OBITUARIES

Recent Obituaries

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

Betty Foster Wildes

Betty Foster Wildes

Jun 13, 2008

Betty Foster Wildes, 75, of Valdosta, died June 13, 2008 at Langdale Hospice House after a short illness. Mrs. Wildes was born August 20, 1932, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Thomas Foster of Cochran. She was a graduate of Middle Georgia College and Tift College. She was a school teacher and homemaker. Mrs. Wildes was an...

Marguerite D. Califf

Marguerite D. Califf

Jun 12, 2008

Marguerite D. Califf, 76, of Valdosta, died at home on Thursday, June 12, 2008. Born on September 21, 1931 in Valdosta, she was the daughter of the late Wiley and Eva Cook DeLoach. Mrs. Califf was retired from PCA as a Tax Coordinator and Land Auditor. She was a member of First Baptist Church.She is survived by her son and...

Marie S. Burns

Marie S. Burns

Jun 12, 2008

Marie S. Burns, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at Lakehaven Nursing Home. A native of Brooks County, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late Jesse J. Sr. and Keziah (Kizzie) Touchton Shiver. Widow of the late Dr. D. L. Burns, Mrs. Burns was a Registered Nurse, an attorney and an author. Formerly a member of Christ...

Catherine Emma Sadler Cope

Catherine Emma Sadler Cope

Jun 11, 2008

Catherine Emma Sadler Cope, 87, of Hahira died Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at the Langdale Hospice House. She was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1920 to the late Samuel K. and Catherine Cecile Dornin Sadler. Mrs. Cope moved from Pennsylvania in 1960 to Dade County, Florida where she worked in the Dade County School Food Services for twenty...

Veda Staten Dozier

Veda Staten Dozier

Jun 9, 2008

Veda Staten Dozier, 70, of Valdosta, died Monday, June 9, 2008 at Crestwood Nursing Home. Born on July 3, 1937, in Greenville, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late James W. and Leona Patterson Staten. Mrs. Dozier was a homemaker and a member of Unity Sabbath Day Church of God.She is survived by her children and their spouses,...

Mary Karyl Smith Dawson

Mary Karyl Smith Dawson

Jun 7, 2008

Mary Karyl Smith Dawson, a Christian loving wife and mother, 46, of Valdosta died Saturday, June 7, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center after a long and courageous battle with cystic fibrosis. She was born in Sandersville, Georgia on April 17, 1962 and had lived in Valdosta for the past seven years. Mrs. Dawson had been a dental hygienist and...

Thomas H. (Tommy) Hall

Thomas H. (Tommy) Hall

Jun 7, 2008

THOMAS H. (TOMMY) HALL, 64, of Valdosta, lost his nine-year battle with cancer on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at Langdale Hospice House. He was born in Brooks County on June 28, 1943, a son of the late Everett and Doris Thomas Hall. Tommy retired from Levi Strauss & Co. after thirty-five years of service in shipping and receiving, and then...

Ilah Horne Carter

Ilah Horne Carter

Jun 6, 2008

Ilah Horne Carter, 89, of Valdosta, died Friday, June 6, 2008 at Langdale Hospice in Valdosta. She was born in Lowndes County on April 16, 1919, a daughter of the late Bert E. and Pearl Knight Horne. She was a member of the Cat Creek Primative Baptist Church. She served as a member of the South Georgia Medical Center Auxiliary...

Infant Jordan Robert Johnson

Infant Jordan Robert Johnson

Jun 6, 2008

Infant Jordan Robert Johnson, son of William and Carrie Penfield Johnson died Friday, June 6, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. .Additional survivors include maternal grandparents, Tom and Barbie Penfield, Valdosta; paternal grandparents, William and Luane Johnson, Marietta; maternal great grandparents, J.W. and Jean Walker, Valdosta; maternal great grandmother, Betty Penfield, Quitman; paternal great grandparents, Robert and Joan Johnson, New...

Carmie Lee Alligood Becton Colley

Carmie Lee Alligood Becton Colley

Jun 5, 2008

CARMIE LEE ALLIGOOD BECTON COLLEY, 80, of Lake Park and formerly of Valdosta, died unexpectedly Thursday, June 5, 2008 at her home. She was born in Jackson, KY on March 9, 1928, a daughter of the late Willard Roark and Alvida Roark Coody and Lonnie Coody. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church, enjoyed fishing and camping, and most...

Martha Ann Bartholomew

Martha Ann Bartholomew

Jun 5, 2008

Martha Ann Bartholomew, 83, of Valdosta, died Thursday, June 5, 2008 at the Presbyterian Home in Quitman. She was born on September 17, 1924 in Keokuk, Iowa, and had lived in Valdosta for the last 40 years. She was the daughter of the late William Aaron and Valentine Lorig Bernhardt. Mrs. Bartholomew was a homemaker and a faithful member of...

Diane Fender Bellflower

Diane Fender Bellflower

Jun 5, 2008

Diane Fender Bellflower, 50, of Hahira died Thursday, June 5, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Valdosta on September 23, 1957 to the late Billy and Lynda Amos Fender and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mrs. Bellflower was a member of the Assembly of God and was currently employed as the clerk for the...

Onnie Parker Ivey Dorminey

Onnie Parker Ivey Dorminey

Jun 4, 2008

ONNIE PARKER IVEY DORMINEY, 76, of Valdosta died Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born in Cook County on July 28, 1931 and was the daughter of the late Charlie Parker and Lillian Williams Parker Glisson. Mrs. Dorminey attended the Abundant Life Church of God and was a member of the Bemiss United Methodist Church....

Evelyn Williamson Fant Lendeck

Evelyn Williamson Fant Lendeck

May 31, 2008

Evelyn Williamson Fant Lendeck, 89, of Hahira, died after a lengthy illness on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. Born on June 4, 1918 in Donalds, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Grover Cleveland and Annie Gertrude Williamson. Formerly of Ocala, FL Mrs. Lendeck had lived in this area for the past two years....

Olivia Jirsova Lockey

Olivia Jirsova Lockey

May 30, 2008

Olivia Jirsova Lockey, infant daughter of Donald V. and Jana Jirsova Lockey, died on May 30, 2009 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. A graveside service will be held on Friday, June 20, 2008 at 2 pm. at Sunset Hill Cemetery. Mr. Brian Jarvis will officiate. The Carson McLane Funeral Home is serving the Lockey family. Condolences may be conveyed...

Dorothy Elizabeth Pinholster Belote

Dorothy Elizabeth Pinholster Belote

May 29, 2008

Mrs. Dorothy Elizabeth Pinholster Belote, 82, died in her sleep on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at her home in Macon. Mrs. Belote was born in Lowndes County, Georgia, September 22, 1925. She was preceded in death by her mother; Elizabeth Parker Pinholster, her father, James Henry Pinholster, her former husband, W. F. Belote, her brothers, Cecil Pinholster, Dan Pinholster, Wade...

Frances Fender Blanton

Frances Fender Blanton

May 28, 2008

Frances Blanton, 84, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Born in Nashville, GA she is preceded in death by her parents, Claude and Lola Prescott Fender. Mrs. Blanton was a homemaker and worked for Levi Strauss for many years. She was of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Blanton is survived by two daughters, two sons and numerous grandchildren and...

Vivian Virginia Carter

Vivian Virginia Carter

May 27, 2008

Vivian Virginia Carter, 85, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at Langdale Hospice House after a short illness. Born in Hamilton County, Florida, she was the daughter of the late Chester A. and Essie Bullard Sweat. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church. Survivors are her daughters and son-in-law, Patricia Carter Oettmeier of...

Deloris Mildred Stewart

Deloris Mildred Stewart

May 27, 2008

Deloris Mildred Stewart, 72, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at the home of her daughter. Born in Hamilton County, Florida, on July 11, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Hubert and Ovida Cox Hunter. Mrs. Stewart was a retired medical records clerk. She was the widow of the late Burie O'Neal Stewart and she was...

William Loyd Starling

William Loyd Starling

May 26, 2008

William Loyd Starling, 68, of Valdosta, died Sunday, May 25, 2008. He was born on February 27, 1940 in Brooks County to the late John Harris Starling, Sr. and Annie Lou Shierling Starling. Mr. Starling was a United States Air Force veteran having served from 1959 until 1962. He was a retired millwright from Georgia Power and was a member...