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Jan Phillips Castleberry
Jul 17, 2014
Jan Phillips Castleberry, 63, of Valdosta died Thursday, July 17, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. She was born on July 29, 1950 in Bainbridge, Georgia, to the late Robert Hawthorne Phillips and Gwendolyn Dale Phillips, had lived in Valdosta for most of her life. Mrs. Castleberry was of the Methodist faith and was a receptionist...
Kathy Failor
Jul 15, 2014
Kathy Failor, 68, of Valdosta, passed away Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at the Langdale Hospice House after a long battle with cancer.She was born Kathleen Mary Lantzy in Detroit, Michigan on March 16, 1946 to the late Albert Joseph Lantzy and Ruth Gratopp Lantzy. In 1966, Kathy married Dean F. Failor of Monroeville, Ohio and worked at The Ohio State...
Faye Marie Hagan Grice
Jul 14, 2014
Faye Marie Hagan Grice, 75, of Valdosta, died Sunday, July 13, 2014 at her home. She was born in Coolidge, GA on April 3, 1939 to the late James Leslie Hagan and Luna Viola Shepherd Hagan. Mrs. Grice was a mother and homemaker staying very active in 4-H clubs and band for several years. After her kids grew up, she...
Juanita Johnson Mullis
Jul 14, 2014
Mrs. Juanita Johnson Mullis, 89, of Valdosta, died on Monday, July 14, 2014 following an extended illness. Born in Lake Park to the late A.F. and Mammie Townsend Johnson, she had been a lifelong resident of this area. Mrs. Mullis was a homemaker but was also very involved in her community. She worked at the Towel & Tog Shop of...
Mildred Strawder Smith
Jul 13, 2014
Mildred Strawder Smith, 81, of Cocoa, FL and formerly of Hahira/Ray City area died Sunday, July 13, 2014 at Wuesthoff Medical Center in Rockledge, FL. She was born on December 22, 1932 in Berrien County, GA to the late Charlie and Cora Bradford Strawder. Mrs. Smith was a homemaker, a member of Clearlake Baptist Church in Cocoa, FL and a...
George D. Boyd Iii
Jul 12, 2014
George D. (Dopey) Boyd III, 76, of Valdosta, passed away Saturday, July 12, 2014, at the Langdale Hospice House.He was born December 13, 1937, in Augusta, a son of the late George D. Boyd, Jr. and Norma H. Silas Boyd. For over sixty years, Mr. Boyd owned and operated Boyd Floor Finishing. He loved spending time with his granddaughters and...
Dorothy Crosby Dees Findley
Jul 11, 2014
Dorothy Crosby Dees Findley, 85, of Valdosta, died Friday, July 11, 2014, at Langdale Hospice House. She was born on October 9, 1928, in Brooks County to the late John G. and Elizabeth Stringer Crosby. She was member of St. Augustine Church of Christ and had retired from J.C Penny after working there 25 years. Dorothy enjoyed cooking, gardening, family...
Barbara G. Yancey
Jul 11, 2014
Barbara G. Yancey formerly of Valdosta died on Friday, July 11, 2014. She was born and raised in the Eastman/Rentz Georgia community and had lived in Valdosta since 1958. She graduated for Mercer College in Macon where she majored in History. While at Mercer she met and married her husband the late Reuben H. Yancey who was studying law and...
Kay Jones Fleming
Jul 8, 2014
Kay Jones Fleming, 75, of Valdosta passed away July 7, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born July 25, 1938 in Albany, GA to the late Oliver and Viola Foster Jones and had lived in Valdosta since 1963. Mrs. Fleming received her education and was an honor graduate of Albany High School, The University of Georgia, and Valdosta...
Alice Pearl Taylor
Jul 7, 2014
Alice Pearl Taylor, 95, of Hahira passed away on Monday, July 7, 2014 at Langdale Hospice House in Valdosta after being in declining health for several weeks. Mrs. Taylor was born in Howell, Georgia on December 19, 1918, the daughter of the late Staten and Alice Davis of Howell, Georgia. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester Taylor...
