Glennville, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Glennville, Tattnall County & Surrounding Areas
Tommie Fountain
Jan 28, 2017
Tommie Van Fountain, 66, passed away Saturday, January 28, 2017 at his residence surrounded by his family and under the care of Bethany Hospice. He was born February 3, 1950 to Tommie and Billie Branch Fountain. He was a U.S. Army veteran and owned and operated with his family an answering service in Fitchburg, Massachusetts before...
Melba Kicklighter
Jan 27, 2017
Melba Kicklighter, 98, passed away Friday, January 27, 2017 at Glenvue Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Glennville July 27, 1918 to Asberry and Retta Bacon Kicklighter and lived in Glennville all of her life. She was employed at Thain's 5 & 10 in Glennville for many years and a homemaker. She was a...
Inez Rigdon
Jan 22, 2017
Inez Brown Rigdon, 79, passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017 at Augusta University Hospital after a brief illness. She had lived in Portal the past sixteen years moving from Metter. She was of the Freewill Baptist faith, loved gardening, word puzzles, and keeping her yards neat and clean. Inez was preceded in death by her parents,...
Claudius Dixon
Jan 19, 2017
.Glennville Claudius "Dickey" Dixon, 81, passed away on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. The Tattnall County native was born November 8, 1935 to Miriam Kicklighter and Winton Jefferson Dixon and lived in Glennville all of his life. He was a member and deacon of Glennville First Baptist Church where...
Opal Purvis
Jan 19, 2017
Opal Cumi Rushing Purvis, 90, went home to the Lord on Thursday, January 19th, 2017 under the care of Hospice of Savannah and her C.N.A Monique Walker. Opal was born November 25th, 1926 to the late John Robert and Mattie Smith Rushing, the youngest child of five including her four brothers Mark, Roger, Robert and Garnet....
Sherry Edwards
Jan 18, 2017
Sherry Rahn Edwards, 68 passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at Ogeechee Area Hospice Inpatient Center. The Tattnall County native had live here most of her life. She was a homemaker, loving caring mother, sister and aunt. She was an avid supporter of Tattnall County Athletic Association and attended most all sporting events in Tattnall County....
Cary Tootle
Jan 18, 2017
Cary M. Tootle, 66, passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at his residence surrounded by his family and under the care of Serenity Hospice. Cary was born on February 28, 1950 to Cecil and Syble Durrence Tootle and lived in this area all of his life. He was a member and deacon of Oak Grove Baptist...
Jerrell Purvis
Jan 17, 2017
Jerrell B. Purvis, 78, passed away Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at his residence surrounded by his family and under the care of Ogeechee Area Hospice. He was born in Glennville, GA to LeRoy and Annie Mae Purvis living in Glennville all of his life. He was employed with the Glennville Police Department for many years and...
Brandon John
Jan 13, 2017
Brandon Leif John, 43, died Friday, January 13, 2017 at his residence. He was born in Germany and lived Hinesville for many years before moving to Glennville in 1996. He worked at Chemetall in Riceboro for many years and employed with the U.S. Postal service since 2010 as a rural mail carrier for the Glennville Post...
Linda Hammock
Jan 10, 2017
Linda Elizabeth Hammock, 68, passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at South Georgia Health System in Brunswick. The Evans County native was born September 18, 1948 to Otis Jack and Martha Kate Smith Hammock. She was a homemaker who loved caring for her children and grandchildren. She loved to make crafts, play solitaire, complete word searches,...
Rufus Dasher
Jan 2, 2017
Rufus "R. L." Dasher, 83 passed away Monday, January 2, 2017 at his residence under the care of Ogeechee Area Hospice. He was born January 1, 1934 to Carl and Dovie Dowdy Dasher and lived in this area all of his life. He was a member of Harmony United Methodist Church where he served as a...
Lucille Kersey
Dec 30, 2016
Lucille Kastinger kersey, 87 passed away Friday, December 30, 2016 under the care of Burleson St. Joseph Manor in Caldwell, Texas. she is preceded in death by her father, Henry Lee Lastinger, mother, Sarah Jane Patrick Lastinger: sister, Phronita Lastinger Halstead; brother, M.D. Lastinger; son, Kenneth Kersey and daughter-law, Linda Nelson Kersey. Survivors; son, Tommie L....
Kendra Pearce
Dec 28, 2016
Kendra Wilkins Pearce, 44, passed away Wednesday, December 28, 2016 in Columbus, GA . She was born November 6, 1972 to Earl and Ruth Johnson Wilkins and lived in Glennville and Columbus most of her life. She was employed in the catering and home health care industry. She is preceded in death by her parents. She...
Raymond Nobles
Dec 25, 2016
Raymond "Gus" Nobles, 83 passed away Sunday, December 25, 2016 at his residence surrounded by his family and under the care of Heartland Hospice. He was born in Ludowici, GA February 20, 1933 to Raymond E. and Minnie Baxter Nobles living here most of his life. He was a U.S. Navy Veteran and retired after 38...
Wanda Nelson
Dec 19, 2016
Wanda Margaret Miller Nelson, 90, passed away at her residence surrounded by her family and under the care of Hospice Compassus on December 19, 2016. She was born in Columbia South Carolina December 29, 1925 and lived in Savannah and Richmond Hill for many years. She was a homemaker, loving wife, mother and grandmother. Survivors include...
Lois Tootle
Dec 16, 2016
Lois Lynn Tootle, 96 passed away Friday, December 16, 2016 at Community Hospice inpatient center in Vidalia. The Tattnall County native had lived in Glennville and Toombs County all of her life. She was a homemaker and a member of Providence Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by her husband Lendon C. "L.C" Tootle and...
Charles White Sr.
Dec 15, 2016
Charles W. White Sr., 75, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2016 at Glenvue Health and Rehabilitation. He was born in Kentucky April 7, 1941 to Albert and Laura Napier White moving to Glennville from Florida in 1984. He served as a Military Policeman retiring after 20 years in the US Army serving in Korea, Vietnam, Germany...
Glenn Jones
Dec 9, 2016
Glenn E. Jones, 79, passed away Friday, December 9, 2016 at Ogeechee Area Hospice. He was the son of Arnie Lee Jones and Edna Mae Anderson Jones and lived in this area all of his life. He was a Navy veteran (Gunners Mate) in Suez Canal Conflict and a retired master carpenter from Carpenter and Millwrights...
Leeroy Purcell
Dec 9, 2016
Leeroy Purcell, 84, died Friday, December 9, 2016 at his residence surrounded by his family and under the care of Bethany Hospice. He was born in Glennville on September 8, 1932 to Enoch W. and Minnie Lee Barnard Purcell and lived here all of his life. He was a 1950 graduate of Glennville High School, a...
Tina Bazemore
Dec 8, 2016
Tina Bryant Bazemore, 46 passed away Thursday, December 8, 2016 at her residence. She was born November 2, 1970 to Jerry Lee and Janie McCullan Bryant. She was a homemaker, loving mother and friend. She is survived by, companion, Walden Bunch of Glennville Stepson, Robert G. Bazemore of Glennville Brother, William Harold Bryant Several cousins, nieces...