Hue Matthew Brankley, Jr.

Mr. Hue Matthew Brankley, Jr., age 75, of Tennille, died on Friday, October 28, 2016, in the Veterans Medical Center in Dublin. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, November 1, at 11:00 A.M. in the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Sandersville. Rev. Mack Jackson will officiate. Burial will follow in the Veteran's Memorial Cemetery in Milledgeville at 2:30 P.M. on Tuesday.

Mr. Brankley was a native of Hancock County, Georgia, the son of the late Hue Matthew Brinkley, Sr. and the late Lillie Mae Reese Brinkley. He was the husband of the late Lue Ella Gregory Brankley. He was a graduate of T. J. Elder High School Class of 1961. Mr. Brankley was a retired painter and an Army veteran of the Vietnam Conflict. Mr. Brankley was preceded in death by his sister, Nancy Brinkley Hargrove and a brother, Pierce Brinkley.

Survivors are his son, Jarad Howard Brankley of Cleveland, Ohio; two step children, Michelle Scott of Jacksonville and James Scott of Las Vegas, sisters, Ida Brown and her husband Hazzie of Sandersville, Eva Mae Brinkley of Sparta, Mattie Reese Woody and her husband John of San Antonio Texas, Lillian Brinkley Jenkins and her husband Napoleon of Tennille, Sophia Brinkley Dahvid of Houston, Texas and Edna Brinkley of Austin, Texas, a brother, Ezeckiel Brinkley of Sparta and many nieces and nephews.

The family will greet friends at May and Smith Funeral Home in Sandersville from 10:00 A.M. on Tuesday until the hour of service.

May and Smith Funeral Directors in Sandersville is in charge of the arrangements.