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Gregory Hilliard Bateman

Gregory Hilliard Bateman

Nov 17, 2008

Mr. Gregory Hilliard Bateman, age 51, of Warthen, died Monday, November 17, 2008. Funeral services will be held on Friday, November 21st at 2:00pm at the Sandersville United Methodist Church with burial in the Sandersville Old City Cemetery. Rev. Michael Brown will officiate. Pallbearers will be Neil Pittman, Johnny Wilbanks, Bob Wilson, Randy Hall, Tom Hutcheson, Julian Jones, Paul...

June Jackson Hilliard

June Jackson Hilliard

Nov 15, 2008

Mrs. June Jackson Hilliard, age 55, of Sandersville, died Saturday, November 15, 2008 at the University Hospital in Augusta. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, November 18th at 2:00pm at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Brownwood Cemetery. Rev. J. Emory Lindsey and Rev. Tom Harrison will officiate. Pallbearers will be Brandon Wilkes,...

Lois Janssen Wetherell

Lois Janssen Wetherell

Nov 8, 2008

Mrs. Lois Janssen Wetherell, age 73, New Tennille Rd. Harrison, died Saturday, November 8, 2008. Memorial services will be held Tuesday, November 11th at 11:00am at the Piney Mount United Methodist Church. Rev. Jim Dominey will officiate. Mrs. Wetherell was born in Berkshire Massachusetts the daughter of the late William E. Janssen and the late Anna Mae Lauren Janssen....

Mark Alexander Gross

Mark Alexander Gross

Nov 8, 2008

Mr. Mark Alexander Gross, age 46, of Augusta, died Saturday, November 8, 2008 at the East Central Regional Hospital at Gracewood. Graveside funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 2:00pm at the Davisboro City Cemetery. Rev. Larry Glover will officiate. Survivors are his mother Bessie Stevens Bradden of Davisboro, brothers Robert Gross (Maxine) of Tennille and Wayne L....

M.J. Etheridge Jr.

M.J. Etheridge Jr.

Nov 7, 2008

Mr. M.J. Etheridge Jr., age 85, of West Church Street, Tennille, died Friday, November 7, 2008 at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held on Monday at 11:00am at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Zeta Cemetery in Tennille. Rev. Mark Jones will officiate. Mr. Etheridge...

Roger Wesley Williams

Roger Wesley Williams

Oct 29, 2008

Roger Wesley Williams, age 87, of 1116 Walnut Street, Louisville, died Wednesday, October 29 in the Jefferson County Hospital. Graveside services will be held at 3:00 P.M. Saturday, November 1, 2008 in the Zeta Cemetery, Tennille, Georgia. Rev. Scott Nash will officiate. Mr. Williams was a native of Jefferson County, the son of the late Bessie Mae Rhodes Williams...

Lamar Silas Jones

Lamar Silas Jones

Oct 28, 2008

Mr. Lamar S. Jones, age 71, of Wadley, died Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at the Georgia War Veterans Home in Milledgeville. Funeral services will be held on Friday, October 31st at 11:00am at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Sisters Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Donald Thigpen will officiate. Pallbearers will be members of the...

James Lloyd Etheridge

James Lloyd Etheridge

Oct 17, 2008

Mr. James Lloyd Etheridge, age 80, of Santa Maria CA., died October 17, 2008 in California. A graveside memorial service will be held on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 11:00am at Zeta Cemetery in Tennille. Rev. Peter Barlow will officiate. Mr. Etheridge was born in Barrow County Georgia but grew up in Tennille. He was a US Air Force...

Stella Reynolds Hawkins

Stella Reynolds Hawkins

Oct 16, 2008

Mrs. Stella Reynolds Hawkins, age 88, of Hwy. 15 North, Sandersville, died Thursday, October 16, 2008 at the Heritage Inn Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, October 19th at the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Warthen with burial in the Brownwood Cemetery in Sandersville. Rev. Tim Powell and Rev. Jimmy Harris will officiate. Pallbearers will be Glenn...

Mary Johnson Mcneely

Mary Johnson Mcneely

Oct 15, 2008

Mrs. Mary Johnson McNeely, age 87, of Davisboro, died Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Washington County Extended Care Facility. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 18th, at 2:00pm at the Davisboro United Methodist Church with burial in the Davisboro City Cemetery. Rev. Derek McLear and Rev. Chad Watkins will officiate. Pallbearers will be members of the...

