Obituaries
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...
Douglas Taylor Bailey
May 7, 2012
Douglas Taylor Bailey, 14, of Leesburg, GA, died May 7, 2012 at Medical Center of Central Georgia. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Leesburg, Leesburg, GA. Rev. Wesley Kaylor, Jeremy (Bobby) Jones and Melissa Spriggs will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, GA.Born in Albany, GA, on...
Roger Allen Till
May 7, 2012
Roger Till, 64, of Lee County, GA died May 7, 2012, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. A memorial service will be held 3:00 PM Saturday, May 12, 2012, at Mathews Funeral Home.Roger was born and raised in Alabama until moving to California with his family as a teenager. Roger had resided in Lee County, GA since 2007, moving from Minnesota....
Jesse D. Farmer
May 4, 2012
Jesse D. Farmer, Jr., 65, of Worth County, GA, died Friday, May 4, 2012 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be held Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 3:00 PM at Oakview Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Joe Brown will officiate.A native of Moultrie, GA, Mr. Farmer had lived most of his life in Worth County. He was retired from Phoebe Putney...
Pauline Kimbrell Chatman
May 3, 2012
Pauline Kimbrell Chatman, 73, of Lee County, GA, died May 3, 3012 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Dorsey Kimbrell will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Patmos, GA, Mrs. Chatman had resided in Albany most of her life before moving to Lee County twenty...
Scott Sumner Ellis
May 1, 2012
Scott S. Ellis, 50, of Albany, GA died Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 am at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Brian Gerstel and Rev. Mike Davis will officiate. Interment will follow in the Sumner City Cemetery, Sumner, GA. A lifelong resident of Albany, GA, Mr. Ellis graduated from...
Bessie Idell Bell
May 1, 2012
Bessie Idell Bell, 86, of Leesburg, GA, died Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Hardy G. Owens will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Pitts, GA, Mrs. Bell had resided in Albany, GA before moving to Lee Co.,...
Larry Francis Braun
Apr 28, 2012
Larry F. Braun, 74, of Albany, GA died April 28, 2012 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Jay Weldon will officiate. The family will receive friends immediately following the service and at home.A native of Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Braun graduated from Springfield High School and attended Wittenberg...
Billy Kemp Stewart, Sr
Apr 28, 2012
Billy Kemp Stewart, Sr., 77, of 5304 Doles Rd., Albany, GA, passed away at his residence Saturday, April 28, 2012, following a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Interment will follow at 3:00 p.m. at Olive Grove Primitive Baptist Church in Iron City, GA.Mr. Stewart was born...
Barbara Nix
Apr 28, 2012
Barbara ‘Bobbie' Nix, 61, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, April 28, 2012 at her residence. Memorial services will be held Tuesday May 2, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Reagan Marsh will officiate.A native of Carmi, IL, Mrs. Nix had resided in Albany, GA. since 1976 moving from Key West, FL. She was a self-employed master cosmetologist...
