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Carolyn Bowen Christian
Jul 15, 2024
Carolyn Bowen Christian of Valdosta died July 15, 2024 at her home. Born in Register, Georgia on May 2, 1927, she was the daughter of Jasper Reid and Sara Jane Rushing Bowen. After graduating from Statesboro High School, she attended Georgia State Women’s College (now Valdosta State University), graduating in 1948. It was there that she met her husband Frank...
Thomas Woods, Sr.
Jul 15, 2024
On July 15th of 2024, Thomas (Tommy) Franklin Woods, Sr. climbed the last few steps to heaven. Tommy was born in Odum, Georgia on October 18, 1942 and grew up in Jesup, Georgia. As a young man he moved to St. Marys, Georgia for most of his life to work at Gilman Paper Company.
Tommy loved to fish and hunt any...
Reta Bayless Griffin
Jul 14, 2024
Reta Bayless Griffin, 85, passed away on July 14, 2024, at Fellowship Home Brookside. Born on May 8, 1939, to the late David E. Bayless and Jimmie Lee Oliver Bayless in Mississippi, she graduated from Ruleville High School. As the daughter of sharecroppers, she spent most of her youth working in cotton fields on the Macabee Plantation. Following high school,...
Barry Lee Robinson
Jul 14, 2024
Barry Lee Robinson, 69, of Hahira, died on Sunday, July 14, 2024, at Langdale Hospice House following a period of declining health. He was born on May 26, 1955, in Rome, Georgia to the late Olin and Betty Sansom Robinson. Mr. Robinson was retired from the grocery retail business having last served as Vice-President of Harvey’s Supermarkets. He later became...
William "Al" Rawlings
Jul 9, 2024
William “Al” Rawlings, III, 53, of Valdosta, died suddenly on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Al was born to the late William Alton Rawlings, Jr. & Song Hui “Annie” Rawlings, in Dublin GA, and grew up there, Graduating from Dublin High School in 1989. He then went to Valdosta State University, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting. He went...
Lavelle Smith Wisenbaker
Jul 9, 2024
Lavelle Smith Wisenbaker, passed away peacefully at home on July 9, 2024, after a short illness.
Lavelle was born to Annie Lillian Long Smith and William Smith on September 4, 1935, in Ludowici, Georgia, and graduated from Clyattville High School where she was a varsity basketball player. She attended Valdosta State College. She worked at Southern Bell, now Bell South, from...
Phil Hall
Jul 6, 2024
Phil Hall, 84, of Valdosta, died on Saturday, July 6, 2024, at Langdale Hospice House. He was born on April 20, 1940, in Smut Eye, Alabama, to the late Robert and Irene Phillips Hall. Mr. Hall was a veteran of the United States Army and had retired from Trus Joist where he worked as a computer programmer.
Mr. Hall is survived...
Wallace Kerry "K.O." Oliver
Jul 6, 2024
Wallace Kerry Oliver (67), of Valdosta, GA suffered a heart attack and passed away on July 6th, 2024. Kerry, fondly known as “K.O.”, was born to William (Bill) and Jeanette Oliver on October 8, 1956, in Macon, GA.
Kerry graduated from Valdosta High School and was a true Wild Cat through and through. As owner of his own business, Oliver Plumbing...
Judy Carol Cornelius
Jul 4, 2024
Judy Carol Cornelius, 72, of Hahira, died at her home on July 4, 2024, after a lengthy illness. Born in Cook County, Georgia, on April 1, 1952, Judy was the daughter of Clara Jean Vickers Radney, and the late Woodell Parrish. She had worked in medical records at Smith Northview Hospital. Judy was of the Baptist Faith. She enjoyed camping,...
Lenelle C. Shierling
Jul 4, 2024
Lenelle C. Shierling, 88, of Valdosta, passed away on Thursday, July 4, 2024 at Langdale Hospice House. She was born on December 20, 1935 in Morven, GA, to the late James Ellis Cooper and Mable West Cooper. Mrs. Shierling had worked as a secretary for many different companies over the years, most recently at Astro Extermination. She had a servant’s...
