OBITUARIES
Bruce Cummings
Feb 2, 2015
Townsend Brothers Funeral Home, Inc. 215 West Jackson Street Dublin, GA 31040 478-272-3311 Bruce Cummings, age 73 of Rentz, passed away on Monday, February 2, 2015. Graveside services will be held at 11:00AM on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at Warthen Methodist Church Cemetery in Washington Co. Rev. Jimmy Thigpen will officiate. Mr. Cummings was preceded in death by a...
Kenneth Michael Hatcher, Sr.
Feb 1, 2015
Mr. Kenneth Michael Hatcher, Sr., age 50, of Milledgeville died on Sunday, February 01, 2015. Graveside funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, February 12th, in the Zeta Cemetery in Tennille. The Reverend Roy Smith will officiate. Mr. Hatcher was the son of the late J. Don Hatcher. Survivors are his mother, Margaret Virginia Freeman Ivey; his...
Frances Eubanks Cooper
Jan 30, 2015
Mrs. Frances Eubanks Cooper, age 88, of Oconee, died Friday, January 30, 2015 at the Oconee Nursing Home following an extended illness. A funeral service will be held on Monday, February 2nd at 2:00 p.m. at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Bay Springs Cemetery in Oconee. Reverends Emory Anderson and Ralph Lumley will...
Mary Elizabeth Waller Weller
Jan 26, 2015
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Waller Weller, age 91, of Sandersville died Monday morning, January 26, 2015, at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, January 29th, in the Mt.Gilead Primitive Baptist Church with burial in the Mt. Gilead Church Cemetery. Elder Kenneth Brantley will officiate. Pallbearers will be Clint Hall, Tristan Smith, Daniel Hall, David Brantley,...
Barbara Lyon Wood
Jan 26, 2015
Mrs. Barbara Lyon Wood, age 86, formerly of Woodland Drive in Sandersville, died Monday, January 26, 2015 at Wrightsville Manor following an extended illness. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, January 29TH, at 2:00 p.m. at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Davisboro City Cemetery. Reverends Marlon Lastinger and Lee Lacey will...
Ruth Andrews Ivey
Jan 22, 2015
Mrs. Ruth M. Andrews Ivey, age 100, of Sandersville died on Thursday evening January 22 in the Heritage Inn. Funeral services will be held at 2:00P.M. Sunday January 25 in the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Sandersville with burial in the Sisters Baptist Church Cemetery in Sandersville. Reverend Milton Wood and Reverend Otis Larry Andrews will officiate....
Kenneth Wayne Annabel, Sr.
Jan 17, 2015
Mr. Kenneth Wayne Annabel, Sr., age 81, of Warthen, died Saturday, January 17, 2015 at the Heritage Inn Nursing Home in Sandersville following an extended illness. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, January 22nd, at 2:00 p.m. at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Warthen. The Reverend...
Hugh Mcmaster Tarbutton
Jan 7, 2015
Hugh McMaster Tarbutton, a life-long resident of Sandersville, Georgia, passed away on January 7, 2015. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 10th at 11:00 a.m. at the Sandersville United Methodist Church with the Reverend Dr. Joseph Buck IV officiating. Burial will be private. The Tarbutton family will receive friends on Friday, January 9th, from 4:00 p.m....
Robert E. Dudley
Jan 5, 2015
Dr. Robert E. Dudley passed on January 5, 2015 in Washington State. A graveside memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Warthen. The Reverend Gary Walker will officiate. Born in the city of Danberg, Jefferson County, Georgia on July 5th 1923 he was reared in Warthen,...
James Carl Tanner
Jan 3, 2015
Mr. James Carl Tanner, age 85 of Tennille died on Saturday, January 3, 2014, in a Milledgeville hospital following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, January 6th, in the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel in Sandersville. Reverend Danny Thomas and Reverend Danny Rountree will officiate. A graveside service of committal will be...
Paul C. Thompson
Dec 30, 2014
Mr. Paul C. Thompson, age 80, of Sandersville, died Tuesday, December 30, 2014. A funeral service will be held on Friday, January 2nd at 2:00 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene with burial at the Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery in Wilkinson County. Reverends Gary Mimbs, Danny Thomas, and Mike Bankston will officiate. Pallbearers will be Mike...
Willie Pearl Frost Dillard
Dec 29, 2014
Mrs. Willie Pearl Frost Dillard, age 92, of Sandersville, died Monday, December 29, 2014. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 3rd at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Sandersville with burial in Brownwood Cemetery. Reverend Lee Lacy and Reverend Marlon Lastinger will officiate. Pallbearers will be Eddie Warren, Derek Boatwright, Jimmy Dillard, Forrest Price,...
Ralph R. Brown
Dec 29, 2014
Mr. Ralph Raleigh Brown, age 84, of 740 East McCarty Street in Sandersville died on Monday December 29 in the Washington County Regional Medical Center in Sandersville. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday January 1 in the First Baptist Church of Sandersville with burial in the Brownwood Cemetery in Sandersville. Rev. Marlon Lastinger and Rev. Lee...
Betty Pittman Hodges
Dec 29, 2014
Mrs. Betty Pittman Hodges, age 88, of Sandersville, died Monday, December 29, 2014. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 3rd at 11:00 a.m. at the First Christian Church of Sandersville. Reverend Douglas Ivey will officiate. Mrs. Hodges was born in Americus, the daughter of the late Ross Pittman and the late Minnie B. Keith Pittman. She...
Evelyn Brantley Elton
Dec 28, 2014
Mrs. Evelyn Brantley Elton, age 74, of Oconee died Sunday December 28 in the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Wednesday December 31 in the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Emory Anderson will officiate. Burial will be private. Mrs. Elton was a native and lifelong resident...
Sherrie Yates Veal
Dec 27, 2014
Ms. Sherrie Yates Veal, age 57, of Sandersville, died Sunday, December 28, 2014. A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 30th at 2:00pm at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Brownwood Cemetery in Sandersville. Reverend Danny Thomas and Reverend Jim Dunn will officiate. Pallbearers will be Artie Yates, Horace Yates, Matt Daniels, Carrell...
Ben Lanthripp
Dec 25, 2014
Mr. Ben Lanthripp, age 72, of Sandersville, died Thursday, December 25, 2014 at his residence following an extended illness. A funeral service will be held on Sunday, December 28th, at 2:00 p.m. at the May and Smith Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Davisboro City Cemetery. The Reverend Larry Giles will officiate. Pallbearers will be Aaron Archer, Tom...
Samuel Gershon Goodrich
Dec 25, 2014
Samuel Gershon Goodrich, age 76, of Sandersville, died Thursday, December 25, 2014. His family will receive friends and celebrate his life on Sunday, December 28th from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the May and Smith Funeral Home in Sandersville. A family memorial service will be held at a later date. Sam was born to Minus and Evelyn Gershon...
Richard August Zaruba Iii
Dec 24, 2014
Richard August Zaruba, III passed away in his home surrounded by his loving family on December 24, 2014, after a courageous battle with brain cancer. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, December 29th at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Greensboro, conducted by Rev. Msgr. Anthony Marcaccio, followed by a reception. Family...
Stewart Roswell Helton
Dec 20, 2014
Mr. Stewart Roswell Helton, age 49, of Sandersville died on Saturday, December 20, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, December 24th, in the First Christian Church of Sandersville. The Reverend Doug Ivey will officiate. Burial will be private. Mr. Helton was the son of the late Dr. William Stacer Helton, Sr. and was preceded...
