Obituaries
Johnny Doggett
Nov 19, 2020
Johnny E. Doggett, 85, of Doerun, GA died Wednesday, November 19, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Memorial services will be held Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 2:00 PM at Lighthouse Ministries. Rev. Chris Turner will officiate. Mr. Doggett was born and raised in Warwick, GA, moved to Albany, GA in 1951and then moved to Worth County in 1999. He...
Angelia VanHouten
Nov 19, 2020
Angelia Jett “Angie” VanHouten, 63, died November 19, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Monday, November 23, 2020 at 2:00 pm at Mathews Funeral Home. Mr. Ross Powell will officiate. Interment will follow at Crown Hill Cemetery. Angie was born on June 26, 1957 and was a lifelong resident of Albany and Leesburg. She graduated...
Roger Newell
Nov 17, 2020
Roger Eric Newell, 64, of Iron City, GA passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Friday, November 20, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at Thundering Springs Cemetery. Rev. Scott Messer will officiate. Social distancing will be respected. Born in Sylvester, GA, Mr. Newell had resided in Albany, GA most all of his life and was a long-...
Gina Hayes
Nov 17, 2020
Gina M. Hayes, 55, of Leesburg, Georgia died November 17, 2020 at Willson Hospice House. A private funeral service will be held Friday, November 20, 2020 at Mathews Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow at 4:00 p.m. at Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, GA, with the public invited. Mr. Ross Powell will officiate. Please observe social distancing and masks will be provided....
Hilda Hunt
Nov 16, 2020
Hilda Ford Hunt, 84, of Leesburg, GA, died Monday, November 16, 2020. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. in Leesburg Cemetery. Rev. Ben Steffens will officiate. Born in Cuthbert, GA to the late Claude Don Ford and Erie Cook Ford, Mrs. Hunt had resided in Albany, GA and Leesburg, GA most all of...
George Anderson, Sr.
Nov 14, 2020
George Arthur Anderson, Sr., 92, of Albany, GA died Saturday November 14, 2020 at his residence. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery. Rev. Debbie Cone will officiate. Social distancing will be respected. Born in Lumber City, GA, Mr. Anderson was the son of the late William Henry Anderson,...
Michael Newell
Nov 11, 2020
Michael E. “Mike” Newell, 64, of Albany, GA, died November 11, 2020 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Monday, November, 16 2020 at 2:00 PM at Andersonville National Cemetery. Pastor Danny Evans will officiate. Please observe social distancing and mask etiquette. Mike was born in Albany, GA on January 8, 1956 to Melvin and Bernice Newell. He lived...
Walter Earl McCall
Nov 11, 2020
Walter Earl McCall, age 68, passed away on November 11, 2020, at Wilson Hospice House in Albany, Georgia, after fighting a courageous two-month battle against metastatic prostate cancer. Earl has practiced law in Albany for the past thirty-eight years. A native of Americus, Georgia, Earl was born on November 6, 1952. He was preceded in death by his parents William...
Leroy Pipkins, Sr.
Nov 9, 2020
Leroy Nelson Pipkins, Sr., 78, of Albany, GA, passed away on Monday, November 9, 2020 at his residence. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 2pm at Evergreen Baptist Church in Worth County. Rev. Todd Brooks will officiate. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Leroy was born on March 5, 1942, in...
Roger Spence
Nov 9, 2020
Roger Lee Spence,48, of Baconton, GA, died Monday, November 9, 2020 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Arrangements will be announced.
Charles Mancuso, Sr.
Nov 9, 2020
Charles "Charlie" Mancuso, Sr., 75, of Albany, GA died Monday, November 9, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Jonathan LaBarge will officiate. Social distancing and masks will be requested. Born in San Fratello Italy, Charles came to the United States at the age...
Rita Wingate
Nov 8, 2020
Rita June Wingate, age 84, passed away peacefully on November 8, 2020 from natural causes. Born on the 11th of July 1936 in Miller County, Georgia to Clifford Boykin Hayes and Annie Rebecca Chester Hayes. Raised in the Bethany community, Rita picked cotton out of necessity and fished for the joy of it. She craved fresh vegetables like Georgia tomatoes...
Sarah Slaughter
Nov 8, 2020
Sarah Delilah McKemie Slaughter, 83, of Lee County, GA died November 8, 2020 at her residence. Funeral services will be held Friday, November 13, 2020 at 11:00 with visitation at 10:00 at The Church at the Groves, Leesburg, GA. Rev. Chris Pollock, Rev. Ben Steffens and Rev. Watson McKemie will officiate. Interment will follow at Mt. Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery...
Maryella George
Nov 6, 2020
Maryella Sanford George, 98, of Albany, GA, died November 6, 2020 at her residence. A private family committal service will be held Friday, November 13, 2020 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Father Walter Hobgood will officiate. Mrs. George was born in Ogden, UT on May 14, 1922 to John Joseph and Ruth Sanford. She graduated from the University of Idaho...
James Quattlebaum
Nov 4, 2020
James S. “Jimmy” Quattlebaum, 66, of Crisp County, GA, died November 4, 2020 at his residence. Funeral services will be held Tuesday November 10, 2020 at 2:00 PM at the Warwick United Methodist Church. Rev. Paul Luthman and Rev. John Smith will officiate. Interment will follow in the Church Cemetery. Jimmy was born in Atlanta, GA on September 5, 1954...
Betty Odom
Nov 3, 2020
Betty Cox Odom, age 89, died November 3, 2020 at Oaks at Oakland Plantation community. A Graveside service will be held Friday, November 6, 2020 at 2:00 PM at Crown Hill Cemetery with Rev. Roy Cook officiating. Social distancing and masks will be respected. Mrs. Odom is now united with her late husband, A. C. (Tony) Odom and her sister...
Donna Kyser
Nov 2, 2020
Donna Paschal Kyser, 66, of Albany, GA died Monday, November 2, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Born in Columbus, GA, Mrs. Kyser had lived the last 29 years of her life in Albany. Over the course of her life she had many adventures in the career field ranging from a RN to an Inventory Specialist. Survivors include her husband,...
Julian Whiting, Jr.
Nov 2, 2020
Julian D. Whiting, Jr., 80, of Albany, GA died Monday, November 2, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 11:00 AM at the First United Methodist Church of Albany. Entombment will follow in the Crown Hill Mausoleum. Dr. Bob Moon and Rev. Thad Haygood will officiate. Social distancing will be respected...
Sherry Webb
Nov 1, 2020
Sherry Lynn Webb, 67, of Albany, GA, died November 1, 2020 at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, GA. A memorial service will be held Friday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Mr. Ross Powell will officiate. Please observe social distancing and masks will be provided. Sherry was born in Glendale, AZ on May 21, 1953 to the late...
Joshua McClain
Nov 1, 2020
Joshua Christian McClain, 39, of Lee County, GA, passed away November 1, 2020 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 AM at Mathews Funeral Home. Pastor Jeremy Lokey will officiate. Social distancing will be required and masks will be provided. Joshua was born on August 29, 1981 in Albany, GA. He graduated from Albany...
