Jo Ann Sagendorph

Jo Ann Sagendorph, 74 of Albany, GA, died at on Sunday November 8, 2026, at Phoebe Memorial hospital. Memorial Services are to be held Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 6:00 pm at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Stan Glass will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm at Mathews Funeral Home.

Ms. Sagendorph was born in Albany, GA to Joseph Nelson Sagendorph and Mary Magdalene Coston, on February 8, 1952. Her family moved to Lee County, GA where she graduated from Lee County High School in 1970.

Jo Ann was employed with Coats and Clark along with MacGregor Golf Company. Jo Ann joined The Fred Taylor Company and was Fred Taylor’s personal secretary until her retirement three years ago.

A faithful servant of Christ and was a member of Life Christian Center International. Jo Ann was known for helping others and her dedicated work at prison ministries. She loved to read and she loved her cats, Lizzie Mae and Leroy Brown.

She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Nelson Sagendorph.

Survivors include her mother, Mary Magdalene Sagendorph of Leesburg, GA, her sons, Silas Stocks of Lee County, GA and Joseph Stocks of Albany, GA, her sisters, Donna Wright of Leesburg, GA and Jolene (Bobby) Cox of Lake Blackshear, GA, her nephews Kurt Banner and Jeffrey Morey, and her cousins BJ Fletcher of Albany, GA and Judy May of Tifton, GA.

If you would like to make memorials in memory of Jo Ann you may send your donation to the Kairos Prison Ministry at Kairos of Georgia State Treasurer, P.O. Box 5743, Forsyth, GA 31029.