Mildred Iona Hunter Hill
Jun 9, 2015
Mildred Iona Hunter Hill, age 84, of Macclenny, FL. passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville, FL. Ms. Hill was born in Columbia County on March 13, 1931 to the late Lon Gordon Hunter and Ida Mae Nelson Hunter. She was employed some thirty plus years as a cost accountant at Heritage Paper Company....
Jimmie Lee Ferns
Jun 8, 2015
Jimmie Lee Ferns, age 88, former resident of Perry, FL. passed away Monday, June 8, 2015 at Shands Live Oak Hospital in Live Oak, FL. She made her home at Suwannee Valley Nursing Center in Jasper for the last 15 years but was an active part of the Taylor County community most of her life. Ms. Ferns was a secretary...
Dennis Hackle
Jun 5, 2015
Dennis Allen Hackle, age 67, of Jasper, FL passed away Friday, June 5, 2015 at North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville following a short illness. Dennis was born on November 22, 1947 in Jasper to Major and Delores Hall Hackle. He graduated from Jasper High School. Dennis worked for the Florida Division of Forestry for many years and then...
Ervin Burch Mitchell
Jun 5, 2015
Ervin Burch Mitchell, age 86, of Jasper, FL. passed away Friday, June 5, 2015 at Suwannee Valley Nursing Center in Jasper. Burch was born on May 31, 1929 to the late Charles M. and Ethel Murray Mitchell. He graduated from the University of Florida and moved to Chicago where he lived for many years. Burch was a commercial artist and...
Charlotte Bembry Houston
Jun 3, 2015
Charlotte Bembry Houston, age 68, of Jennings, FL. passed away Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, GA. Charlotte was a native of Opp, Alabama born March 26, 1947 to the late Marion and Lucille Carnley Bembry. She worked for the Hamilton County School Board as a bus driver and bus barn employee until she retired....
Tina Michelle Latham
May 31, 2015
Tina Michelle Latham, age 44, of Jennings, FL. passed away Sunday, May 31, 2015 at her home following the onset of a sudden illness. Tina was born in Heidelberg, Germany on December 3, 1970 to David Michael Smith Sr. and his wife Sharon Donohue Smith. Tina was always a hard worker and found herself mostly in leadership roles. She worked...
L.B. Brannen
May 23, 2015
L.B. Brannen, age 87 of Lake City, FL, died Saturday, May 23, 2015 at the Surrey Place Care Center in Live Oak, FL. Having retired after 25 years at the Aero Corporation, Mr. Brannen enjoyed a life of bluegrass music, "piddling" in his workshop, and his 1973 Ford Torino, known to all as "Old Browny". He is preceded in death...
Emmett J. Hutto, Jr.
May 17, 2015
Emmett Hutto, age 68 of Gainesville, FL, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Sunday, May 17, 2015. He was born July 19, 1946 in Ocala to Emmett, Sr. and Dannie Adams Hutto. He grew up in Orange Lake and went to school in Reddick. He was a member of the 1st graduating class of North...
Willie Mae Deas Blair
May 15, 2015
Mrs. Willie Mae Deas Blair, age 97, of Jacksonville, FL. passed away Friday, May 15, 2015, at Shands Live Oak Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. Willie Mae was born on October 3, 1917, in Hamilton County, the oldest and last of the five children of Otto and Annie Pearl Parker Deas. Â Willie Mae worked hard as a...
William Bruce Howell
May 8, 2015
On the morning of May 8th, after bravely battling illness with his loving family at his side - William Bruce Howell went to be with the Lord. Bruce was born on August 12, 1927 to James Franklin Howell and Mamie Grace Hiers Howell in Jennings, Florida, where he grew up on his family farm and attended school. After serving several...
Dorothy Lee Kinsey Butler
May 6, 2015
Dorothy Lee Kinsey Butler, age 92, of Jennings, FL. passed away peacefully Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at Suwannee Valley Nursing Center with members of her family by her side. Dorothy was born in Echols County, Georgia on October 31, 1922 to the late Jessie P. and Margaret "Maggie" Hancock Kinsey. She met and married John L. Butler, Sr. on October...
Janee Danette Odom
May 5, 2015
Janee Danette Odom, age 44, of Melbourne, FL. passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 near Jennings, FL. while visiting friends and family. Ms. Odom was born in Melbourne on May 14, 1970 and would have celebrated her 45th birthday in nine short days. "Nay Nay" was how she was best known by the friends and family. Janee was...
"Lucy" Margaret Lucy Cook Stephens
Apr 28, 2015
Margaret Lucy Cook Stephens, age 66, of Ozark, Alabama passed away at Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Alabama on April 28, 2015. Lucy was born on February 18, 1949 in Houston County, Alabama to Huey and Doris Smith Cook. She was a graduate of Hamilton County High School and worked as a supervisor at Occidental/PCS until the late nineties....
Joseph "Joe" David Smith
Apr 25, 2015
Joseph David "Joe" Smith, age 57, of Jasper, FL. passed away Saturday, April 25, 2015 at Shands Live Oak following a lengthy illness. Joe was born on April 2, 1958 in Valdosta, Georgia to proud parents William "Billy" and Myrtle Robinson Smith. He graduated from Hamilton County High School and went on to get his degree at North Florida Junior...
Brady Fraley
Apr 10, 2015
Brady Lee Fraley, age 21, of Jasper, FL. passed away April 10, 2015 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Fraley was well known in the community and his sudden and unexpected death has left the entire county in sad disbelief.
Brady was born June 10, 1993 in Morehead, KY. He moved to Hamilton County seven years...
Jacqueline Ella Deas Register
Apr 10, 2015
Jacqueline Ella Deas Register, age 77, of Lake Park, GA., passed away at her home on April 10, 2015, surrounded by her family. Jacqueline was born in Jennings, FL. on Feb. 21, 1938 to the late Wallace and Ovis Smith Deas. During her working years she worked outside the home but always considered her primary role in life was to...
Jeremiah "Jerry" Cumbess
Apr 8, 2015
Jeremiah Cumbess, age 77, of Jasper, FL. passed away Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Georgia following an illness of some time. Jeremiah was born on August 13, 1937 in Jasper to the late John and Renner Bass Cumbess. Jerry, as he was fondly referred to, was always a hard worker in the welding industry....
Dorothy E. Horne
Mar 31, 2015
Dorothy E. Horne, age 89, of Tampa, FL. passed away at Haven Hospice Suwannee Valley Care Center in Lake City, FL. on March 31, 2015 following a brief illness. Dorothy was born in Tampa, FL. on June 7, 1925 to the late Claude Judson Horne and Ruby Wynn Horne. She lived most of her childhood in Hamilton County on the...
Jamie Lamar Combass
Mar 28, 2015
Jamie Lamar Combass, age 41, of Palm Coast, FL. and former Hamilton County resident passed away at his home in Palm Coast on Saturday, March 28, 2015. Jamie was born in Tallahassee, FL. on May 7, 1973 to Lamar and Kathy Bryant Combass. Jamie attended Hamilton County High School back in the day and was an avid Dale, Jr. Nascar...
Catherine Marcile Perkins Powers
Mar 19, 2015
Mrs. Catherine Marcile Perkins Powers was born December 11, 1922, to James Willie Perkins and Ollie Mae Caldwell Perkins of Jasper, Florida, where she lived most of her life. She passed away March 19, 2015 in Opelika, Alabama. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ryland Camp Powers and Janice Powers of Auburn, Alabama; daughter-in-law, Nancy Hemman Powers of...
