Obituaries
Sharla Marie Epling
Aug 20, 2014
Sharla Marie Epling, 35, of Lee County, GA, died August 20, 2014 on the day of her birth. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 4:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Carl R. Barnhardt will officiate.A native of Albany, GA, Sharla had lived in Lee County, GA since 1992. She graduated from Lee County High School in 1997, received...
Willie Ferrell Pickle
Aug 20, 2014
Willie Ferrell Pickle, 68, of Albany, GA died August 20, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 10:00 A. M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow at Pickle Cemetery in Early County.Born on March 21, 1946 in Colquitt, GA to Willie Vaughn Pickle and Julia Anne Richardson Pickle, he moved...
Thomas Lamar Jordan
Aug 19, 2014
Thomas Lamar Jordan, 74, of Albany, GA, died Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, August 22, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at First Free Will Baptist Church. Rev. Billy D. Hanna will officiate. Interment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Blakely, GA, Mr. Jordan had resided in Albany, GA for the past...
David Martin Baxley
Aug 16, 2014
David Martin Baxley, 47, of Leesburg, GA, died Saturday, August 16, 2014 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Ronald R. Baxley and Rev. Dan Harris will officiate.Born in Hawkinsville, GA, Mr. Baxley had resided in Leesburg, GA and Albany, GA most all of his life. He...
David Allen Lockhart
Aug 16, 2014
David Allen Lockhart, 56, of Albany, GA passed away and transferred his membership from Christ United Methodist Church to an eternal membership in Heaven on August 16, 2014. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday August 23rd, at 11 am at Christ United Methodist Church in Albany, GA. Rev Kent Miller and Rev Jeff Cook will officiate. Interment will follow at...
Grace Huey Stokes
Aug 15, 2014
Grace Huey Stokes, 93, of Tifton, GA formerly of Albany, GA, died Friday, August 15, 2014 at Southern Care Assisted Living in Tifton, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 3:00 p.m. at Crown Hill Mausoleum Chapel. Rev. Ronnie Kinsaul will officiate. Entombment will follow.Born on October 15, 1920 in Pelham, GA, Mrs. Stokes had resided in Albany, GA...
Glenn Allen McCarty
Aug 14, 2014
Glenn Allen McCarty, 73, of Albany, GA, died Thursday, August 14, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery.A native of Columbus, Ohio, Mr. McCarty had resided in Albany, GA most of his life. He...
Janie Ann Cannon
Aug 11, 2014
Janie A. Cannon of Lake Blackshear, GA, (Worth Co.), beloved daughter, sister, and friend died Monday August 11, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be held Thursday August 14, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Warwick United Methodist Church, (Warwick, GA). Rev. Rick Hamilton will officiate. A lifelong resident of Albany, GA before moving to Lake Blackshear, GA,...
Paul Donavan Pearson
Aug 9, 2014
Paul Donavan Pearson, 47, of Ashburn, GA, died Saturday August 9, 2014 at Medical Center of Central Georgia. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 3:00 pm at Leesburg Cemetery. Mr Steve Ritter will officiate.Born in Albany, Paul had resided in Sylvester twenty-one years before moving to Ashburn. He was employed with Evans Auto Service as an auto mechanic...
Buddy D. Baker, Jr
Aug 9, 2014
Buddy D. Baker, Jr., 83, of Albany, GA, died August 9, 2014 at the Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at the First Free Will Baptist Church. Rev. Billy Hanna will officiate. Interment will follow at 2:00 PM at the Colquitt City Cemetery in Colquitt, GA.A native of Blanchard, OK he was born to...
Allyse Megan Ponthier
Aug 9, 2014
On August 9, 2014, Allyse Ponthier, 28, of Leesburg, GA, went home to join family members that had gone before her. A visitation and celebration of her life will be held Tuesday at Mathews Funeral Home between the hours of 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM.Allyse was a native and lifelong resident of Lee County.Survivors include her parents, David and Linda...
Ramona Adair Smith Roberts
Aug 8, 2014
Ramona Adair Smith Roberts, 85, of Albany, GA, died August 8, 2014 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00 AM at Avalon United Methodist Church. Rev. Jimmy Sharpe, Rev. Dennis Lanning and Rev. Daniel Roberts will officiate. A committal service will follow at 2:00 PM at the Lilly City Cemetery in Lilly, GA.A native of Waverly,...
Valda Clark Goss
Aug 8, 2014
Valda Clark Goss, age 85, died Friday August 8, 2014 in Albany, GA. She was born March 4, 1929, to the late Mr. and Mrs. Julius Clark of Sale City, Georgia. She was the middle child of nine siblings. She is survived by her youngest brother and sister, Robert Clark (Robbie) and Ann Clark Taylor of Athens. She was a...
Peggy Alsobrook Strickland
Aug 4, 2014
Peggy Alsobrook Strickland, 80, of Lee County, GA died August 4, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Bobby Adams will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Albany, born to the late James Ray and Louise Miller Alsobrook, Mrs. Strickland had resided in...
James Lynn Hill
Aug 3, 2014
James Lynn Hill, 60, of Lee County, GA died August 3, 2014 at his residence. Memorial services will be held at a later date. A native of Borger, TX, Jim grew up in Beatrice, NE. He graduated from Beatrice High School and joined the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Jim was an aeronautical engineer and moved to...
Maxie Ray Prince
Aug 1, 2014
Maxie Ray Prince, 81, of Albany, GA died Friday, August 1, 2014 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Mackey Funeral Home, Greenville, SC. Rev. Ken Kessler will officiate. Interment will follow in Greenville Memorial Gardens Cemetery.Born in Edgefield, SC, Mr. Prince had resided in Albany, GA since 1997...
Frank Eldridge King
Jul 31, 2014
Frank E. King, 92, of Albany, GA, died July 31, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.Mr. King was born to the late Chalmus and Minnie King in Cusetta, GA and grew up in Chattahoochee County, GA....
Jane Ivey Meinders
Jul 30, 2014
Jane Ivey Meinders, 87 of Albany, GA, died July 30, 2014 at Wilson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Byne Memorial Baptist Church. Rev. Daniel Ivey will officiate. Interment will follow at Floral Memory Gardens in Albany, GA. Born, Laura Jane Barefoot, January 12, 1927 in Whiteville, NC. She was the only daughter of...
Charlene Ruth Martin
Jul 28, 2014
Charlene Ruth Litchfield MartinALBANY - Mrs. Charlene Ruth Litchfield Martin, 89, of Albany died Monday, July 28, 2014 at her home surrounded by her family and pets.Mrs. Martin was born in Rutland, Vermont to the late Roy Stearns Litchfield of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and the late Helen Velda Bourquin Litchfield Pheil of St. Petersburg, Florida. She was the step daughter of...
Fred W. Bell
Jul 27, 2014
Rev. Fred W. Bell, 80, of Albany, GA, died Sunday, July 27, 2014 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Lakeside Baptist Church. Rev. Ken Chancellor and Rev. Reagan Marsh will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens.A native of Toccoa, GA, Rev. Bell grew up in South Carolina. He served in the...
