Obituaries
Albany Area
Irene Sawyer Bridges
ALBANY — Irene Sawyer Bridges, 95, of Brinson, GA, passed away Monday, July
14, 2008 at her residence.
The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, July 17, 2008 at Brinson
Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Brinson Cemetery.
The family will receive friends immediately following the funeral service at
Brinson Baptist Church. Online visitors may sign the guest register at
www.iveyfuneral.com.
Ivey Funeral Home
Bainbridge 229/246-3232
Evelyn Geneva Arnold
ALBANY — Evelyn Geneva Arnold, 86, of Sylvester passed away on Monday, July
14, 2008 in Sylvester.
Graveside funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 PM, Thursday, July 17,
2008, at the graveside of Crown Hill Cemetery. Reverend Walter Ross will
officiate and Mrs. Arnold’s nine grandsons will serve as active pallbearers.
Born March 10, 1922, in Sylvester, Mrs. Arnold was the daughter of the late
Levi and Florine Davis Shiver. She was of the Baptist Faith and will be
remembered as a loving mother, grandmother, and friend.
She was preceded in death by two sons-in-law Dale Townsend and Howell Crosby
and two special uncles and aunts, Kansas and Jodi Davis and Clyde and Mary
Shiver.
Survivors include her three daughters and one son-in-law, Shirley Crosby of
Sylvester, Janice Morgan and her husband Joel and Delaine Townsend all of
Albany; 9 grandsons, 24 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 6 PM until 8 PM (today) Wednesday, July
16, 2008 at Hall & Hall Funeral Home.
Hall & Hall Funeral Home
Albany 229/ 883-3864
Jocelyn Reddick
ALBANY — Jocelyn Reddick, 34 of 3302 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr., died on
Monday, July 14, 2008 at Palmyra Medical Center. Funeral service will be
announced. The family will receive friends at the home of her mother Joyce
Reddick at 3302 MLK Jr. Dr.
J.L. Litman Memorial
Funeral Home
Albany 229/430-8800
James Kenneth Thomas Jr.
ALBANY — Mr. James Kenneth (Ken) Thomas Jr. 54, of Albany died Monday July
14, 2008 in Albany.
His funeral service will be held Thursday July 17, 2008 at Kimbrell-Stern.
Blue Jean clothing welcome. Interment will follow at Floral Memory Gardens.
A native of Albany, he lived in Albany all of his life. He was a Tool
Warehouse Foreman for Daniel’s Construction Co. He was lead singer of the
Boot Hill Express Band and was also the drummer for Black Oak Arkansas Band.
Survivors include his wife Charlotte Arrington Thomas of Albany; one brother
Karl Thomas and his wife Patti of Hayesville, NC; two sisters Kimberly Thomas
of FL; Laketta Ambercrombie of Fitzgerald, GA; Nieces and Nephews Jimmy Mac
Gray, Kensi Karlise Thomas, Ryan Thomas and Skylar Thomas.
The family will receive friends Wednesday from 6:00 to 8:00PM at
Kimbrell-Stern.
You may sign the online guestbook and share your own memories with the
family of Mr. Thomas by visiting Kimbrell-Stern’s website at
www.kimbrellstern.com.
Kimbrell-Stern
Albany 229/883-4152
James Lloyd Warmack
ALBANY — James ( Jamie) Lloyd Warmack, 24, of Lafayette, LA formerly of
Thomasville, GA died on Saturday, July 12, 2008 in a swimming accident in
Kinder, LA. A Celebration of Life ceremony will be held at 10:00 am Thursday,
July 17, 2008 at Mathews Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Dr. James R. Bullion
will officiate.
A native of Thomasville, GA, Jamie served in the US Navy after graduating
from Thomasville High School in 2001. He has lived in Lafayette for the last
six years where he was a machinist and Disc Jockey. Jamie touched many people
through his love of music and his kind spirit. He lived life everyday and
always had a smile on his face. He will be missed by his friends and his
family, but he impacted so many people through his love that his spirit will
live on. Music was his life and soul and is what he lived for every day.
Survivors include his mother, Lisa and stepfather Dale Schexnayder of
Leesburg, GA. His father, Alan and stepmother Debra Warmack of Raleigh, NC,
sister, Megan Warmack and friend Keri Scott of Albany, GA, brother Matthew
Beal of Leesburg, GA, and girlfriend Amber Boustany of Lafayette, LA; maternal
grandparents Jim and Mary Nicholson of Leesburg, GA, paternal grandparents
Lloyd and Helena Warmack of Thomasville, GA; uncle & aunt Larry and Joyce
Nicholson of Marianna, FL, aunt and uncle Cathy and Steve Stocks of Leesburg,
GA, uncle Jim Nicholson of Rock Hill, SC, uncle & aunt Tracy and Karen Warmack
of Thomasville, GA, uncle and aunt Shawn and Judy Warmack of Thomasville, GA;
31 cousins. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandmother, Wanda
Warmack of Thomasville, GA.
Honorary Pallbearers are Bryan ”Shaggy” Groves, Josh ”Shady” Clements,
Brandon Vidrine, Art Deaton, Steven Tucker, Joe Esway, Drew Nicholson, Bud
Stocks, Rodney Hansen, Marshall Nicholson, Kyle Hewitt, Coca Avila, Jarod
Warmack,Josh Warmack, and members of the EC Crew from Lafayette, LA.
The family will receive friends and guests on Wednesday, July 16, 2008, from
7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers make donations to The Jamie Warmack Music Fund c/o Lisa
Schexnayder at DOCO Regional Federal Credit Union 239 Cedric Street, Leesburg,
GA 31763 or Phoebe Foundation 410 5th Avenue, Albany, GA 31701. All donations
for the music fund will be given to as a music scholarship in the future.
To sign our online registry or to send condolences to the family, you may
visit Mathews’ website at
www.mathewsfuneralhome.com
Mathews Funeral Home
Albany 229/435-5657
Bettye Jean Wright-Mathis
ALBANY — Bettye Jean Wright-Mathis, 64, of 841 B. Odom Ave., Apt. B, died on
Friday, July 11, 2008 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services
will be held on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Christian
Center with interment to follow at Riverside Cemetery. Pastor Charlie
Williams will officiate.
Mrs. Wright-Mathis was born on March 7, 1944 in Dougherty County. She was
educated in the Dougherty County School Systems. She was a member of Ebenezer
Christian Center.
Survivors include her husband, Ernes mathis, Jr., Children Rogie (Valencia)
Wright, Virginia Beach, VA; Dacia S. Wright, Dana S. Wright and Betty (Melvin)
Toomer, Albany; adopted daughters, Keisha Reeshemah, Sherita, and many other
siblings, Alice Wright, Eva (Andrew, Sr.) Griffin, Teronice Harris, Marion
Harris, Louise Gunn, Rosa McCray, Albany, Valerie (Eddie) Sherman, Hephzibah,
GA, Marie Harris-Jones Lakehurst, VA; and Henry Harris, Newark, NJ;
grandchildren, Rogie Wright, Jr., DeAnne L. Wright, Je-Le’Ma V. Mayrant,
Steven C. Woolridge, Felton-Edwards Woolridge, Melvin Toomer, Jr., and several
other adopted grands; dear friend/coworker, Julia (Cloud)Archer, Stone, MT.,
GA, a host of nieces and nephews, cousins, other family and friends.
Elliott Funeral Home
Albany 229/436-3553
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