Obituaries

Earnest Clyde Frazier
May 28, 2012
Earnest Clyde Frazier, 69, of Albany, GA, died May 28, 2012 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Ralph Harrell will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Moultrie, GA, Clyde's family moved to Sylvester, GA when he was in the 10th grade and he graduated from...

Joseph Centel Lawson
May 26, 2012
Joseph Centel Lawson, 18, of Wingate, NC, formerly of Albany, GA, died Saturday, May 26, 2012, at Coffee Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Mary Hampton will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA, Mr. Lawson had resided in Wingate, NC for the past eighteen...

Fredrick Rowland Ransom
May 25, 2012
Fredrick R. (Fred) Ransom, 77, of Albany, GA died May 25, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Monday at Crown Hill Cemetery. Danny Williams will officiate.A native of Columbus County, NC, Mr. Ransom graduated from Evergreen High School and attended and played baseball at Louisburg College. He served in the US...
Harry Steven Smith
May 25, 2012
Harry Steven Smith, 58, of Albany, GA, died Friday, May 25, 2012 at Columbus Specialty Hospital in Columbus, GA. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:00 PM at Philema Road Baptist Church. Rev. Dan Harris and Rev. Gary Manning will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA and a former resident of Lee County...

Frances Mildred (Millie) Jernigan
May 23, 2012
Frances Mildred (Millie) Jernigan, 91, of 601 Summit Drive, Albany, GA died May 23, 2012 at Magnolia Manor in Americus, GA. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:00 PM at the chapel of Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church. Rev. Nancy Scarbrough and Rev. William Collins will officiate. A committal will follow at 3:30 PM at the Oglethorpe City Cemetery,...

Quinton Heath Mock
May 23, 2012
Quinton Heath Mock, 41, of Newnan, GA., died Wednesday May 23, 2012. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday May 29, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Collin Brown will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA. Mr. Mock was an honor graduate of Westover High School and graduated from Georgia Institute of...

Julius Mark Strosnider
May 22, 2012
Julius Mark Strosnider, 52, of Albany, GA, died May 22, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. A native of Tifton, GA, Mr. Strosnider had lived in Albany, GA most of his life. He graduated from Albany High School in 1978 and attended Albany Technical College. He...

Michael Fletcher Worsley
May 19, 2012
Michael Fletcher Worsley, 56, of Albany, GA., died Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Willson Hospice. A memorial service will be held 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at Calvary Baptist Church in Albany, GA. Rev. Chip Gresham will officiate. The memorial service will be preceded by a gathering of family and friends a 3:00 PM at the church.Mike was born...

Joseph Henry Fulkerson
May 17, 2012
Joseph Henry (Joe) Fulkerson, 81, of Albany, GA died Thursday, May 17, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow at Leesburg Cemetery with military honors.A native of St. Joseph, KY, Mr. Fulkerson had resided in Albany for...

Sarah (Dee) R. Ward
May 16, 2012
Sarah R. (Dee) Ward, 77, of Albany, GA, died Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at Wilson Hospice House. Memorial services will be held Tuesday, May 22 at 2:00 pm at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Greg Davis will officiate. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the funeral home. A private family entombment service will follow at Crown...
Joseph Thomas Smith
May 15, 2012
Joseph Thomas Smith, 83, of Albany, GA, died May 15, 2012 at his residence. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, May 18, 2012, at Mathews Funeral Home, 3206 Gillionville Road. Rev. Leigh Ann Raynor and Rev. Nancy Scarbrough will be officiating. The family will receive friends one hour before the service. Committal services will be...

Joan Alberta Harris
May 15, 2012
Joan A. Harris, 84, of Albany, GA died Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Wilson Hospice House after a short illness. Funeral services will be held Friday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Dr. William A. (Butch) Knight will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Atlanta, GA, Mrs. Harris had resided in Albany, GA since 1968...
James Allen Wilson
May 14, 2012
James A, Wilson, 94, of Albany, GA died May 14, 2012 at his residence. A funeral mass was conducted Friday, May 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM at St. Teresa's Catholic Church. Rev. Finbarr Stanton will officiate.A native of Muscatine, IA, Mr. Wilson had resided in Albany since 1959 moving from Boynton Beach, FL. He was retired from Adams AGRI Machinery...

Janelle B. Eubanks
May 13, 2012
Janelle B. Eubanks, 71, of Leesburg, GA died May 13, 2012 at Willson Hospice House. Graveside funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3:00 PM at the Leesburg City Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.Mrs. Eubanks was a native and lifelong resident of Leesburg, GA and was born to the late Lawrence W. and Leslie Wisener Breeden. She was preceded...

Robert S. Castleberry
May 11, 2012
Robert S. Castleberry, 77, of Leesburg, GA, died May 11, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor John Powell will officiate. Interment will follow in Providence Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Worth County, GA.A native of Doles, GA, Mr. Castleberry was born to the late Aubrey and...
Richard L. Thornton
May 11, 2012
Richard Lee Thornton passed away peacefully on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Specialty Hospital in Columbus, GA.Mr. Thornton was born in Huntington, WV on July 1, 1944 and grew up in Memphis, TN, Detroit, MI and Decatur, GA. Following graduation from Gordon High School, he served in the U.S. Navy. Richard began working for Sears in 1974 and retired after...

Samuel Guy Knighton,Sr.
May 10, 2012
Guy Knighton, 57, of Lee County, GA died May 10, 2012 at Phoebe North Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 14, 2012 at11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Ken Chancellor will officiate.A native of Hilton, GA, Guy had resided in Lee County for the past fifteen years moving from Albany, GA. He was a Paper Technician...

Joe Beard
May 9, 2012
Joe Beard, 75, of Albany, GA, died Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at Wynfield Park Health and Rehab. Memorial services will be held Sunday May 13, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. A native of Troy, AL, Mr. Beard had resided in Albany, GA, since 1957 moving here from Morgan, GA. He was a graduate of Morgan High School...

Playol Kayton (P.K.) Shippey, Sr
May 9, 2012
Playol Kayton (P.K.) Shippey, Sr., died Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 11:00 AM at the Edison United Methodist Church. Rev. Ed Thomas and Rev. Wesley Brown will officiate. Interment will follow in the Morgan Methodist Church Cemetery.A native of Caddo Mills, TX, Mr. Shippey had lived in Calhoun County, GA since...

Andrew Lee Spurlock
May 8, 2012
Andrew Lee Spurlock, 81, died Tuesday, May, 8, 2012, at his home in Leesburg, GA. Funeral services will be held Friday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Noah Phillips will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery with Military Honors.A native of Ozark, AL, Mr. Spurlock was a resident of Georgetown, GA for many years and a resident...