Obituaries
Robert ""Bobby"" Sceals
Mar 19, 2015
Robert Bobby Louis Sceals, 78, of Leesburg, GA, passed away Thursday, March 19, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00 A.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Tolbert Cassady and Jamie R. Korona will officiate.A native of Ashburn, GA, born to the late Edward Louis and Daisy Camilla Carver Sceals. Mr. Sceals was a lifelong South West...
John Riner
Mar 19, 2015
J. William (Bill) Riner, 71, of Albany, GA, died March 19, 2015. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate.A native of Savannah, GA, born to the late Rev. Ralph and Edna Riner, Sr., Bill grew up in Dublin, GA. He graduated from Dublin High School and Presbyterian College in...
Cecil F. Norman
Mar 18, 2015
Cecil F. Norman, 86, of Lee County, GA, died March 18, 2015 from injuries received from an automobile accident. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 11:00 am at Putney United Methodist Church. Rev. Cathy Green will officiate. Committal services will follow in Lebanon Cemetery in Pavo, GA at 2:30 PM.Mr. Norman was born in Norman Park,...
Carroll C. Givens
Mar 16, 2015
Carroll C. Givens, 71, of Newton, GA died Monday, March 16, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 20, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Charles Rouse and Donnie Phillips will officiate. Interment will follow at Travelers Rest Church Cemetery in Baker County. Wayne Poole, Bobby Baxley, Rusty Muliford, David Hart, Gene Phillips,...
Carol Sue Abbott
Mar 13, 2015
Carol Sue Mitcheson Abbott, 57, of Albany, GA, died Friday, March 13, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. The family will have a visitation at Mathews Funeral Home on Sunday, March 15, 2015 from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.Born in Cherry Point, NC to the late John James Mitcheson and Rosemarie Boudreau Mitcheson, Carol was a 1977 graduate of Albany...
Barbara Patsy Reed Rosales
Mar 12, 2015
Barbara Patsy Reed Rosales, 73, of Leesburg, GA, died Thursday, March 12, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Raymond Levreault will officiate. A native of Highland, IL, Mrs. Rosales was born to the late James and Ethel Reed. Mrs. Rosales attended the University...
Jerie H. Howell
Mar 11, 2015
Ms. Jerie H. Howell of Pelham, GA passed away Wednesday, March 11, 2015 in Albany, GA.Jerie previously resided in Butner, N.C. Surviving are her two daughters, Mrs. Cheri H. Brown and her husband, Ron of Franklinton, NC and Lisa H. Probst and her husband, Glen of Apex, NC and a brother, Bob Harvell of Oxford, NC. She was preceded in...
Danny David Yeatts
Mar 8, 2015
Danny David Yeatts of Lee Co., GA, departed this world to be with the lord on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA while surrounded by his family. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Living Hope Fellowship. Pastor Sam and Sandra Cook will officiate. A private interment will follow...
Loretta M. Daniels
Mar 7, 2015
Loretta Maxwell Daniels, 80, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, March 7, 2015 at her daughter's residence in Cumming, GA. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 A.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Ross Powell will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA, born to the late Leon Edgar and Ethel Loretta Maxwell, Mrs. Daniels graduated...
James Colquitt Bowen
Mar 7, 2015
James C. Bowen, Jr. (Jake) of Jacksonville, Florida departed this life Saturday March 7, 2015.A Celebration of Life for Jake Bowen will be held at 3:00 p.m. , Monday March 9, at the Chapel at Flint River Preserve, 825 Power Dam Road, Warwick, Georgia, with Amy Bowen Carter officiating. The family will receive friends immediately after the service.Mr. Bowen was...
Richard A. King
Mar 6, 2015
Richard A. King, 64, of Albany, GA, died March 6, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 at Mathews Funeral Home. Dr. Garvin Akridge will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Carl Young, John Franklin, Charles Kirksey, Kirk Strohman, Roger Davis and Joel Eubanks will serve as active pallbearers.A native and lifelong...
Richard Douglas Bryant
Mar 5, 2015
Richard Douglas (Rick) Bryant, 70, of Lake Blackshear, GA, died March 5, 2016 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Scott Stanfill will officiate. A private interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Dublin, GA, born to the late Richard and Jean Phillips Bryant, Rick grew...
Gordon Ricky Clark
Mar 3, 2015
Ricky Clark, 58, of Lee County, GA, formerly of Damascus, GA died March 3, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:00 PM at Hopeful Baptist Church in Mitchell County, GA. Dr. William E. (Butch) Knight, Jr. and Rev. Doug Hall will officiate. Interment will follow in the Church Cemetery. Steve Dunn, Tommy Dunn, Grady Fulghum,...
Mabel Palmer Lamb
Mar 1, 2015
Mabel Palmer Lamb, 79, of Albany, GA, died Sunday, March 1, 2015 at her residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Neal Hagar will officiate.Born in Camilla, GA, Mrs. Lamb grew up in Sale City, GA and moved to Albany, GA in 1955 moving from Hopeful, GA. She...
Eugenia Smith Sullivan
Feb 28, 2015
Eugenia Smith Sullivan, 90, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, February 28, 2015 at Ft. Gaines Nursing Home. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Born in Orlando, Fl., Mrs. Sullivan had resided in Albany, GA since 1965. She...
Wallace Bruce Harrell
Feb 28, 2015
Wallace Bruce (Wally) Harrell, 59, of Pensacola, FL formerly of Albany, GA died Saturday. February 28, 2015 in Pensacola, FL. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 6, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home, Albany, GA with military honors. Rev. Tommy Lowery will officiate.Wally was born on August 7, 1955 in Cheyenne, WY and grew up in Albany,...
Linda Anne Whetstine
Feb 27, 2015
Linda Anne Whetstine, 74, of Albany, GA, died February 27, 2015 at Pruitt Health-Sylvester, GA. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Father Thomas Raines will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Baltimore, Maryland, born to the late, William and Laura Gabel, Mrs. Whetstine graduated from Kenwood High School and...
Mary Lois Davis
Feb 26, 2015
Mary Lois Davis, 72, of Blakely, GA, passed away Thursday, February 26, 2015 at her brother's residence in Albany, GA. Memorial service will be conducted on Sunday, March 01, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Calvary Seventh-day Adventist Church, 7667 Cedar Springs Road, Blakely, GA 39823. Pastor Cornelius Wesley will officiate. Dr. Nathaniel Hollis will bring the eulogy. Born May 25,...
Mack Odom
Feb 25, 2015
It is with heavy hearts that the family of Mack Odom, 75, a longtime resident of Leesburg, GA, announce that he entered into eternal rest on February 25, 2015. Surrounded by his family he went to meet the Lord. Memorial services will be held Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bruce Smith will officiate....
Grace King
Feb 25, 2015
Grace King, 79, of Shelby, NC formerly of Albany, GA died February 25, 2015 at her residence. Graveside services will be held Monday at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery in Albany, GA. Rev. Ralph Horne will officiate.A native of Albany, GA, Mrs. King attended Albany schools. She lived in Sylvester, GA for many years, moving to St. Mary's GA...