Robert Thomas Goff
Jul 4, 2024
Robert Thomas Goff, 77, of Valdosta, passed away on July 4, 2024, at home. He was born on March 17, 1947, in Live Oak, FL, to the late S.E. Goff, Jr. and Annie Laurie Goff. Robert was part-owner of The Oyster Bar Fish Market, Inc., established by his grandfather, S.E. Goff, Sr., in 1952. His love for the Lord, his...
Ollie Ann Croft
Jul 3, 2024
Ollie Ann Croft, 83, of Valdosta, died at her home on July 3, 2024. Born on April 11, 1941, to the late Jerome & Sally Stokes in Byron, Ga, she grew up and graduated from high school there. Soon after high school, she married Bill Wood. The young couple went briefly to Chicago before returning to Georgia where she had...
Faye LeGette Radford
Jul 3, 2024
Faye LeGette Radford, 82, of Hahira, died on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, her residence after a lengthy illness. Born in Hahira on May 9, 1942, to the late John Duncan LeGette & Myrlee Howell LeGette; she grew up there and played basketball for Hahira High School in the late 1950’s. During high school, she worked at a dime store in...
Raymond John Vanek Jr.
Jul 1, 2024
Raymond John Vanek, Jr., born on October 19, 1962, in San Diego, California, passed away on July 1, 2024, in Valdosta, Georgia. He was the beloved son of Raymond John Vanek, Sr. and Carolyn A. Prunier. Raymond was preceded in death by his parents as well as his son, Frank L. Vanek.
Raymond is survived by his loving wife, Ronda Vanek,...
Jon Christian (Chris) Bahnsen
Jun 30, 2024
Jon Christian (Chris) Bahnsen, 66, of Valdosta, Ga., passed away on Sunday, June 30, 2024, surrounded by family, following a courageous battle against ALS. He was born on November 22, 1957, in Columbus, GA to the late General John Charles Bahnsen and Patricia Fitzgerald Bahnsen. Chris graduated from North Georgia College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. It...
Charles (Charlie) DeVane
Jun 30, 2024
Charles "Charlie" Wayne DeVane Sr. passed away peacefully at his home on Sunday, June 30, 2024. He was 80 years old and born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Charlie moved to Quitman, GA at age 4.
A graduate of Brooks County High School and Valdosta State College, Charlie and his wife Linda have lived on the Brooks County farmland that has been...
Arthur "Buck" Johnson
Jun 29, 2024
Arthur “Buck” Johnson, 88, of Lake City, FL, passed away on Saturday, June 29, 2024, at his home. He was born in Lake City, FL, to the late Leonard Johnson, Sr. and Allie Vernice Dukes Johnson. Buck retired from the U.S. Army after 30 years, he loved being outside and always had something to do. He was a hard worker,...
Joseph Harrison Tillman Sr.
Jun 28, 2024
Joseph Harrison Tillman, Sr, 71, passed away on June 28, 2024 at his residence following a brave battle with cancer. Joe was born on February 28, 1953 in Atlanta to the late Henry Harrison Tillman, Sr. and Mary Mull Tillman. He married Pam Kelly Tillman in 2004 and together they established their home at Lake Pappy in Hahira, Georgia, where...
Virginia Lee Bryan Coppage
Jun 26, 2024
Virginia Lee Bryan Coppage, 96 of Hahira, Georgia passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 surrounded by family and her Haven Hospice family in Chiefland, Florida.
Born in Hahira, Georgia to the late Elie Clarence Dickerson & Carmon Laoma Hall Dickerson. She spent most of her life in the Hahira & Valdosta, Georgia area. Graduating from Hahira High School in...
Yetta Jane Burrell
Jun 26, 2024
Yetta Jane (nee Reiss) Burrell, 96, extraordinary mother, wife and friend to so many, died at her home on June 26, 2024. She was born in St. Louis, MO on May 17, 1928, the only child of the late Samuel R. and Edna L. (Heitert) Reiss.
Yetta had an amazing life. You might say she had three lives in one. The...
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