Obituary Listing
Local Obituaries for Laurens and Johnson Counties
Bruce William Hoyer
May 9, 2022
Mr. Bruce William Hoyer, age 74, passed away Monday, May 9, 2022, at Serenity Place. Mr. Hoyer was born August 8, 1947, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was the son of the late William and Janice Smith Hoyer. He was retired as the Chief of Volunteer Services for the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center. He was a co-owner of Shamrock...
Frances Jackson Gornto
May 7, 2022
Frances Jackson Gornto was born on August 25, 1942 in Treutlen County, Georgia. She graduated from Baldwin County High School, and married her husband George H. Gornto on December 22, 1962. Service will be held Tuesday, May 10th, 2:00 p.m. graveside at Minter Baptist Church Cemetery on Bush Road. Frances is preceded in passing by her parents John B. Jackson...
Gwendolyn Rowland Miller
May 6, 2022
Graveside services for Gwendolyn Rowland Miller, age 82, will be held at 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Westview Cemetery. Rev. Jim Duggan will officiate. Mrs. Miller was born May 28, 1939, in Wrightsville, Georgia. She was a member of the Wrightsville Nazarene Church and worked as a textile worker for many years. She was preceded in death by...
Robert "Bob" Wayne Tilley
May 4, 2022
Memorial services for Robert "Bob" Wayne Tilley, age 77 will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, May 7, 2022, in the Chan Stanley Memorial Chapel of Stanley Funeral Home and Crematory. Mr. Thurmon Foskey will officiate. Mr. Tilley was born March 14, 1945, in Ontario, Oregon. He was the son of the late Verl Clarence and Barbara Garnet LaRue Tilley....
William David Clay
May 4, 2022
Memorial services for William David Clay, age 77 will be held at 3:00 Saturday, May 14, 2022, in the Chan Stanley Memorial Chapel of Stanley Funeral Home and Crematory. Rev. Gene Hemingway will officiate. Mr. Clay was born July 8, 1944, in Dublin, Georgia. He was the son of the late George E. and Louise Curl Clay. He was also...
Wesley Franklin Runyon
Apr 29, 2022
Graveside funeral Services for Wesley Franklin "Frankie" Runyon, age 77 will be held at 10:00AM Monday, May 2, 2022 at Bethsaida Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. David Oliver will officiate. Eulogy will be given by Shane Preston. Mr. Runyon was born February 27, 1945 in Rome, Georgia. He was the son of the late Benjamin Franklin Runyon and Carolyn Wilkes Hembre....
Scottie Douglas Dale
Apr 27, 2022
Scottie Douglas Dale, age 67, passed away on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at Dublinair Nursing Home. Mr. Dale was born August 18, 1954, in Wise, Virginia. He was a self-employed flooring installer for many years. He was preceded in death by his parents Doug Dale and Marie Birchfield. He is survived by his wife Linda Dale, two sons, Doug and...
J. Roy Rowland, Jr., Md
Apr 25, 2022
Funeral services for James Roy Rowland, Jr., MD, age 96, will be held at 2:00 P.M. Friday, April 29, 2022, at Pine Forest United Methodist Church with interment to follow in Westview Cemetery in Wrightsville. Rev. Wes Moye and Dr. Joel Dent will officiate. Funeral services will be livestreamed at 2:00 P.M. at https://my.gather.app/remember/james-roy-rowland-m-d-2022 Dr. Rowland was born February 3,...
Rayford J. Hester
Apr 24, 2022
Funeral services for Rayford J. Hester, age 87, will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, April 28, 2022, at Poplar Springs North Baptist Church with burial with military honors to follow in the church cemetery. Rev. Robert Rogers will officiate. Mr. Hester was born January 3, 1935, in Soperton, Georgia. He was the son of the late Dewey and Gertrude...
Wanda Powell Kyzer
Apr 24, 2022
Funeral service for Wanda Powell Kyzer, age 79, will be held at 4:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 27, 2022 in the Richard N. Stanley Jr. Memorial Chapel of Stanley Funeral Home with burial to follow in Westview cemetery. Dr. Tom Akins will officiate. Mrs. Kyzer was born April 10, 1943 in Wrightsville, Georgia. She lived in Macon for 60 years and...
