Obituary Listing

Obituaries

Edna Pond Adams

Edna Pond Adams

May 11, 2016

Services for Edna Catherine Pond Adams, 101 of Thomasville will be held at 5 p.m., Saturday, May 14, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Chaplain Danny Ray will officiate. Mrs. Adams passed away May 11 at her residence. Born April 22, 1915 in Rochester, New York, she was the daughter of the late Charlie and Alice Hyde Pond....

Esther Nesmith Pilkinton

Esther Nesmith Pilkinton

May 11, 2016

Mrs. Esther Mozelle NeSmith Pilkinton passed away May 11, 2016 at Camellia Gardens in Thomasville. Mrs. Pilkinton was born April 2, 1915 and was a lifelong resident of Coolidge and a member of Big Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband Curtis Pilkinton, son Jerry Pilkinton and grandson, Jay Pilkinton. She is survived by daughter, Faye...

Dorothy Galimore Ennis

Dorothy Galimore Ennis

May 10, 2016

Services for Dorothy Louise Galimore Ennis, 83, of Thomasville will be held at 11AM, Friday, May 13 at First Baptist Church Chapel. Rev. Marty Carnes and Rev. Dr. Tom Jacobs will officiate. Mrs. Ennis passed away May 10, 2016 at Camellia Gardens. She was born April 3, 1933 in Brantley, Alabama. She was the daughter of the late John Henry...

Mary Inez Smith

Mary Inez Smith

May 10, 2016

Funeral services for Mary Inez Smith, 79 of Whittier, North Carolina, formally of Thomasville will be held at 2PM, Saturday, May 14, 2016 at East Side Baptist Church. Rev. J. Tim Robson and Dr. Ed Kilgore to officiate and interment will follow at Roselawn Cemetery. Mrs. Smith went home to be with the Lord on May 10, 2016 in Sylva,...

Eunice Hartley Majors Turner

Eunice Hartley Majors Turner

May 3, 2016

Funeral service for Eunice Hartley Majors Turner, 89, of Ochlocknee will be 11:00AM, Friday, May 6, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Pastor Billy Majors will officiate and interment will be at Ochlocknee City Cemetery. Mrs. Turner passed away on May 3, 2016 at Archbold Memorial Hospital. Born December 10, 1926 in Metcalfe, she was the daughter of...

Eileen Scott Griner

Eileen Scott Griner

May 2, 2016

Services for Eileen Yvonne Scott Griner, 67 of Metcalfe will be held at 11AM, Thursday, May 5, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Charles Neely will officiate and interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Griner passed away May 2 at her residence, after a brief illness. Born March 5, 1949 in Daytona, Florida, she was...

Hattie Weeks Mills

Hattie Weeks Mills

May 2, 2016

Services for Hattie Weeks Mills (Grandma Toog), 94 of Ochlocknee will be held at 11AM, Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at Barnetts Creek Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Ochlocknee City Cemetery. Born October 11, 1921 in Thomas County, she was the daughter of the late Admiral Dewey G. Weeks and Odie Edwina Alligood Weeks. She was first married to Jack...

Ralph Strickland

Ralph Strickland

May 1, 2016

Services for Ralph Strickland, 87 of Thomasville will be held at 2PM, Thursday, May 5, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Dr. Don Prevatt will officiate and interment will follow at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Mr. Strickland passed away May 1 at Archbold Hospital. Born November 17, 1928 in Climax, Georgia, he was the son of the late...

Jessie Sellers, Jr

Jessie Sellers, Jr

May 1, 2016

Funeral services for Jessie Sellers, Jr, 77, of Ft. Gaines, Georgia, will be 4:00PM, Thursday, May 5, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Pastor Mack Beck with officiate and interment will be at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Mr. Sellers passed away May 1, 2016. Born July 25, 1938 in Cairo, he was the son of the late Jessie Sellers,...

John A. Taylor

John A. Taylor

May 1, 2016

John A. Taylor, age 72, of West Palm Beach, Florida entered into eternal life on Sunday, May 1, 2016. John was an area resident since 1972, having come from Bradenton, Florida. He was a licensed funeral director and embalmer and a 1965 graduate of the Indiana College of Mortuary Science, Indianapolis, Indiana. He was employed at Griffith-Cline Funeral Home in...