Ronnie Lee Tucker
Jul 6, 2014
Ronnie Lee Tucker, 59, of Valdosta died on Sunday, July 6, 2014 at the V.A. Medical Center in Lake City, Florida. He was born on October 6, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan to John R. Tucker and Mildred Tucker. He was a veteran of the United States Army and was retired from the United States Post Office where he served as...
Robert Howard (Bob) Lee
Jul 6, 2014
Robert Howard (Bob) Lee, 66, of Valdosta died Sunday, July 6, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Jacksonville, FL on October 15, 1947 to the late Howard and Fleta Greene Lee. Bob was a retired Law Enforcement Sergeant with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Department, Charlotte, NC. He served in the United States Army, was a member...
Katherine Paulk Mcallister
Jul 6, 2014
Katherine Paulk McAllister, 86, of Valdosta died Sunday, July 6, 2014 at her home. She was born on August 30, 1927 in Willacoochee, Georgia to the late Albert Robert and Cora Young Paulk. She attended Berry College and graduated from Valdosta State College. Katherine was a member of the Park Avenue United Methodist Church and retired from the Valdosta School...
Robert Louis Nelson
Jul 4, 2014
Robert Louis Nelson, 92, of Valdosta, died on Friday, July 4, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born Jan. 16, 1922 in Paducah, Kentucky, a son of the late Jesse Fields Nelson, Sr. and Gertrude Shoemaker Nelson. He graduated from Heath High School in McCracken County, KY and then joined the US Navy and was stationed on the...
Margaret Ann Koski Nargi
Jul 4, 2014
Margaret Ann (Koski) Nargi, 72, of Valdosta died on Friday, July 4, 2014 at the Langdale Hospice House following a brief illness. She was born on January 10, 1942 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania to the late Francis and Margaret Krinock Koski. She was a homemaker and a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, and a former member of St....
Shirley Young Elrod
Jul 3, 2014
Shirley Young Elrod, 78, of Valdosta passed away Thursday, July 3, 2014, at Dorimny Medical Center in Fitzgerald, Ga. She was born December 11, 1935, a daughter of the late Louie Durward Young and LynnAdams Young, of Valdosta, GA, where she grew up and attended school. She was a homemaker and of the Christian Faith.She is survived by a son...
Doris Jean Walls Brooker
Jul 3, 2014
Doris Jean Walls Brooker, 71, of Quitman died Thursday, July 3, 2014 at South GA Medical Center. She was born on May 14, 1943 in West Palm Beach, FL to the late Eddie B. Walls, Sr. and Mamie Cleo Wise Walls. Mrs. Brooker was a retired seamstress and attended Gateway Baptist Church. She is survived by two sons and daughters...
Joel Oneal Boatright
Jul 2, 2014
Joel Oneal Boatright, 71, of Valdosta, died suddenly on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 following an accident. Born in Lake City, FL to the late Jasper Oneal & Cornelia Marable Boatright, he had lived in this area for the past 50 years. Mr. Boatright grew up in Mayo, FL and graduated from Mayo High School in 1960, he went on to...
Buffi Beasley Mccambridge
Jul 1, 2014
Buffi Beasley McCambridge, 46, of Hahira died Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born at the Moody Air Force Base Hospital on July 25, 1967 to MSgt. David Tullis Beasley, USMC and Sarah Elfleta Godwin Beasley. Buffi was a nursing instructor at Valdosta State University. She had a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, a...
Daniel Seabron Tyler
Jun 30, 2014
Daniel Seabron Tyler, 72, one of the most charming and interesting men in the world, passed away on Monday, June 30th, 2014, at his home in Hampton, Georgia. "Danny" as he was fondly called by all those who loved him was born in Quitman, Georgia on December 28, 1941 to the late Daniel Columbus Tyler of Hahira and the late...
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