Billy L. James
Mar 20, 2017
Billy Lewis James, age 75, of Waycross passed away Monday, March 20, 2017 at Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross after an extended illness. He was a native of Ware County, son of the late L.F. "Buck" James and Macy Bennett James and was preceded in death by a brother Bobby James and an infant sister Baby James. Billy was...
James Harvey Spell
Mar 17, 2017
James Harvey Spell, age 73, of Alma passed away suddenly at his residence on Friday, March 17, 2017 after an extended illness. He was a native of Bacon County and son of the late James Spell and Audrey Mae Peacock Spell. James was preceded in death by his daughter Tina Marie Spell, brother Roger David Spell and a sister Carol...
Edna Music
Mar 16, 2017
Mrs. Edna Hamilton Music passed away March 16, 2017 under the care of her family and staff of the Bacon County Hospital after a short illness. Born on January 17, 1929 in Telfair County, Georgia, she was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, James Verlon Music, father Larkin S. Hamilton, mother Georgia Coleman Hamilton, four brothers Oras,...
Rhonda Sue Harrelson
Mar 15, 2017
Rhonda Sue Harrelson, age 50, of Alma passed away suddenly at the Bacon County Hospital after a short illness. She was born on April 16, 1966 to the late James Kirby Duck. She was a member of Harvest Renewal Worship Center in Nicholls. Survivors include her husband, George Randall Harrelson, her mother, Mary Nell Wood Duck of Alma, two children,...
Harriett Anita Quattlebaum
Mar 14, 2017
Harriett Anita Quattlebaum, age 87, of Baxley died early Monday morning March 14, 2017 at Community Hospice House in Vidalia, GA after an extended illness. She was a native of Bacon County but had lived many years in Baxley. She was daughter of the late Aaron Sellers and Ida Mae Thomas Sellers and was also preceded in death by her...
Johnny "Bud" Jones
Mar 4, 2017
Johnny E. "Bud" Jones, age73, of Waycross passed away at Mayo Clinic in Waycross after a short illness. He was formerly of Alma but had lived in Waycross for many years. Johnny was son of the late Charlie Jones and Hertha Tyre Jones and preceded in death by a brother Charles Jones and a nephew Mike Jones. He was a...
Joan M. Turner
Feb 28, 2017
Joan M. Turner, age 69, of Statesboro, Georgia passed away Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at East Georgia Regional Hospital in Statesboro after an extended illness. She was a native of Concorde, CA. but lived in Georgia most of her life. Joan was preceded in death by her parents, John Mobley and Margaret McGuire Mobley. She was Registered Nurse and worked...
Winston Miles Taylor
Feb 27, 2017
Winston Miles Taylor, age 20 of Baxley passed away suddenly on Monday, February 27, 2017 in Baxley Georgia. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Luther and Mildred Taylor and maternal grandparents, James and Eddie Mae Miles. Survivors include his parents, Larry Joe Taylor and Cindy Miles Taylor of Baxley, two brothers, Dusty Joe Taylor of Baxley and...
Corman D. Jordan
Feb 25, 2017
Corman Dewey Jordan, age 86, of Alma passed away Saturday, February 25, 2017 at the Bacon County Hospital after a short illness. He son of the late George Jordan and Sarah Hyers Jordan and preceded in death by a brother, Palmer Jordan and a sister, Lavelle Meeks and a great-grandson, Jackson Noles He was an Insurance Agent for many years,...
Betty Hughes
Feb 24, 2017
Betty Gene Hughes, age 72, of Alma died Friday February 24th, 2017 after an extended illness. She was daughter of the late David Alex Godwin and Jessie Mae Allen Godwin and was also preceded in death by a son Terry Lee Rewis, two brothers Ronnie and Dale Godwin and a sister Evelyn Harris. Betty worked for Oxford for many years....
Bernice Odom
Feb 24, 2017
Bernice Odom, age 81, of Jacksonville, FL died Friday February 24th, 2017 at Baptist Medical Center after an extended illness. She was a native of Appling County, had lived several years in Scuffle Town before moving to Jacksonville 51 years age. She was daughter of the late Kermit Moody and Lillian Moody Moody and was also preceded in death by...
Joann Douglas
Feb 20, 2017
On February 20, 2017, JoAnn Douglas, age 91, of Alma, passed away at Twin Oaks Nursing Home, where she had resided for several years. Joann Vance Douglas was born July 21, 1925, to Elmore and Stella Aldridge Vance in Avery County, NC. She was the 9th of 14 children. Growing up in the North Carolina mountains, she learned to cook...
Lorene B Lee
Feb 17, 2017
Lorene B. Lee, age 89, of Alma died Friday February 17, 2017 at the Appling Health Care System in Baxley after an extended illness. She was a native of Bacon County, daughter of the late Seward Bennett and Ethel Pittman Bennett and was also preceded in death by her husband Walter Monroe Lee and a brother Buster Bennett. Lorene was...
Greg Hawkins
Feb 16, 2017
Greg G. Hawkins, age 63, of Jacksonville, FL died Thursday February 16th, 2017 at Lanier Manor of Jacksonville after an extended illness. He was a native of Jacksonville, son of the late Wilbur Newton Hawkins and Cathey Ussery Hawkins and was also preceded in death by a brother William (Butch) Hawkins. Greg was an elite contractor for many years. Survivors...
Richard Carlton Cohran
Feb 15, 2017
Richard Carlton Cohran, age 82, of Alma passed away suddenly on Wednesday, February 15th at his residence. He was a native of Jacksonville, Florida. Richard was son of the late Leon Cohran and Margaret Silas Cohran and preceded in death by three brothers, Herbert, Edward and Robert Cohran. Survivors include his wife of 31years, Barbara Beckett Cohran of Alma, a...
Glenda E. Deen
Feb 15, 2017
Glenda E. Deen, age 78, of Alma passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at Baptist Village after an extended illness. She was born in Bacon County on February 15, 1939 to the late Lewis D. Carter and Eula Mae Waters Carter. Mrs. Deen worked at Milliken for 20 years and was owner and operator of Country Place Retirement Home...
Jake Hyers
Feb 13, 2017
Jake Hyers, age 71, of Alma passed away suddenly Monday, February 13, 2017 at the Bacon County Hospital. He was born on May 7, 1945 to the late Henry Hyers and Elmira Johnson Hyers. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, several aunts and uncles and cousins. He was retired from Pike Electric and served in the US Army...
Roy B. Parker
Feb 11, 2017
Roy B. Parker, age 72, of Alma died Saturday afternoon February 11th, 2017 at the Bacon County Hospital after an extended illness. He was a native of Bacon County, son of the late Frank Parker and Rosa Marie Stewart Parker and was also preceded in death by two brothers Jimmy Frank Parker, Sr. and Carroll Parker. Roy retired from Container...
Randall "Randy" Newton Lewis
Feb 10, 2017
Randall "Randy" Newton Lewis, of Alma passed away in the Mayo Clinic in Waycross after an extended illness. He was preceded in death by his father William Newton Lewis. Survivors include his mother, LaFaye Wilson Lewis Cole of Alma, two brothers, Miles Regan Lewis (Annie) of Baxley, GA. and Clifton Shane Lewis and fiancé Andrea of Statesboro, GA., one sister,...
Felton Abercrombie
Jan 30, 2017
Felton Abercrombie, age 80, passed away on January 30, 2017. He was born in Alma, Georgia and moved to Jacksonville shortly after high school graduation. He attended Jones College where he earned a degree in accounting. On September 16, 1961 he married Brenda Taylor and had one son Cason Taylor Abercrombie. He served in the Army from May 28, 1959...
