Obituaries
Hildegard Maria Bernatzki Minor
Dec 16, 2013
Hildegard Maria Minor, 74, of Albany, GA died Monday, December 16, 2013 at her residence. Private interment will be held at a later date.A native of Germany, Mrs. Minor had resided in Albany for many years coming from Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Albany Friendship Force and the International Club of Albany. Mrs. Minor is preceded in death...
Robert (Bob) Calvin Whitfield
Dec 15, 2013
Robert Calvin (Bob) Whitfield, 84, of Albany, GA died Sunday, December 15, 2013 at Lee County Health and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Chip Gresham will officiate. Interment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Tampa Shores, FL, Mr. Whitfield grew up in Funston, GA and had resided...
Fay Lillian Payne
Dec 12, 2013
Fay L. Payne, 91 of Lee Co. GA died Thursday, December 12, 2013 at her residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2:00 PM at Andersonville National Cemetery. Rev. Charles Jones will officiate. A native of Tulsa, OK, Mrs. Payne had resided in Leesburg since 1958 moving from Savannah, GA. She was an art teacher at Doughty Junior...
Ruth Margaret Smith
Dec 11, 2013
Ruth Margaret Smith, 76, of Leesburg, GA died Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. A private committal service will be held at a later date.A native of Chicago, IL, Mrs. Smith had resided in the Albany area for approximately 20 years coming from Apopka, FL. She was a spirit-filled Christian and a member of the Million Dollar...
Annie Mae Wright
Dec 11, 2013
Mae Daniels Wright, 85, of Albany, GA, died December 11, 2013 at Phoebe North. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:00 PM at the First Southern Methodist Church of Albany, GA. Rev. Fletcher Rawls and Rev. George Howell will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Macon, GA, born to the late A.C and Willa Daniels,...
Infant Charles Reed Courtney
Dec 11, 2013
A private graveside funeral service will be held for Charles Reed Courtney, infant son of Donald (Scooter) and Kelly Courtney at Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery in Baker County, GA on Monday, December 16, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Rev. Garrett Andrew will officiate.Survivors in addition to his parents are his sisters, Allison Claire Courtney and MaryRuth Dearing Courtney, maternal grandparents, Gaylon...
Charles Michael (Mike) Bush
Dec 11, 2013
Charles Michael (Mike) Bush, 59, of Albany, GA, died Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at his residence. Mike was born in Albany, GA on June 29, 1954 and lived in Dougherty and Lee County all of his life except when he served in the United States Navy. He was a graduate of Lee County High School and he was retired from...
Carolyn Floyd Jewell
Dec 10, 2013
Carolyn Floyd Jewell, 76, of Albany, GA, died Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Keith Smith will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.Born in Albany, GA, Mrs. Jewell had resided in Albany, GA all of her life except...
Tommie Ray Spraggins
Dec 9, 2013
Tommie Ray Spraggins, 84, of Albany, GA died Monday, December 09, 2013 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Mark Spraggins and Rev. Carl Felts will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery with Military Honors.A native of Dadeville, AL, born to the late Tommie J. and Deara Kate...
Ouida Helen Griffin
Dec 9, 2013
Ouida Helen Griffin, 80, of Albany, GA, died December 9, 2013 at Willson Hospice House. Graveside funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Chaplin Will Archibald will officiate.Mrs. Griffin was born to the late Preston and Quilla Mae Corbett in Albany, GA on March 13, 1933 and had resided there all of her life....
Josephine Beverly Hampton
Dec 7, 2013
Josephine Beverly Hampton, 90, of Leesburg, GA, died Saturday, December 7, 2013 at her residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Rev. Bill Suggs will officiate.A native of Conway, SC, Mrs. Hampton had resided in Albany and Leesburg most all of her life. She was a homemaker and...
Infant Luke Rusk
Dec 7, 2013
Infant Luke Rusk, son of Christopher and Danielle Rusk of Lee Co., GA, died Saturday, December 7, 2013 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. in Leesburg Cemetery. Rev. Troy Simmons will officiate.Survivors in addition to the parents are, a brother, Dirks Rusk and a sister, Bailee Rusk both of Lee...
Jack Peterman
Dec 6, 2013
Jack Peterman, 85, of Leesburg, GA, died Friday, December 6, 2013 at Palmyra Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
Jessie Marvin Layfield
Dec 2, 2013
Jessie Marvin Layfield, 92, of Albany, GA died Monday, December 2, 2013 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Chris Turner will officiate. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery.Born in Tifton, GA, Mr. Layfield had resided in Albany since the age of seven years old and...
Clara Shiver Campbell
Dec 2, 2013
Clara Shiver Campbell, 82, of Leesburg, GA, died Monday, December 2, 2013 at Lee County Health and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Charles Jones will officiate. Interment will be held at Cool Springs Cemetery in Colquitt County, GA at 2:00 PM.A native of Doerun, GA, Mrs. Campbell was born...
Carl Edward Hall, Sr
Nov 28, 2013
Carl Edward Hall, Sr., 85, of Albany, GA, died Thursday, November 28, 2013 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at First Free Will Baptist Church. Rev. Billy D. Hanna will officiate. Interment will follow in the Nashville Memorial Gardens Cemetery.A native of Nashville, Ga, Mr. Hall had resided in Albany, GA...
William Lamar Owens
Nov 28, 2013
William Lamar Owens, 76, of Lee County, GA, died November 28, 2013 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 AM at Lakeside Baptist Church. Rev. Ken Chancellor and Rev. Royce Freeman will officiate. Interment will follow in Sunnyside Cemetery in Cordele, GA.A native of Wigham, GA, born to the late Alford T. and Clara James Owens,...
Mary Julia Dupree
Nov 28, 2013
Mary Julia Dupree, 95, of Leesburg, GA died Thursday, November 28, 2013 at Lee County Health and Rehab. Funeral services will be Monday, December 2, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Craig Howell will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Turner County, Mrs. Dupree had lived in the Albany area since 1951....
Don Wallace Underwood
Nov 25, 2013
Don Wallace Underwood, (MSgt. USMC Ret.), 68, of Leesburg, GA, died Monday, November 25, 2013 at Willson Hospice House. Graveside funeral services will be held Monday, December 2, 2013 at 12:00 P.M. at Andersonville National Cemetery with Military Honors. Rev. Ernie Elmore will officate.A native of Payson, Utah, Mr. Underwood retired from the Marine Corps after 25 years where he...
Bobby L. Studdard
Nov 20, 2013
Bobby Lee (Bob) Studdard, 83, of Montezuma, Georgia, died November, 20, 2013, at The Oaks Nursing Home in Marshallville, Georgia. He was preceded in death by his wife, Anne B. Studdard; his parents, Robert Lee Studdard and Cleopatra Kelley Studdard; brother, Donald Dean Studdard; and sister, Mary Nell Studdard Whittington. He is survived by four children, Pam S. Fredebeil (Mike)...
