Obituaries
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Local Obituaries for Warner Robins, GA, Houston County & Surrounding Areas
Elaine Candis Knott
May 2, 2009
Elaine Candis Wilburn Knott, 48, entered into rest on Saturday, May 2, 2009. Ms. Knott was born on August 31, 1960 in Warner Robins. She worked in civil service at Robins Air Force Base in Defense. Her favorite pastimes were bowling, shopping, cooking for family and friends, and arts & crafts. She was a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church. Her...

Van Buren Higginbotham
May 1, 2009
Van Higginbotham, 74, entered into rest on Friday, May 1, 2009.Mr. Higginbotham was born on February 2, 1935 in Tutwiler, Mississippi. With pride and honor he served his country in the United States Air Force retiring as a civil servant. He was a member of Cagles Crossroad Baptist Church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His parents, William Lloyd Higginbotham and Helen Higginbotham,...
Walter Kazmierski
May 1, 2009
Walter Kazmierski, 86, entered into rest on Friday, May 1, 2009.Mr. Kazmierski was born on January 29, 1923 in Lodz, Poland. He became a citizen of the United States after he and his family immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio in 1956. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. His parents, Wladyslaw and Janina Kazmierski, preceded him in death.His memory...

Mary Jan Lowery
Apr 30, 2009
Mary Janice "Jan" Turner Lowery, 65, entered into rest on April 30, 2009. Ms. Lowery was born on January 14, 1944 in Fort Benning and lived most of her adult life in Albany. She worked in the medical field and owned a florist shop. Of the Baptist Faith, she was well known for her extensive charity work. Her parents, L.C....

Linda Gail Heath
Apr 27, 2009
Linda Gail Heath, 65, entered into rest on April 27, 2009. Ms. Heath was born on April 26, 1944 in Macon. She was a retired Classification Assistant at Robins Air Force Base and member of Christ United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Sherwood Heath; sister, Betty Jo Walker; and parents, William Kendred Morgan and...

Angelo Verdane Raffield, Sr.
Apr 27, 2009
Angelo Verdane Raffield, Sr., 82, entered into rest on April 27, 2009.Mr. Raffield was born on August 30, 1926 in Irwin County, Georgia. With pride and honor, he served his country in the United States Navy and active in World War II. After his military career, he worked as a professional painter for private contractors. He called Union Primitive Baptist...
Kirstin Blair Williams
Apr 25, 2009
On November 27, 1991, this world was blessed with a beautiful baby girl, Kirstin Blair Williams. From the moment we laid eyes on her, Kirstin Blair captured our hearts with her chubby cheeks and beautiful red hair. As she grew older, she developed a personality that was uniquely Kirstin. Throughout her short life, everyone, whether they were a stranger or...

Marvin Cecil Miller
Apr 24, 2009
Marvin Cecil Miller, 81, entered into rest on Friday, April 24, 2009.Mr. Miller was born on March 24, 1928 in Phenix City, Alabama. With pride and honor, he served his country in the United State Navy as a Quarter Master and participated in the Korean Conflict. After his military career, he went to work for the Georgia Theater in Columbus....

Msgt.Thomas Joseph Hunt, Usaf (Ret.)
Apr 23, 2009
Thomas Joseph Hunt, 84, entered into rest on Thursday, April 23, 2009.Mr. Hunt was born on January 28, 1925 in Elberton, Georgia. With great pride and honor, he served his country in the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for a total of thirty-one years, retiring with the rank of Master Sergeant. He was a decorated veteran...

Ernest Gene Burris
Apr 22, 2009
Ernest "Gene" Burris, 73, entered into rest on Wednesday, April 22, 2009.Mr. Burris was born on July 25, 1935 in Highway, Oklahoma. With pride and honor, he served his country in the United States Air Force for twenty years, retiring in 1974 with the rank of Master Sergeant. Subsequent to his military career, he was a retired Special Education Teacher...
Marjorie W Saunders
Apr 19, 2009
Marjorie W. SaundersWarner Robins – Marjorie W. Saunders, 86, entered into rest Sunday, April 19, 2009. Mrs. Saunders was born on November 24, 1922 in Scooba, Mississippi. On completion of Beauty School in Meridian, Mississippi, she was employed by the premier shop in town, "Frits". She was asked to be the stylist for the star of a movie that was...

