OBITUARIES

Recent Obituaries

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

Alex Ledford Baldwin

Alex Ledford Baldwin

Mar 7, 2011

Alex Ledford Baldwin, 83, of Valdosta, died Monday, March 7, 2011 at his residence. Alex Baldwin was born September 23, 1927 in Naylor, to Camilus and I.V. Baldwin. He graduated from Valdosta High School and Mercer University Law School before serving in the U.S. Navy Air Corps. Mr. Baldwin lived in Valdosta for most of his adult life, working for...

Hazel Mae Pollard

Hazel Mae Pollard

Mar 6, 2011

Hazel Mae Pollard, 89, of Valdosta died on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center following a short illness. She was born in Valdosta on May 18, 1921 to the late Andrew J. and Mary Anne Driscoll Pollard and has been a resident of this area her entire life. She attended the Valdosta City Schools and was a...

Charles F. (Bobo) Southwell

Charles F. (Bobo) Southwell

Mar 5, 2011

Charles F. (Bobo) Southwell, 75, of Lake Park died at his daughter's residence on Saturday, March 5, 2011 following a lengthy illness. He was born in Valdosta on January 8, 1936 to the late Wallace Gordon and Clara S. Nagle Southwell and has been a resident of Lowndes County all his life. He graduated from Valdosta High School in 1954....

John T. Holcombe, Jr.

John T. Holcombe, Jr.

Mar 5, 2011

John T. Holcombe, Jr., 53, of Valdosta passed away on Saturday, March 5, 2011 after a lengthy illness. John was born October 23, 1957 to John, Sr. and Ximena Redmond Holcombe. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Valdosta, was a loving father, son and brother. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, golfing and riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle. John...

Tony  Morley

Tony Morley

Mar 3, 2011

Tony Morley, 70, of Valdosta, Georgia died Thursday, March 3, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on June 15, 1940 in Hove, England to the late Herbert Benjamin and Stella Irene Kensley Morley. Mr. Morley was an aeronautical engineer with Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Florida for seventeen years and had served as a consultant for many...

Tootsie Allen Grant

Tootsie Allen Grant

Mar 2, 2011

Conneal "Tootsie" Allen Grant, 77, of Naylor died Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at the Presbyterian Home in Quitman after a lengthy illness. She was born on January 18, 1934 in Naylor to the late Benjamin Brooks and Flonnie Dell Stone Allen and was a lifelong resident of Naylor. Mrs. Grant was retired from the Naylor Post Office and had worked...

Jason  Allan Delk

Jason Allan Delk

Mar 2, 2011

Jason Allan Delk, 28, of Lake Park, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 2, 2011.Jason was born September 12, 1982 in Hahira, a son of James E. Delk, Sr. and Vickie Boyd Delk. He was a member of New Life Community Church, and was a loving husband, father, son and brother. He enjoyed fishing, NASCAR and the Atlanta Falcons. When...

Ruth Davis Recenello

Ruth Davis Recenello

Feb 27, 2011

Ruth Davis Recenello, 82, of Valdosta died Sunday, February 27, 2011 at Langdale Hospice House after a lengthy illness. She was born in Coffee County to the late Elzie M. and Mary Sweat Davis and had lived in Valdosta for the past fifty five years. Mrs. Recenello was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah�s Witness. Ruth was a...

Virginia Brown Turner

Virginia Brown Turner

Feb 26, 2011

Virginia Brown Turner, 89, of Valdosta, passed away Saturday, February 26, 2011, at her home after a lengthy illness.She was born December 11, 1921 in Lowndes County, a daughter of the late R.I. Brown, Sr. and Uldene Husbands Brown. Mrs. Turner was formerly a member of First United Methodist Church and Central Church of Christ. She is survived by a...

Henrietta  Barnes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...