Wesley Carter
Mar 29, 2017
Wesley Carter, age 79, of Alma passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at St Joseph's Candler Hospital in Savannah after a short illness. He was son of the late Lewis D. Carter and Eula Waters Carter and preceded in death by three sisters, Etwenda Carter Peacock, Nelda Boatright and Glenda Deen. Wesley was a member of Ten Miles Baptist Church...
Dixie Brewster
Mar 26, 2017
Dixie Nell Johnson Brewster, age 83, of Blackshear, Georgia passed away at her residence after a short illness. She was a native of Bacon County and daughter of the late James Randall Johnson and Daisy Lee Johnson. Her husband Charlie L. Brewster, three brothers, Jerrell, Vernon and Lamar Johnson and two sisters, Latrell "Sis" Yawn and Mary Ford preceded Dixie...
Sarah Lynn Stewart
Mar 25, 2017
Sarah Lynn Bagley Stewart, age 66, of Alma passed away March 25, 2017 in the Appling County Hospital after a short illness. She was daughter of the late Allard Issac Bagley and Essie Dee Rigby Bagley. Her husband James M. Stewart, a stepson Ronnie Stewart and two brothers, John Bagley and Benny Hatten, preceded Lynn in death. Survivors include two...
Eloise Aldridge
Mar 24, 2017
Eloise Aldridge, age 90, of Patterson formerly of Alma died suddenly Friday in Patterson. She was a native of Appling County, daughter of the late Forrest Kennon Miles and Ella Crosby Miles and was also preceded in death by her husband William Daniel (Bill) Aldridge, three brothers Hymon, Herbert and Junior Miles, three sisters Dorothy Bullard, Geraldine Graham and Lorrine...
Mary Jeanette Johnson
Mar 22, 2017
Mary Jeanette Johnson, age 83, of Alma passed away Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at the Bacon County Hospital after a short illness. She was a native of Bacon County and daughter of the late Dan McLemore and Linnie Streat McLemore. Mary was preceded in death by her husband James Boyd " J.B. Johnson and a brother Billy McLemore. Survivors include...
Mildred Olene Thompson
Mar 21, 2017
Mildred Olene Thompson, age 89, of Alma died Tuesday morning March 21, 2017 at her home after a short illness. She was a native of Sylvester, Georgia but had lived in Alma since 1964. Mildred was daughter of the late Robert Bernard Brooks and Cora Davis Brooks and was also preceded in death by a brother Marvin Everett Brooks. She...
Wilma T. Harrell
Mar 20, 2017
Wilma T. Harrell, age 84, of Alma passed away on Monday, March 20, 17 at the Bacon County Hospital after a short illness. She was a native of Bacon County and daughter of the late Claudie Taylor and Minnie O'Quinn Taylor. Wilma was preceded in death by her husband E. L. Harrell, Jr., her son Jerry Harrell, one brother, Carl...
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...
