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Ronald Leroy Wentworth
Apr 25, 2005
RONALD L. WENTWORTH, 65, of Valdosta died Monday, April 25, 2005 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Council Bluff, Iowa on May 25, 1939 to the late Donald and Alverna Hansen Wentworth and was a former resident of Albany and Brunswick and had lived in Valdosta for the past five years. Mr. Wentoworth was a veteran of...
Burnice C. (Skeeter) Hiers
Apr 25, 2005
Burnice C. (Skeeter) Hiers, 62, of Thomasville and formerly of Valdosta, died on Monday, April 25, 2005, at Archbold Medical Center. Born on October 12, 1942 in Valdosta, he was the son of L. B. and Lillian Hiers of Valdosta. He was a Valdosta State University police officer, a retired Deputy Sheriff for Lowndes County. He was in the Air...
Elva L. Nelson
Apr 25, 2005
Elva L. Nelson, 77 of Bedford, TX formerly of Valdosta, died on Sunday, April 25, 2005. Born on August 15, 1927 in Mill City, PA, she was the daughter of the late Montell and Ethel Lewis Clark and the widow of Burel Nelson. Mrs. Nelson was a homemaker and a member of Bemiss United Methodist Church. She was involved in...
Leon Franklin Ward
Apr 25, 2005
Leon Franklin Ward, 82, of Valdosta, passed away at his home on Monday, April 25, 2005 from a long illness resulting from complications of a congenital heart defect and congestive heart failure. Born in Konawa, Oklahoma, on December 21, 1922, Mr. Ward was the son of the late James Edward and Etta Maebell Ward. He had served in the Navy...
Hollis M. Courson
Apr 24, 2005
Hollis M. Courson, 83, of Hahira, died Sunday, April 24, 2005 at his residence after a lengthy illness. He was born on April 13, 1922 in Lowndes County, GA to the late Henry Manning and Lula Shierling Courson. Mr. Courson was a World War II Air Force Veteran and a Baptist.He is survived by his wife, Annette Moree Courson of...
Richard Allen Black
Apr 23, 2005
Allen Black, 58, died suddenly on Saturday, April 23, 2005, at South Georgia Medical Center. Born in Valdosta to Richard Vernon Black and the late Wynell Black, Mr. Black had been a lifelong resident of this area and was a member and deacon at Mt. Pleasant Church of Christ. He was also a veteran of the Navy, and currently a...
Roy L. Murphy
Apr 22, 2005
Roy L. Murphy, 72, of Dasher, died Friday, April 22, 2005 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Twin City, GA on November 6, 1932 to the late Henry David and Pearl Harbuck Murphy. Mr. Murphy was retired from Union Camp, served in the United States Air Force and was a member of the Dasher Church of Christ.He...
Norma Frances Delaney
Apr 20, 2005
Norma Frances Delaney, 67 of Sun Lakes, AZ for the past 7 years and previously from Gainesville, FL, died on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 in Chandler, AZ. She was born on August 2, 1937 in Moultrie, GA. Mrs. Delaney was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. Survivors are her husband, Gerald Delaney of Sun Lakes, AZ; her son,...
Will Davis (Bill) Burgsteiner
Apr 18, 2005
Will Davis (Bill) Burgsteiner, 83 of Valdosta died on Monday, April 18, 2005 at South Georgia Medical Center after a short illness. Born on March 24, 1922 in Berrien County, he was the son of the late Kirk and Ola Burgsteiner. He was a member of First Baptist Church. He was a graduate of Valdosta High School and served in...
Charles Edwin Cook
Apr 18, 2005
Charles Edwin Cook, 66, of Hahira died Monday, April 18, 2005 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born on August 30, 1938 in Ray City to the late Eliga Lee and Verdie Griner Cook and had lived in Hahira since 1983. Mr. Cook was a veteran of the United States Army and a Lowndes County Correctional Officer.Survivors include his...
