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Edwin Walker Powell
Feb 5, 2011
Edwin Walker Powell, 85 of Valdosta, died on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Louisville, KY and a graduate of Louisville Male High School, Mr. Powell enjoyed participating in many different sports in his younger years. He went on to graduate with a degree and several certifications in Physical Therapy from...
Evelyn Ruth Shamel
Feb 4, 2011
Evelyn Ruth ShamelEvelyn Shamel, 90, of Valdosta went to be with the Lord on February 4, 2011. She was born on August 5, 1920 in West Bloomfield, Michigan to the late Russell and Marie (Keivit) Oliver. Mrs. Shamel was a retired accountant with Moore Iron Works and King's Daughters Home in Flint, MI. She was a member of Morningside Baptist...
Camille Leonor Asbell
Feb 3, 2011
Camille Leonor Asbell, 74, of Valdosta, passed away on Thursday, February 3, 2011, at South Georgia Medical Center, Valdosta, after a prolonged illness. Camille was born on January 13, 1937 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. From 1974 to 2006 she lived in Brunswick, GA, where she retired from the Glynn County Board of Education in 1995. She spent many years influencing the...
Jackie Studstill Harris
Feb 1, 2011
Jackie Studstill Harris, 95, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at Fellowship Home. Born in Lakeland on January 18, 1916, she was the daughter of the late William Hustus Studstill and Eunice Bridges Studstill. She was a 1931 graduate of Lanier County High School. In 1932 Jackie came to Valdosta to attend college at Georgia State Women's College,...
Evelyn D. Davis
Feb 1, 2011
Evelyn D. Davis, 84, of Valdosta died Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at Heritage Healthcare at Lakehaven Nursing Home. She was born on April 10, 1926 in Jesup to the late Willie C. and Vonnie Yeomans Dukes and had lived in Valdosta for many years. Mrs. Davis was a retired sales clerk with Sears and a member of Northside Baptist Church...
Jackie Wayne Carter
Jan 30, 2011
Jackie Wayne Carter, 53, of Valdosta died Sunday, January 30, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy battle with leukemia. He was born on October 23, 1957 in Valdosta and was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Lake Park. Mr. Carter was employed with Valdosta State University as a heating and air conditioning mechanic and coached...
Catherine Cooper Adams
Jan 29, 2011
Catherine Cooper Adams, 81, of Valdosta died Saturday, January 29, 2011 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born on January 3, 1930 in Brooks County to the late James Ellis and Mabel West Cooper. Mrs. Adams was a member of the Park Avenue United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday School for more than twenty years. She was valedictorian...
Leon M. Daniel
Jan 28, 2011
Leon M. Daniel, 71, of Valdosta died Friday, January 28, 2011 at the Langdale Hospice House after a lengthy illness. He was born on September 25, 1939 in Morgan, Georgia to the late Leon Earl and Verna Lane Daniel and had lived in Valdosta for the past thirty years. Mr. Daniel was a Baptist and retired from the United States...
Elmer Thomas Floyd
Jan 27, 2011
Elmer Thomas Floyd, 65, of Valdosta, died recently at his residence. He was born on October 24, 1945 in Lowndes County to the late M. C. and Annie Mae Boland Floyd. Mr. Floyd was a retired truck driver, served in the United States Army in Viet Nam from 1967 until 1971, was of the Church of God faith, a Mason...
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...
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