OBITUARIES

Recent Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Valdosta, Hahira, Lake Park, Lowndes County, GA & Surrounding Areas

Allen Dale Armstrong

Allen Dale Armstrong

Jun 5, 2022

Allen Dale Armstrong was born May 25, 1939 and went to be with the Lord on June 5, 2022. He is survived by his wife Mary (Wisenbaker) Armstrong; his son and daughter-in-law, Dale & Vivian Armstrong (Brentwood, TN); daughter, Mary Michelle (Missy) Armstrong (Valdosta); son, Gary Allen Armstrong (Dasher); grandson, Dowling Kirk & Olivia Armstrong (Springhill, TN); grandson, Dawson Allen...

Freddy B. Stalvey

Freddy B. Stalvey

Jun 3, 2022

Freddy B. Stalvey Freddy B. Stalvey, 74, of Hahira passed away at home early Friday morning, June 3, 2022. He was born in Hahira on April 6, 1948 to the late Bryant E. and Louise Rountree Stalvey. Freddy was retired from Norfolk Southern Railway. He attended Charity Baptist Church. Freddy enjoyed fishing, hunting, gardening, boiling peanuts and reading the Farmer's...

Lyle Deron Coppage

Lyle Deron Coppage

Jun 2, 2022

Lyle deRon Coppage deRon Coppage, 74, of Hahira passed away Thursday, June 2, 2022 at Langdale Hospice House surrounded by his loving family. He was born on March 17, 1948 in Hahira to the late Hoyt E. Coppage and Evelyn Shepherd Coppage. deRon was a retired photographer and a member of Hahira United Methodist Church. He was a member of...

Elizabeth  "Martha"  Devane

Elizabeth "Martha" Devane

Jun 2, 2022

Elizabeth Martha DeVane January 7, 1962 - June 2, 2022 Elizabeth “Martha” DeVane, 60, of St. Augustine, FL. passed away peacefully after an eight-month battle with cancer. She was born in Savannah, Georgia and relocated with her family to Valdosta when she was very young. She lived her childhood in Valdosta, where she attended St. Johns Catholic School before graduating...

Charles Edward Godair

Charles Edward Godair

May 31, 2022

Charles Edward (Chuck) Godair, 57, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. He was born on September 24, 1964, in Lakeland, Georgia and had worked in recent years as a security guard. He was a graduate of Lowndes County High School. Chuck enjoyed going fishing and was an avid football fan. He especially...

Marilyn Shiver

Marilyn Shiver

May 29, 2022

Marilyn Shiver, 85, of Valdosta passed away Sunday, May 29, 2022 at home. She was born in Caribou, Maine on September 13, 1936 to the late David and Zowie Carrow Cyr and had lived in this area for over 60 years. Mrs. Shiver was an active member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and retired manager of the Colonial...

Silas Eugene Brimmage, Ii

Silas Eugene Brimmage, Ii

May 28, 2022

Silas Eugene Brimmage, II (Gene to family and friends )of Hahira, passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at his residence. He was born on August 30, 1966 in Tampa, FL to the late Silas Eugene Brimmage and Frances Thelma Wallace Brimmage. The family moved to Hahira in 1970 where he lived in the Snake Nation Area the remainder of...

Patricia Fulghum

Patricia Fulghum

May 27, 2022

Patricia Ann Lokey Fulghum, 80, of Hahira passed away Friday, May 27, 2022 at her residence surrounded by her family. She was born in Albany, GA on August 7, 1941 to the late John Tileroe Lokey and Lillian Louise Hood Lokey. Pat was the retired owner and operator of the B & N Restaurant and the City Café in Hahira....

Jane Greene

Jane Greene

May 26, 2022

Jane Greene, 88, of Cook County, GA, passed away Thursday, May 26, 2022, peacefully in her sleep at home. Born Martha Jane Blanton on July 8th, 1933, she was a lifelong resident of South Georgia. She lived many years in Valdosta and retired in Cook County where she had lived for the past 25+ years. She was the daughter of...

Patricia Ann Connell

Patricia Ann Connell

May 26, 2022

Patricia Ann Connell, 83, of Valdosta passed away Thursday, May 26, 2022 at her residence. She was born on April 2, 1939 in Adel, GA to the late Buren Enoch Connell and Gladys May Moore Connell. Patricia was an Accounts Payable Manager for CSX and a member of Adel First Baptist Church. She was a member of the GA Senior...

