Jon Anthony Smith
Nov 5, 2022
Mr. Jon Anthony Smith, 66, of Blakely, Georgia, passed away Saturday, November 5, 2022 at his home. Mr. Smith was born on December 4, 1955 to the late Harold Johnson Smith and Murrell Greene Smith in Panama City, Florida. He attended Early County High School. He always had a love of guns and was called a gunsmith throughout his life....
Mary Hazel Sims
Nov 2, 2022
Mary Hazel Sims, 80, of Edison died Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at Miller County Nursing Home. Her celebration of life service will be held Friday November 4th at 11:00 est. at Enterprise Baptist Church in Edison GA. Brother Michael Douglas will officiate her service. (Casual Attire) Hazel was born in Blakely Ga to Lewis and Effie Ree Harrell and was...
Thomas "Tom" Alvin Jackson
Oct 28, 2022
Thomas Alvin Jackson, 72, of Edison died Friday, October 28, 2022 at his home. His family will receive friends from 4-6 PM, Sunday, October 30 at Manry-Jordan-Hodges Funeral Home in Blakely. His funeral service will be Monday, October 31 at 11:00 AM at Morgan Baptist Church in Morgan, Georgia with Brother Chris Holdorf officiating. Interment to follow at Salem Cemetery...
Linda Fay Gordon
Oct 28, 2022
Linda Fay Gordon, 74, passed away Friday morning, October 28, 2022, at Southeast Health in Dothan, AL. Visitation will be held on Sunday, October 30, 2022, at the First United Methodist Church of Blakely from 1:00 - 2:00 PM prior to the funeral service at 2:00 PM. Providing the eulogy is Minister Rick Thomas assisted by Rev. Tucker Lewis. Burial...
Gloria Ann Williams
Oct 27, 2022
Gloria “Ann” Williams, 73, of Dothan, Al. passed away Thursday October 27th, 2022, at her home. Ann was born in Muscogee County, Ga. January 7, 1949, to James “Jim” and Annie Gay McCann and spent her younger years in Blakely, Ga. before moving to Dothan with her husband Rodney, whom she was married to for 43 years before his passing....
Mary Rebecca "Becky King
Oct 26, 2022
Mary Rebecca “Becky” Tomlinson King, 78, of Biscoe, NC, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. The family will receive friends from 1-2:30 PM Saturday at Briggs-Candor Funeral Home and from 12:30 – 1:30 PM Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at Manry-Jordan-Hodges Funeral Home, 21802 Lucile Rd, Blakely GA. Graveside Services will be 2:00...
Thomas Huey Spelts Jr.
Oct 25, 2022
Thomas Huey Spelts, a resident of Bluffton, GA died Tuesday afternoon at the Southeast Medical Center. He was 80 years old. Funeral Services will be held at the Bluffton Baptist Church on November 1, 2022. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with services beginning immediately afterward. Burial will follow in the Bluffton Cemetery. Pastor Mike Williams will...
Mary Jane Warrick
Oct 21, 2022
Mary Jane Warrick, 77, passed away at Southeast Health October 21, 2022 after a lengthy illness. A graveside service will be held at Blakely Cemetery on Monday, October 24, 2022 at 11 a.m. with Dr. Alex Howell officiating. Mary Jane was born January 21, 1945 in Blakely, GA to the late Sam Owen, Sr and Mary Ellen Lisenby Owen. She...
Janis Barrentine Still
Oct 14, 2022
Janis Barrentine Still, 87, passed away on Friday, October 14, 2022 after a lengthy illness. She was a resident of Early Memorial Nursing Home in Blakely. Janis was born in Blakely on April 28, 1935 to Pete and Avadell Branch Barrentine. She was a graduate of Blakely Union High School and was office manager for Dr. James H. Crowdis for...
Billy Hays
Oct 14, 2022
Billy Hayes, age 91, of Toccoa, Georgia died Friday, October 14, 2022 at home with his family. Born in Early County, Georgia, on December 4, 1930, he was the son and only child of Dennis Wade Hayes and Sadie (Loyless) Hayes. During the Korean War he joined the U.S. Army where he became a clerk typist, an assignment that took...
