Obituaries
James (Jim) B. Hanna
Mar 9, 2012
James B. (Jim) Hanna, 59, of Albany, GA, died Friday, March 9, 2012 at Willson Hospice House. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bill Behrend will officiate.A native of Hemingway, SC, born to the late Loyd and Della Marie Hudson Hanna, Jim had lived in Albany, GA since...
JAMES (JIM) B. HANNA
Mar 9, 2012
James B. (Jim) Hanna, 59, of Albany, GA, died Friday, March 9, 2012 at Willson Hospice House. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bill Behrend will officiate.A native of Hemingway, SC, born to the late Loyd and Della Marie Hudson Hanna, Jim had lived in Albany, GA since...
Betty Jean Cave
Mar 8, 2012
Betty Jean Cave, of Albany, GA, died Thursday, March 8, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. at Sherwood Baptist Church Chapel. Rev. Tom Pollock and Mr. Bailey Cave will officiate. Interment will follow at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Umatilla, FL, Mrs. Cave had resided in Albany,...
Bowden Hires, Jr
Mar 8, 2012
Bowden Hires, Jr. 73, of Leesburg, GA died Thursday, March 8, 2012 at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home, in Americus, GA. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:00 PM at Leesburg Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. A native of Butler, GA, Mr. Hires had resided in Leesburg since 1970 moving from Reynolds, GA. He was a graduate of...
Edwin Gerald Cooke, Sr
Mar 7, 2012
Edwin G. Cooke, Sr., 86, of Albany, GA died Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at Phoebe North Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Roy Cook and Rev. Hugh Chatham will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens with Military Honors.Mr. Cooke was born December 14, 1925 in...
Anne Bacon Studdard
Mar 3, 2012
Anne Bacon Studdard of 107 E. Artesian Avenue, Montezuma, GA passed away on March 3, 2012. She was 86 years old.Mrs. Studdard was born Leila Anne Bacon in Doerun, GA, on March 13, 1925, the daughter of Ernest Lynwood Bacon and Sally Hadden Bacon. A graduate of Doerun High School, Mrs. Studdard attended Georgia State Women's College at Valdosta and...
Cecil Albert (C.A.) Brown
Mar 2, 2012
Mr. Cecil Albert (C.A.) Brown, 79, of Albany, GA, died Friday March 2, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Mr. Brown was born in High Point, NC, and was the only son of the late William Allen and Mae Douglas Brown of Statesville, NC. He grew up on the family farm where he enjoyed hunting of all types and graduated...
Robert J. Merchant
Mar 1, 2012
Robert J. (Bob) Merchant, 86, of Albany, GA, died Thursday, March 1, 2012 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Reverend Ron Holman will officiate. Committal services will follow in the Blakely City Cemetery with Reverend Ben Liggin officiatingA native of Willacoochee, GA, Mr. Merchant graduated from Willacoochee High School...
William Fred (Bill) Brooks, Sr
Feb 29, 2012
The funeral service of William Fred (Bill) Brooks, Sr., 82, of Albany, GA, who died Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at Phoebe North Hospital, will be conducted Saturday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Ralph Estes will officiate. Interment will follow in Pinecrest Memory Gardens, Pelham, GA.A native of Pelham, GA, Mr. Brooks had resided in Albany most of...
Laurence Moody
Feb 28, 2012
Laurence Moody, 95, of Albany, GA, died Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at Northside Hospital Cherokee in Canton, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 2, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Don Adams will officiate. Interment will follow in Oaklawn Cemetery, Fort Valley, GA at 4:30 p.m. Dr. Don Adams and Rev. Danny Stubbs officiating. A...
Jacquenlyn Ruth Strickland
Feb 26, 2012
Jacquelyn Ruth Marbury Strickland passed away on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at Phoebe North Medical Center in Albany, Georgia.Ms. Strickland lived most of her life in Atlanta, Georgia, where she raised a family and worked as an office manager for Atlantic Steel and ETL Testing Laboratories. She moved to Leesburg approximately 10 years ago. She enjoyed the slower pace of...
Lillian Lackland Sullivan
Feb 25, 2012
Lillian Lackland Sullivan passed away, Saturday February 25, 2012 at her residence, following a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church. Dr. William D. (Biff) Coker will officiate. Interment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery.Mrs. Sullivan was born in Atlanta, GA, on August 29, 1934, to Thomas Cobbs Lackland,...
Linda E. Padgett
Feb 25, 2012
Linda E. Padgett, 66, of Doerun, GA died Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Phoebe Worth Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 11:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Jerry Etheredge and Rev. Roger Tillery will officiate. Interment will follow at Floral Memory Garden Cemetery.A native of Worth County, GA Linda had resided in Doerun,...
Laura Ellen Jackson
Feb 23, 2012
Laura Ellen Jackson, 73, of Leesburg, GA died Thursday, February 23, 2012 at her residence. Graveside services will be conducted Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta, GA.A native of Atlanta, GA, Laura had resided in Leesburg, GA for the past seven years moving from McDonough, GA. She was a homemaker and attended First Baptist Church...
Milton Wayne Merritt, Sr
Feb 22, 2012
Service for Milton Wayne Merritt, Sr.- Saturday, February 25, 2:00 pm at The Oakridge Baptist Church, 1708 W. Oakridge Drive, Albany, GA. Presiding will be Bishop Victor L. Powell and the eulogy by Rev. Karl W. Merritt.Born: October 7, 1923 in Miller County, Georgia Parents: The late Ezra Wayne & Nettie Johnson MerrittWife: Alice Jewel Goins MerrittChildren: Karl W. Merritt...
Donna Marlene (Marlee) King
Feb 19, 2012
Donna Marlene (Marlee) King, 40, of Albany, GA, died Sunday, February 19, 2012 at her residence, a private memorial service will be held.Marlee was born October 13, 1971 in Tifton, GA, the home of her parents and grandparents and ancestors who were original pioneer settlers in Irwin and Tift County. She resided from 1971 until 1973 in Sylvester, GA with...
Stephen Daryl Cater, Sr
Feb 19, 2012
The memorial service of Stephen Daryl Cater, Sr., 51, of Lee County, GA who died February 20, 2012, will be conducted Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM at the First Baptist Church of Leesburg. Rev. Bobby Harrell will officiate.A native of Albany, GA, Daryl had lived in Lee County most of his life. He was formerly employed as the...
Connie Attaway Wallis
Feb 17, 2012
Connie Attaway Wallis, 56, of Albany, GA died Friday, February 17, 2012 at her residence. A memorial service will be held Sunday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. A native of Newnan, GA, Mrs. Wallis grew up in Newnan, GA and had resided in Albany, GA since 1972 moving from Fitzgerald, GA. She was...
Orion Hardy Peeples
Feb 15, 2012
Orion Hardy Peeples, 89, of Albany, GA died Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Friday February 17, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Charlie Brown will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery with military honors. Serving as pallbearers will be: Hollis Hood, Britt Peeples, Jason Peeples, Jackson...
Walter Oris Mitchell
Feb 14, 2012
Walter Oris Mitchell, 96, of Albany, GA departed this life on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, to spend eternity with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He had been living in Warner Robins, GA with his sister, Josephine, for the last 5 ½ years. He passed away at Peachbelt Health and Rehabilitation Center following a brief illness. Funeral services will be...
