Obituaries
Walter William Herrin
Oct 23, 2014
Walter William "Louis" Herrin, 19, of Albany, GA died Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 at his residence. A memorial service will be held Monday, October 27 at 3:00 at Mathews Funeral Home. Tom Newman will officiate.Mr. Herrin was a lifelong resident of Albany, GA. He was a loving son, brother, and uncle.Survivors include his mother, Margaret "Kathy" Mainor, Albany, GA, his...
Lloyd Cuber Miller
Oct 22, 2014
Lloyd Cuber Miller, 87, of Albany, GA died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 at his residence. Memorial services will be conducted Sunday, October 26, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at Kinchafoonee Baptist Church. Rev. Melvin Slappey will officiate.Mr. Miller was born in Lebanon, PA and had resided in Albany, Ga for the past eight years. He was a veteran of WW II...
Wilma L. Brannen
Oct 22, 2014
Wilma L. Brannen, 78, of Albany, GA died Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, October 24, 2014 at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Chris Hill will officiate. Committal services will be held at Lower Lott's Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Register, GA on Saturday at 2:00...
Marinell F. Melton
Oct 21, 2014
Mrs. Marinell (A.E. (Buck) Melton, 91, formerly of Albany and Bronwood, GA, died Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at her residence of many years in Easley, SC.Born in Terrell County to the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foster, Sr. Mrs. Melton was also predeceased by her husband of 63 years, A. E. Melton (Buck) Melton, her brother Fred Foster, Jr. a...
David Alan Knaak
Oct 20, 2014
David Alan Knaak, 52, of Cobb, GA died Monday October 20, 2014 at his residence in Cobb. Graveside funeral services will be held Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM at Leesburg Cemetery. Rev. Charles Jones and Glenn West will officiate.David was born on July 31, 1962, in Quincy, CA, where he grew up and went to school. He remained...
Thomas Franklin Blankenship
Oct 19, 2014
Thomas Franklin (Tommy) Blankenship, 64, of Albany, GA died Sunday, October 19, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at First Free Will Baptist Church. Rev. Billy D. Hannah will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native and lifelong resident of Albany, GA, Mr. Blankenship was a...
Lawrence C. ""Larry"" Hancock
Oct 17, 2014
Lawrence Charles (Larry) Hancock, Jr., 73, of Albany, Georgia, died Friday, October 17, 2014. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Monday, October 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Dr. Don Adams will officiate. The family will receive friends Sunday from 4:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home.Larry was a native and life time resident of...
Steven Michael Stewart
Oct 13, 2014
Steven "Pops" Michael Stewart, 65, of Albany, GA. Passed away Monday, October 13, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Thursday, October 16, 2014, at 11 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Charles Jones will officiate.Born in Peru, IN, on July 11, 1949, to the late Barbara Ingalls Wallace and Charles Thomas Stewart. Steve was...
Rachel Young Beamon Baker
Oct 13, 2014
Rachel Young Beamon Baker, 86, of Leesburg, GA, died Monday, October 13, 2014 at Palmyra Nursing Home. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at Smithville City Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.A native and lifelong resident of Lee Co., GA, Mrs. Baker was a retired seamstress having worked with Manhattan Shirt Factory and...
Ronald Henry Tabb
Oct 13, 2014
Ronald Henry Tabb, 66, of Macon, GA, formerly of Albany, GA, died Monday October 13, 2014 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Friday October 17, 2014 at 11:00 am at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Keith Smith will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.Born in Donaldsonville, GA, Mr. Tabb has resided in Macon,...
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...
