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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Beryl Hall
Mar 14, 2022
Beryl Gedelle King Hall, 90, of Valdosta passed away on Monday, March 14, 2022. She was born in Remerton, GA on May 20, 1931 to the late William Jasper and Irene Yarbrough. She enjoyed going to church and taught Sunday School at Morven Methodist Church. She loved to play piano and listen to gospel music. Gedelle loved her family and...
Lyn A. Williams
Mar 14, 2022
Lyn A. Williams, 54, of Valdosta, passed away on Monday, March 14, 2022 at Select Specialty Hospital in Tallahassee, FL. She was born in Quitman, GA, on December 9, 1967 to the late William Earl Copeland and Kathryn Elaine Futch Hodges Copeland. Mrs. Williams grew up in Hahira and graduated from Lowndes High School in 1985. Soon after high school...
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,...
Kun-Young Chiu
Mar 13, 2022
Kun-Young Chiu of Lake Park died Sunday, March 13, 2022 at the Fellowship Home in Valdosta. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan on June 23, 1937, to the late Juin and Luan-yin Chiu and had lived in Lowndes County for fifty five years. He founded the design firm of Kun-young Chiu & Associates, Inc. in 1970, doing structural and civil...
Billy E. Middleton
Mar 13, 2022
Billy E. Middleton, 90, of Valdosta died Sunday, March 13, 2022 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on November 2, 1931 in Colquitt, Georgia to the late Charles Taylor and Georgia Mae Newberry Middleton and had lived in Valdosta for many years. He was a member of the Northside Baptist Church where he had served as a Deacon,...
Melissa Dean Childers
Mar 12, 2022
Melissa Dean Childers, 47 of Valdosta passed away Saturday, March 12, 2022, after a lengthy illness. She was born in Clearwater, FL on March 27, 1974. She was a graduate of Valdosta State University, a member of First United Methodist Church, and was currently employed as a Paraprofessional at Lowndes Middle School. She is survived by her husband, William Paul...
Elizabeth Crane Carver
Mar 12, 2022
On March 12, 2022, we lost one of the sweetest and most genuine people when Elizabeth Crane Carver passed away from renal cancer at the age of fifty-three. Born in Valdosta, Georgia on January 3, 1969, she graduated from Valdosta High School in 1987 as a member of the marching band. She was a member of McDonough Presbyterian Church and...
Kennedi Symone Floyd
Mar 11, 2022
Kennedi Symone Floyd, infant daughter of Adarius Floyd and Keywanie Oates, passed away on Friday, March 11, 2022, at South Georgia Medical Center. She is survived by her parents, four brothers and a sister, Lekendrick, Kentori, Marquez, Dajah, and David; grandparents, Roosevelt and Loretta Floyd and Clifford and Betty Nix, and one great-grandmother, Annie Mae Haynes.
Joanne Myrick Youles
Mar 6, 2022
Joanne Myrick Youles, age 89, passed away at Camellia Walk Assisted Living in Evans, GA on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Born in Greensboro, Georgia on December 19, 1932, Joanne was the daughter of the late Ethel Bernice Bernhardt and the late James Richard Myrick. Joanne had been a resident of Valdosta for the past 66 years. A graduate of Barrett...
Theo Maxine Reed
Mar 2, 2022
Theo Maxine Reed With much sadness we announce the passing of Theo Reed, our loving Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandma (Grand) and delightful friend to all whose lives she touched. Theo passed away peacefully at her home on March 2nd, 2022 surrounded by family. Born on July 5th, 1926 in Elbert, CO to Frank and Elsie Gabardi. Theo spent her childhood...
Lacey Cassandra Brantley
Mar 1, 2022
Lacey Cassandra Craiger Brantley, 43, of Lake Park passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at her residence. She was born in Shelby County, AL on July 5, 1978 to the late Steve Craiger and Sharon Russell Craiger. Lacey was a ride operator at Wild Adventures and a member of Loch Laurel Baptist Church. She loved the beach and visiting St....
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