Dennis Jay Acuff
Apr 18, 2009
Jay Acuff, 57, entered into rest on Saturday, April 18, 2009.Mr. Acuff was born on July 20, 1951, in Wichita Falls, Texas. He worked as a project manager for the Georgia Department of Transportation. His parents, William Howard Acuff and Mary Taylor Starnes and brothers, Frederick Starnes and Michael Acuff, preceded him in death.His memory will forever be treasured by...

Edith "Edie" Spargo
Apr 15, 2009
Edith W. Spargo, 86, died on April 15, 2009. Born on September 22, 1922, in Greeneville, Tennessee, Edie spent thirty years as a social worker, the last ten of those at Rosewood Hospital in Houston, Texas. A resident of Centerville since 2003, she was a member of Centerville United Methodist Church. Edie was preceded in death by her husband of...

Imogene Walsh
Apr 14, 2009
Imogene Crum Walsh, 90, entered into rest on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Mrs. Walsh was born on May 26, 1918 in Kokomo, Indiana. She was a retired Traffic Clerk from Continental Steel Corp. Her church home was First Church of Nazarene in Kokomo and she attended Green Acres Baptist Church. Her parents, Alpheus Earl Crum and Goldie May Stutzman, preceded...

Robert P. Rinehart
Apr 14, 2009
Robert P. Rinehart, 61, entered into rest on Tuesday, April 14, 2009.Mr. Rinehart was born on December 30, 1947 in Vidalia. He was a member Houston Lake Baptist Church and retired from Robins Air Force Base as an Electronic Technician. His father, Curtis Walden Rinehart and grandson, Chase Rinehart preceded him in death.His memory will forever be treasured by his...

William "Bill" Miller, Sr.
Apr 12, 2009
William T. Miller, Sr. 84, entered into rest on Sunday, April 12, 2009.Mr. Miller was born on October 31, 1924 in Anderson County, Tennessee. With pride and honor he served in the United States Army in World War II and was assigned as a cryptographic specialist providing secure communications on the Island of Iwo Jima. Subsequent to the war, he...

Andra Gail Haddock
Apr 12, 2009
Andra Gail Haddock, 61, entered into rest on Sunday, April 12, 2009. Mrs. Haddock was born on March 7, 1948 in Sandersville. She worked at Hilltop Elementary in the Food Service Industry and called Gilead Primitive Baptist Church her church home. She was preceded in death by her son, Jeffery Haddock; brother, Alan Davis; and parents, Andra Horton and Dora...

Will J. Hall
Apr 11, 2009
Will Hall, 98, entered into rest on Saturday, April 11, 2009.Mr. Hall was born on January 11, 1911 in Mayfield, Georgia. A founding deacon of the First Baptist Church of Warner Robins, he also had been the owner-operator of the first radio and television sales and service company in Wellston (Warner Robins). He retired from Robins Air Force Base in...

Truman R. Browning
Apr 9, 2009
Truman R. Browning, 79, entered into rest on, April 9, 2009.Mr. Browning was born on August 2, 1929 in Lumber City, Georgia. With pride and honor, he served his country in the United States Army and participated in the Korean Conflict where he received a Sigmund Rea Citation, as well as an U.S. Presidential Citation. A lifetime member of the...

Tsgt. Kenneth Benningfield, Usaf (Ret.)
Apr 8, 2009
James "Mike' Benningfield, 61, entered into eternal life on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at his residence. Mr. Benningfield was born on July 22, 1947 in Lebanon, Kentucky. He served his country with pride and honor in the U. S. Air Force as an Air Traffic Control Technician, retiring after twenty-one years having attained the rank of Technical Sergeant. He was...