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Henrietta Barnes
Feb 26, 2011
Henrietta “Hank” Barnes, 89, of Valdosta, died Saturday, February 26, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born on January 29, 1922 in Dalton, Georgia to the late Benjamin Fred Foster and Mamie Bryant Foster. Mrs. Barnes was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, a member of the Little Red Hen’s Red Hat Club, a member of the Lowndes...
Gloria Mederer Coleman
Feb 25, 2011
The life of Gloria Jean Mederer Coleman sadly ended Friday, February 25th 2011 following a courageous 4½ year battle with ovarian cancer. Gloria was born to Leonard John Mederer and Bertha Margaret Bitzer on the 27th of June, 1940. She was raised by Leonard John and Hyta Plowden Mederer, and was a lifelong resident of Valdosta, Georgia, graduating from Valdosta...
Mildred Madeline Mcdonald
Feb 24, 2011
Mildred Madeline McDonald, 95, of Valdosta died Thursday, February 24, 2011 at the Presbyterian Home in Quitman after a lengthy illness. She was born on September 16, 1915 in Windsor, Ontario to the late Ralph and Edwina Grandmasion Tourangeau and had lived in Dearborn, Michigan from 1946 until 1981 then moving to Valdosta. Mrs. McDonald was a member of St....
Roy Eugene Sculley
Feb 23, 2011
Roy Eugene Sculley, 71, of Valdosta died Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at his home. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida on December 1, 1939 to the late Walter and Estelle Allen Sculley and had lived in Valdosta since 1992. Mr. Sculley was retired from Kennedy Trucking Lines and a veteran of the United States Marines. He was a member of...
William Anderson
Feb 23, 2011
William "Jack" Anderson, USAF CMSgt. (Ret.), 74, of Ray City, passed away on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at Smith Northview Hospital.He was born September 8, 1936 in Trout Dale, VA, and retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1985 at Moody Air Force Base, after thirty years of passionate and dedicated service to his country in Air Traffic Control. Jack...
Donald Earl Pitts
Feb 23, 2011
Donald Earl Pitts, 92, of Valdosta, died at his home on Wednesday, February 23, 2011, after a brief period of declining health. Born in Marietta, Ohio on August 30, 1918, he was the son of the late Clyde and Nellie Bowers Pitts. Following the death of his mother, he moved to the Washington County Children's Home in Marietta. He also...
Earl T. (Tommy) Mayo, Jr.
Feb 23, 2011
Earl Thomas (Tommy) Mayo, Jr. 71, of Valdosta, GA, passed away on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. Tommy was born in Thomasville on March 25, 1939 to the late Earl Thomas and Mary Livingston Adams Mayo, Sr. A 1957 graduate of Boston High School in Boston, GA. He attended Reinhardt College and...
Dorothy Jones
Feb 20, 2011
Dorothy Sangster Jones, 77, of Buford died on Sunday, February 20, 2011 at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville following a short illness. She was born on September 18, 1933 in Irwinville, to the late James L. and Mary Elizabeth Jones Sangster. She was retired from the Social Security Administration as a Customer Service Representative and was of the Baptist Faith.Survivors...
Margaret Barrett Guess
Feb 18, 2011
Margaret Barrett Guess, 75, of Valdosta died on Friday, February 18, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center following a lengthy illness. She was born in Valdosta on March 28, 1935 to the late Frank Payne and Fannie Shiver Barrett and has been a lifelong resident of Valdosta and Lowndes County. She was a homemaker and a member of the Lake...
Jimmy L. Veal
Feb 16, 2011
Jimmy L. Veal, 73, of Valdosta, died at his home on Wednesday, February 16, 2011. Born in Anderson, South Carolina on December 30, 1937, he was the son of the late Herman and Bernice Veal. He spent his youth in Bowman, Georgia before joining the U.S. Army. Mr. Veal was a graduate of the McAllister Institute of Mortuary Science. He...
