Glennville, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Glennville, Tattnall County & Surrounding Areas
Don Cobb
Oct 9, 2015
Don P. Cobb, 76, died Friday, October 9, 2015. A native of Tattnall County, he was a co-owner of Tattnall County Broadcasting, Company, Glennville's first radio stations WKIG/WKIG-FM, and Cobb Funeral Home, retiring in 2006. He served Tattnall County as Tax Commissioner for 24 years and as a member of the Board of Elections. He was...
Jimmy Howard
Oct 8, 2015
Jimmy Wallace Howard, Sr, 68, passed away Thursday, October 8, 2015 at his residence after an extended illness. He was born January 16, 1947 to Hughland Q. Howard, Sr. and Frankie Overstreet Howard. Jimmy and Vivian Elaine Iddins were married on June 18, 1966 by Ordinary, W.H. Bazemore. He was a US Army Veteran serving in...
Mary Famiano
Oct 7, 2015
Mary Lee Barrow Famiano, 77, passed away Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at Memorial Health University Medical Center. She was born March 3, 1938 in Glennville, Georgia to Remer and Mary Flowers Barrow. She lived in Florida for many years before moving back to Glennville. She was a homemaker and a loving and caring sister and friend....
Peggy Nobles
Sep 30, 2015
Peggy DeLoach Nobles passed away on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 after a brief illness. Mrs. Nobles was born in Tattnall County, Georgia on September 24, 1936, to Henry William DeLoach and Navada Todd DeLoach. She was raised on a farm in Tattnall County and graduated from Glennville High School in 1954. Mrs. Nobles was also a...
Montez Todd
Sep 27, 2015
Montez Stubbs Todd, 93, died Sunday, September 27, 2015 at Glenvue Health and Rehab Center. The Glennville native had lived in this area all of her life. She was born May 27, 1922 to Luther and Samantha Bradley Stubbs. She was a homemaker and was employed with several garment factories, various grocery stores in Glennville, Hughes...
Lenward Weaver
Sep 27, 2015
Lenward Franklin Weaver, 68, died September 27, 2015 at Community Hospice Center in Vidalia. He was born in Mississippi on October 10, 1946 and lived in Glennville and Florida for many years. He retired after 20 years of service from the U.S. Army as a Staff Sergeant at Fort Stewart, Georgia, having served in the Vietnam...
Aletha Brown
Sep 25, 2015
Aletha Oglesbee Brown, 74, passed away Friday, September 25, 2015 at St. Josephs Candler Hospital. She was born April 26, 1941 to Charles and Marie Harrelson Oglesbee. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church and had lived in this area all of her life. She was a homemaker and a hardworker. She loved to...
Bobby Lynn
Sep 25, 2015
Bobby Lynn, 59, passed away Friday, September 25, 2015 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born February 3, 1956 to Dennis and Mildred Wilkes Lynn. The Lyons native had lived in this area most of his life and was a 1974 graduate of Robert Toombs Christian Academy. He was an avid outdoorsmen who...
Jesse Durrence
Sep 21, 2015
Jesse James Durrence, 84, died peacefully at Ogeechee Area Hospice on Monday, September 21, 2015. He was the son of William F. Durrence and Viola James Durrence. For twenty-eight years, Jesse was an educator who served in Tattnall, Washington, and DeKalb counties as an elementary school principal. During his tenure, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy...
Virginia Griffin
Sep 15, 2015
Virginia Ann Griffin, 82, of Glennville, Georgia died on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. She was born in Long County, Georgia on August 29, 1933 to Cecil and Mana Howard Brown and was a graduate of Ludowici High School. She married Eugene Griffin on June 25, 1965, and together, they made the Glennville community their home. Having...
Ruth O'Donnell
Sep 14, 2015
Ruth Adkins O'Donnell, 87, passed away peacefully at her home in Mendes, Georgia on September 14, 2015. She was born in Grayson, Kentucky on April 8, 1928 to Cecil and Ethel Adkins. She moved to this area with her husband in 1947. Her pride in life was being a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and homemaker....
Mary Mccullough
Sep 13, 2015
Mary Lois McCullough Savannah/Reidsville- Mrs. Mary Lois McCullough 90, died early Sunday morning at Azalea Land Nursing Home in Savannah. The Tattnall County native lived in Savannah for the last 2 years having lived in Tattnall County most of her life. She attended Cedar Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Collins, Georgia for many years; and enjoyed...
Richard Ballard
Sep 10, 2015
Metter- Mr. Richard Ballard 77, of Metter died Thursday afternoon at Candler County Hospital. He has resided in Metter the last few years. A Memorial Service, and burial will take place in Thomson, Georgia at a later date. Kennedy-Brannen Funeral Homes Metter Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Kennedy-Brannen Funeral Homes Metter Chapel "A Life...
Vivian Cartwright
Sep 10, 2015
Vivian Lee Greene Cartwright Orange Park, Florida/Metter, Georgia- Mrs. Vivian Lee Greene Cartwright 63, of Orange Park, Florida died Thursday afternoon at University of Florida Health Center in Jacksonville, Florida. She was a native of Metter, Georgia having moved to Orange Park, Florida from Roswell, Georgia in 2008. After graduating from Metter High School in 1970;...
Kennon Tatum
Sep 1, 2015
Kennon Tatum, age 78, passed away peacefully at Community Hospice of Vidalia on September 1, 2015, surrounded by his family. The only child of DeWitt and Eletha Jones Tatum, he was born on August 6, 1937, in Tattnall County. After graduating from Glennville High School in 1956, he returned to the family farm, establishing the roots...
Vera Putnam
Aug 30, 2015
Vera Brown Putnam, 90, passed away Sunday, August 30, 2015 at Glenvue Health and Rehab. She was born in Glennville May 10, 1925 to Jimmy and Alma Brown. She lived in Miami, Florida for many years moving back to Glennville in 1962. She and her family operated the Pat Theater in Glennville and Stewart Drive-In Theater...
Walter Boatright
Aug 29, 2015
Walter D. Boatright 90, passed away Saturday, August 29, 2015 at Ogeechee Area Hospice Inpatient Center in Statesboro. He was born March 9, 1925 in the Oliff Town Community, near Metter, Georgia to Benjamin Floyd and Sarah Annie Daughtry Boatright. He served in the U S Army in World War II and The Korean Conflict and...
Henry Mock
Aug 27, 2015
Sgt First Class (Ret) Henry A. Mock, 72, passed away Thursday, August 27, 2015 at Ogeechee Area Hospice inpatient center. He was born February 18, 1943 to H. Grady and Ora Belle Odom Mock in Long County, GA and lived most of his life in Tattnall County. He was a U.S Army Veteran, retiring from Georgia...
Darvin Purcell
Aug 21, 2015
Mr. Darvin N. Purcell 87 passed away Friday, August 21, 2015 at Ogeechee Area Hospice Inpatient Center in Statesboro. He was born in Glennville, Georgia March 9, 1928 to Layton E. and Jettie Dent Purcell and lived here all of his life. He was a U.S. Army Veteran and retired from the Georgia Shipyards as a...
Gladys Durrence
Aug 10, 2015
Gladys Dowdy Durrence, 90, of Glennville, Georgia died on Monday, August 10, 2015 at Roper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. She was the daughter of the late David Dewey Dowdy and Annie Ruie Tootle and Willie Rufus Thompson. Her survivors include: one son, Dr. Hugh Dowdy Durrence (Ellen) of Charleston, South Carolina; her grandchildren: Marty and...
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