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Numa Z. Stalvey
Apr 14, 2013
Numa Z. Stalvey, 86, of Ray City, Georgia died Sunday, April 14, 2013 at the Rehabilitation Center of South Georgia in Tifton, Georgia. She was born on June 11, 1926 in Mercedes, Texas to the late Ben S. and Concepcion Solis Zamora. Mrs. Stalvey was a homemaker and a member of Cat Creek Primitive Baptist Church. She was married to...
Elson Lee "Dink" Stephenson
Apr 14, 2013
Elson Lee "Dink" Stephenson of Valdosta, 74, passed away on Sunday April 14, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center after a brief illness. He was surrounded by his loving family. He was born on February 25, 1939 in Tarboro, N.C., to the late Woodrow and Ethel Stephenson. He attended Valdosta High school before entering the National Guard in 1958. He...
Claude Robert Blanton, Sr.
Apr 14, 2013
Claude Robert Blanton Sr., 79, of Valdosta, passed away on Sunday April 14, 2013 surrounded by his loving wife and children at Langdale Hospice House after a long illness. Mr. Blanton was born November 18, 1933 to the late Henry Alfred and Rena Smith Blanton. He grew up in Clyattville and was raised in the Primitive Baptist Church. In his...
Lauretta Harnage Mattox
Apr 13, 2013
Lauretta Harnage Mattox, 65, of Tryon, NC, died Saturday, April 13, 2013 in the Hospice House of the Carolina Foothills, Landrum, SC. Born in Valdosta, GA, she was the daughter of the late Eddie R. and Emma Louelle Hastings Harnage. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Landrum, SC. Surviving are: her husband Edwin James Mattox of...
Elsie Shaw
Apr 12, 2013
Elsie Louise Shaw, 94, of Tampa, Florida and formerly of Valdosta died on Friday, April 12, 2013 at the Sun Coast Hospice House in Palm Harbor, Florida. She was born on January 1, 1919 in Phenix City, Alabama to the late Irby and Alice Trimble Moore. She moved to Valdosta from Columbus, Georgia in 1973 and was a Valdosta resident...
Edna Eyleen Lawson
Apr 10, 2013
Edna Eyleen Lawson, 88, of Adel and formerly of Hahira, died Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at Smith Northview Hospital. She was born on July 4, 1924 in Morven, Brooks County, GA to the late Richard Ashley Lawson and Mdlle McGauley Lawson. Miss Lawson was a member of New Covenant Church in Valdosta.She is survived by two nieces, Peggy Armstrong of...
Richard A. Williams
Apr 10, 2013
Richard A. Williams, 75, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at his home. Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, 2013, in the chapel of the Carson McLane Funeral Home. Pastor Bill Blanchard and Pastor Bob Willis will officiate. Burial will follow at McLane Riverview Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the...
Dr. Joseph Samuel Houston
Apr 9, 2013
Dr. Joseph Samuel Houston, M.D., 87, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at his home. He was born on September 2, 1925 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida to the late William Herbert and Annie Jim Turner Houston. Dr. Houston practiced Psychiatry for many years and served as Chief of Psychiatry at Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville for many years....
George Alton Sowell
Apr 9, 2013
George Alton Sowell, 74, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at his home. He was born in Madison, Florida on November 15, 1938 to the late Woodrow Wilson Sowell and Toinette Youmans Sowell. Mr. Sowell was a surveyor with National Geodetic Surveying.Survivors include his wife, Sharon Gearhart Sowell of Bluefield, WVA, his daughter and son in law, Stacie and...
Sue (Sunny) Stover
Apr 7, 2013
Sue "Sunny" Stover, 63, of Valdosta died Sunday, April 7, 2013, at her home after a sudden illness. She was born in Kendallville, Indiana, and had lived in Valdosta for the past six months.Survivors include her two sons, Robert and wife Stephanie Ferry of Riverview, FL, Richard Ferry and fiancé Michelle Maldonado of Haymarket, VA; her mother, Patricia Hollander of...
Joseph Duffy Mccartney
Apr 6, 2013
Joseph Duffy McCartney passed away on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Joe was born on March 21, 1941 in Newark, NJ to William Michael and Rita Duffy McCartney. A Jersey boy through and through, Joe grew up in Lyndhurst and later lived in Midland Park, NJ before retiring in 2005 to Lake Park, GA. He is survived by his loving wife...
Robert John (Bob) Maturi
Apr 5, 2013
Robert John (Bob) Maturi, 91, of Valdosta died Friday, April 5, 2013 at his home after a lengthy illness. He was born December 20, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey to the late Anthony and Jennie Segni Maturi and had lived in Valdosta since 1964. Mr. Maturi was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and a veteran...
David Kelly, Sr.
Apr 5, 2013
David Kelly, Sr., 62, of Nashville, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, April 5, 2013, at his home.He was born September 13, 1950 in Sunny South, Alabama. David honorably served in Viet Nam with the United States Marine Corps, and for many years had been employed at Winnersville Roofing.He is survived by his wife, Penny Kelly of Nashville; six daughters, Christina...
Betty Lovett Bailey
Apr 5, 2013
Betty Lovett Bailey, 83, of Valdosta died Friday, April 5, 2013 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Tallahassee, Florida after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Bailey was born in Lenox on April 11, 1929 to the late Lonnie and Mary Mims Lovett and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mrs. Bailey was a Baptist and retired from ITT Industries Metal Products...
Wayne Lee Stover
Apr 4, 2013
Wayne Lee Stover, 74, of Valdosta died Thursday, April 4, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center after a sudden illness. He was born in Findlay, Ohio to the late Claude Montgomery Stover and Gertrude Alice Snyder Stover and had lived in Valdosta for the past six months. Mr. Stover was a retired supervisor with Arlington Trolley Company and an active...
Marie Wood Eason Bailey
Apr 4, 2013
Marie Wood Eason Bailey, 93, died Thursday, April 4, 2013, at 1:30 a.m. at Langdale Hospice House of natural causes. She was born in Quincy, Florida and lived most of her adult life in Lake Park, Georgia. She was a member of the Unity Sabbath Day Church of God. Marie was preceded in death by her children, Vernon Eason and...
Matilda Dasher Mathis
Apr 2, 2013
Matilda "Tilly" Dasher Mathis, age 90, passed away peacefully on April 2, 2013, at the home of her son, Harris Mathis, Jr., in Wellington, Florida. She was born in Valdosta, Georgia, on January 9, 1923, to the late Rollin Eldridge Dasher and Eunice Rahn Dasher. Her husband, Harris, Sr., predeceased her in 2002. She is survived by her sons Harris,...
Larue Shaw
Apr 2, 2013
LaRue Shaw, 70, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Adel on March 13, 1943 to the late Lacy Newton and Margaret Sizemore Shaw and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mr. Shaw owned and operated Shaw Construction Company for many years. Survivors include his son and daughter in law,...
Brenda Grace Smith Lehman
Mar 31, 2013
Brenda Grace Smith Lehman, 64, of Valdosta, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013, at Archibold Medical Center, Thomasville, after a long illness.She was born November 29, 1948 in Valdosta, a daughter of the late Douglas H. and Grace Bradley Smith. Brenda graduated from Valdosta High School with the Class of 1966. She...
Raymond Andrew Childs, Sr.
Mar 31, 2013
Raymond Andrew Childs, Sr., 55, of Clyattville died Sunday, March 31, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born September 27, 1957 in Albany, NY to the late Robert and Joyce Pregent Childs. Mr. Childs worked at TM Polyfilm and retired from the Clyattville Volunteer Fire Department as Assistant Chief.He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Debbie...
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