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

Edna Broome
Jun 26, 2009
Edna Broome, 73, of Enigma died on Friday, June 26, 2009 at the Berrien Nursing Center following a lengthy illness. She was born on February 12, 1936 in Chula, Georgia to the late Hezakiah and Mattie Busben Dowdy. She was a retired payroll officer from the Barnett Bank and was of the Baptist faith.Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Randy...

Norman Thomas (Tommy) Walters
Jun 24, 2009
Norman Thomas (Tommy) Walters, 68, of Lake Park, died on Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. Born in Quitman, on August 17, 1940, he was the son of the late Norman Hershel and Sallie Keen Walters. Mr. Walters was a retired logger, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, and a Mason and Past...

Ruth Ellen Rogers
Jun 22, 2009
Ruth Ellen Trull Rogers, 77, of Valdosta died Monday, June 22, 2009 at her residence. She was born on August 22, 1931 in Norman Park. Her parents were the late Robert and Daisy L. Howard and Gilliam N. Trull. Mrs. Rogers was a homemaker and a Baptist.She is survived by one son and daughter in law, Gerald and Vickie Rogers...
Dorothy H. (Dot) Stalvey
Jun 22, 2009
Dorothy H. (Dot) Stalvey, 82, of Hahira died Monday, June 22, 2009 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Lowndes County on September 16, 1926 to the late Holcombe and Mary Edith Drake Strozier and was a lifelong resident of Lowndes County. Mrs. Stalvey was an active member of the Hahira Freewill Baptist Church and a retired bookkeeper...

Caroline Townsend Deming
Jun 22, 2009
Caroline Townsend Deming, 86, of Valdosta died Monday, June 22, 2009 at Langdale Place. She was born on April 28, 1923 in Valdosta to the late Lee and Eva Wisenbaker Townsend and was a lifelong resident of Valdosta. Mrs. Deming was an active member of the Central Avenue Church of Christ and was retired from C& S Bank as a...

Martha Boatwright Killeen
Jun 22, 2009
Martha Boatwright Killeen, 61, of Valdosta and formerly of Destin, Florida, died at her home in Valdosta on Monday, June 22, 2009. Born in Camilla, Georgia on March 28, 1948, she was the daughter of the late William Thomas and Essie Mae Jackson Boatwright. Martha was a bookkeeper. She was of the Catholic faith. Survivors are her daughter and son...

William Burns Sirmans
Jun 21, 2009
William Burns Sirmans, 66, of Ray City, GA passed away on June 21 at his residence. Born in Cook Co. on February 20, 1943, to the late Mary Lou Knight and F. Burns Sirmans, he fondly grew up in Berrien Co. in the cities of Ray City and Nashville. He attended Norman Park College and spent summers as a college...
Eldon Rudolph Crosby
Jun 17, 2009
Eldon Rudolph Crosby, 74, of Valdosta, died Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at his residence. He was born on July 9, 1934 in Adel to the late Robert Etheridge and Bennie Ruth Smith Crosby. Mr. Crosby was retired from the United States Air Force having served from 1952 until 1972. He was a purple heart recipient, a veteran of the Korean...

Jean Lovell Davis
Jun 16, 2009
Jean Lovell Davis was born November 21, 1921, in Worcester, Massachusetts and died June 16, 2009, at Langdale Hospice House, Valdosta, Georgia after a brief illness. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Felton Davis, Jr. of Valdosta, her sister Rebecca Lovell Roskowski of Grand Junction, Colorado, her parents Dorothy and Russell Lovell of Worcester. Mother...

Ann Marie Bosch Mcturk
Jun 13, 2009
Ann Marie Bosch McTurk, 75, of Valdosta died Saturday, June 13, 2009 at home. She was born in Belize, British Honduras on September 28, 1933 to the late Juan Bartolomew Bosch and Enid Bianca Blakely Bosch. She was a member of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church and was a devoted Christian. She and her late husband lived in many...

