OBITUARIES

Recent Obituaries

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

Elizabeth Malphurs Savaresy

Elizabeth Malphurs Savaresy

Apr 14, 2006

Elizabeth Malphurs Savaresy, 86 of Irving, TX, died on Friday, April 14, 2006 at Baylor Medical Center in Irving after a brief illness. Born on October 9, 1919 in Sparrow, KY, she was the daughter of the late J. G. and Louise Touchton Malphurs. She was a retired marketing teacher at Longview High School and a member of First Christian...

Clarence B. Fender

Clarence B. Fender

Apr 14, 2006

CLARENCE B. FENDER, 73, of Valdosta died Friday, April 14, 2006 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. He was born on July 19, 1932 in Valdosta to the late Charlie T. and Gertrude Hendley Fender. Mr. Fender was a retired dairy farmer and a veteran of the U. S Army. He was a Baptist.Survivors include two sons...

Mary J. Turner

Mary J. Turner

Apr 12, 2006

Mary J. Turner, 73 of Lake Park since 1999, and formerly of Oklahoma, died on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at her residence after a lengthy illness. Born on December 2, 1932 in Daytown, FL, she was the daughter of the late Roy Felton and Lula Baker Lynch. She was a homemaker and a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Idabel,...

Maxine Purdy Lear

Maxine Purdy Lear

Apr 10, 2006

Maxine Purdy Lear, 94 of Jacksonville, FL, formerly of Valdosta, GA, passed away on Monday, April 10, 2006 at St. Catherine Laboure` Manor in Jacksonville. Born on July 9, 1911 in Topeka, KS, she was the daughter of the late Max Archibald Purdy and Ora Mae Collins Purdy and devoted wife of the late Thomas Franklin Lear. Mrs. Lear was...

Eben Corey (Buck) Mann, Jr.

Eben Corey (Buck) Mann, Jr.

Apr 9, 2006

Eben Corey “Buck” Mann, Jr., 89, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, died Sunday, April 9, 2006 at Alden Point. He was born on September 16, 1916 in Vienna, GA to the late Eben Corey Mann, Sr. and Angie Shepherd Mann. Mr. Mann was employed with Hercules as a woods superintendent, a veteran of the United States Marine Corp during World War II...

John D. (Johnny) Hamby

John D. (Johnny) Hamby

Apr 9, 2006

John D. (Johnny) Hamby, 55, of Valdosta, died on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at South Georgia Medical Center after a sudden illness. Born on October 3, 1950 in Lowndes County, he was the son of Kathryn Morris Hamby and the late Alvin D. Hamby. He graduated from Lowndes County High School in 1968. Mr. Hamby was employed with Langeboard and...

Richard Milton Chandler

Richard Milton Chandler

Apr 7, 2006

Richard (Dick) Milton Chandler, 79, of Valdosta, died Friday, April 7, 2006 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. Born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 23, 1927, he was the son of the late Milton Thor and Corinne St. Pierre Chandler. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Mr. Chandler served his country during the Korean Conflict. He was...

Mavis Croft Copeland

Mavis Croft Copeland

Apr 7, 2006

Mavis Croft Copeland, 78, of Valdosta, died on Friday, April 7, 2006, after a lengthy illness. Born in Colquitt County, Georgia, on September 16, 1927, she was the daughter of the late Chester L. and Nina McCoy Croft. She was a homemaker and member of Trinity Baptist Church. Survivors are her grandchildren, Laura and Mitch Cothron of Lake Park, John...

Leo E. Weaver

Leo E. Weaver

Apr 5, 2006

Leo E. Weaver, 80, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at his home after a lengthy illness. Born in Berrien County, on February 5, 1926, he was the son of the late Isaac Leo and Lillie Estelle Carter Weaver. Mr. Weaver was a U. S. Army veteran of WWII. He was a member of the VFW Post 1777,...

Bobby Joe Webb

Bobby Joe Webb

Apr 5, 2006

Bobby Joe Webb, 70, of Hahira, died Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. A lifelong resident of Hahira, he was born on December 3, 1935 to the late Aaron C. and Susan Hattie McDonald Webb. Mr. Webb was a retired contruction worker, served from 1953 until 1955 in the United States Army and...