Louise Ashley Warner
Feb 15, 2011
Louise Ashley Warner, 81, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, at her daughter�s residence in Dasher. Born on January 17, 1930, in Fitzgerald, Georgia and had lived most of her life in Lowndes County. She was the daughter of the late Robert Harold Ashley and Gladys Grantham Ashley of Hahira. She was a graduate of Hahira High School...
Leila Rachel Sharpe Gaston
Feb 14, 2011
Leila Rachel Sharpe Gaston, 105, of Jasper, Florida and formerly of Lowndes County died Monday, February 14, 2011 at Suwannee Valley Nursing Home in Jasper, Florida. She was born in Hahira on January 12, 1906 to the late John W. and Edith Elizabeth Roundtree Sharpe. Mrs. Gaston was a member of the Francis Lake Baptist Church and was retired as...
Emma Sapp Weldon
Feb 13, 2011
Emma Sapp Weldon, 85 of Live Oak, Florida died Sunday, February 13, 2011 at the Suwannee Healthcare Center in Live Oak. She was born in Valdosta on September 27, 1925 to the late Jim and Emma Ruis Sapp and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mrs. Weldon was a Pentecostal.Survivors include two daughters and sons in law, Margie and...
Gloria Lilyea Shay
Feb 13, 2011
Gloria Lilyea Shay, 69 years of age, of Valdosta, died peacefully Sunday, February 13, 2011 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Gloria was the fourth of five children, born at home on the banks of Seneca Lake, New York, on October 17, 1941 to parents Louise and Roy Lilyea. She is predeceased by her parents and her brothers Carl...
Floyd Felton Corbett
Feb 13, 2011
Floyd Felton (Bash) Corbett, 69, of Lake Park passed away on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center following a lengthy illness. He was born in Echols County on August 6, 1941 to the late Warren Randall (Tobe) and Carrie Pearl Swilley Corbett. He worked as a farmer and until his illness as a bus driver for the...
Kathleen Peeples Mcghin
Feb 12, 2011
Kathleen Peeples McGhinKathleen P. McGhin, 84, of Valdosta passed away on February 12, 2011 at home surrounded by her family. Mrs. McGhin was born on November 25, 1926 in Hamilton County, Florida to the late Leslie and Lillian Peeples. She was a member of the Northside Baptist Church and the co-owner of Learning Tree Educational Resources, Inc. She graduated from...
G. Robert Carter, Jr.
Feb 12, 2011
G. Robert Carter, Jr., 86, of Clyattville, died on Saturday, February 12, 2011, at his home after a brief illness.He was born July 8, 1924 in Taylor County, FL, a son of the late G. Robert Carter, Sr. and Nancy Walker Carter. Mr. Carter, an Army veteran of World War II, enjoyed farming, and his positions as Policeman, Sheriff and...
Dewey Madison Carlisle, Sr.
Feb 12, 2011
Dewey Madison Carlisle, Sr., 90, of Valdosta and formerly of Alexandria, Louisiana passed away on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at Lakehaven Nursing Home in Valdosta. Mr. Carlisle was a United States Navy veteran of both World War II and the Korean Conflict. During his working life, he was a Funeral Director with Hixson Brothers Funeral Home in Alexandria, Louisiana retiring...
Louis Richard Vincent, Jr.
Feb 11, 2011
Louis Richard Vincent, Jr., 68, of Valdosta died on Friday, February 11, 2011, at Smith Northview Hospital following a lengthy illness. Born in Cumberland, Maryland he was the son of the late Louis and Emma Staggs Vincent. Mr. Vincent was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He had lived in Valdosta for the past 13 years and was retired from...
Wilburn Harold Wright, Sr.
Feb 10, 2011
Wilburn Harold Wright, Sr., 76, of Valdosta died Thursday, February 10, 2011 at Heritage Healthcare at Crestwood Nursing Home. He was born on July 24, 1934 in Brooks County to the late John Henry and Fannie Lou Smith Wright and was a lifelong resident of Valdosta. Mr. Wright had been a resident of the Ashley House for the past thirteen...
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