Olive Skeel

Mcmillan Sides

Obituary

Olive Skeel McMillan Sides, 81, of Snellville, formerly of Tifton, died Sunday, February 25, 2007, at New London Health Care in Lilburn. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 28, 2007, in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Dr. Glenn Martin will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, February 27, 2007, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.

Ms. Sides was born on August 24, 1925 in Erie, Pennsylvania and was the daughter of Thaddius and Minnie Skeel, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Dr. Arthur Cleveland McMillan, Jr.; her second husband, Bill Sides; and one brother, Dick Skeel. She had lived in Tifton all of her life and was a retired homemaker and retired secretary for the Coastal Plains Experiment Station. She was a member of Tifton's First United Methodist Church. She was a loving mother to her children and devoted to her grandchildren.

Ms. Sides is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. Ken McMillan and his wife, Sally, of Lilburn, Tim and Melody McMillan of Braselton, and David and Gina McMillan of Tifton; six grandchildren and their spouses, Dr. Casey McMillan and his wife, Sarah, of Columbia, South Carolina, Courtney McMillan of Augusta, Christy McMillan Drinkard and her husband, Chad, of Charleston, South Carolina, Jason McMillan of Charleston, South Carolina, Ashley McMillan of Valdosta and Adam McMillan of Tifton; and one great grandchild, Lexi Drinkard of Charleston, South Carolina.