Obituaries
Mary Elizabeth Butler
May 26, 2020
Mary Haire Butler, 83, of Albany, GA, passed away on May 26, 2020 at her home. Graveside funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Debbie Cone will officiate. Friends are welcome to attend and social distancing will be required.
Mrs. Butler was born on November 22, 1936 in Miller County, GA to Randolph...
Robert Patrick "Bobby" Chappell, Jr.
May 25, 2020
Robert Patrick (Bobby) Chappell, Jr., 83, of Albany, GA died Monday, May 25, 2020 at Pruitt Health Care and Rehabilitation. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Social distancing will be respected.
Mr. Ross Powell will officiate. Born in Raleigh, NC, Mr. Chappell had resided in Albany, GA most all...
William Vincent Echeveste
May 24, 2020
William Vincent Echeveste, 57, of Lee County, GA, passed away on Sunday, May 24, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. The family will have a private memorial service at Mathews Funeral Home Chapel. Ross Powell will officiate.
Bill was born on July 27, 1962 in Los Angeles, CA. He moved to Albany at age 6 and graduated from Dougherty High...
Willie "Shorty" Milton Till
May 23, 2020
Willie Milton “Shorty” Till, 76, of Lee County, GA, died May 23, 2020 at the Legacy Village in Moultrie, GA. Memorial services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Duane Logston will officiate. Friends are invited and social distancing will be required. Committal services will take place at 1:00 PM on Saturday, May 30, 2020...
Curtis Leroy Golden
May 22, 2020
Curtis Leroy Golden, 85, of Albany, GA passed away on May 22, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 11:00 am at Floral Memory Gardens. Rev. Keith Smith and Rev. Bruce Smith will officiate. Friends are welcome to attend and social distancing will be required.
Mr. Golden was born...
Dorothy Widner Edmunds
May 20, 2020
Dorothy Widner Edmunds, 78, of Albany died Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
Her family will have a private service in Colquitt, GA.
A native of Colquitt, Mrs. Edmunds had lived in Albany most of her life. She was at District Manager with Avon and a member of Raleigh White Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband Samuel Edmunds.
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James Burrell Schramm
May 20, 2020
James Burrell Schramm, 87, of Albany, GA, died May 20, 2020 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 PM at Leesburg Cemetery. Tom Sanders will officiate. Friends are welcome to attend and social distancing will be required.Mr. Schramm was born on December 18, 1932 in Cuthbert, GA to Prince Albert and Bessie Johnson Schramm. He served...
Martha Ann Frazier
May 18, 2020
Martha Ann Frazier, 88, of Albany, GA, died May 18, 2020 at the Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Billy Hanna and Rev. Kathy Israel-McLeod will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Frazier was born on June 15, 1931 to Dan and Mattie Truluck Kinney in Sumter, SC. She...
Earl Layfield
May 17, 2020
Earl Layfield, 74, of Putney, GA, passed away May 17, 2020 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted on Friday, May 22, 2020 at 11:00 at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Camilla, GA. Rev. Bill Suggs will officiate.
Earl spent most of his life in Albany, GA. He graduated from Albany High School in June 1967. After graduating high school...
Odessa Cameron McMinn
May 16, 2020
Emily Odessa McMinn, 91, of Warner Robins, GA passed away Saturday, May 16, 2020. Graveside funeral services will be conducted at Oakview Cemetery in Camilla, GA. Laurel Griffith of First United Methodist Church Albany will officiate.
Mrs. McMinn was born in Camilla, GA to the late Twitty T. Cameron and Rilla Shiver Cameron. She was a graduate of Camilla High...
Jeffrey Craig Tucker
May 16, 2020
Jeffrey Craig Tucker, 60, of Lee County, GA, died May 16, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. John Spencer will officiate. Friends are welcome to attend and social distancing will be required.
Craig was born on February 21, 1960 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital to...
Lillian Louise Calhoun
May 15, 2020
Lillian Louise Calhoun, 91, of Leesburg, GA died Friday, May 15, 2020 at Pruitt-Health and Rehab. Private graveside services will be held in Leesburg Cemetery. Rev. Charles Jones will officiate.
Born in Cordele, GA, Mrs. Calhoun has resided in Leesburg, Ga for the past fifty years. She enjoyed making a loving home for her family and also work for the...
Wyndell Garnett Muse
May 15, 2020
Wyndell Garnett Muse, 93, of Albany, Georgia passed away Friday, May 15, 2020 at his residence.
A private family graveside will be conducted at Crown Hill. Rev. Anna Miller will officiate.
Mr. Muse was born January 2, 1927, in Atlanta to the late Dumah Garnett Muse and Hattie Mae Muse. He was a member of the First Methodist Church.
He served as...
Gloria Jane Reitzell
May 14, 2020
On May 14, 2020 Gloria Jane Reitzell nee Scott passed away at The Oaks at Oakland Plantation Assisted Living facility. Jane was born in West Monroe, LA to James Oscar Scott and Cascille Dumas Scott in October, 1934. Jane was the first chair flutist of the West Monroe High School band and attended Northeast Louisiana State University (now called the...
Raymond "Bud" Eugene Santmyer
May 11, 2020
Raymond Eugene "Bud" Santmyer, 99, of Albany, GA died Monday, May 11, 2020 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery with military honors.
Born in Scottdale, PA, Mr. Santmyer had resided in Albany since 2001 and retired from the U.S. Air Force making the rank of Lt. Colonel. He...
Carlos J. Lamb
May 10, 2020
Carlos J. Lamb, 73, of Lee County, died Sunday, May 10, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.
Born and raised in Albany, Mr. Lamb retired from the Postal Service in 2009 after 43 years of service. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving in the U. S. Navy.
His parents Carl and Jewell Roberts Lamb preceded him in...
Marvin Bruce Banister
May 9, 2020
Marvin Bruce Banister, 77, of Albany, GA died May 9, 2020 at the Willson Hospice House. Graveside funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Norman Denney will officiate. Friends are welcome to attend and social distancing will be required.
Marvin was born on May 18, 1942 in Albany, GA to the late Jason...
Steven E. Ricks
May 9, 2020
Steve Edgar Ricks, 69, of Dawson GA passed away Saturday, May 9, 2020 at Willson Hospice House. His memorial service will be 2:00 PM Saturday, June 19, 2021 at Gillionville Baptist Church, the family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 PM at the church.
Steve was born May 17, 1950, in Albany, GA, to the late George and Latrell...
Mark Allen Martin
May 9, 2020
Mark Allen Martin, 70, of Terrell County, GA, died May 9, 2020 at his residence surrounded by his family.
Mark was a native of Carbondale, IL and born to the late Bill James Martin and Delores June Chamness Martin. He and his family moved to Lee County, GA while he was in his teens. He graduated from Lee County High...
Lucy Lee Richardson
May 8, 2020
Lucy Lee Richardson, long-time resident of Atlanta, died at the age of 97, on May 8, 2020 at Phoenix of Albany. Graveside funeral services will be held Monday, May 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM at Arlington Memorial Park Cemetery in Sandy Springs, GA. Rev. Tricia Templeton will officiate. Friends are welcome to attend and social distancing will be required.
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