Barbara Meders

Smith

Obituary

Barbara Meders Smith, 63, of Tifton, died Thursday, May 17, 2007, at Shands Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, 2007, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Tony Crawley and Rev. Manuel Johnson will officiate with burial to follow in Omega Cemetery. Bobby Wiard, Winfred Giddens, Tony Bishop, Brian Daugherty, sean Denham, D. J. McMillan, Trent Milliones and Justin Crawley will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Nicholas Crawley, Megan Crawley, Austin Clark, Tyler Bishop and Jacob Weeks. The family will receive friends on Saturday, May 19, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.

Ms. Smith was born on December 31, 1943 in Colquitt County and was the daughter of Henry Clemons Meders and Addie Lee Fletcher Meders, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Jim Washington "J. W." Smith and one sister, Wardine Meders McMillan. She was a homemaker and a member of New Jerusalem Freewill Baptist Church in Moultrie.

Ms. Smith is survived by three brothers and sisters-in-law, Henry C. "Hank" and Linda Meders of Omega, James and Faye Meders of High Point, North Carolina, and Walter and Susan Meders of Grand Junction, Colorado; four sisters and one brother-in-law, Carol Meders of Omega, Lavern and Junion Brooks of Omega, Marilyn Meders of Florence, South Carolina, and Helen Meders of Jacksonville, Florida; and several nieces and nephews.