Jerry Dean Ferrell
Jun 13, 2009
Jerry Ferrell, 70, of Valdosta, died on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Langdale Hospice. She was born on February 18, 1939 in Cairo, to the late Paul and Floy Miller Hurst. Mrs. Ferrell was a homemaker, devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Valdosta.Survivors include her husband, Ken Ferrell; daughter, Jill Ferrell,...
John Henry (Jack) Wilbers
Jun 13, 2009
JOHN HENRY (JACK) WILBERS, 79, of Lake Park, passed away Saturday, June 13, 2009, at his residence in Lake Park after a long illness. He was born in, Jefferson City, MO., March 6, 1930, to the late Aloys B. and Pearlee Mary Schlangenstein Wilbers.Mr. Wilbers was of the Catholic faith. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force...
Elizabeth Joann Shealy Brooks
Jun 12, 2009
Elizabeth Joann Shealy Brooks, 61, of Valdosta died Friday, June 12, 2009 at the Langdale Hospice House. Elizabeth was born on September 20, 1947 in Tifton. She was the daughter of Bonnie Faye Ireland McCaffery of Albany and the late Huel Shealy. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Albany. After graduating from Darton College in...
Martha Julia Davis
Jun 11, 2009
Martha Julia Talley Davis, 93, of Carrollton, GA died Thursday, June 11, 2009 at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton. She was born in Zebulon, GA on March 26, 1916 to the late Martin Lee and Minnie Lee Fuller Talley. Mrs. Davis was a member of Park Avenue United Methodist Church, a member of WSCS/UMW and historian at Forrest Street United...

Martha Julia Talley Davis
Jun 11, 2009
MARTHA JULIA TALLEY DAVIS, 93, of Carrollton, died Thursday, June 11, 2009, at Tanner Medical Center. Graveside Services will be held at 11 am, Monday, June 15, 2009 at Riverview Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the Carson McLane Funeral Home on Sunday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Condolences to the family may be conveyed online at...
Jo Karon Cox
Jun 11, 2009
Jo Karon Cox, 57, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at her residence. Born in Vienna, GA to Karleen and the late Joe Bryant Lane. Jo Karon graduated from Lowndes High School in 1970, and was the Valedictorian of her class. She went on to graduate from Valdosta Technical College with a Radiology Technology Degree and then worked...
James (Jim) Millidge Anderson
Jun 11, 2009
James (Jim) Anderson, 95, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Memorial Convalescent Center in Adel. He was born on January 28, 1914 in Lowndes County to the late Bill and Kate Slate Anderson. Mr. Anderson was retired from Strickland Cotton Mills and was a member of New Friendship Primitive Baptist Church in Hahira. He is survived...
Sallie Touchton Boyette
Jun 9, 2009
Sallie Touchton Boyette died peacefully on June 9, 2009, at home with her family. She was born on March 8, 1912, the only daughter of the late Ott and Lila Cooper Touchton of the New Bethel Community in Lowndes County. Her husband was the late Isaac Harmon Boyette. They were married for sixty-seven years. Her daughter, Sallie Ann, and her...

Cinderella Mildred Roberts Lewis
Jun 7, 2009
Cinderella Mildred Roberts Lewis passed away on June 7, 2009. Beloved mother of John Hampden Roland Lewis, Margaret Lynn Lewis Robison, the late Southerner Meriwether, Jr., Cynthia Anne, and George Spencer Roberts Lewis. Grandmother of Southerner Meriwether Lewis, III, Justin J., Jonathan A., and Joseph D. Robison, George Washington Lewis, and Katherine Lillian Margaret Lynn Lewis. Great-grandmother of Sierra Marie,...
Wilbur Thomas Rogers, Jr.
Jun 6, 2009
Thomas Rogers, 75, of Barney died Saturday, June 6, 2009 at his home. He was born on June 15, 1933 in Brooks County to Vivian Lewis Rogers and the late Wilbur Thomas Rogers, Sr. and was a lifelong resident of Brooks County. Mr. Rogers was an inspector with the Federal and State Government and a surveyor. He enjoyed working his...