Eloise Woodward Mcmullen
Apr 18, 2005
Eloise Woodard McMullen, 77, of Lake Park, died on Monday, April 18, 2005 after a lengthy illness. Born in Lee, FL to the late Walter Kelly & Annie Thelma Wells Woodard and her late stepmother Pearl Downing Woodard. She was a devoted wife, loving mother and homemaker. She also worked with Southern Bell and Lowndes County DFACS. She was a...
Katy Bell Hyde
Apr 17, 2005
KATY BELL HYDEKATY BELL HYDE, 87, of Valdosta and affectionately known as “Gran Katy” died on Sunday, April 17, 2005 at a local nursing home. Mrs. Hyde was a native of Martin, TN who resided in Birmingham, Alabama from 1940-1997. Since that time, she has lived in Valdosta. She was a dedicated Christian and homemaker who loved her family, music...
William, Sr. Nordin Reed
Apr 15, 2005
William Nordin Reed, Sr. 81, of Valdosta died Friday, April 15, 2005 at South Georgia Medical Center. He was born in Sioux Falls, SD on March 4, 1924 to the late Louis J. and Gudrun Hjorth Nordin and later adopted and raised by the late Leonard M. Reed. He was a 1941 graduate of Cresco Iowa High School and served...
Barbara Edge Burdick
Apr 15, 2005
Barbara Edge Burdick, 87, of Exton, PA passed away on Friday, April 15, 2005 at The Inn at Freedom Village Brandywine. Born in Cain Township, PA she was the daughter of the late W. Gilbert Edge and Laura Thomas Edge. Mrs. Burdick was a graduate of the Westtown School, class of 1935. She was affiliated with The Valley Garden Club,...
Roberta Adams English
Apr 14, 2005
ROBERTA ADAMS ENGLISH, 88, of Valdosta died Thursday, April 14, 2005 at South Georgia Medical Center. She was born on August 16, 1916 in Telfair County to the late Alvin M. and Verbie Garnto Adams and had lived in Valdosta for several years. Mrs. English was a member of the Northside Baptist Church.Survivors include a daughter and son in law,...
Dorothy Estelle Scruggs
Apr 14, 2005
Estelle Scruggs, 93, lifelong resident of Valdosta, died on April 14, 2005, at South Georgia Medical Center after a sudden illness. Born in Macon, on January 18, 1912, she was the daughter of the late William Franklin and Margaret Estelle Ellis Etheredge. Mrs. Scruggs had been associated with Belks. She was a charter member of the Park Avenue United Methodist...
Walter Stanley Herring
Apr 13, 2005
Stan Herring, 41 of Lake Park, died un-expectantly while taking care of farm chores, on Wednesday, April 13, 2005. Born on November 5, 1963 in Lowndes County, he was the son of Ealie Doyle and Glenda Ann Dennis Herring. Stan loved farming. He enjoyed quail hunting and fishing with his children, was actively involved with his daughters 4H Club projects...
Toy Luke Rowan
Apr 13, 2005
Toy Luke Rowan of Valdosta died on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at her residence after a lengthy illness. Born in Berrien County, she was the daughter of the late William E. and Vera Hancock Luke and the widow of Julius Rowan of Valdosta. Mrs. Rowan was co-owner of Rowan Meats and of the Baptist faith. Survivors are one sister, Doris...
Inez Purvis Dempsey
Apr 13, 2005
INEZ DEMPSEY, 68, of Valdosta died Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at the Brownwood Nursing Home in Moultrie. She was born on August 7, 1936 in Mayo, Fla to the late Lonnie Columbus and Rosa Thomas Purvis and was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Lake Park, Georgia.Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Turner of Valdosta, one sister, Louise Weaver...
Grace H. Brooks
Apr 13, 2005
Grace H. Brooks, 88 lifetime resident of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at a local nursing home after a brief illness. Born on January 22, 1917 in Abbeville, GA, she was the daughter of the late Jesse and Amanda Christopher Hughes and the widow of Carl Brooks of Valdosta. She was a retired spinner at Strickland Cotton Mill...
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