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William Perdue "Bud" Bryan, Jr.
Feb 18, 2010
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William Perdue "Bud" Bryan, Jr., 90, of Tifton died Thursday, February 18, 2010, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Graveside funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 21, 2010, in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Rev. Sam Maves will officiate with burial to follow. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Saturday, February...
Melba Luke O'Neal
Feb 17, 2010
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Melba Luke O'Neal, 75, of Tifton died Wednesday, February 17, 2010, at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 20, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Aaron Clanton, Rev. Bill Barksdale and Rev. Billy Sumner will officiate with burial to follow in Tift Memorial Gardens....
Mary Frances Stone
Feb 16, 2010
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Mary Frances Stone, 82, of Tifton died Tuesday, February 16, 2010, at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Roger Tucker and Rev. Wayne Driskell will officiate with burial to follow in Lawrence Cemetery. Mitchell Weldon, Tommy Stone, Ander Tucker, Larry...
Nell Kirkland Johnson
Feb 14, 2010
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Nell Kirkland Johnson, 85, of Tifton died Sunday, February 14, 2010, at Maple Court Assisted Living. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Dr. Glenn Martin will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Her "adopted sons", Albert Culbreath, Buck Hartley, Bill...
Hester Annette Coffey Cheek
Feb 13, 2010
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Hester Annette Coffey Cheek, 95, of Tifton died Saturday, February 13, 2010, at Tift Health Care. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, February 15, 2010, in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Rev. Brad Hughes will officiate with burial to follow. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Sunday, February 14, 2010,...
Paula Hendley Clark
Feb 12, 2010
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Paula Hendley Clark, 48, of West Berrien Community died Friday, February 12, 2010, at Emory University Medical Center in Atlanta. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, February 15, 2010, at Brookfield Baptist Church. Rev. Gary Cadwell and Rev. Edward Mimbs will officiate with burial to follow in Oakey Grove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Deacons...
Effie "Jeannette" Hughes Liner
Feb 9, 2010
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Effie "Jeannette" Hughes Liner died Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at Golden Living Center. Funeral services and burial will be held in Chicamauga at Wilson Funeral Home. Among Mrs. Liner's survivors is her daughter, Pat Statum, of Tifton.
Roy James Hayes
Feb 5, 2010
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Roy James Hayes, 90, of Tifton died Friday, February 5, 2010, at Golden Living Center. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Sunday, February 7, 2010, from 1:00 to 2:00...
Lutrelle "Weetie" Tift Rankin
Feb 4, 2010
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Lutrelle Tift "Weetie" Rankin, 90, of Tifton, died peacefully Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at her residence, surrounded by family. Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at St. Anne's Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Lonnie Lacy officiating. The family will receive friends from 3 p.m. Sunday until the time of services at St. Anne's parish hall....
Virginia "Presh" Tift Brumby
Feb 2, 2010
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Virginia "Presh" Tift Brumby died peacefully Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010, in Tifton at the age of 94. She was the granddaughter of Tifton's founder Henry Harding Tift and of Jerome B. Pound of Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Henry Harding Tift, Jr. of Tifton and Virginia Pound Tift of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee and sister of...
Ernesto G. "Ernie" Podagrosi
Feb 1, 2010
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Ernesto G. "Ernie" Podagrosi, 74, of Tifton died Monday, February 1, 2010, at Tift Regional Medical Center from complications of pneumonia. Visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, February 5, 2010, at Our Divine Savior Catholic Church, followed immediately by a funeral mass at 11:00 a.m. Interment, with military honors, will be in Nashville. Mr. Podagrosi...
Leticia Carbajal-Duran
Feb 1, 2010
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Leticia Carbajal-Duran, 39, of Tifton died Monday, February 1, 2010, in Moultrie. Funeral services and interment will be held in Mexico at a later date. The family will receive friends on Thursday, February 4, 2010, beginning at 2:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Ms. Carbajal-Duran was born on June 23, 1970 in El Refugion De Gamboa, Mexico...
Bobby Joel Brickle
Jan 30, 2010
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Bobby Joel Brickle, 68, of Tifton died Saturday, January 30, 2010, at Tift Health Care. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, February 1, 2010, at Lenox Baptist Church. Rev. Lamar Harris will officiate with burial to follow in Lenox Cemetery. Deacons of Lenox Baptist will serve as pallbearers and honorary pallbearers. The family will...
Hilda Joe Adams Cartwright
Jan 30, 2010
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Hilda Joe Adams Cartwright, 90, of Omaha, Nebraska, formerly of Tifton, died Saturday, January 30, 2010, at Omaha Hospice House in Omaha, Nebraska. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 27, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Dr. Wayne Roe and Rev. Paul Thomas will officiate. Mrs. Cartwright was born on...
Lafoy Jerome Mcmillan
Jan 30, 2010
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LaFoy Jerome McMillan, 73, of Ocilla, died Saturday, January 30, 2010, at Osceola Nursing Home in Ocilla. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, February 1, 2010, in Tift Memorial Gardens. Rev. Pete Jones will officiate. Mr. McMillan was born on March 8, 1936 in Berrien County and was the son of Caro Jackson...
Robert Edward Thrift
Jan 28, 2010
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Robert Edward Thrift, 69, of Sumner died Thursday, January 28, 2010, at Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. Private memorial services will be held at a later date. Mr. Thrift was born on March 8, 1940 in Blackshear and was the son of Lesley Thrift and Pauline Johnson Thrift Coker, both deceased. He was also preceded in death by...
George Lee Hill
Jan 23, 2010
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George Lee Hill, 59, of Tifton died Saturday, January 23, 2010, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Tallahassee, Florida. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Jason Jones and Chaplain Earl Perry will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Members of...
Florence Juliar Connell Akins
Jan 20, 2010
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Florence Juliar Connell Akins, 87, died Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at Tift Health Care. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Joseph Crumley will officiate with burial to follow in Lawrence Cemetery. Her grandsons, Troy Harper, Doug Griffin, Chris Howard, Lee Howard, Marty...
Mary Lou Milliones Boone
Jan 18, 2010
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Mary Lou Milliones Boone, 53, of Sumner died Monday, January 18, 2010, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, January 22, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Bob Nipper and Rev. Glenda Brunswick will officiate with burial to follow in Tift Memorial Gardens. Michael Milliones, Jason...
Baby Girl Callie Grace Fender
Jan 18, 2010
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Baby Girl Callie Grace Fender was born and died Monday, January 18, 2010, at Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2010, in Utah Cemetery in Axson. Rev. Terrell Roberts will officiate with burial to follow. Callie Grace was the daughter of John Kevin Fender and Elana...
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