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Local Obituaries for Valdosta, Hahira, Lake Park, Lowndes County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Leah Louise Zakar
Mar 25, 2022
Leah Louise (Matchie) Zakar “Gagimi” age 67 of Valdosta, GA, passed away peacefully Friday, March 25, 2022. Leah was born on November 15, 1954 in Topeka, KS the daughter of Howard and Melvene Oliver. Leah was a member of the Native American tribe Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. She met John Henry Zakar, Jr. at Forbes AFB in Topeka, KS. They...
Janet Webb
Mar 25, 2022
Janet Thompson Webb, 79, of Valdosta, died peacefully in her sleep on Friday, March 25, 2022, at The Canopy. She was born and raised in Albany, GA to Ouida Jane Ellis Thompson and the late Iverson Perry Thompson. She was a retired supervisor for the Department of Family and Children Services. She graduated high school in Albany and then graduated...
Joann Cain Bantz
Mar 25, 2022
Joann Cain Bantz, 79, of Valdosta passed away on Friday, March 25, 2022. She was born in Hahira on August 24, 1942 to the late John Thomas (Jake) & Margaret Elaine Branch Cain. She was an interior decorator that owned and operated Johnson Custom Décor and Country Peddler and a member of Redland Baptist Church. She loved fishing, cooking for...
Rebecca Watson
Mar 24, 2022
Rebecca Smith Watson, 55, of Valdosta, passed away on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at Langdale Hospice House. She was born in Tifton, GA on March 14, 1967, to Lewis Charles Smith and Donna Brunson Smith. Becky was a member of First Baptist Church of Valdosta and lived to serve Christ. Becky and her husband Keith were president of the Flythe...
Robert John Gunn
Mar 23, 2022
Robert John Gunn of Valdosta took his final flight west on March 23, 2022. He passed at Langdale Hospice House surrounded by his loving family and friends. John was born September 27, 1948 in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan to Robert Bruce Gunn and Jessie Hunter Gunn. Being born into a military family meant that John was raised in many places, but...
William C. "Billy" Crook
Mar 23, 2022
William C. “Billy” Crook, passed away Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at Tift Regional Hospital. Born December 19, 1963, in Valdosta, Billy was the son of Anita Lunsford Crook and the late William E. “Bill” Crook. He was a 1983 graduate of Lowndes High School and played football for the Vikings as part of the team that won Lowndes High their...
Dianne Hamby Wright
Mar 23, 2022
Dianne Hamby Wright, 80, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at The Orchard following a period of declining health. She was born on May 4, 1941, in Clyattville to the late Alvin and Kathryn Morris Hamby. Dianne received her Bachelor of Education degree from Valdosta State (VSC) and later a Master’s degree in Library Science from Florida State...
Curt Anthoney Brooks
Mar 22, 2022
Curt Anthoney Brooks, 47, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at his residence following a lengthy illness. He was born on November 14, 1974, in Hahira and has been a life-long resident of Valdosta. He loved to fish and was a member of Corinth Baptist Church. He is survived by his son, Denver Brooks of Valdosta; his mother,...
Maxine Parker Hill
Mar 22, 2022
Maxine Parker Hill of Hahira, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at Presbyterian Home of Quitman. She was born on April 16, 1948 in Hahira to the late Ewart Frank Parker and Vera Mae Kirkland Parker. Mrs. Hill was a homemaker who was also an avid reader, gardener, and loved birds. Mrs. Hill is survived by her sons and...
Jane Shirah Stump
Mar 19, 2022
Jane Shirah Stump died March 19, 2022, in Charleston, SC, surrounded by her family. Janie was born to A. Jason Shirah and Jane Inman Shirah in Thomasville, GA, on June 9,1950. As a Methodist minister’s daughter, she grew up in various parsonages in South Georgia, graduating from Valdosta High School in 1968. She attended Wesleyan College and graduated from the...
Charles Windall Corbett
Mar 19, 2022
Charles Windall Corbett, 80, of Lake Park died Saturday, March 19, 2022, at his residence. He was born in Echols County on April 4, 1941, to the late Jesse Lee (Tince) Corbett and Flora Carter Corbett. Charles was a chemical tester at PCA in Clyattville and a member of Sardis Baptist Church. He collected tractors, loved the GA Bulldogs and...
Dewey Lee Rykard
Mar 18, 2022
Dewey Lee Rykard (U.S. Air Force Ret MSGT) of Enterprise, AL, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, March 18, 2022 at Medical Center Enterprise. He was 84. Graveside funeral services with full military honors will be held at 11a.m. on Friday, March 25, 2022 at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta, GA. Sorrells Funeral Home of...
Lynda H. Forthe
Mar 17, 2022
Lynda H. Forthe, 81, of Lake Park, passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2022 in St. Augustine, FL, after a battle with two non-related cancers. She grew up Lowndes County, and graduated from Pine Grove High School in the late 1950’s. She met Felton Forthe and they were married in 1961 and were married for 45 years until his death...
James Earl Bass
Mar 16, 2022
James Earl Bass, 83, of Valdosta, GA passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. He was born in Homerville, GA on October 13, 1938 to the late Jesse James and Clara Smith Bass. James Bass worked as an Environmental Inspector for Pruitt Health, was a U. S. Navy veteran, and a member of the South Valdosta Church of God. He...
Maureen Brownhill Tourtellott
Mar 16, 2022
Maureen Eleanor Brownhill Tourtellott, 79, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at her residence following a period of declining health. She was born on July 21, 1942, in Ecclesfield in Sheffield, Yorkshire England to the late Mons and Elsie Harvey Brownhill. She was a homemaker and of the Christian faith. Maureen is survived by her husband, Ted Tourtellott...
Patricia Girardin
Mar 16, 2022
Mrs. Patricia Dixon Girardin, 72 of Valdosta, passed away on March 16, 2022 in Atlanta, GA after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Waycross, GA on February 5, 1950. She and her family moved to Blackshear, GA in 1961. In 1988 she opened Patti Girardin Interiors in Valdosta. Pioneers in downtown living and in the revitalization of downtown Valdosta,...
Sandra Withers Stephens
Mar 16, 2022
Sandra Withers Stephens, 81, of Lake Park, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. She was born on April 5, 1940 in Bowling Green, KY to the late Leslie James Withers and Carmen Urcel Simmons. She was a cashier at Citgo and loved her family dearly. Mrs. Stephens is survived by her three children, James (Deborah) Lovins, of Statenville, Darra...
Daphne Stephenson
Mar 15, 2022
Daphne Lucille Stephenson (maiden name Tresher), devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother, and committed Christian, passed away on Tuesday, March 15, after a one-year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 67. Born on May 25, 1954 in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daphne was the daughter of the late George Fildes Tresher, Jr. and Daphne Lucille Clemons. When she was in elementary...
Gabe S. Saliba, Jr.
Mar 15, 2022
Gabe S. Saliba, Jr., 83, of Longwood, FL passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital in Longwood, FL. He was born in Valdosta on September 17, 1938 to the late Gabe S. Saliba, Sr. and Amy Saliba. Mr. Saliba was retired from the United States Air Force, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and from the...
Cathy Sims
Mar 14, 2022
Cathy Lynn Prairie Sims, 59, of Valdosta, was born on May 15, 1962, in Kankakee, IL to Richard James and Janet Elaine Adcock Prairie. Cathy married Thomas Sims on February 28, 1981, and recently celebrated 41 years of marriage. Cathy had a wonderful life as a wife and mother, her ultimate goal. Before she was blessed with Justin and Sarah,...
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