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Lilla Mae Prater Rice
Jan 26, 2011
Lilla Mae Prater Rice, 90. of Valdosta, died at Fellowship Home on Wednesday, January 26, 2011. Born in Weogufka, Alabama, she was the daughter of the late John Archibald Prater and Nora Frances Blankenship Prater. Mrs. Rice graduated from Auburn University with her Bachelors and Masters in Education. She taught at schools in Alabama for over thirty years. She was...
Clyde Hightower Moore
Jan 25, 2011
Clyde Hightower Moore, 79, of Valdosta died Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Lowndes County on March 16, 1931 to the late Carroll Smith and Lillie Moore Hightower and had lived in Valdosta most of her life. Mrs. Moore was a Presbyterian and retired from First Union Bank. She loved spending time with...
Marie Howell Edwards
Jan 24, 2011
Marie Howell Edwards, 91, lifelong resident of Valdosta, died at South Georgia Medical Center on Monday, January 24, 2011. Born in Valdosta on March 11, 1919, she was the daughter of the late Bob and Emma Daugharty Howell. Mrs. Edwards was a homemaker and she loved to fish and sew. She and her late husband, H. B. Edwards, Jr. were...
Katie Mallory
Jan 24, 2011
Katie Mallory, 67, of Valdosta, went to join her Lord on Monday, January 24, 2011. Born in Columbus, Georgia on July 24, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Glenzal and Denell Gilley Yarbrough and widow of the late Lt. Col. USAF Retired, Lue B. Mallory. Mrs. Mallory was a member of Evangel Assembly of God. She had worked...
William Dwight Carver
Jan 24, 2011
William Dwight Carver, 80, of Valdosta died Monday, January 24, 2011 at Langdale Hospice House. He was born on March 7, 1930 in Key West, Florida to the late James Dwight and Dorothy Isabelle Baker Carver and had lived in Valdosta since 1975. Mr. Carver was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and had served as Director...
Celina B. Devane
Jan 24, 2011
Celina B. DeVane, 92, of Valdosta, passed away on Monday, January 24, 2011, at Lakehaven Nursing Home.She was born February 6, 1918 in Coban, Guatemala, a daughter of the late Carlos and Margaret Arenales Bianchi. She grew up in Guatemala where she met her husband, Audley Wayne DeVane, a civil servant. Following their marriage they moved to Quitman. Mr. DeVane...
Cheri Puckett Wilder
Jan 21, 2011
Cheri Puckett Wilder, 53, of Valdosta, died Friday, January 21, 2011 at her residence. She was born on August 5, 1957 to Jack Heywood and Judith M. Puckett. Cheri had worked as a Human Resources Supervisor in Broken Arrow, OK, had served six years in the United States Army and was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She...
Doris Scruggs
Jan 20, 2011
Doris Scruggs, 83, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, January 20, 2011, at Lakehaven Nursing Home. Born in Berrien County, Georgia, on September 1, 1927, she was the daughter of the late Chester Griner and Myrtle Ray Griner. Mrs. Scruggs met her husband to be while she was attending 7th grade in Naylor. They began dating while she was in high...
Richard Lamar Barnwell
Jan 19, 2011
Richard Lamar Barnwell, 67, of Valdosta died Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center after a brief illness. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama on March 2, 1943 to the late H. C. and Mary Lou Chandler Barnwell and had lived in Valdosta for many years. Mr. Barnwell was a member of the Bemiss Road Baptist Church and...
Wiley F. Herndon
Jan 18, 2011
Wiley F. Herndon, 86, of Valdosta died Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at his residence. He was born in Valdosta on October 22, 1924 to the late Wiley Herndon, Sr. and Eloise Barrow Herndon. Mr. Herndon was a retired general mechanic at Packaging Corporation of America, a World War II Navy veteran where he was a baker and a member of...
James David Eunice
Jan 15, 2011
James David Eunice, 17, of Valdosta drowned while duck hunting at Ocean Pond in Lake Park on Saturday, January 15, 2011 and was found on Monday, January 31, 2011. James was born in Athens, Georgia on June 16, 1993 and had lived in Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Guam, Illinois and South Carolina. James was a senior at Valdosta High School where...
Ruby Lynette Clark
Jan 15, 2011
Ruby Lynette Clark, 85, of Hahira passed from this world on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at the Covenant Hospice Inpatient and Palliative Care Center of West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. Ruby was the youngest of eight children born on November 16, 1926 in Jesup, Georgia to the late Hansel Elijah and Katherine Horton Dukes. Her family moved to Eastman,...
Pamela Jo Dykeman Wood
Jan 13, 2011
Pamela Jo Dykeman Wood, 54, of Valdosta died Thrursday, January 13, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Valdosta on June 18, 1956 to Ruth Clayton Dykeman and the late William F. Dykeman. Mrs. Wood was a Methodist and had served as the Deputy Clerk of Court for Lowndes County. Pam was loved by everyone she knew...
Doris Montgomery Roark
Jan 13, 2011
Doris Montgomery Roark, 73, of Valdosta, passed away after a short illness on Thursday, January 13, 2011, at South Georgia Medical Center.She was born in Valdosta on June 19, 1937, and is predeceased by her parents, Jake and Charlotte Akins Montgomery. She was a longtime member of the Baptist faith and dearly loved being a part of the Operation Christmas...
Mary Alice Tinsley
Jan 13, 2011
Mary Alice Tinsley, 87, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, January 13, 2011 after a lengthy illness. Born in Quitman on January 2, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Smauel M. Weldon and Ava Lou Wetherington Weldon. A wonderful wife, mother and grandmother, Mrs. Tinsley was a member of Westside Baptist Church. Survivors are her loving husband of 63...
Crystal Marie Stringham Gorman
Jan 13, 2011
Crystal Marie Stringham Gorman, 22, of Valdosta, passed away on Thursday, January 13, 2011, at South Georgia Medical Center.Crystal was born December 7, 1988 in Kunsan, South Korea, a daughter of John Leonard Stringham, Sr. and Kyong Mi Kim Stringham. She attended Valdosta City Schools and graduated from Valdosta High School with the Class of 2007, and was currently attending...
Delano (Daino) Eller Davis
Jan 13, 2011
Delano (Daino) Eller Davis, 74, of Valdosta died Thursday, January 13, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Arcadia, Florida on January 1, 1937 to the late Dennis L. Eller and Ruby Jo Turner Eller Newell and had lived in Valdosta the majority of her life. Mrs. Davis was a Baptist and enjoyed spending time with her...
Inez Hambrick
Jan 13, 2011
Inez Hambrick, 95, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, January 13, 2011, at Langdale Hospice House with her loving family at her side, after a short illness.She was born October 5, 1915 in Crisp County, a daughter of the late Thomas M. and Alice Giles Warren. She was hardworking and lived a simple life, raising her children and grandchildren and helping...
Martha Louise Peacock Arrington
Jan 11, 2011
Martha Louise �Mommy� Peacock Arrington, 88, of Valdosta and resident of the Baptist Village in Lake Park for the past two years died Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born in Bainbridge on April 30, 1922 to the late Spurgeon and Zeta Ford Peacock and had lived in Valdosta since 1969....
Montene Moore Gamel
Jan 10, 2011
Montene Moore Gamel, 86, of Valdosta, died Monday, January 10, 2011 at her residence. She was born on May 2, 1924 in Echols County to the late William M. and Nellie Matilda Davis Moore. Mrs. Gamel was the retired owner and operator of Nana’s Day Care in Barretts, a member of Perimeter Road Baptist Church, a training union teacher for...
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