Lois

Monk

Obituary

Lois Monk, 73, of Sylvester died Friday, January 16, 2009, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 18, 2009, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Jessie Hathaway will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Ray Monk, Randall Monk, Joshua Monk, Jeremy Hobbs, Richard Hanson and J. L. Chauncey will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Saturday, January 17, 2009, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.

Mrs. Monk was born on September 28, 1935 in Quitman and was the daughter of Charlie Jefferson Monk and Susie Elizabeth Morrell Monk, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Earnest William Mitchell, Sr. She was a retired grocery store cashier and a member of the Sylvester Church of God.

Ms. Monk is survived by two sons and one daughter-in-law, Ernest William and Tammie Mitchell, Jr. of Albany and James Edward Faiola of Tifton; two brothers, Charles Monk, Jr. of Tifton and Arie Monk of Blackshear; two sisters, Mattie Lou Woods of Tifton and Leila Chauncey of Lakeland; eight grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren.