Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
Nickey C. Taylor
Nickey Charles Taylor, 53, of Patterson, died early Monday morning, June 21, 2004, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Offerman.
He was born in Wayne County but had lived all of his life in Pierce County. He was preceded in death by his parents, Elisha and Iva Lee Crosby Taylor. He attended the local Baptist churches in the Pierce County area and was also a very avid supporter of the Pierce County Bears Athletic Teams.
Survivors include a sister Betty Johnson (husband Alvin), Patterson; two brothers, Bobby Taylor (wife Betty), Patterson and Billy Taylor (wife Janet), Blackshear and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, June 23) from the chapel of Smith Funeral Home.
iIntermentwill follow in the Mill Creek Cemetery.
Smith Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
Elizabeth Ann Gill Sloan Farr Geiger
Elizabeth Ann Gill Sloan Farr Geiger, 62, of Beaufort, SC, wife of Aaron M. “George” Geiger, USMC Retired, died Monday, June 21, 2004, at her residence.
She was born on June 9, 1942 in Blackshear. She is the daughter of the late Joseph M. Gill and Annie Maude Dixon Gill and was preceded in death by a son, Robert F. Sloan Jr. She was a member of the VFW and Eastern Star.
Surviving in addition to her husband of Beaufort are one son, Roy E. Sloan, Gitmo, Cuba; one daughter, Rebecca A. Donahue, St. Marys; one brother, Marvin J. Gill, Holly Hill, SC; one sister, Betty J. Norman, Fairburn; five grandchildren and several other relatives.
The family will receive friends this evening (Wednesday, June 23) from 6-8 p.m. at Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home.
Graveside funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, June 24, at the Shiloh Cemetery.
The family requests donations to be made to the Crohns and Colitis of America or American Cancer Society, PO Box 6113, Hilton Head, SC 29938.
Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home is in charge.
Roberta M. Jenkins
Roberta M. Jenkins, 83, of 106 Blue Bell Drive in Alma, and formerly of Blackshear, died late Sunday evening, June 6, 2004, at Bacon County Hospital in Alma.
She was born on March 4th, 1921 as the daughter of the late Forest and Ida Murray in McDuffie. She was educated in the public schools in McDuffie and later moved to Baxley, where she met and married
Albert Reynolds. To this union nine children were born. She was a member of the Greater Morris Baptist Church in Baxley where she served on the Usher Board. After the death of her husband, she worked diligently to raise her children. She later met and married
James Oliver Jenkins and to this union six additional children were born. After the death of her second husband, she continued working hard to raise her family. She later moved to Alma to be near other family members.
She moved her Christian membership to Greater St. James Baptist Church in Alma and attended regularly until her health declined.
She was preceded in death by her two husbands, Albert Reynolds and James OliverJenkins; four children, Willie Albert Reynolds, Gladys Louise Reynolds, Ella Mae Reynolds and Roy Clayton Murray Reynolds.
Survivors include six daughters, Pastor D.W. Smiley, Baxley, Ida Thelma ( Bud) Guyton, Alma, Sarah Jenkins, York, PA, Bertie (Alfonso) Allen, Blackshear, Clara Wingard, Waycross, and Gloria ( Felix Jacobs) Jenkins, Blackshear; five sons, James Edward Reynolds, Lake Wales, FL, Moses Lee Reynolds, Lakeland, FL, Roscoe Reynolds, Folkston, Sylvester Reynolds, Alma and Larry Jenkins, Calhoun; 56 grandchildren, 71 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and many, many friends.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 12 from the Greater St. James Baptist Church, 419 E. 7th Street, Alma.
iIntermentfollowed in the Morris-Still cemetery near Surrency.
Jacobs Funeral Home, 2640 Highway 84 W. in Blackshear, was in charge of arrangements.
Frieda Maude Lee Chancey
Frieda Maude Lee Chancey, 83, of Alma, passed away early Tuesday morning, June 1, 2004, at the Bacon County Hospital in Alma.
A native of Blackshear, she lived in Green Cove Springs, FL for 30 years before moving back to this area. She was a homemaker, and was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis Lawton Chancey; her parents, George and Maude Nixon Lee; one sister, Ruth Lee Smith and one brother, George Lee.
Survivors include her two sons, Lewis Lawton (wife Dot) Chancey Jr., Green Cove Springs and Ervin Marion Chancey of South Carolina; one sister, Jewel (husband Earl) Carter, Alma; two brothers, Noel Earl (wife Lawana) Lee, Jacksonville and Gary Malcolm (wife Tina) Lee, Brunswick; six grandchildren, Kenneth Chancey, Brian Chancey, Sean Chancey, Duane Chancey, Ervin Chancey Jr. and Rachel Beckham; 13 great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 3, from the Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home Chapel.
iIntermentfollowed in the Strickland Cemetery.
Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home of Blackshear was in charge of arrangements.
