Obituaries
Howard Washington Gillis
Oct 2, 2011
Howard Washington Gillis, 85, of Albany, GA, died Sunday, October 2, 2011 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Walter Flint will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery with Masonic Rites.A native Wheeler County, GA, Mr. Gillis had resided in Albany, GA since 1952 moving from Houston,...
William Allen (W.A.) Daniel
Oct 2, 2011
William Allen (W.A.) Daniel, 79, of Leesburg, GA, died Sunday, October 2, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor Bruce Smith will officiate. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery.A native of Doerun, GA, Mr. Daniel moved to Albany, GA with his family and graduated from Albany High...
Laura Eyvonne Holden
Oct 2, 2011
Laura Eyvonne Holden passed away on October 2, 2011. She is survived by her sons, Tony and Tim Thurman, three granddaughters an four great-grandchildren, two brothers, Joe William Holden and his wife, Sandee and John Dennis Holden and his wife, Margaret, two sisters, Laverne McDonald and her husband, Jerry and Elaine Lillis and her husband, Dennis and numerous nieces, nephews...
Jessie Willis Rivers
Oct 1, 2011
Jessie Willis Rivers, 93 of Leesburg, GA, died Saturday October 1, 2011 at Lee County Health Care. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. The Reverend Freeman G. Cross will officiate. Interment will follow at Leesburg Cemetery.A native of Sherwood, TN, Mrs. Rivers had resided in the Leesburg, Albany area since...
Annie Marie Phillips
Oct 1, 2011
Annie Marie Phillips, 81, of Albany, GA, died Saturday, October 1, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday October 4, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Gene Snipes and Rev. Charlie Rouse will officiate. Interment will follow in Live Oak Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery, Baker Co., GAA native of Baker Co., GA,...
Danny Furman Jacobs
Sep 30, 2011
.Danny F. Jacobs, 62, of Forsyth, GA, died Friday September 30, 2011 at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday October 5, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. David Benton will officiate. Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Andalusia, AL, Mr. Jacobs had resided in...
Homer C. Casey
Sep 26, 2011
Homer C. Casey, 90, of Albany, GA, died Monday, September 26, 2011 at Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Minister Sam Hartline will officiate. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Albany, GAA native of Worth Co., GA, Mr. Casey had resided in Albany all...
Mary Ethel Bryan Clark
Sep 25, 2011
Mary Ethel Bryan Clark, 76, of Doerun, GA died Sunday, September 25, 2011 at her residence. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Bobby Moye will officiate. Interment will follow in The Funston Cemetery, Funston, GA.A native Doerun, GA, Mrs. Clark had resided in Albany, GA for forty years before moving back home...
Carl Allen Fowler
Sep 24, 2011
Carl Fowler, 86, of Albany, GA, died Saturday September 24, 2011 at Sylvester Health Care Nursing Home, Sylvester, GA. Graveside services will be conducted Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Crown Hill Cemetery. A native of Woodbury, GA Mr. Fowler had resided in Albany, GA since 1961 moving from LaGrange, GA. Mr. Fowler was retired from the Federal...
Betty Ann Pitre
Sep 23, 2011
Betty Ann Pitre, 70, of Albany, GA, died Friday September 23, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 3:00 P.M. at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor Mike O'Neal and Dr. D.W.Caldwell will officiate. Interment will follow at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.A native of Vienna, GA, Mrs. Pitre lived most of her life...
Joy Elaine Willerson
Sep 20, 2011
Joy Elaine Willerson, 65, of Cuthbert, GA died Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. The family will have a service at a later date.Mrs.Willerson was born and had lived most of her life in Cuthbert, GA. She was a machine operator with Kellwood Manufacturing Company and was a member of Mt. Hebron Baptist Church.Survivors include her husband,...
Infant Hannah Faith Lamb
Sep 19, 2011
Hannah Faith Lamb, newborn daughter of Joshua and Rebecca Lamb, died Tuesday, September 19, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. A private funeral service will be conducted Saturday at 10:00AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor Keith Smith will officiate. Interment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery.Survivors also include, paternal grandparents, Emory (Bubba) and Leslie Lamb of Pelham, GA, Sheila and...
Holman Paul Holt, Jr
Sep 19, 2011
Holman Paul Holt, Jr., 80, of Albany, GA, died September 19, 2011 at Willson Hospice House. His remains will be cremated and buried beside his wife at Crown Hill Cemetery.A native of Livermore Falls, ME, Mr. Holt had resided in Albany, GA since 1970 moving from Live Oak, CA. He served his country for twenty years in the United States...
Bernie Eugene Oliver
Sep 19, 2011
Bernie Oliver, 74, of Moultrie, GA formerly Albany, GA, died Monday, September 19, 2011 at Colquitt Regional Medical Center, Moultrie, GA. Graveside services will be conducted Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Dr. Ronald R. Baxley will officiate. A native of Dooly County, GA Bernie had lived in Albany, GA for many years before...
Donald (Don) Lee Worrell, Sr
Sep 19, 2011
Donald (Don) Lee Worrell, Sr. 73, of Leesburg, GA died Monday, September 19, 2011 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11:00 AM at Leesburg Cemetery. Minister Gary Collier will officiate. A native of Hurtsboro, AL, Mr. Worrell had resided in Leesburg since 1975, moving from Texas. He was a Vietnam Veteran and served...
S.M. Davis
Sep 18, 2011
S.M. (Sam) Davis, 91, of 2708 W. Doublegate Drive, Albany, GA, died Sunday, September 18, 2011 at his residence. Services will be announced at a later date and he will be interred next to his wife at Riverside Cemetery.Mr. Davis was born November 21, 1919 in Baker County, GA to the late Bille Marven Davis and Bryan Beecher Davis. He...
Miriam Vivian Blount
Sep 17, 2011
Miriam Vivian Blount, 75, of Albany, GA, died Saturday September 17, 2011 at her residence.Funeral services will be held Monday September 19, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Interment will be in Westview Cemetery, Wrightsville, GA. Her brother, Rev. Danny Barton will officiate. A native of Lyons, GA, Mrs. Blount had resided in Albany since 1984 moving from...
Patricia Ann McConnell Jeffcoat
Sep 17, 2011
Patricia Ann McConnell Jeffcoat, 65, of Albany, GA, died Saturday September 17, 2011 at her residence. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, September 20, 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 Newton, GA, Mrs. Jeffcoat had resided in Albany, GA for the past thirty years...
John Glen Knight
Sep 15, 2011
Johnny Knight, 57, of Albany, GA died Thursday, September 15, 2011 at his residence. A celebration service will be conducted Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 2:00 PM at the residence of his sister and brother-in-law, 143 Creekview Drive, Leesburg, GA.A lifelong resident of Albany, GA, Mr. Knight graduated from Albany High School in 1972 and was employed with Lee Products...
Robert Carl (Bob) Wettengel
Sep 12, 2011
Robert Carl (Bob) Wettengel, 67, of Albany, GA died Monday, September 12, 2011 at his residence. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday September 14, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home with visitation to follow until 8:00 p.m. Rev. Tim Olds will officiate. Funeral services will also be conducted in the chapel of West Lawn Memorial Park on Saturday...
