Obituaries

Eloine Katherine Schauberger
Oct 11, 2014
Eloine Katherine Schauberger, 73, of Albany, GA died Saturday, October 11, 2014 at her residence. Memorial services were conducted Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Family Worship Center. Rev. Gilbert Harris and Rev. Bobby Paul officiated.Born in Minneapolis, MN, Mrs. Schauberger had resided in Albany, GA most of her life and was a secretary retiring from Nut Tree...

Robert Lewis Slagle
Oct 11, 2014
Robert Lewis (Bob) Slagle, 84, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, October 11, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye and Pastor Randy Culberson will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.Born in Indianapolis, IN, Mr. Slagle had resided in Albany, GA for the...

Opal Lee Phillips
Oct 7, 2014
Opal Lee Phillips, 82, of Albany, GA, passed away Tuesday October 07, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2:00 pm at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in Gordon Cemetery Damascus GA.Raised in Colquitt GA Mrs. Phillips and her late husband traveled extensively during his twenty years of...

Donald F. Olin
Oct 6, 2014
Donald F. Olin, 94, of Albany, GA, died October 6, 2014 at Magnolia Manor Nursing Center in Americus, GA. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church with Masonic Rites. Rev. Leigh Ann Raynor will officiate. Interment will follow at 2:00 PM at Andersonville National Cemetery with Military Honors.A native of Philadelphia, PA,...

Thomas Virgil Patat
Oct 3, 2014
Thomas Virgil Patat, 61, of Leesburg, GA, died October 3, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Chuck Smith will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery.Virgil was born and grew up in Perry, GA and he was one of seven children born to the late Charlie...

William Britton Freeman
Oct 2, 2014
William Britton Freeman, 87, of Lee County, GA died Thursday, October 2, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 4, 2014 at New Hope Baptist Church. Rev. Bruce Smith will officiate. Interment will follow at Floral Memory Gardens.Mr. Freeman was born in Colquitt Co., Georgia has resided in Albany, GA and Lee County,...

Quentin Dezelle Erickson
Oct 2, 2014
Quentin (Q.D.) Erick Erickson, Jr., 67, of Warwick, GA, died Thursday, October 2, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:00 PM at Eastside Church of Christ. Rev. Sam Hartline will officiate. Interment will follow at Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Worth County, GA.A native of Natchitoches, LA, he graduated from Lafayette High School....

Betty Jo Adams
Oct 1, 2014
Betty Jo Adams, 80, of Calhoun County, GA, died Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Jean Watson will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Laurens County, GA, born to the late Marvin E. and Lollie Mae Ellis, Mrs. Adams...

Juanita Evelyn Burnham
Oct 1, 2014
Juanita Evelyn Burnham, 85, of Lee County, passed away Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.Born in Alma, GA Mrs. Burnham moved to Albany in 1969 when her late husband, Mr. Robert “Bob†Burnham, retired from the U.S. Navy. She later...

Patsy Laverne McLeod
Sep 29, 2014
Patsy Laverne McLeod, 66, of Leesburg, GA, died Monday, September 29, 2014 at her home in Leesburg, GA. Memorial Services will be held on a later date. The family is at the residence of Annie Elizabeth Ryals. Patsy retired from Central State Hospital where she was an LPN for 23 years. She is survived by her mother Annie Elizabeth Ryals...

Jimmy Bartley Tabb
Sep 28, 2014
Jimmy Bartley Tabb, 74, of Leesburg, GA, died Sunday, September 28, 2014 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Gordon Cemetery, Colquitt, GA. Mr. Barney Williams will officiate.Born in Colquitt, GA, Mr. Tabb had resided in Albany, GA most all of his life. He was a veteran of the Vietnam...

Arthur Boland (Buddy) Lindler, III
Sep 26, 2014
A tribute to our BuddyArthur Boland Lindler III, 64, died, Friday September 26, 2014. Graveside services will be conducted Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 11:00 am at Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, GA. Rev. Freeman G. Cross, Jr. will officiate. Buddy was born in Columbia, SC on December 1, 1949 to Arthur and Emily Lindler. Buddy spent his youthful summers at his...

Robert Lee Wilson, Jr
Sep 23, 2014
Robert Lee Wilson (US Army, RET), 82, of Palm Bay, FL, died September 23, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Steve Myers will officiate. Committal services will follow at 2:00 PM at Andersonville National Cemetery with Military Honors.Mr. Wilson was born in Warrington, NC and enlisted in the...

Betty Sue Harper Hall
Sep 23, 2014
Betty Sue Harper Hall, of Albany, GA died Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at her residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Friday, September 26, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Nashville Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Nashville, GA. Rev. Billy D. Hanna will officiate.Born in Alapaha, GA, Mrs. Hall had resided in Albany, GA for the past thirty nine years moving from Valdosta,...

Raymond L Cook
Sep 21, 2014
Raymond L. (Buddy) Cook, 67, of Albany, GA, died September 21, 2014 at the Lillian Carter Health and Rehabilitation Center in Plains, GA. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Douglas Hatcher will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Greenville, AL, born to the late, Raymond R. and...

Larry T. Arnold, Sr
Sep 20, 2014
Larry T. Arnold, Sr., 68, of Albany, GA passed away Saturday, September 20, 2014 at Willson Hospice House. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 10:00 am at Leesburg Cemetery. Rev Bobby Moye will officiate.Born and raised in Moultrie GA, Larry moved to Albany and has resided here all of his adult life. He was currently...

Glen Melvin Pinkston
Sep 17, 2014
Glen Melvin Pinkston, 66, of Lee County, GA., died Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at Wilson Hospice House.Glen was born on September 27, 1947 in Knoxville, TN to the late Lane Cox Pinkston and Laura Ann Pinkston, previously of Seymour, TN. He graduated from East High Knoxville, TN in 1965 and attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, receiving a...

Corinne Warren Rentfrow
Sep 13, 2014
Corinne Warren Rentfrow, 80, of Albany, GA died Saturday, September 13, 2014 at Cartersville Medical Center in Cartersville, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Ronnie Kinsaul will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.Born in Tifton, GA, Mrs. Rentfrow moved from Omega, GA to Albany, GA and...

Mary Alice Follendore
Sep 13, 2014
Mary Alice Follendore, 86, of Wewahitchka, FL, died September 13, 2014 at Willson Hospice House in Albany, GA. Graveside funeral services will be held Wednesday a 2:30 PM CST at Roberts Cemetery in Wewahitchka, FL. Chief Scott Rigsby will officiate.Mrs. Follendore was born to John and Ruby Jackson on September 13, 1928 in Columbus, GA. She grew up and attended...

Ruth Vermel (Mel) Thornton
Sep 13, 2014
Ms. Ruth Vermel (Mel) Thornton passed away September 13, 2014 at Memorial Manor in Bainbridge, Ga. The funeral service will be held on Tuesday, September 16, at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home in Albany, GA with Rev. Watson McKemie officiating. Interment will follow at Morgan Baptist Church Cemetery in Morgan, GA. Visitation will be at 1:00 PM at Mathews...