland, 82, Ft. Oglethorpe, passed away Monday, July 28, 2008. She was born in Clyattville, Georgia to the late Thomas and Rhoda Copeland. Ms. Copeland was a vocational business teacher in the Atlanta City Schools for over 40 years. She received a Masters Degree from FSU. Ms. Copeland was a member of the Fidelis Sunday School class at...
Raymond D. Robbins, Jr.
Jul 28, 2008
Raymond D. Robbins, Jr. (Ret. MSgt. USAF), 64, of Lake Park died Monday, July 28, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on September 15, 1943 in Bloomington, Illinois to the late Raymond D., Sr. and Dorothy Carr Robbins and had lived in Lowndes County for the past twenty six years. Mr. Robbins enjoyed fishing and camping. He...
Charles "Pops" Crosby
Jul 27, 2008
Charles "Pops" Crosby, 64, of Valdosta, died at home on Sunday, July 27, 2008. Born on August 13, 1943 in Tampa, FL, he was the son of the late John and Matilda Corbin Crosby. He was a retired meat cutter for Blanton's Meats and Kountry Meats Outlet. He was baptized at the Lake Park Church of God.He is survived by...
Emmitt Paul (E.P. Buck) Cowart, Jr.
Jul 27, 2008
Emmitt Paul (E.P. Buck) Cowart, Jr. 93, of Valdosta died on Sunday, July 27, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on May 13, 1915 in Emanuel County Georgia to the late Emmitt Paul, Sr. and Alley Waller Cowart and was retired from the city of Valdosta. He was a WWII veteran having served with the Army Air...
Mary Dowdy
Jul 26, 2008
Mary P. "Polly" Dowdy, 84, of Lake Park, died Saturday, July 26, 2008 at Lakehaven Nursing Home. Born on January 6, 1924 in Crisp County she was the daughter of the late Paul and Nora Stephens Ray. She had resided in Lake Park for the past 50 years. Mrs. Dowdy and her husband, Edward R. Dowdy owned and operated a...
Mark A. Nitschke
Jul 26, 2008
Mark Nitschke, 43, of Lee, FL, died on Saturday, July 26, 2008. Born on June 25, 1965 in Valdosta, he had moved to Lee, FL 6 years ago. Mark worked for several years in the grocery business. He was an avid hunter and loved to fish. Mark was of the Church of God faith.Survivors include his wife, Brenda Nitschke of...
Danny J. Watson
Jul 25, 2008
USAF (Ret) MSgt. Danny J. Watson, 56, of Hahira, died Friday, July 25, 2008 at his residence after a short illness. He was born on July 21, 1952 in Douglas, GA to the late Jack and Carolyn Watson. MSgt. Watson was retired from the United States Air Force as an ammunition specialist where he served for twenty four years. He...
Walter Franklin Player
Jul 25, 2008
Walter F. Player, 81, of Hahira, GA died Friday, July 25, 2008 at the Berrien Nursing Center in Nashville, GA. He was born in Hahira on April 16, 1927. Mr. Player was retired from Toledo Scales in Dayton, Ohio, was of the Baptist faith and loved horses and loved to ride them with his good friend, the late George M....
Robert Kuhfeldt
Jul 24, 2008
Robert Kuhfeldt, 75, of Valdosta died at South Georgia Medical Center on Thursday, July 24, 2008. Born on September 2, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of the late Albert and Vera Kuhfeldt. He was an instructor in the United States Air Force and retired as a Master Sgt. after serving more than 20 years. Mr. Kuhfeldt also...
Alice Margaret Sims Thompson
Jul 24, 2008
Alice Margaret Sims Thompson, 92, of Valdosta, died at her residence after a lengthy illness on Thursday, July 24, 2008. Born on August 3, 1915 in Lowndes County, she was the daughter of the late John H. and Corinne Lineberger Sims. She attended UGA where she was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority and later received her degree...
Melvin Daniel Peters
Jul 23, 2008
MELVIN DANIEL PETERS, 70, of Valdosta, died Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at Smith Northview Hospital. He was born in Naylor a son of the late Irvin H. and Mary Frances Wilson Peters.Following his mother's death, he was raised by his aunt, the late Charity Peters Cowart, while his father served in World War II. He graduated from Florida State University...
Albert Kenneth Monk
Jul 22, 2008
Albert Kenneth Monk, 93, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at Langdale Hospice House. Born in Naylor on October 9, 1914, he was the son of the late Albert and Lizzie Sellars Monk. Mr. Monk owned and operated Monks Grocery before his retirement. He was a WWII Army Veteran and was a member of Good Hope Baptist Church....
Annie Laura Siegel
Jul 18, 2008
ANNIE L. SIEGEL, 69, of Dasher, died Friday, July 18, 2008 at Langdale Hospice House after a long illness. She was born in Lowndes County a daughter of the late Foy Hodges, Sr. and Annie Hesters Hodges. Mrs. Siegel had provided child care from her former home in Valdosta for 20 years. Survivors include her husband, Joseph R. Siegel of...
John Clinton Harris
Jul 18, 2008
Clint Harris, 54, of Valdosta, died suddenly Friday, July 18, 2008. He was born on December 30, 1953 in Miami, FL to Virgil C. Harris, Sr. and the late Ruth Johnson Harris. Mr. Harris was materials management director at South Georgia Medical Center, a veteran of the United States Air Force and a member of First United Methodist Church. He...
James M. (Jim) Howard
Jul 17, 2008
James M. (Jim) Howard, 26, of Valdosta, died at his residence on Thursday, July 17, 2008. He was born on December 23, 1981 in San Antonio, TX. Jim was an artist and musician.He is survived by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. William R. Howard of Valdosta; brothers and sisters-in-law, Bill and Jessica Howard of Mt. Pleasant, SC, Tom and Jessica...
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