Neuland Wallace Garner

Neuland Wallace Garner

May 26, 2022

Neuland Wallace Garner, 77, of Hahira, died on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born in Valdosta on January 1, 1945, to the late Neuland W. Garner and Margaret Garner Tankersley. He joined the Navy the day he turned 17. He served two tours in Vietnam aboard the USS Currituck (The Wild Goose)...

Johnny Kirkland

Johnny Kirkland

May 25, 2022

Johnny Kirkland, 69, of Hazlehurst and recently of Valdosta, passed away on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at his daughters’ residence. He was born in Hazlehurst, GA on January 21, 1953, to the late James Leon Kirkland and Mary Alice Morris Kirkland. He was employed as a machine mechanic at Hazlehurst Mills. He loved being with his family. He enjoyed fishing,...

Claude C. (Bubba) Knight

Claude C. (Bubba) Knight

May 19, 2022

Claude C. (Bubba) Knight, Jr., passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2022 at his residence. He was born on January 14, 1939 to the late Claude Carter Knight, Sr. and Corrine Studstill Knight. Mr. Knight attended Valdosta Public Schools, Georgia Military College, and Georgia Southern College. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Atlanta. He served in...

Harry Stephen Skoropat

Harry Stephen Skoropat

May 18, 2022

Harry Stephen Skoropat, 70, of Valdosta, passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at his residence. A lifelong resident of Valdosta, he was born on February 19, 1952 to the late Alexander Wilton Skoropat and Florine Willie Rykard Skoropat. Growing up in Valdosta, he was a member of the Championship 1970 VHS Wildcat Football team under Coach Wright Bazemore. He...

Edward Arden Lund, Jr.

Edward Arden Lund, Jr.

May 18, 2022

Edward Arden Lund, Jr., 76, of Valdosta, passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Birmingham, AL on October 11, 1945, to the late Edward Arden Lund, Sr., and Sally Ruth Bell Lund. Mr. Lund grew up in Douglas, GA and has lived in Valdosta for the last 53 years. He loved...

Jean Weldon Beaty

Jean Weldon Beaty

May 16, 2022

Mrs. Jean Weldon Beaty, 80, of Valdosta, passed away Monday afternoon, May 16, 2022, after a prolonged illness. Jean grew up in Rome, GA, and graduated from West Rome High School where she was the head cheerleader. In 1963 she graduated with Honors from Carson Newman College in Jefferson City, TN, where she met her husband Howard Beaty and they...

Elizabeth Redish Salter

Elizabeth Redish Salter

May 16, 2022

Elizabeth Redish Salter, 79, of Valdosta died Monday, May 16, 2022, at the Fellowship Home. She was born in Valdosta on February 3, 1943, to the late Ralph and Lenora Fender Redish. Mrs. Salter was a member of the Bemiss United Methodist Church and retired from Lowndes High School as the registrar. She loved to work in her backyard and...

Faye Harris Hutto

Faye Harris Hutto

May 16, 2022

Faye Harris Hutto, 84, of Valdosta, died on Monday, May 16, 2022, at her residence. She was born on October 3, 1937, in Kannapolis, South Carolina to the late John Archie Harris and Lucy Luander Smith Harris. She was a homemaker who loved cooking, especially good ol’ southern food, and ensured that anyone who came to her home, did not...

Betty Jackson Webb

Betty Jackson Webb

May 16, 2022

Betty Jackson Webb, 91, of Valdosta, GA, passed away on Monday, May 16, 2022, at the Langdale Hospice House. Born in Jacksonville, GA, she was the daughter of the late Alberta Glynn Jackson and the late Thomas Hardy Jackson. Betty graduated from Valdosta State College and subsequently married the late M.P. “Buddy” Webb Jr. in February of 1953. Betty and...

Herschel "Kenny"  Kenneth  Howell

Herschel "Kenny" Kenneth Howell

May 15, 2022

Kenny Howell, 66, of Valdosta, passed away at his home surrounded by his family on Sunday, May 15, 2022 following a lengthy illness. He was born on February 12, 1956 to the late Herschel and Jean Sandlin Howell. Kenny owned and operated Southeastern Millwrights for over twenty years, retiring after his health declined. He was called a self-educated engineer by...