Jack Coleman Mulkey
Apr 22, 2022
Funeral services for Jack Coleman Mulkey, age 87, will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, April 25, 2022, in the Chan Stanley Memorial Chapel of Stanley Funeral Home and Crematory with Rev. Hugh Spivey officiating. A private burial will follow in Northview Cemetery. Mr. Mulkey was born December 14, 1934, in Toccoa, Georgia. He retired as plant manager from Bassett...
George Lewis Nowell
Apr 22, 2022
George Lewis Nowell passed to his heavenly home on Friday, April 22, 2022 at the age of 86. Born in Atlanta on March 28, 1936 to George and Ruth Nowell, Lewis grew up in Dublin and received a BS from Mercer University. Lewis had a diverse career and devoted his full and talented life as a faithful servant to Jesus...
Sandra Brantley Carter
Apr 21, 2022
Funeral services for Sandra Brantley Carter, age 74 will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, April 23, 2022, in the Richard N. Stanley, Jr. Memorial Chapel, with interment to follow at Westview Cemetery. Rev. Hugh Baxter and Rev. Kenny Rowland will officiate. Mrs. Carter was born December 16, 1947, in Sandersville, Georgia. She was the daughter of the late Harris...
Marvin Luther Thompson
Apr 18, 2022
Funeral services for Marvin Luther Thompson, age 88, will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, April 21, 2022 at Mt. Olive Church of the Nazarene with Rev. Jimmy Wright and Rev. L. T. Logue officiating with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Thompson was born on November 7, 1933 in Adrian, Georgia. He was the son of the...
Wade Riley Smith
Apr 17, 2022
Wade Riley Smith, age 95, past away peacefully at home on April 17, 2022 surrounded by his family. Wade was born December 4,1926 in the Donovan community of Johnson County. He joined Beulah Baptist Church at an early age and in later years served as a deacon and song leader. He was a charter founder of Hillcrest Baptist Church in...
Laurie Ann Duffield Kent
Apr 15, 2022
Laurie Ann Duffield Kent, "Sweetpea," (59) She was preceded in death by her late son Anthony John Wainio Giles, both parents, father Clinton Gerald Duffield "Jack" and mother Marilyn Jean Reigle Duffield "Bones". Laurie was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in Cumberland County on October 6, 1962 at 12:05 P.M. Laurie grew up in Anna Maria Island, Florida until the...
Jurl Lamar "Buddy" Conner
Apr 14, 2022
Funeral services for Jurl Lamar "Buddy" Conner, age 72, will be 11:00 A.M. Monday, April 18, 2022, in the Chan Stanley Memorial Chapel of Stanley Funeral Home and Crematory with Rev. Curtis Sumner officiating. Burial will be in the Double JJ Cemetery in Woodbine, Georgia. Mr. Conner was born May 4, 1949, in Uvalda, Georgia. He was the son of...
Barbara Allen Jackson
Apr 14, 2022
Graveside funeral services for Barbara Allen Jackson, age 73 will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, April 18, 2022, at Orphans Cemetery in Eastman, Georgia. Mrs. Jackson was born April 20, 1948, in Eastman, Georgia. She was the daughter of the late James Morgan and Bessie Frances Barlow Allen. She was also preceded in death by a stepson, Derek Jackson....
Marilyn Carter Webb
Apr 14, 2022
Marilyn Carter Webb, age 97, of Dublin, Georgia passed away peacefully on April 14, 2022 at Dublinair Health & Rehab Center. Marilyn Webb was born in Johnson County, Georgia on March 10, 1925 to the late Wallace Carter and Birdie McCumber Carter. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son Brent Webb of Atlanta and...
Mitchell Ray Gibbs
Apr 14, 2022
Mitchell Ray Gibbs was born on September 14, 1952 in Ocilla, GA of the late John Peterson Gibbs and the late Ethell Aultman Gibbs and entered eternal glory on April 14, 2022. He grew up in Gordon, GA and graduated from Wilkinson County High School in 1970 and attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Ray worked in the lab at Freeport...
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