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Marjorie Harrell Musgrove
Jun 1, 2014
Marjorie Harrell Musgrove, age 101, of Live Oak, FL. passed away Sunday, June 1, 2014 at Shands Live Oak Hospital in Live Oak, FL. Funeral services were held Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Mt. Olive Church of Christ near Live Oak. Interment followed in the Mt. Olive Church Cemetery. Marjorie was born on May 8, 1913 to the...
Lurlene Pridgen Johnson
May 30, 2014
Lurlene Pridgen Johnson, age 102, of Jasper, FL. passed away Friday, May 30, 2014 at Suwannee Valley Nursing Center in Jasper following a lengthy illness. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Graveside services were held Sunday, June 1, 2014 at Evergreen Cemetery in Jasper, FL. Lurlene was born December 11, 1911 in Douglas, Georgia to the late James and...
Ernestine Irene Lathinghouse
May 29, 2014
Ernestine Irene Lathinghouse, age 87, of Lake City, FL. passed away peacefully on May 29, 2014 at Lake City Medical Center. The Etowah, Tennessee native was born on November 14, 1926 to the late Isaac and Virginia Hodgson Romine. She was a homemaker and longtime resident of Columbia County. Ms. Lathinghouse was predeceased by her husband Raleigh Lathinghouse in October...
Donald Wayne Tharp
May 29, 2014
Donald Wayne Tharp, age 52, of Jennings, FL. passed away on Thursday, May 29, 2014 at Shands at the University of Florida Hospital in Gainesville following a very brief illness. Funeral services were held Saturday, May 31, 2014 in the chapel of Harry T. Reid Funeral Home in Jasper with Pastor Edgar Wood officiating. Interment followed at Evergreen Cemetery...
Jeanne Ann Staudigl
May 18, 2014
Jeanne Ann Staudigl, age 69,of Statenville, GA. passed away Sunday, May 18, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, GA. following a brief illness. Jeanne was born in Valdosta on May 20, 1944 to the late Leon and Anabel Green Smith. She spent her early life traveling as a military wife but returned to her South Georgia roots to...
Frances Darlin Jenkins
May 16, 2014
Frances D. Jenkins, age 82, of Jasper, FL. passed away Friday, May 16, 2014 at Suwannee Valley Nursing Center in Jasper following an illness of some time. Frances was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1931. She was a beloved wife to the late William Jenkins. They moved to the Hamilton County, FL. in 2005 from Waverly, Ohio. As long as...
Ronald Law "Ronny" Smith
May 6, 2014
Ronald Law "Ronny" Smith, age 62, of Jasper, FL. passed away Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at Shands at Lake Shore Hospital in Lake City, FL. following an extended illness.
Ronny was born in Valdosta, GA. on October 15, 1951 to the late Elza D. and Melba Law Smith. He was a lifelong resident of Hamilton County. Following...
Frederick L. Derocco
Apr 24, 2014
Frederick L. DeRocco, age 72, of Jasper, FL. passed away Thursday, April 24, 2014 at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Madison, FL. Mr. DeRocco was born in Ilion, New York on March 29, 1942 to the late Alfonso and Gertrude Potter DeRocco. He was a machinist and mechanic. As a young man he served his country in the United...
Henry L. Lee "Nip"
Apr 22, 2014
Henry Lucius Lee "Nip", age 96, of Jasper, FL. passed away at his home in Jasper on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 following an extended illness.
Henry was born on July 4, 1917 in Clinch County, Georgia to the late Lucius and Nancy Richardson Lee. He was a former resident of Homerville and Lakeland, Georgia before moving to...
Joni Rae Joyce
Apr 21, 2014
Joni Rae Joyce, age 57, of Statenville, Georgia passed away on Monday, April 21, 2014 at her home following a brief illness.
Memorial services were held Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Statenville Church of God.
Joni was born in Riverside, California on August 9, 1956 to the late Harold and Dorothy Mae...
Willa Dean Hitson Sandlin
Apr 18, 2014
Willa Dean Sandlin, age 84, a former resident of Jasper, FL. passed away Friday, April 18, 2014 at Sylvia's House Hospice of Marion County.
Funeral services were held Monday, April 21, 2014 at Jasper First Baptist Church with Rev. Roger Hutto officiating. Interment followed at Evergreen Cemetery in Jasper.
Willa Dean was born in Jasper,...
William "Bucky" Buckner Lewis, Jr.
Apr 14, 2014
William Buckner Lewis lost his courageous battle with cancer on April 14, 2014. Bucky was born on June 13, 1941 in Valdosta, GA. to the late W. B. Lewis, Sr. and Pauline Coffman Lewis and grew up in Jasper, FL. He attended schools in Union County, Bolles Military School in Jacksonville, and graduated a Cadet Captain from Georgia Military...
Kenneth Morris Bochette
Apr 13, 2014
Kenneth Morris Bochette, age 79, of Jasper, FL. passed away Sunday, April 13, 2014 at his home in Jasper. Kenneth was born in Gainesville, FL. on October 20, 1934 to the late Liston and Eunice Edgeman Bochette. He relocated to Lake City, FL. where he had a custom picture framing business. In addition to the framing business, Mr. Bochette...
Winnie Hodges
Apr 9, 2014
Winnie Smith Hodges, age 91, of Jasper, FL. passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at her home following a long illness. Winnie was a native of Hamilton County, born on November 4, 1922 to the late Charles Edward and Nellie Keene Smith. Winnie was a very successful business woman before it was popular for women to be in business....
Sherrell Lavon Strickland
Apr 8, 2014
Sherrell Lavon Strickland, age 81, of Statenville, Georgia passed away Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta.
Lavon was born on January 31, 1933 in Valdosta, Georgia to the late Lee Roy and Lula Tomlinson Strickland. He was educated in the Echols County School System...
Cecil Larry "Buck" Hillhouse, Ii
Mar 22, 2014
Cecil Larry Hillhouse, II better known as "Buck", age 34, of Lake City, FL. passed away March 22, 2014 at Haven Hospice following an illness of some time. Buck was born in Lake City, Florida on November 20, 1979. He was a graduate of Hamilton County High School and served in the United States Army. He was a former...
John Henry "Billy" Hurst
Mar 17, 2014
John Henry "Bill" Hurst, age 82, of Live Oak, FL. passed away Monday, March 17, 2014 at Suwannee Health Care Center in Live Oak. Mr. Hurst was a native and former resident of Jasper, FL. born on March 23, 1931 to the late Wiley and Geneva Allen Hurst. He was a retired school teacher at Hamilton County High School...
Florence Selph Gornto
Mar 17, 2014
Florence Selph Gornto, known to all who loved her as Flo, passed away at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia on March 17 th , 2014. Flo is predeceased by her husband of 48 years, Cecil Gornto.
Flo is lovingly remembered by son, Steve Gornto (Carol), of Watkinsville, Georgia and daughter Pam Brand (Buddy) of Braselton, Georgia....
Tammy Hall Stephens
Mar 13, 2014
Tammy Hall Stephens, age 53, of Jasper, FL. passed away suddenly on Thursday, March 13, 2014 at Lake City Medical Center in Lake City, FL.
Funeral services were held Monday, March 17, 2014 in the chapel of Harry T. Reid Funeral Home in Jasper, FL. with Dr. Larry Strickland officiating.
Interment followed at Crosby Lake...
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