Anna Pidcock Searcy

Services for Anna Pidcock Searcy of Thomasville are 11:00AM on Saturday, February 8, 2003, at First Baptist Church in Thomasville, GA., where she was a member. Rev. Dr. Milton C. Gardner, Rev. Dan Spencer and Rev. A. C. Gilliard will officiate with interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers are Floyd Harts''Field'' Searcy, III, Ashburn Pidcock Searcy, Jr., John Lake Roberts, III, Frank Ramsey Pidcock, IV, Fritz Buchanan Roberts, John Daniel Stokes, Daniel Z. Jacobs and Dan L Parker. Mrs. Searcy died February 5, 2003, at Archbold Memorial Hospital. Born Jan. 22, 1909, in Moultrie, Ga., she was the daughter of the late Frank Ramsey Pidcock, Sr., and Willie Warren Ashburn. She was married in Moultrie, GA., to the late Floyd Hartsfield Searcy, Sr. A 1929 graduate of Shorter College, she was named Alumna of the year in 1978 and for a number of years served on the Board of Trustees, receiving its award for outstanding service in 1984. As an organizer of Thomasville's School Interest Association, later the Parent-Teacher Association, she served as president of both orginazations and in other capacities from 1943-1960. She served on the Board of Directors of Thomasville YMCA for 9 years. She was a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as Chaplain, Vice-Regent and Regent of her chapter. She was a member of Briarcliff Garden Club and Pilot Club of Thomasville, and in 1984 received the Distinguished Service Award from the Thomas County Chamber of Commerce. A former member of First Baptist Church in Moultrie, GA, teaching Sunday School from age fourteen, she was an active member of First Baptist Church in Thomasville, serving as Sunday School Teacher and as Superintendent of Sunday School Extension Department for several years. She served as Director for Sunbeams, Mission Friends, Young Peoples Director, Royal Ambassador leader, Chairman of Missions Committee, Nominating committee, Pulpit committee, co-teacher of Adult Ladies Class, Bible Study Leader and Sunday School Extension Visitor. Active in Women's Missionary Union, she served as President of WMU and WMS for four years and as both District Secretary and Director of WMU for Thomas County. She was included in Who's Who of American Women 1972-1973 and was a member for more than thirty years of the Board of Directors of Citizens Bank of Cairo, Ga., serving as Vice-President, Chairman of the Board, and at the time of her death as Vice-Chairman of the Board. Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law, Floyd Hartsfield Searcy, Jr., and Gloria Robinson Searcy, of Cairo, GA.; Dr. Ashburn Pidcock Searcy and Nancy Ford Searcy of Kennesaw, GA.; and Maj. Gen. William Nelson Searcy and Camille Heery Searcy of Savannah, GA.; grandchildren, Floyd Hartsfield Searcy, III, Marian Searcy Jacobs, Kendall Searcy Parker, Desire' Searcy Stokes, Heather Searcy, Shelly Searcy, Ann-Maxwell Searcy, Ashburn Pidcock Searcy, Jr., and Amelia Ashburn Searcy; one great grandchild, Michael James Maloy; sister, Mildred Pidcock Cross; sister-in-law, Emily Barclay Searcy, both of Thomasville. She was preceded in death by sons, William Harris Searcy and John Frank Searcy; grandchild, John Frank Searcy, Jr., great grandchild, John Voyick Searcy, brothers, Frank Ramsey Pidcock, Jr., and John Faulks Pidcock. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 2790, Thomasville, GA. 31799. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8PM on Friday. Visitors may sign the online guest register at www.allenfh.com .
ALLEN & ALLEN FUNERAL HOME