Obituaries
Albany Area

James Parr

ALBANY — Mr. James (J.D.) Parr, 78 of 200 Leslie Hwy in Leesburg, GA died July 7, 2008 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

The family will receive friends at Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors Thursday from 6 PM until 8 PM.

A native of Arlington, GA, and former resident of Albany for 22 years. Mr. Parr has lived in Lee County for a year and a half. Mr. Parr was of the Baptist faith and was retired from Layne Atlantic Drilling Co. with 30 years of service. Mr. Parr will always be remembered as a man who loved and enjoyed life to its fullest, and a man who truly adored and loved his wife, children and grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Juanita Parr of Leesburg, GA, daughter, Jamie Parr and her husband Jeramie Keller of Leesburg, GA, son, Wayne Clark and his wife Christine Booth of Fayetteville, NC, grandchildren, Courtney, Nick, Dylan, and Zack Clark, Cameron Banghart and Cole Keller, brothers, Barnett Parr of Albany, Ray Parr of Hudson, FL and James Parr of Atlanta, sister, Shirley Hammock of Greensboro, NC and a number of nieces and nephews.

You may sign the online guestbook and share your own special thoughts and memories with the family of Mr. Parr by visiting Kimbrell-Stern’s website at www.kimbrellstern.com.

Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Dirrctors
Albany 229/883-4152

Tony Shipman

ALBANY — Mr. Tony Shipman, 36, of Albany, died on Sunday, July 6, 2008, at Doctors Hospital, Augusta, GA. Funeral service will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment will be at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, in Lee County, GA. Rev. Calvin Rollins will officiate.

Mr. Shipman was born on September, 1, 1971, in Fayetteville , NC Extraneous end command He was a plummer, withSizemore Plumbing Company. He was of Baptist Faith

Survivors include Fiancee, Ms. Twila Kay Pittman of Albany, his mother, Mrs. Essie Ingram Smith of Madison, TN,; three sisters, Mary Hutchinson of Laverne, TN, Vera Hunt of Nashville, TN, and Patricia McClendon of Fayetteville, NC; three brothers, Roosevelt Smith and Robert Smith both of Madison, TN and William Shipman, Fayetteville, NC; two step children, Cristina Babcock and Timothey Babcok of Albany.

The family of Mr. Shipman will receive friends and relatives at the home of his anut, Mrs. Betty James of 1506 5th Ave., here in ALbany.

Meadows Funeral Home
Albany 229/439-2262

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