Michael Kreis

Michael Kreis

Apr 27, 2016

Michael Kreis passed away on April 27, 2016 at Archbold Memorial Hospital. Survivor is son Sean Kreis of Pensacola, Florida.

Billie Matilda Schneebeli

Billie Matilda Schneebeli

Apr 25, 2016

Billie Matilda Schneebeli was born July 11, 1921 in Belzoni, MS to parents Winifred McLain Bradley and Fred Bradley Sr. She is the last surviving member of her immediate family and was predeceased by her parents, her sisters – Norma Bradley Murphy and Winifred Bradley Tuck and a brother, Fred Bradley Jr She grew up in Thomasville and attended Thomas...

Patricia Chastain Reger

Patricia Chastain Reger

Apr 23, 2016

Funeral services for Patricia Bell Chastain Reger, 55 of Sylvester, Georgia will be held at 2pm, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Greg Player will officiate and burial will follow at Ochlocknee City Cemetery. Pallbearers are Taylor Kirkland, Danny Carter, Russell Anderson, Alan Owens, Steve Holley and Buddy Weeks and honorary are Clay Chastain,...

Mariella Wilcox Anderson

Mariella Wilcox Anderson

Apr 23, 2016

Funeral services for Mariella (Mary) W. Anderson, 88, of Thomasville will be 3:00PM, Friday, April 29, 2016 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Greg Souders will officiate and interment will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Anderson passed away peacefully at her home on April 23, 2016. She was born June 26, 1927 in Hazlehurst, Georgia. Mariella (Mary)...

Kelly Mitchell Stringer

Kelly Mitchell Stringer

Apr 21, 2016

Funeral services for Kelly Mitchell Stringer, 49 of Thomasville will be held at 2 pm, Sunday, April 24, 2016 at Dawson Street Baptist Church. Rev. Lee Waller and Rev. David Cook will officiate and interment will follow at Springhill Methodist Church. Mrs. Stringer won her battle with Osteosarcoma when she went to be with the Lord April 21, 2016 at...

Walter Lasch

Walter Lasch

Apr 20, 2016

Walter Lasch, 67, of Whigham passed away Wednesday April 20, 2016 at Grady General Hospital. Survivor includes his sister Frederica Goodlow.

Ross A. Garrison

Ross A. Garrison

Apr 18, 2016

Funeral services for Dr. Ross A (Pop) Garrison of Thomasville GA (formerly Greenwood SC) will be held 11:00AM, Thursday, April 21, 2016 at First United Methodist Church. Rev. Jim Smith will officiate. Interment will be at Oakbrook Memorial Park in Greenwood, South Carolina on Sunday, April 24, 2016. Ross passed away Monday, April 18, 2016 at his residence. He was...

Claude Julian Lindsey, Jr

Claude Julian Lindsey, Jr

Apr 18, 2016

Services for Claude Julian Lindsey, Jr, 55 of Thomasville will be held at 11AM, Friday, April 22 at Allen & Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Jeff Willis and Rev. Greg Souders will officiate and interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mr. Lindsey passed away April 18, 2016 at his residence. Born September 22, 1960 in Mount Clemens, Michigan, he was...

Marlene Brantley Patterson

Marlene Brantley Patterson

Apr 16, 2016

Marlene Brantley Patterson died April 16, 2016. She was born on November 23, 1932, in Jackson, Mississippi, to the Rev. and Mrs. Luther Taylor Brantley, Sr. Graduated from Millsaps College with a degree in education, Marlene was a gifted musician, a pianist and soloist, whose voice was in always demand for church services and weddings. She was married to the...

Ruth Smith Mitchell

Ruth Smith Mitchell

Apr 13, 2016

Ruth (Fairbanks) Smith Mitchell went home to be with the Lord 13 April, 2016, in Jacksonville, FL. She was born September 28, 1921, in Louisa, Virginia, the only daughter of Herbert Smith, MD, and Ruth Clay Smith, RN, of Calvary, GA. Ruth Mitchell grew up in Calvary, GA, and attended Attapulgus High School and later Cairo High School, where, at...