Sarah Maureen Tuten Carter
Sarah Maureene Tuten Carter, 89, of Bacon County, passed away late Thursday evening, June 3, 2004, at her residence.
A native of Pierce County, she had lived in the Pierce/Bacon County area all her life. She was a housewife and had also helped her late husband, Talmadge L. Carter, on the family farm. She was a member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church where she was in the Senior Adult Sunday School Class and the WMU. She remained very active in her church throughout her lifetime. She was a daughter of the late Thomas J. and Isabel Cason Tuten and was also preceded in death by a son, Wayne Carter; a granddaughter, Rhonda Carter; three sisters, Etta Stallings, Oda Morgan and Thelma Maclamore and her three brothers, Randall “R.D.” Raulerson, Seward Raulerson and Marvin Tuten.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Patsy and John Panfil, Carrollton; a son and daughter-in-law, Fred and Dianne Carter, Alma; a sister, Miriam Bowen, Tallahassee, FL; seven grandchildren, Jeff Carter, Cleve Carter, Becky Griffin, Barbara Lewis, Allen Schrews, Mark Schrews and Terry Schrews; 14 great-grandchildren; one great, great-grandchild and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 6, from the Shady Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Edmund Thrift and the Rev. Roger Taylor officiating.
iIntermentfollowed in the Shady Grove Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Hospice Satilla, 1921 Alice Street, Suite A-1, Waycross, GA 31501 or to the Shady Grove Baptist Church Building Fund, 2675 Highway 203, Alma, GA 31510.
Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home of Blackshear was in charge of arrangements.
Roland Lanier
Roland Lanier, 90, of 218 Grove Hill Avenue in Blackshear, died at 7:15 a.m. Sunday, June 6, 2004, at Sycamore Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Memphis, TN, after a short illness.
He was born in Metter, September 3, 1913, one of thirteen children of Math T. and Maggie Jones Lanier. Many of his ancestors were Confederate and Revolutionary war veterans.
He graduated from high school in Candler County. After a year at Berry College in Rome, his education cut short by the Great Depression, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1934, the start of a twenty-year career with the Marines. He served in the Marine Detachment of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) 1934-1936 and considered it the very best assignment he ever had. He served in the 4th Defense Battalion at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba until late 1941 when the unit was sent to relieve the Marine Corps Wake Island garrison in the Pacific. They never made it. Lanier and his unit were at Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked starting American involvement in World War II. A machine gunner, he fired some of the very first shots by Americans in World War II. Following an assignment with the 4th Defense Battalion on Palmyra Island in the Pacific, he served in various training assignments in the United States for the remainder of the war. He was also a veteran of the Korean War serving with the 3rd Marine Air Wing. He retired from the Marines at North Atlanta as a sergeant major.
After his retirement from the Marines, he became a barber and enjoyed the profession for over thirty years. He had also worked as a telegraph train order operator for a short time with Southern Railway in Kentucky. He loved fishing and was a regular sight at rivers, streams and bays in southern Georgia.
He was very proud of being a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. It is believed he was the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor in the state of Georgia and he celebrated his 90th birthday with a cake last year at the Association’s meeting in Tifton. He was proud to have been a Marine and enjoyed seeing Marines on television with the comment “They’re the best in the world” preceding any description.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Eunice Marie Boyer Lanier, in August 2000 with whom he enjoyed a 55-year marriage.
Survivors include his son, Alton “Butch” Lanier, Memphis, TN; four grandchildren, Forrest Lanier, Jackson, TN, Anna Marie Lanier, Knoxville, TN, and Brock Lanier and Glen Lanier both of Memphis; a sister, Bonnie Aldridge, Eufaula, AL, formerly of Blackshear, and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held at 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, June 9), from the Blackshear Presbyterian Church.
The family will receive friends at the church this evening from 6-8 p.m.
iIntermentwill follow at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 10, from the Rosemary cemetery near Metter. A memorial scholarship will be established in memory of Roland and Eunice Lanier, both of whom never had the opportunity to graduate from college but who valued and supported higher education.
Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
James Wesley Googe
James Wesley Googe, 59, of Mershon, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 29, 2004, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Savannah.
A native of Appling County, he had lived in this area for the past 30 years. He was a retired farmer and was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, Middleton and Nancy Brown Googe.
Survivors include his wife, Margie Ann Thornton Googe, Mershon; one daughter, Patricia (husband Jake) Smith, Waynesville; two sons, John Wesley Googe and William “Peter” Googe, Mershon; two sisters, Nathenia Beckham, Metter, and Agnes Googe, Reidsville; three brothers, Lester, (wife Florence) Googe, Blackshear, Herman (wife Lillie) Googe, Brunswick, and Earnest (wife Paulette) Allen, Blackshear; three grandchildren, James Hill and Clayton Hill, Waynesville, and Victoria Hand, Hortense; two special sons-in-law, Tommy Howell, Bristol and Willie “Bill” Hill, Hortense; one special daughter-in-law, Lisa Hand, Hortense and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, June 2) from the Lake Chapel Primitive Baptist Church.
iIntermentwill follow in the Lake Chapel Cemetery.
Pearson-Treadwell Funeral Home of Blackshear was in charge of arrangements.
Winnie Merita “Rita” Gray
Winnie Merita “Rita” Gray, 65, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 29, 2004, at her Jamestown home in the loving presence of her husband, Thomas Eugene Gray Sr., her children, grandchildren and other immediate family members. Her passing brought to an earthly close her courageous, physical battle with cancer.
The family has planned a celebration of her life at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, June 2) at Jamestown United Methodist Church with the church pastor, the Rev. Ron Burbank, assisted by Bro. Grady Crawford and the Rev. Johnny Summerall officiating.
Burial will follow in the Gray family plot at Oakland Cemetery.
Lovingly known as “Queen of Grayville, ” she was a longtime resident of Jamestown Community, moving there in January 1958, when she wed Mr. Gray Sr. at Central Baptist Church. She was born Winnie Merita “Rita” Carswell in Homerville, to Wynelle Lance Carswell and Roscoe N. Carswell. As a child, her family moved to Waycross where she was reared.
Through the years, she gained a Godly homemaker reputation as a “loving wife, mother and grandmother, ” and worked beside her railroad-employed husband all their married
years in tending pecan, tobacco and corn acreage at the Gray farm in Jamestown. A “lady farmer”, but city-born, she delighted in helping and watching corn, tomatoes and peas grow in the fields; only to be truly happy when she could call all her relatives and friends and say, “come and get it!” “Corn Day” became a special time in the Gray family household when friends and neighbors came together to pick, prepare and “put up the corn.” One who loved to cook for her family and friends, she baked her specialty, fruit cakes, froze vegetables for her freezers, canned tomatoes, only to give them away and loaded her family table with vegetables and meats - all in a giving spirit for which she was lovingly known. She lived a philosophy of “God first, family second and work, third.” She grew flowers, the colors brightening every corner of her yard.
The Gray home is a testimony of love and devotion to Mrs. Gray’s six grandchildren and other family members as framed pictures dot each area, bringing to one’s memory the many happy times she spent with them. Her life revolved around her family from the good, holiday times, to the working times, as she wore “many aprons” from homemaker to her husband’s bookkeeper in business. When her children or grandchildren “had a sports game, ” she was there! She was a 1957 graduate of Waycross High School and before her marriage Jan. 12, 1958, studied at Warren A. Candler School of Nursing in Savannah.
Her caring for others reached into the community as she focused her love not only on her own three children, but her children’s friends as well. Her love was shown in Okefenokee Alliance for Kids, the child abuse prevention chapter for Ware and Pierce Counties, for which she served as a volunteer and board member. She and her husband helped to make sure new bicycles and accessories went to Nick’s Pet Show winners at the annual Children’s Activity Day. She and her husband also attended together as members, meetings of Sons of the Confederacy, Clement A. Evans Camp No. 64. Retirement years for she and her husband meant “seeing some of the world’s beautiful sights, ” in traveling to Europe and other places of interest.
A longtime member of Jamestown United Methodist Church, she was a former Sunday School superintendent and sang in the church choir. At numerous other occasions, she gave her testimony for Christian living and love for life. She was known for her “constant” fashionable appearances from her coiffure to her dress.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Wynelle Lance Carswell, her mother and father-in-law, Phanita and Marvin E. Gray, grandparents, Winnie and M. W. Lance, and O’Vella Peagler Carswell and Allen N. Carswell and a brother-in-law, Henry McCoy Carter Sr. Her love of the land descends from the Carswells of Homerville, as well as the Grays of Jamestown, as an heir to the Carswell Family Trust includes pine tree farms in Clinch and Atkinson Counties.
Survivors include her husband of 46 years, Thomas Eugene Gray Sr., Jamestown; a daughter and son-in-law, Keena and Jerry Milligan, Moultrie; a daughter, Maurice Gray Barber, Jamestown and a son and daughter-in-law, Tommy and Donna Gray Jr., Jamestown; her father, Roscoe N. Carswell, Waycross; three sisters, Nickie C. Carter and Gloria C. James, both of the Hacklebarney Community and Wynn and John B. Plowden, Amelia Island, FL, and West Lake Village, CA; a brother and sister-in-law, Maurice and Judy Gray, Jamestown, a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Donna and Jeryl Tuten, Jacksonville, FL; six grandchildren, Lauren Milligan, Abraham Baldwin College, Tifton, Jenna Milligan, Moultrie, Jennifer Barber and Vernon Barber III, both of Jamestown and Jessica Leigh Gray and Kelsey Gray, both of Jamestown. Also surviving, attesting to her great love of animals, is her eight-year-old Siamese cat, “Sam.”
Memorials may be made to Hospice Satilla, 1921 Alice St., Suite 1-A, Waycross, GA 31501.
Music Funeral Home of Waycross was in charge of arrangements.
