Obituaries
John W. McLeod
Jan 10, 2018
John W. McLeod, 88, of Albany, GA died Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, January 12, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bruce Smith will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the funeral services at Mathews Funeral Home.
Jane Lindsey Jones
Jan 10, 2018
Jane Lindsey Jones, 98, died January 10, 2018 at Magnolia Manor in Americus, GA. Graveside funeral services will be held Monday, January 15, 2018 at 11:00 AM at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Her niece, Mrs. Miriam Morrison will officiate. Born May 16, 1919 in Columbus, OH to Marvin F. and Lillian B. Lindsey, she attended schools in Ohio, Mrs. Jones...
Larry Dee Bessey
Jan 9, 2018
Larry Dee Bessey, 75, of Dawson, GA, died Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at his residence. A memorial service will be held Saturday January 13, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Mr. Bessey’s airplane hangar, 130 Air Strip Road Dawson, GA. Mr. Joe Collier will officiate. Larry was born in Olean, New York and moved to Wyoming as a young boy and...
William Curtis Lamp
Jan 5, 2018
William Curtis Lamp, 71, passed on Friday, January 5, 2018 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral Services will be at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1508 Whispering Pines Road, Albany, GA, on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. Interment will follow at Leesburg Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Pastor Doug Hudson will be officiating. Born...
Richard E. Brown
Jan 5, 2018
Richard E. Brown, 82, of Lee County, GA, died January 5, 2018 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. A visitation will be held Saturday, January 13, 2018 from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. A native of Hartford, CT., born to the late Raymond and Althea Brown, Mr. Brown grew up in the family business and owned and...
Geraldine Wilkerson Shippey
Jan 4, 2018
Geraldine Wilkerson Shippey, 90, of Edison, GA died Thursday, January 4, 2018 at Calhoun Co. Nursing Home in Edison, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, January 8, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Edison United Methodist Church. Rev. Charles (Buddy) Coss will officiate. Interment will follow in Morgan Cemetery, Morgan, GA.
Born in Morgan, GA, Mrs. Shippey had resided...
Dorinda Sue Hardwick
Jan 4, 2018
Dorinda Hardwick, 68, of Albany, GA, died January 4, 2018 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Ross Powell will officiate. A private interment will follow Monday at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. A native of Edison, GA born to the late Jessie and Marynelle Lightfoot, Mrs. Hardwick was raised...
Otis Senn, Jr
Jan 2, 2018
Otis Senn, Jr. of Sylvester, GA died Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at Tift Regional Medical Center, Tifton, GA. Memorial services will be conducted Friday, January 6, 2018 at Lighthouse Ministries at 2:00 p.m. Rev. Chris Turner and Pastor Stacy Neal Senn will officiate with military honors to follow.
Born in Newton, AL, Mr. Senn had resided in Worth Co., GA...
Guy Wendall Jones
Jan 2, 2018
Guy Wendell Jones, 82, of Moultrie, GA formerly of Albany, GA, died January 2, 2018 at Colquitt Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bruce Smith will officiate. A native of Thomson, GA, Mr. Jones graduated from Thomson High School and joined the United States Navy and served during the Korean...
William "Bill" Southern
Jan 2, 2018
William M. “Bill” Southern, 70, of Worth County, died Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at his residence. A private burial was held.
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Mr. Southern had lived in the area for a number of years. He was a retired mechanic and had worked with Parker Security.
Survivors include a special friend Frances Jones of Albany.
Karen Alice Tippins Mulford
Jan 1, 2018
Karen Alice Tippins (Kat) Mulford, 37, of Albany, GA, died January 1, 2018 at her residence. A memorial service will be held Saturday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Buddy Harris will officiate. The family will receive friends one hour before the service. A native and lifelong resident of Albany, GA, Karen was a student at Westover High...
Mark Austin Lee
Jan 1, 2018
Mark Austin Lee, 53, of Albany, GA, died January 1, 2018 at his residence. Memorial services will be held Friday, January 5, 2018 at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Evelyn Duvall will officiate. The family will receive friends one hour before the service. A native of Ashville, NC, Mark grew up in Cairo, GA and graduated from Cairo...
Margaret Susanne Webb
Dec 31, 2017
Margaret Smith Webb, 65, of Albany, GA, passed away December 31, 2017 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside memorial services will be conducted at Andersonville national Cemetery at a later date. Margaret was born October 30, 1952 in Birmingham, AL, to the late John and Grace Smith. Margaret is also preceded in death by a brother Ricky Smith and her...
Roger Lee Rogers
Dec 30, 2017
Roger Lee Rogers of Albany, GA passed away on Dec. 30, 2017 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Roger is survived by his mother, Carolyn Combs Rogers, Albany, GA, two sons, Andrue Caleb Rogers and Jaxson Lee Rogers of Leesburg, GA, a sister, Stacie Rogers Torrence (Brandon Jon Torrence), LaGrange, GA and their children, Mackenzie Torrence, Ansleigh Torrence and Ethan Torrence, grandfather,...
Dale H. Brown
Dec 30, 2017
Dale H. Brown of Albany, born September 13, 1931, died Saturday, December 30, 2017 at the age of 86 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital surrounded by his family.
A native of Monessen, PA, Mr. Brown was a retired Senior Design Engineer. He had multiple degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering. His professional career took him to Westinghouse, the National Reconnaissance Office and...
Peggy Sue Scales Horne
Dec 28, 2017
Peggy Sue Scales Horne, 94, of Dandridge, TN, formerly of Albany, GA, died December 28, 2017 in Dandridge, TN. Graveside services will be held Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Affectionately known as Moma Sue, Mrs. Horne was a USAF wife, married to SRMsgt Hobart E. Horne for over fifty years. She will be laid...
Edith Langford McMillin
Dec 26, 2017
Mrs. Edith Langford McMillin, 90, of Albany, GA, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on December 26, 2017. No formal services are being planned but a memorial service will be held at a later date at Fort Gaines Presbyterian Church in Fort Gaines, Georgia. Mrs. McMillin was born in Bainbridge, GA but moved with her family to...
Jeanette Kimbrell Faulk
Dec 24, 2017
Jeanette Kimbrell Faulk, 78, of Terrell County, GA, died December 24. 2017 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Friday, December 29, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Gerre Doree will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery.
Mrs. Faulk was born in Arlington, GA to the late Wilburn and Rosa Sheffield Kimbrell and lived there...
Maggie Mae Caulder
Dec 24, 2017
Maggie Mae Caulder, 85, of Lee County, GA, died December 24, 2017 at her residence. Graveside funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:00 P.M. at Hillcrest Cemetery in Sylvester, GA. Rev. Mark Hughes will officiate. The family will receive friends following the service.
A native of Worth County, GA, born to the late William Thomas Brown and Emma Lee Brown,...
Tommy H. Bell (MSgt., USMC, Ret.)
Dec 23, 2017
Tommy H Bell, (MSgt., USMC, Ret.), 79, of Lee County, GA, died December 23, 2017 at his residence in Albany GA. A celebration of his life will be held Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home in Albany, GA. Chaplin John Williams will officiate. The family will have a private committal service with full military honors on Friday...
