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

Jack Curtis Norman, Sr.
Jan 29, 2013
Jack Curtis Norman, Sr., 80, of Hahira died Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Valdosta on June 19, 1932 to the late Joseph Curtis and Ruth Prosser Norman and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mr. Norman was a member of the Fellowship Baptist Church and retired from Owens Illinois after forty...
Jewel Mathis Swanson
Jan 28, 2013
Jewel Mathis Swanson, of Valdosta, passed away at her home on her 85th birthday, Monday, January 28, 2013.She was born January 28, 1928 in Howe, Oklahoma, a daughter of the late Atlas A. and Ada Levada Edwards Mathis. Mrs. Swanson was a member of Central Avenue Church of Christ.She is survived by six sons, William A. and wife Shirley McCormick...
Janie Daniel Griffin
Jan 28, 2013
Janie Daniel Griffin, 89, of Valdosta died on Monday, January 28, 2013 at Langdale Hospice House. She was born on December 18, 1923 in Adel, Georgia to the late Sol and Sally Bennett Daniel. She worked at Belk's Department Store before working with Pine Grove School as a librarian. She then worked for Wilbro's where she worked in the jewelry...

Emmett Ray Radford
Jan 25, 2013
Emmett Ray Radford, 76, of Hahira died Friday, January 25, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on April 1, 1936 in Monroe County, West Virginia to the late Alvie and Eleanor Pyne Radford and had lived in Hahira since 1984. Mr. Radford was a retired shipbuilder with Newport News Shipyard and a veteran of the United States...
Raiford Jack Flowers, Sr.
Jan 24, 2013
Raiford Jack Flowers, Sr., 81, of Moultrie, died on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at his home. Born in Moultrie on November 30, 1931, he was the son of the late Nathan Oliver and Ownie Cardin Flowers. Mr. Flowers served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, receiving the National Defense Service Medal, China Service Medal(EXT), Korean Service Medal(One), and...
Rosalind Camilla Folsom
Jan 24, 2013
Rosalind Camilla Folsom, 78, of Valdosta, passed away Thursday, January 24, 2013, at the Fellowship Home.She was born July 15, 1934 in Lakeland, a daughter of the late Vernon G. and Callie McGowan Sirmans. Mrs. Folsom was employed with the Valdosta City School System for many years. She was a member of Morningside Baptist Church, loved her family and enjoyed...
Alma Vickers Shirley
Jan 24, 2013
Alma V. Shirley, soon to be 94, of Valdosta, died Thursday, January 24, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born in Hahira on January 29, 1919 to the late Burke Auley Vickers and Sulula Lehman Vickers. Mrs. Shirley was a beautician and a homemaker. She was of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Shirley was a...

Steven Allen Anderson
Jan 24, 2013
Steven Allen Anderson, 52, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. Born at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Nov. 11, 1960, he was the son of the late Raymond C. and Inez Madeline Ford Anderson. Mr. Anderson worked in restaurant maintenance. He was a member of the United Pentecostal Church. Survivors...

Daniel Lee (Danny) Ovaert
Jan 22, 2013
Daniel Lee (Danny) Ovaert, 79, of Valdosta died Tuesday, January 22, 2013. He was born in Hammond, Indiana on April 1, 1933 to the late Adolph and Dorothy Ovaert. Mr. Ovaert owned and operated Valdosta Transmission. Survivors include two sons and a daughters-in-law, Lee and Debra Ovaert of Valdosta, Danny Jr. and Linda Ovaert of Henrietta, TX, his girlfriend, Wanda...

