Obituaries
Josephine J. NeSmith
Mar 31, 2015
Josephine J. NeSmith, 91, of Albany, GA, died March 31, 2015, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be held Saturday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.A native of Boston, GA, and born to the late Ira and Ada Martin, Mrs. NeSmith graduated from Boston High School and married her late husband, Willis...
Dennis Lynwood Wade
Mar 30, 2015
Dennis Lynwood Wade, 72, of Albany, GA, died Monday, March 30, 2015 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Albany, GA. Dr. William E. (Butch) Knight and Rev. Bruce English will officiate. Graveside services will follow at 2:30 p.m. at Traveler's Rest Free Will Baptist Church...
Ina Ragnhild Sutton
Mar 29, 2015
Ina Ragnhild Sutton, 89, of Albany, GA died Sunday, March 29, 2015 at Willson Hospice House. Services plans will be announced at a later date.Ina was born in Lewistown, Montana and moved to Texas around 1941, where she met and married Joseph (Jody) Leland Abel on April 18, 1945. Their daughter Maggie Lou Sophia Abel was born in 1951 in...
Leon Elmo Thompson
Mar 26, 2015
Leon Elmo Thompson, 96, of Albany, GA, died March 26, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Entombment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery with Military Honors provided by The United States Navy.A native of Kirksville, MO, Mr. Thompson was born to the...
Larry Gordon May
Mar 25, 2015
Larry Gordon May, 52, of Albany, GA, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at Wynfield Park Health and Rehabilitation. A celebration of life will be held Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm at Victory Tabernacle Assembly of God.Larry was born in Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and moved to the Albany area in 1975. He worked...
Shirley C. Huiras
Mar 24, 2015
Shirley C. Huiras, 80, of Leesburg, GA, died Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at Phoebe Worth Medical Center. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 27, 2015 at 3:00 PM at Floral Memory Gardens. Norman Denney will officiate.A native of Miami, FL, born to the late William Henry Elsberry and Stella Harp Elsberry. Mrs. Huiras had resided in the Albany...
Wilma Jean Potter
Mar 23, 2015
Wilma Jean Potter, 86, of Leesburg, GA died Monday March 23, 2015 at Wynfield Park Health and Rehab. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 4:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Melvin Slappey will officiate. Graveside interment services will be Monday, March 30, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery, Moberly, MO.Born in Moberly, MO, Mrs. Potter had...
James Melvin Pilgrim
Mar 23, 2015
James Melvin Pilgrim, 77, of Albany, GA, died Monday, March 23, 2015 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Dawson, GA. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.Born in Anderson, SC, Mr. Pilgrim had resided in Albany, GA since 1972. He was retired from the clothing manufacturing industry having...
Robert D. Waller, MD
Mar 22, 2015
Robert D. Waller, MD, 89, of Americus, GA, formerly of Albany, GA, died March 22, 2015 at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center. Memorial services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at The First United Methodist Church of Americus. Rev. Jim Smith and Rev. Dennis Stalvey will officiate.A native of Mauk, GA in Taylor County, Dr. Waller was born to the...
Clara Hall Brown
Mar 22, 2015
Clara Hall Brown, 80, of Lee County, GA, died Sunday, March 22, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Melvin Slappy will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery. Her grandsons will serve as active pallbearers.A native of Baconton, GA, born to the late Joe and Christine...
Robert ""Bobby"" Sceals
Mar 19, 2015
Robert Bobby Louis Sceals, 78, of Leesburg, GA, passed away Thursday, March 19, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00 A.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Tolbert Cassady and Jamie R. Korona will officiate.A native of Ashburn, GA, born to the late Edward Louis and Daisy Camilla Carver Sceals. Mr. Sceals was a lifelong South West...
John Riner
Mar 19, 2015
J. William (Bill) Riner, 71, of Albany, GA, died March 19, 2015. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.A native of Savannah, GA, born to the late Rev. Ralph and Edna Riner, Sr., Bill grew up in Dublin, GA. He graduated from Dublin High School and Presbyterian College in...
Cecil F. Norman
Mar 18, 2015
Cecil F. Norman, 86, of Lee County, GA, died March 18, 2015 from injuries received from an automobile accident. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 11:00 am at Putney United Methodist Church. Rev. Cathy Green will officiate. Committal services will follow in Lebanon Cemetery in Pavo, GA at 2:30 PM.Mr. Norman was born in Norman Park,...
Carroll C. Givens
Mar 16, 2015
Carroll C. Givens, 71, of Newton, GA died Monday, March 16, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 20, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Charles Rouse and Donnie Phillips will officiate. Interment will follow at Travelers Rest Church Cemetery in Baker County. Wayne Poole, Bobby Baxley, Rusty Muliford, David Hart, Gene Phillips,...
Carol Sue Abbott
Mar 13, 2015
Carol Sue Mitcheson Abbott, 57, of Albany, GA, died Friday, March 13, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. The family will have a visitation at Mathews Funeral Home on Sunday, March 15, 2015 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.Born in Cherry Point, NC to the late John James Mitcheson and Rosemarie Boudreau Mitcheson, Carol was a 1977 graduate of Albany...
Barbara Patsy Reed Rosales
Mar 12, 2015
Barbara Patsy Reed Rosales, 73, of Leesburg, GA, died Thursday, March 12, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Raymond Levreault will officiate. A native of Highland, IL, Mrs. Rosales was born to the late James and Ethel Reed. Mrs. Rosales attended the University...
Jerie H. Howell
Mar 11, 2015
Ms. Jerie H. Howell of Pelham, GA passed away Wednesday, March 11, 2015 in Albany, GA.Jerie previously resided in Butner, N.C. Surviving are her two daughters, Mrs. Cheri H. Brown and her husband, Ron of Franklinton, NC and Lisa H. Probst and her husband, Glen of Apex, NC and a brother, Bob Harvell of Oxford, NC. She was preceded in...
Danny David Yeatts
Mar 8, 2015
Danny David Yeatts of Lee Co., GA, departed this world to be with the lord on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA while surrounded by his family. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Living Hope Fellowship. Pastor Sam and Sandra Cook will officiate. A private interment will follow...
Loretta M. Daniels
Mar 7, 2015
Loretta Maxwell Daniels, 80, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, March 7, 2015 at her daughter's residence in Cumming, GA. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 A.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Ross Powell will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA, born to the late Leon Edgar and Ethel Loretta Maxwell, Mrs. Daniels graduated...
James Colquitt Bowen
Mar 7, 2015
James C. Bowen, Jr. (Jake) of Jacksonville, Florida departed this life Saturday March 7, 2015.A Celebration of Life for Jake Bowen will be held at 3:00 p.m. , Monday March 9, at the Chapel at Flint River Preserve, 825 Power Dam Road, Warwick, Georgia, with Amy Bowen Carter officiating. The family will receive friends immediately after the service.Mr. Bowen was...