Jonathan Lee Yeomans

Jonathan Lee Yeomans

Apr 4, 2006

Jonathan Lee Yeomans, 38, of Lake Park, died on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. Born in Savannah, Georgia, July 30, 1967, Mr. Yeomans was the son of Carolyn Parker and the late Elton Arvell Yeomans. Formerly of Milledgeville Mr. Yeomans had made his home in Lake Park since 1998. He was a...

Richard Lawrence Williams

Richard Lawrence Williams

Apr 1, 2006

Richard Lawrence “Rich” Williams, 55, of Valdosta, died Saturday, April 1, 2006 at St. Lukes Hospital in Jacksonville, FL after a lengthy illness. He was born in Waycross, GA on December 30, 1950 and was the son of the late Mack and Gladys Williams Sr. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Starke, FL, an avid supporter of...

Joe L. Lee, Jr.

Joe L. Lee, Jr.

Mar 31, 2006

Joe L. Lee, Jr., 84, of Valdosta died on Friday, March 31, 2006 at South Georgia Medical Center. Born on September 2, 1921 in Soperton, GA to the late Joe L. Lee, Sr. and Hattie Wilson Lee. At an early age his family moved to Cordele where he attended public schools and was a graduate of Georgia Military College. He...

Mary Maxine Coleman Sanders

Mary Maxine Coleman Sanders

Mar 31, 2006

MARY MAXINE COLEMAN SANDERS, 77, of Valdosta died Friday, March 31, 2006 at South Georgia Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born on November 26, 1928 in Gainesville, Florida to the late R. L. and Ruby Hutchinson Coleman and had lived in Valdosta since 1962. Mrs. Sanders was a member of the Morningside Baptist Church. She had served...

Dana Wilkinson

Dana Wilkinson

Mar 30, 2006

Dana Wilkinson, 40, of Valdosta, died at South Georgia Medical Center on Thursday, March 30, 2006, after a short illness. Born in Valdosta on November 19, 1965, she was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors are her daughter and son in law, Amber Brooke and Justin Lodge of Quitman, grandchildren, Thomas, Hannah and Lauralyn Lodge of...

Jerry Ashley Watson

Jerry Ashley Watson

Mar 30, 2006

Jerry Ashley Watson, 64, of Valdosta, died on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at his residence after a lengthy illness. Born on March 31, 1941in Hahira, he was the son of the late Paul Grover and Bessie Lucille Ashley Watson. He was a graduate of Berry College in Rome, GA and served in the Georgia Army National Guard for 12 years....

Allen Everett Gray

Allen Everett Gray

Mar 29, 2006

Allen Everett Gray, 80, of Lake Park, died on Wednesday, March 29, 2006, at Lakehaven Nursing Home after a period of declining health. Born on September 3, 1925 in Boston, GA, he was the son of the late Silas Allen and Pearl Murkerson Gray and the widower of Willie Mae Ritter Gray. Mr. Gray retired Packaging Corporation of America in...

Gene Vickers

Gene Vickers

Mar 27, 2006

GENE VICKERS, 64, of Valdosta died Monday, March 27, 2006 at his home. He was born in Berrien County on September 20, 1941 to the late Freddie P. and Rhoda Tyson Vickers and was a lifelong resident of this area. Mr. Vickers was the manager of Ameris Bank at Troupeville and a veteran of the U. S. Army. He was...

Louise P. Schneider

Louise P. Schneider

Mar 27, 2006

Louise P. Schneider, 89, of Valdosta, died on Monday, March 27, 2006, at the Brooks County Hospital in Quitman. after a lengthy illness. Born in Manhattan, New York on July 19, 1916, she was the daughter of the late Earl Haworth and Anna Justina Dienst Partington. Lou was baptized and confirmed as an Episcopalian.. She attended the Susan Blow Kindergarten...

Lester Gene Lewis

Lester Gene Lewis

Mar 27, 2006

Lester Gene “Pops” Lewis, 63 of Valdosta, GA died suddenly on Friday, March 24, 2006 in Homestead, FL. He was born on February 19, 1943 in Nashville, GA. He went to school in Clewiston, FL and then joined the United States Navy. During this time he met his wife, in California. He worked as a millwright for more than 30...