Shelbie Jean Harrell
Sep 30, 2022
Shelbie Jean Jones Harrell, 78, of Blakely, GA passed away after a short battle with breast cancer on Friday, September 30, 2022 at her home surrounded by her family. Shelbie was born in Houston County, Alabama on September 4, 1944 to Olen Lamar Jones and Myrtle Adams Jones. She was a graduate of Cottonwood High School and Wallace Community College....
Edwin David Eaton
Sep 25, 2022
This obituary is posted as a courtesy from Southern Heritage Funeral Home Edwin David Eaton, a resident of Dothan, Alabama died unexpectedly, Sunday, September 25, 2022, at his home. He was 65. A Graveside Memorial Service will be held at 2PM EST, Friday, September 30, 2022, at Salem Baptist Church Cemetery in Edison, Georgia with Reverend Larry Sowell officiating and...
Amanda Lane Taylor
Sep 18, 2022
Amanda “Mandy” Lane Taylor of Snellville, GA passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2022, at the age of 41. Mandy was born November 26, 1980 in Moultrie, Georgia. Mandy resided in Arlington, Georgia in her early years before moving to various South Georgia locations as an adult. She is a graduate of the Early County High School Class of 1999....
Raymond James Perkins
Sep 9, 2022
This is a courtesy posting for Striffler-Hamby Mortuary - Columbus Raymond James Perkins of Blakely, GA passed away on Friday, September 9, 2022, at the age of 77 at Columbus Hospice in Columbus, GA. He was born at Fort Hood (Gatesville), TX on September 23, 1944 to the late James Elbert Perkins and Mary Exie Hortman Perkins. Ray resided in...
James Lafayette Clinkscales
Sep 3, 2022
James LaFayette Clinkscales passed away on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, at the age of 57 at Flowers Hospital due to complications from heart surgery. Jim was the youngest son of the late Samuel Jefferson Clinkscales and Jean Davis Clinkscales. Jim was a lifelong resident of Blakely, GA. He was born on November 17, 1964. Jim graduated from Southwest Georgia Academy...
Charles Douglas Coss
Aug 31, 2022
Charles Douglas "Buddy" Coss was born November 27, 1941 in Nashville, Tennessee to the late Charles A. and Mary Elizabeth (Baird) Coss. Buddy passed away August 31, 2022 at the age of 80 in his home in Edison, Georgia under hospice care. Buddy attended school in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from Central High School. He also attended Lipscomb University. Buddy...
Joyce Giles Corbitt
Aug 30, 2022
Joyce Giles Corbitt of Charlotte, NC passed away Tuesday August 30, 2022 there will be a graveside service 2pm Saturday September 3, 2022 at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery, Ft. Gaines ,GA
John Robert Moseley
Aug 27, 2022
John Robert Moseley, 71, of Blakely, died Wednesday, August 24, 2022, at his home on Hwy. 62. He was born in Blakely on October 11, 1950, son of the late Ben and Jewell Lane Moseley. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church. After graduating from high school, he married the late Stephanie Waller. He is survived by...
James "Jim" David George
Aug 20, 2022
James David George died after an extended illness on Saturday, August 20, 2022, at 82 years of age. He was born in Blakely, GA on May 31, 1940, to Lloyd Lamar and Jeanette Tarver George. Jim later attended Blakely Union High School. After graduation, he studied at The University of Georgia where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in...
Jessie Mable Mcgriff
Aug 18, 2022
Jessie Mable McGriff of Blakely, GA passed away on August, 18, 2022 at Southeast Health, Dothan, AL. Mable was born September 30, 1940 in Early County GA to the late J. D. Peterson and Eunice Peterson. She was a member of While Plains Freewill Baptist Church in Lucile, GA. Other than her parents she was preceded in death by one...
