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Curtis Lamar Watson, Sr.
Apr 12, 2008
Curtis Lamar Watson, Sr. 56, of Naylor died Saturday, April 12, 2008 as a result of an accidental drowning while fishing in Lake Alapaha. He was born on May 11, 1951 in Fitzgerald to the late Curtis Jackson and Dorothy Lee Whatley Watson and had lived in Fitzgerald and Nashville before moving to Lowndes County ten years ago. Mr. Watson...
Mireya Borbon Rincon
Apr 11, 2008
MIREYA BORBON RINCON, 45, of Valdosta died Friday, April 11, 2008 at her home after a short illness. She was born on December 26, 1962 in Bogota, Colombia and had lived in Valdosta for eight years. She was a member of the Crossroads Baptist Church and attended the Valdosta Hispanic Mission. She loved the Lord very deeply. A wonderful and...
Jeanette Bulloch
Apr 11, 2008
Jeanette Bulloch, 79, of Valdosta died Friday, April 11, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 in the chapel of Carson McLane Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Riverview Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Condolences to...
Star Clark Howell
Apr 11, 2008
Star Clark Howell, of Valdosta died at her home on Friday, April 11, 2008. She was born in Albany on February 12, 1922 to the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark. She attended Valdosta Women's College where she met and married John B. Howell. Mrs. Howell was an active member of the First United Methodist Church where she attended the...
Commander William (Bill) Butler
Apr 10, 2008
Commander William M. (Bill) Butler, 58, of Valdosta died suddenly on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. Born on February 28, 1950 in Tampa, FL, he was the son of the late Julian and Laura Butler Berry. He was a member of Morningside Baptist.Bill Butler began his career with the Valdosta Police Department on August 13, 1973....
Russell Lowell Tucker
Apr 9, 2008
Russell Lowell Tucker, 55, of Lake Park died Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at Select Care Specialty Hospital in Tallahassee. He was born on September 18, 1952 in Ocilla to the late Lowell Tucker and Alba Simpson Tucker and had lived in this area for many years. Mr. Tucker enjoyed fishing and riding motorcycles and was a former employee of Union...
Edward Elisha (Po Ed) Guess
Apr 8, 2008
Edward Elisha (Po Ed) GuessOn April 8, 2008 the world lost a wonderful, one of a kind man. Edward Elisha (Po Ed) Guess, 75, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. Affectionately known by all as Po Ed, he was a constant source of fun, laughs, wisdom and above all love. A loyal friend, devoted...
Bobby Louis Wisenbaker
Apr 8, 2008
Bobby Louis Wisenbaker, 78, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Lowndes County on August 31, 1929 to the late Lewis Byrd and Cuba Carter Wisenbaker. Mr. Wisenbaker was a retired farmer and a member of the Redland Church of Christ. He was a veteran of the United States Army having...
Ethel B. Ganas
Apr 6, 2008
Ethel B. Ganas, 83, of Valdosta died at Langdale Hospice House on April 6, 2008. Born on January 1, 1925 in Lanier County, she was the daughter of the late Levi and Alice Woods Brantley. She was a homemaker and member of Greenwood Baptist Church. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Diane and W.G. Walker of Valdosta; son and daughter-in-law,...
Joy Annette Smith Wallace
Apr 4, 2008
Joy Annette Smith Wallace, 70, of Valdosta died Friday, April 4, 2008 at Louis Smith Hospital in Lakeland. She was born on August 1, 1930 in Bartow County, Georgia to the late Dexter Charles and Sarah Katherine Butler Smith. Mrs. Wallace was a Baptist. Survivors include a daughter and son in law, Mary K. Hull Bullock and Rex Bullock of...
Kathy Butts
Apr 4, 2008
Kathy Butts, 52, of Lake Park, died on Friday, April 4, 2008 after a short illness. Born in Valdosta on January 3, 1956, as a child she and her family moved to Thomasville for several years. She moved back to the Valdosta area twenty-two years ago. Mrs. Butts loved cross-stitch and needlepoint. She loved looking for and collecting antiques, she...
Rhonda Earline Colwell
Apr 3, 2008
Rhonda Colwell, 46, of Valdosta, died Thursday, April 3, 2008 at Langdale Hospice House. She was born on December 11, 1961 in Selma, Alabama to the late Leslie and Vivian Callie Graham Thacker. She was a homemaker.Mrs. Colwell is survived by her husband, Jeff Colwell of Valdosta, her daughter and son in law, Sheree and Jared Crosby of Valdosta, her...
Dale Smith Phillips
Apr 2, 2008
Dale Smith Phillips, 85, of Valdosta, died Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at her residence after a brief illness. She was born in Atlanta, GA on February 21, 1923 to the late Norman Earl and Jeannette Guthrie Smith. Mrs. Phillips was a school teacher for over thirty years, most recently with the Valdosta City School System. She was a charter member...
Mary Lois Dewar
Apr 2, 2008
Mary Lois Pafford Dewar, daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, teacher, gardener, business woman, church woman, musician, and friend to many, died on Wednesday April 2, 2008 in her home. She was born January 17, 1918 the youngest daughter of the late Fannie Smith and J. Levin Pafford and sister of the late Leo Pafford and Doris Pafford Shaw all...
Patrick S. Meagher
Apr 1, 2008
PATRICK S. MEAGHER, 97, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on October 22, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois to the late Thomas Francis and Margaret Gillem Meagher and had lived in Valdosta for the past ten years. Mr. Meagher was veteran of the United States Air Force having served in World War...
Mildred Newberry
Apr 1, 2008
Mildred Newberry, 80, of Valdosta, died Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born on October 25, 1927 in Caseyville, Illinois to the late John and Minnie Baldus. Mrs. Newberry was a homemaker. She is survived by two daughters and sons in law, Kathleen and Mickey Corbett of Lake Park, Beth and Russell Bland of Valdosta,...
Walter H. (Bud) Zorn
Apr 1, 2008
WALTER H. (BUD) ZORN, 90, of Valdosta died Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. He was born on September 21, 1917 in Shorterville, Alabama to the late Adolphus H. and Annie Lou Zorn. He was baptized at the Bainbridge Christian Church in 1957. He played the fiddle for eighty-two years after starting at...
Betty Kate Deas
Mar 31, 2008
Betty Kate Deas, 70, lifelong resident of Lake Park, died suddenly in her sleep after a period of declining health, on Monday, March 31, 2008 in Pensacola, Florida. Born in Pearson, on November 1, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Lawton and Betsy P. Haskins. Mrs. Deas was a homemaker and had worked for Owens Illinois for 8...
John Louis Carter
Mar 30, 2008
Mr. John Louis Carter, 69, of Homerville, died suddenly on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Valdosta to late Louis and Mitt Kuykendall Carter on November 11, 1938 and was a farmer. He loved to travel and was a devoted father, grandfather and friend. Farming was not only his occupation, but it was...
Lawrence Edward Zipperer, Sr.
Mar 29, 2008
LAWRENCE EDWARD ZIPPERER, SR., 93, of Valdosta died Saturday, March 29, 2008 at his home. He was born in Lowndes County on December 11, 1914 to the late Charles Edward and Lucy Roberts Zipperer and was a lifelong resident of Lowndes County. Mr. Zipperer was a member of the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church and a veteran of the United...
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