Estelle Wood Webb

Estelle Wood Webb

Oct 13, 2008

Mrs. Estelle Wood Webb, age 89, of Sandersville, formerly of Americus, died Monday October 13 in the Extended Care Facility in Sandersville. Graveside funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Friday October 17 in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Americus. Mrs. Webb, known also as “Dobie”, was born in Russell County, Alabama, the daughter of the late Frank...

Wesley Allen Rhodes

Wesley Allen Rhodes

Oct 10, 2008

Wesley Allen Rhodes, age 25, of Stone Valley Road in Sandersville, died Friday October 10, 2008. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, at 11:00AM at the Sisters Baptist Church with burial in Zeta Cemetery. Rev. Bert Parker will officiate. Pallbearers will be Mandel Waters, Edwin Smith, Eddy Rhodes, Steve Rank, Neil Pittman and Stacer Helton. Wesley was born...

Laverne Holton Kinard

Laverne Holton Kinard

Oct 10, 2008

Mrs. Laverne Holton Kinard, age 71, of Macon, died Friday, October 10, 2008. Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 13th at 2:00pm at the Sandersville United Methodist Church with burial in the Brownwood Cemetery in Sandersville. Rev. Jimmy Duke and Rev. Cile Mitchell will officiate. Pallbearers will be her nephews Wendell Tompkins Jr., Bill Holton, Bob Holton,...

Sandra Mercer Willis

Sandra Mercer Willis

Oct 9, 2008

Mrs. Sandra Mercer Willis, age 69, of Tennille, died Thursday, October 9, 2008. Graveside funeral services will be held on Sunday, October 12th at 2:00pm at the Old City Cemetery in Sandersville. Rev. Dale Andrews will officiate. Mrs. Willis was born in Washington County the daughter of Mary Garbutt Mercer and the late Sanders G. Mercer Sr. She was...

Hansel Hall Turner

Hansel Hall Turner

Oct 2, 2008

Mr. Hansel Hall Turner, age 81, of 184 Tanner Terrace in Macon died Thursday October 2 in the Coliseum Northside Hospital in Macon. Graveside funeral services will be held at 4:00 on Sunday October 5 in the Union Baptist Cemetery near Warthen. The Rev. Roy Smith and Rev. Robert Cash will officiate. Mr. Turner was a native of Washington...

Dorothy Clanahan

Dorothy Clanahan

Oct 2, 2008

May & Smith Funeral Directors 1119 Riddleville Road(Hwy 242) P O Box 1016 Sandersville GA 31082 Phone 478-552-2501 FAX 478-552-7471 Mrs. Dorothy Louise Yancey Clanahan, age 80, of 525 Transylvania Drive in Sandersville died Thursday morning October 2 in the University Hospital in Augusta following a brief illness. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday October...

Kerry Lee Guthrie

Kerry Lee Guthrie

Sep 23, 2008

May & Smith Funeral Directors 1119 Riddleville Road(Hwy 242) P O Box 1016 Sandersville GA 31082 Phone 478-552-2501 FAX 478-552-7471 Kerry Lee Guthrie, age 1, of 209 Whiteline Street in Tennille died Tuesday September 23 in the Medical Center in Macon. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Friday September 26 in the May and Smith Funeral Home...

Dorothy Payne Meeks

Dorothy Payne Meeks

Sep 18, 2008

Mrs. Dorothy Payne Meeks, age 81, of N. Pecan Dr. Sandersville, died Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Washington County Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, September 23rd at 2:00pm at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Washington County Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Meeks was born in Arkansas the daughter of the...

A. Lewis Tompkins

A. Lewis Tompkins

Sep 18, 2008

Mr. A. Lewis Tompkins, age 76, of Riddleville Rd., Sandersville, died Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the VA Medical Center in Dublin following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, at 2:00pm at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Brownwood Cemetery. Rev. Michael Brown will officiate. Pallbearers will be Billy Tompkins,...

Jackie Ray Bailey

Jackie Ray Bailey

Sep 11, 2008

Mr. Jackie Ray Bailey, age 56, of 7636 News Bridge Road in Harrison, Georgia died Thursday September 11. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday September 14 in the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Sandersville with burial in the New Family Cemetery near Harrison. Pallbearers are John Bailey, Richard Spivey, Richard Bolden, Billy Thompson, Mike...

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