Obituaries

Gary Ward Bailey
Dec 29, 2011
Gary Ward Bailey, 59, of Leesburg, GA. died Thursday December 29, 2011 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Monday January 2, 2012 at 3:00 P.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor Tim Olds will officiate.A native of Charleston, S.C., Mr. Bailey moved to Leesburg, GA where he had resided for the past sixteen years. He was employed with...

Cart Hudson
Dec 28, 2011
Cart Hudson, 61, of Leesburg, GA, died Tuesday December 28, 2011 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Saturday December 31, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Marvin McDaniel will officiate. Interment will follow in Live Oak Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery.Born in Colquitt, GA., Mr. Hudson lived in Baker County, GA until he moved to...

Frances Marie Riley Parker
Dec 28, 2011
Frances Marie Riley Parker, 74, Albany, GA, died Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Liberty Parkway Church of God. Rev. Pastor Ralph Horne, Sr. will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery.A native of Omega, GA, Mrs. Parker had lived most of her life in Albany,...
Rita Henshaw
Dec 26, 2011
Rita Widner Henshaw, 71, of 4429 Stagecoach Road, Albany, GA, died Monday, December 26, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:00 PM at Faith Baptist Church. Rev. Jerry Deans will officiate. Interment will follow in Gordon Cemetery in Early County, GA.A native of Miller County, GA, born to the late, William Joel Widner...
Thomas Mark Sells
Dec 22, 2011
Mark Sells, 30, of Vero Beach, FL formerly of Albany, GA died December 22, 2011. The funeral service will be conducted Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 11:00 AM Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Leigh Ann Raynor and Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA, Mark was a graduate of Westover High School...

Elward Mathews
Dec 20, 2011
Elward Matthews, 89, of Newton, GA, died Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at Willson Hospice House in Albany, GA. Graveside funeral services will be held Friday, December 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery, Newton, GA. Rev. Robert Lewis, Sr. and Mr. Jim Barker will officiate.A native of Pelham, GA, Mr. Matthews had resided in Newton, GA....
Marcelle Chapman Beck
Dec 20, 2011
The graveside funeral services for Marcelle Chapman Beck of Albany will be held Thursday at 11:00 AM at Morgan Methodist Church Cemetery in Morgan, Georgia. Minister Doug Haught and Minister Forrest Chapman will officiate. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Marcelle was born on October 1, 1919 in Moultrie, Georgia,...

Robert Rodriguez
Dec 20, 2011
Robert Rodriguez, 34, of Jackson, GA died Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Fred Bell will officiate. A native of Jacksonville, NC, Mr. Rodriguez was a contractor with Proctor and Gamble.Survivors include his wife, Priscilla Palacios, two daughters, Ruby Roxanne Rodriguez, Aalyah Rodriguez, a son, Luisangel Roberto Rodriguez,...

Joyce Marie Newman
Dec 19, 2011
Joyce M. Newman of Albany, GA, died Monday, December 19, 2011 at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, December 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow at Kimball Methodist Cemetery, Doerun, GA.Joyce was born on April 12, 1934 in Worth Co., GA, and had lived...

Raymond B. Barfield
Dec 11, 2011
Raymond B. Barfield, 85, of Albany, GA, died Sunday, December 11, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Chip Gresham will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Worth Co., GA, Mr. Barfield had resided in Albany, GA, since 1947. He...

Grovelle B. Andrews
Dec 10, 2011
Grovelle B. Andrews of Albany, GA, died Saturday December 10, 2011 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Jerry Willis will officiate. Interment will follow in Warwick United Methodist Church Cemetery, Warwick, GA.A native of Beck's Mill, AL., Mrs. Andrews had resided in the Albany, GA....

Virgil F. Halte
Dec 8, 2011
Virgil F. Halte, 63, died December 8, 2011 at Willson Hospice House after a brief illness with lung cancer. Visitation will be from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on December 11, 2011 at Mathews Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home on December 12, 2011. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment in Andersonville...

Hyman Ruby Helen
Dec 7, 2011
Ruby Helen Pearson Hyman, 67, of Mitchell County, GA, died December 7, 2011 at her daughter's residence in Sasser, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Sister Brenda Yon will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery. A native of Cedar Springs, GA, born to the late Byrd and Clory Bell Pearson, Mrs....

Chester (Chet) Frank Rief, CDR USN (Ret.)
Dec 7, 2011
Chester (Chet) Frank Rief, CDR USN (Ret.), 92, of 2319 E. Doublegate Drive, Albany, GA died Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at his residence. A funeral mass will be conducted Friday at 10:00 A.M. at St. Teresa's Catholic Church. Rev. Finbarr Stanton will officiate. Interment will follow in Andersonville National Cemetery with military honors.A native of Chaska, MN, CDR Rief was...

Elsie Senn Pollock
Dec 5, 2011
Elsie Senn Pollock, 76, of 107 Dale Drive, Albany, GA, died Monday, December 5, 2011 at Willson Hospice House. Funeral services will be held Thursday December 8, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Chris Turner will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Dale Co., AL, Mrs. Pollock had resided in Albany, GA for...

Lillian H. Eller
Dec 3, 2011
Lillian Horne Eller, 87 of Morgan, GA died Saturday, December 3, 2011. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:00 PM at the Morgan Baptist Church. Rev. Chris Holdorf will officiate. Interment will follow in the Rose Of Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery.A native of Moultrie, GA, Mrs. Eller grew up in Colquitt, Co, GA and had resided in Albany, GA...

Helen Gloria Renner
Dec 3, 2011
Helen (Gloria) Renner, 87, of Lee County, GA, died December 3, 2011 at the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center. Graveside funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:00 PM at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Rev. Chuck Smith will officiate.A native of Fitzgerald, GA, born to the late Oscar M. and Helen Bruton Mullinax, Mrs. Renner grew up in Quitman, GA....

Shane D. Jordan
Dec 3, 2011
Shane D. Jordan, 28, of Lee County, GA died December 3, 2011 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Harrell will officiate. Interment will follow in Leesburg Cemetery.A native of Albany, GA, Shane had lived in Lee County most of his life. He graduated from Albany Technical College and...

Myra C. Hardie
Dec 2, 2011
Myra Hardie, 70, of Albany, GA, died Friday, December 2, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside services will be conducted 3:00 PM Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at Crown Hill Cemetery. Rev. Carrie Myers will officiateA native of Miami, FL, Myra had resided in Albany since 1974, moving from Miami, FL. She was a Dental Hygienist at Turner Job Corps...

Lynda Lee Brown
Dec 1, 2011
Mrs. Lynda Lee Brown, 63, of Cedartown, GA, formerly of Albany, GA, passed away on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at her residence following an extended illness. Mrs. Brown was born on March 14, 1948 in Tuscaloosa, AL to her parents, the late Earl and Willie T. Coleman Morrison. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by...