Voncile Allen Carter
Jan 22, 2013
Voncile Allen Carter, 80, of Naylor died Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born on September 30, 1932 in Withers, Georgia to the late Brooks and Flonnie Stone Allen and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mrs. Carter was retired from South Georgia Medical Center as a financial clerk, was a loving mother and...
Bobby Lee Frier, Sr.
Jan 21, 2013
Bobby Lee Frier, Sr., 72, of Echols County died Monday, January 21, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Dasher on January 14, 1941 to the late Olive A. and Mary Lou Arnold Frier. He served as Pastor for the Church of God and was a member of the Swilley Hill Church of God. Brother Frier loved...
Pamela Jo Provenzano
Jan 20, 2013
Pamela Jo Provenzano, 61, of Valdosta, passed away on Sunday, January 20, 2013.She was born March 18, 1951 in Albany, a daughter of the late Daniel Lee (Danny) and Ruby Jo Bryan Ovaert. Pam loved her children and grandchildren, and lived for the moments she would have with them. She was currently attending college and working to become a Paralegal....
Wilma Ellington Daugharty
Jan 20, 2013
Wilma Ellington Daugharty, 99, of Valdosta died on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Fellowship Home following a brief illness. She was born on October 8, 1913 in Lulu, Florida to the late Henry and Mary Herrin Ellington. She was a homemaker and a member of the Homerville United Methodist Church. She was a loving wife and mother and was a...
Teresa Darlene Hooker
Jan 18, 2013
Teresa Darlene Hooker, 52, of Valdosta died on Friday, January 18, 2013 at the Langdale Hospice House following a short illness. She was born in Valdosta on May 25, 1960 and has been a lifelong resident of this area. She graduated from Lowndes High School with honors and attended Valdosta State University. She was a bookkeeper for many years for...

Joan Ellen Earnest
Jan 17, 2013
Joan Ellen Earnest, 59, of Hahira, passed away Thursday, January 17, 2013, at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born April 18, 1953 in Spokane, WA, a daughter of the late John Clair Crites and Ellen Maurer Crites of Spokane, WA. Joan was a loving, caring wife, mother and grandmother. She was always a caring, down to earth person who...

Gladys Lillian Touchton
Jan 17, 2013
Gladys Touchton, 85, of Lake Park, died Thursday, January 17, 2013 at Heritage Healthcare. She was born on February 4, 1927 in Jupiter, Florida to the late Edgar Young Johnston and Mary Ella Brogdon Johnston. Mrs. Touchton was a homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal Deliverance Center in Jennings, Florida.She is survived by her children and their spouses, Charles...
Frances Griner Miley
Jan 17, 2013
Frances Griner Miley, 94, of Hahira passed away on Thursday, January 17, 2013 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Nashville on March 30, 1918 to the late Robert Bruce and Mary Alice Hasty Griner. Frances was a devoted wife and mother. Mrs. Miley was an active member of the Hahira First Baptist Church where she sang in...

Kathleen H. Corbett
Jan 14, 2013
Kathleen (Cathy) H. Corbett, 62, passed away Monday, January 14, 2013, at her home after a short illness. She was born in East St. Louis, IL, on February 6, 1950, and was the daughter of the late William D. Newberry and Mildred Elizabeth Baltus Newberry. Mrs. Corbett was a teacher for the Echols County Board of Education and loved her...
Leverne Owens Crosby
Jan 14, 2013
LeVerne Owens Crosby, 75, of Valdosta, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, January 14, 2013, at South Georgia Medical Center.She was born January 5, 1938 in Albany, a daughter of the late John and Bertha McAfee Owens. Mrs. Crosby attended Swilley Hill Church of God and Abundant Life Church of God. She was a devoted wife, mother and home maker who...
Edna Sims Yekalis
Jan 13, 2013
Mrs. Edna Sims Yekalis passed away on Sunday, January 13th, 2013 at the Bailey Family Center Community Hospice in St. Augustine, Florida. She was born to W.F. (Love) Sims (deceased) and Flora Belle(Morgan) Sims (deceased) on January 31, 1924 in Ousley, Georgia. Edna was predeceased by her husband, Stanley E. Yekalis, Sr., sons, Michael Alex Yekalis and Andrew Sims Yekalis,...