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Walter S. Bazemore
Mar 30, 2022
Walter S. Bazemore, 79, of Lake Park passed away Thursday, March 30, 2022 at Langdale Hospice House. He was born on April 22, 1942 in Atkinson County, GA to the late Robert Eustis (Rob) Bazemore and Miriam Elizabeth Smith Bazemore. Walter served in the United States Army and was a self-employed machinist with Sunbelt Machine Inc. He was a member...
Kevin Paul Young
Mar 30, 2022
Kevin Paul Young, 63, of Hahira, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. He was born on September 2, 1958, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to the late Paul Young and Lorraine Hauk Synders. He served in the U.S. Air Force for over 23 years and was the owner operator of Valdosta Pest Control. He enjoyed playing pickleball and...
Samuel Spells, Jr.
Mar 28, 2022
Samuel Kenneth Spells, Jr. of Valdosta, GA, passed away on Monday, March 28, 2022. He was born on July 17, 1948 in Berrien County, GA to the late Samuel K., Sr. & Sallie Cortelia Ray Spells. He was a very active member of Christ the King Episcopal Church. He volunteered with The Red Cross and was “Volunteer of the Year...
Edith Norman Smith
Mar 27, 2022
Edith Norman Smith, 84, of Hahira died Sunday at the home of her daughter. She was born in Moultrie, Georgia on September 24, 1937 to the late Joe Wheeler and Ola McMullen Norman and had lived in Lowndes County for many years. Mrs. Smith was a member of Northside Baptist Church. She loved spending time with her children, grandchildren and...
Joann Cain Bantz
Mar 25, 2022
Joann Cain Bantz, 79, of Valdosta passed away on Friday, March 25, 2022. She was born in Hahira on August 24, 1942 to the late John Thomas (Jake) & Margaret Elaine Branch Cain. She was an interior decorator that owned and operated Johnson Custom Décor and Country Peddler and a member of Redland Baptist Church. She loved fishing, cooking for...
Leah Louise Zakar
Mar 25, 2022
Leah Louise (Matchie) Zakar “Gagimi” age 67 of Valdosta, GA, passed away peacefully Friday, March 25, 2022. Leah was born on November 15, 1954 in Topeka, KS the daughter of Howard and Melvene Oliver. Leah was a member of the Native American tribe Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. She met John Henry Zakar, Jr. at Forbes AFB in Topeka, KS. They...
Janet Webb
Mar 25, 2022
Janet Thompson Webb, 79, of Valdosta, died peacefully in her sleep on Friday, March 25, 2022, at The Canopy. She was born and raised in Albany, GA to Ouida Jane Ellis Thompson and the late Iverson Perry Thompson. She was a retired supervisor for the Department of Family and Children Services. She graduated high school in Albany and then graduated...
Rebecca Watson
Mar 24, 2022
Rebecca Smith Watson, 55, of Valdosta, passed away on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at Langdale Hospice House. She was born in Tifton, GA on March 14, 1967, to Lewis Charles Smith and Donna Brunson Smith. Becky was a member of First Baptist Church of Valdosta and lived to serve Christ. Becky and her husband Keith were president of the Flythe...
William C. "Billy" Crook
Mar 23, 2022
William C. “Billy” Crook, passed away Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at Tift Regional Hospital. Born December 19, 1963, in Valdosta, Billy was the son of Anita Lunsford Crook and the late William E. “Bill” Crook. He was a 1983 graduate of Lowndes High School and played football for the Vikings as part of the team that won Lowndes High their...
Dianne Hamby Wright
Mar 23, 2022
Dianne Hamby Wright, 80, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at The Orchard following a period of declining health. She was born on May 4, 1941, in Clyattville to the late Alvin and Kathryn Morris Hamby. Dianne received her Bachelor of Education degree from Valdosta State (VSC) and later a Master’s degree in Library Science from Florida State...
Robert John Gunn
Mar 23, 2022
Robert John Gunn of Valdosta took his final flight west on March 23, 2022. He passed at Langdale Hospice House surrounded by his loving family and friends. John was born September 27, 1948 in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan to Robert Bruce Gunn and Jessie Hunter Gunn. Being born into a military family meant that John was raised in many places, but...
Curt Anthoney Brooks
Mar 22, 2022
Curt Anthoney Brooks, 47, of Valdosta, died on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at his residence following a lengthy illness. He was born on November 14, 1974, in Hahira and has been a life-long resident of Valdosta. He loved to fish and was a member of Corinth Baptist Church. He is survived by his son, Denver Brooks of Valdosta; his mother,...
Maxine Parker Hill
Mar 22, 2022
Maxine Parker Hill of Hahira, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at Presbyterian Home of Quitman. She was born on April 16, 1948 in Hahira to the late Ewart Frank Parker and Vera Mae Kirkland Parker. Mrs. Hill was a homemaker who was also an avid reader, gardener, and loved birds. Mrs. Hill is survived by her sons and...
Charles Windall Corbett
Mar 19, 2022
Charles Windall Corbett, 80, of Lake Park died Saturday, March 19, 2022, at his residence. He was born in Echols County on April 4, 1941, to the late Jesse Lee (Tince) Corbett and Flora Carter Corbett. Charles was a chemical tester at PCA in Clyattville and a member of Sardis Baptist Church. He collected tractors, loved the GA Bulldogs and...
Jane Shirah Stump
Mar 19, 2022
Jane Shirah Stump died March 19, 2022, in Charleston, SC, surrounded by her family. Janie was born to A. Jason Shirah and Jane Inman Shirah in Thomasville, GA, on June 9,1950. As a Methodist minister’s daughter, she grew up in various parsonages in South Georgia, graduating from Valdosta High School in 1968. She attended Wesleyan College and graduated from the...
Dewey Lee Rykard
Mar 18, 2022
Dewey Lee Rykard (U.S. Air Force Ret MSGT) of Enterprise, AL, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, March 18, 2022 at Medical Center Enterprise. He was 84. Graveside funeral services with full military honors will be held at 11a.m. on Friday, March 25, 2022 at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta, GA. Sorrells Funeral Home of...
Lynda H. Forthe
Mar 17, 2022
Lynda H. Forthe, 81, of Lake Park, passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2022 in St. Augustine, FL, after a battle with two non-related cancers. She grew up Lowndes County, and graduated from Pine Grove High School in the late 1950’s. She met Felton Forthe and they were married in 1961 and were married for 45 years until his death...
James Earl Bass
Mar 16, 2022
James Earl Bass, 83, of Valdosta, GA passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. He was born in Homerville, GA on October 13, 1938 to the late Jesse James and Clara Smith Bass. James Bass worked as an Environmental Inspector for Pruitt Health, was a U. S. Navy veteran, and a member of the South Valdosta Church of God. He...
Patricia Girardin
Mar 16, 2022
Mrs. Patricia Dixon Girardin, 72 of Valdosta, passed away on March 16, 2022 in Atlanta, GA after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Waycross, GA on February 5, 1950. She and her family moved to Blackshear, GA in 1961. In 1988 she opened Patti Girardin Interiors in Valdosta. Pioneers in downtown living and in the revitalization of downtown Valdosta,...
Maureen Brownhill Tourtellott
Mar 16, 2022
Maureen Eleanor Brownhill Tourtellott, 79, of Valdosta, died on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at her residence following a period of declining health. She was born on July 21, 1942, in Ecclesfield in Sheffield, Yorkshire England to the late Mons and Elsie Harvey Brownhill. She was a homemaker and of the Christian faith. Maureen is survived by her husband, Ted Tourtellott...
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