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

Marion G. Wyrostek
Apr 15, 2008
Marion G. Wyrostek, 90, of Pinetta, FL. died on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born on March 4, 1918 to the late Bill and Olive Dodge Reid in St. Andrews, New Brunswick Canada. She was a homemaker and a charter member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.Survivors include her son, Warren...

Edward Bruce Moss
Apr 15, 2008
Edward Bruce Moss, 73 of Valdosta, died Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at his residence. Born on November 10, 1934 in Vestal, NY, he was the son of the late Thomas and Mildred McGarry Moss. He was retired from the United States Air Force and UPS. Mr. Moss was a member of Mt. Pleasant Church of Christ.He is survived by his...

Reginald Gene Carter
Apr 15, 2008
Reginald Gene Carter, of Valdosta died Saturday, April 12, 2008 at his home. He was born in Beckley, West Virginia and had lived in Valdosta for thirty years. Mr. Carter retired as a Senior Master Sergeant from the United States Air Force after twenty seven years of service having served in Korea and Vietnam. Survivors include three daughters and two...

Eva Denise Padgett Okolichany
Apr 14, 2008
Eva Denise Padgett Okolichany, devoted wife and mother, 47, of Lake Park died Monday, April 14, 2008 at her home. She was born on March 19, 1961 in Warner Robins and had lived in Valdosta for many years. Mrs. Okolichany was a faithful member of the Forrest Park Church of Christ. She loved her church family and working for the...

James Edward Cunningham
Apr 14, 2008
JAMES EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, 74, of Valdosta died Monday, April 14, 2008 at his home. He was born on November 12, 1933 in Concord, Tennessee to the late R. M. and Ruth Kirby Cunningham and had lived in this area most of his life. Mr. Cunningham was retired from the United States Air Force and a retired Hospital/Nursing Home Administrator. He...

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...