Obituaries
Joy Schwalls Smith
Feb 11, 2013
. Joy Schwalls Smith, 59, of Albany, GA passed away Monday, February 11, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be held Friday, February 15, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Sherwood Baptist Church. Reverend Tony Haefs will officiate. Interment will follow at Old Cannoochee Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Swainsboro, GA at 2:00 p.m. on...
Nadine Rosaline King
Feb 11, 2013
Nadine R. King, 83, of Albany, GA, died February 11, 2013 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Worth County, GA, born to the late Oliver Hampton Hancock and Lizzie Ruth Casey Hancock, Mrs. King grew...
Louise McClung Widdoes
Feb 9, 2013
Louise McClung Widdoes, 91, of Leesburg, GA, died Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Magnolia Manor Nursing Center in Americus, GA. Memorial services will be held Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. at Leesburg United Methodist Church. Reverend Michael P. Lyons will be officiating.A native of Charleston, WV, Mrs. Widdoes had resided in Leesburg for the last six years coming...
Mary Naomi Brown
Feb 9, 2013
Mary Naomi Brown, 89, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, February 9, 2013 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Thursday, February 14, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. at Albany Grace Church of the Nazarene. Reverends Joe Miller and Hilton Gillespie will be officiating. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Columbus, GA, Mrs. Brown had resided in...
Dorothy Wilson Matre
Feb 9, 2013
Dorothy Wilson "Dotty" Matre, 94, of Albany, GA passed February 9, 2013 at Phoebe Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA on Saturday, February 9, 2013.Born in Manny, LA and raised in Valdosta, GA, she lived a blessed life raising her family in Albany. With her mind and memory still sharp, she moved to Magnolia Manor in 2012. While at Magnolia...
Homer R. Truman
Feb 8, 2013
Homer R. Truman, 79, of Leesburg, GA, died February 8, 2013 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor Conway Harris will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery with military honors.A native of Clay County, WV, Mr. Truman was a graduate of Clay County High School and was retired...
Curtis Elton Carlton
Feb 7, 2013
Curtis Elton Carlton, 80 of Albany, GA, died Thursday, February 8, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, February 11, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. James Sellers and Rev. Mark Jordan will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Coolidge, GA, Mr. Carlton had resided in Albany since...
Fred Powell
Feb 6, 2013
Fred Powell, 87, of Albany, GA, died February 6, 2013 at Wynfield Park and Rehabilitation Center. Graveside funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery. Pastor Bruce Smith will officiate and Tri County Memorial Club will present Masonic Rites. A native of Fitzgerald, GA, born to the late Thomas Lindsey Powell and Lillie Mae O'Malley...
Janice B. Morgan
Feb 4, 2013
Janice Barfield Morgan, 72, of Albany, GA, died Monday, February 4, 2013 at Willson Hospice House. Memorial services will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Mr. Walter Ross will officiate.A native and lifelong resident of Albany, GA, Mrs. Morgan was born to the late, Kim and Evelyn Barfield. She along with her late husband, Joel Morgan...
Mary Lou Nicholson
Feb 4, 2013
Mary Lou Thornton Nicholson, 85, of Albany, GA died Monday, February 4, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital after a long battle with failing health. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 3:00 PM at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Jay Weldon will officiate.Mrs. Nicholson was born October 15, 1927 in Forsyth County, NC to the...
Roney C. Thigpen
Feb 2, 2013
Roney C. Thigpen, 82, of Albany, GA., died Saturday, February 2, 2013 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Gainey Cemetery, Grady Co., GA.A native of Gibson, GA, Mr. Roney had resided in Albany, GA for the past seventy five years. He was a self-employed brick mason and was of...
Clarine W. Holton
Feb 2, 2013
Clarine W. Holton, 89, of Albany, GA, died February 2, 2013 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Dr. Matthew J. Nance will officiate. Crape Myrtle Chapter # 163 will perform The Order of The Eastern Star Rites. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Camilla, GA, born to...
Nicholas Walter Gergen
Feb 2, 2013
Nicholas Walter Gergen, 66 of Albany, GA died Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. A memorial service was held Tuesday at 2:00 PM at First Baptist Church of Albany. Mr. Gergen was a US Navy veteran, a counselor at Turner Job Corp and retired from Lowe's in 2000. He was preceded in death by his parents, George...
Elizabeth Bell Tinsley
Feb 2, 2013
Elizabeth Bell Tinsley of Albany, GA., died February 2, 2013 at Palmyra Nursing Home. Private graveside funeral services will be conducted Monday 11:00 a.m. at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Freeman Cross will officiate.A native of Columbus, GA, Miss Tinsley was retired from Sears-Roebuck and was of the Episcopal faith.Survivors include two sisters, Evangeline Burdett (Jimmy), Alpharetta, GA and Jackie T....
Anita Ellerbe Moody
Jan 31, 2013
Anita Ellerbe Moody, 63 of Leesburg, GA, died Thursday, January 31, 2013 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be conducted Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church of Lee County. Rev. David Goodson, Dr. Duane Logsdon and Rev. Mark Spraggins will officiate. A native of Waynesville, NC, Mrs. Moody had resided in Leesburg, GA...
Wanda Kay Turner
Jan 31, 2013
Wanda Kay Turner, 60, of Lee County, GA, died January 31, 2013 at her residence. A visitation will be held Sunday, February 3, 2013 at Mathews Funeral Home from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM. A funeral service will be held Wednesday February 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM at Hollomon-Brown Bayside Chapel in Virginia Beach, VA. Interment will follow in Woodlawn...
Harold Edward (Harry) Hilton
Jan 30, 2013
Harold Edward (Harry) Hilton, 81, of Leesburg, GA, died January 30, 2013 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be held Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Leesburg Cemetery with military honors. Rev. Stephan Massey will officiate. A native of Calhoun County, GA, born to the late Charlie and Eunice Hilton, he graduated from Edison High School and...
Joyce Metts Grubbs
Jan 29, 2013
Joyce Metts Grubbs, 84, of Dawson, GA, died January 29, 2013 at her residence. A private family service will be held at the Metts Cemetery in Alapaha, GA. The family will receive friends at the residence of Mrs. Grubbs on Friday, February 1, 2013 from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM.A native of Alapaha, GA, Mrs. Grubbs moved to Albany, GA...
Jean Perry
Jan 27, 2013
Jean Gilliam Perry, 73, of Albany, GA, died January 27, 2013 at her residence. A private family burial will be held in Screven, GA.A native of Lowell, NC, born to the late W.A. and Velma Gilliam, Mrs. Perry had resided in Albany, GA for the past fifty years. She was a graduate of Albany High School and was employed as...
Bettie Higgins Carow
Jan 26, 2013
Bettie Higgins Carow, 89, of Dawson, GA died Saturday, January 26, 2013 at Dawson Health and Rehabilitation. A memorial service will be held Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, The Rev. Jay Weldon and The Rev. Joy O. Davis will officiate. Honorary seating will be available for "Daughters of the King".A native of Bellevue, OH, Mrs. Carow...
