Obituaries

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Local Obituaries for Warner Robins, GA, Houston County & Surrounding Areas

Mary Florence Gentry

Mary Florence Gentry

Sep 11, 2008

Mrs. Mary Florence Crook Gentry, 88, passed from this life into the next on September 11, 2008 at Heart of Georgia Hospice Inpatient Unit in Perry Hospital.Funeral services will be at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, 2008, at McCullough Funeral Home Chapel with interment following in Magnolia Park Cemetery. Dr. Allen Hughes and Reverend Sydney Odom will officiate. Mary...

Dwight Shaffer

Dwight Shaffer

Sep 10, 2008

Dwight Shaffer, 70, entered into rest on September 10, 2008.Mr. Shaffer was born on August 7, 1938, in Marion, Ohio. He graduated from Pleasant High School, Ohio, where he participated in basketball, baseball and track. An avid car enthusiast, he was a member of the Marion Fly Wheels Car Club and a trustee at Grace Baptist Church in Marion, Ohio....

Mattie Jean Bell

Mattie Jean Bell

Sep 9, 2008

Mattie Jean Bell, 62, entered into rest September 9, 2008. Mrs. Bell was born in Starkville, Mississippi, on April 5, 1946. She graduated from Henderson High School in 1964, went on to earn a Bachelor of Science from Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi, then a Masters in Education at Indiana University. She began her career in education in 1984...

Gary D. Kiper

Gary D. Kiper

Sep 9, 2008

Gary D. Kiper, 71, entered into rest on Tuesday, September 9, 2008.Mr. Kiper was born on May 8, 1937 in Beaconsfield, Iowa. With pride and honor he served his country in the U. S. Air Force, retiring after twenty –three years of service with the rank of Senior Master Sergeant. A B-52 tail gunner, he participated in the Vietnam Conflict....

Ssgt. Tom Zabel (U.S. Army, Ret.)

Ssgt. Tom Zabel (U.S. Army, Ret.)

Sep 7, 2008

Tom Zabel, 45, entered into rest on September 7, 2008.Mr. Zabel was born on February 18, 1963, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. With pride and honor he served his country in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Staff Sergeant. He was employed at CPR in carpet restoration and was an avid outdoorsman. Family members include his wife, Kristy Layson Zabel, Lizella; parents,...

Msgt. James W. Mealey (Usaf, Ret.)

Msgt. James W. Mealey (Usaf, Ret.)

Sep 5, 2008

James W. Mealey, 59, entered into rest on September 5, 2008.Mr. Mealey was born on January 8, 1949, in San Bernardino, California. With pride and honor, he served his country in the U.S. Air Force as a computer engineer, retiring with the rank of Master Sergeant. He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, the Barbershop Harmony Society,...

Philip R. Fountain

Philip R. Fountain

Sep 4, 2008

Philip R. Fountain, 88, passed away on September 4, 2008.Mr. Fountain was born on February 24, 1920, in Richlands, North Carolina. He was an Equipment and Allowance Specialist in the civil service at Robins Air Force Base and a captain in the U.S. Army. After high school, he lived with his Aunt Maxine and Uncle Alvin in Raleigh, North Carolina....

Carl F. Peterman

Carl F. Peterman

Sep 2, 2008

Carl F. "Pete" Peterman, 83, went to be with the Lord on September 2, 2008. Mr. Peterman was born on May 7, 1925, in Taylor County, Georgia. With pride and honor he served his country in the U.S. Army; later, he owned and operated Peterman Service Station, the oldest business in Warner Robins. He was a Shriner and a 32nd...

Etsuko Susie Tryggestad

Etsuko Susie Tryggestad

Aug 31, 2008

Susie Tryggestad, 77, entered into rest Sunday, August 31, 2008. Mrs Tryggestad was born on January 15, 1931 in Kagoshima, Japan. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary for thirty years and had managed an MWR Snack Bar on Robins Air Force Base for ten years. Her husband, Gary V. Tryggestad, parents, Toichiro Tanabe and Omori Mitsue, preceded...

Marian Scott Helms

Marian Scott Helms

Aug 31, 2008

Marian S. Helms, 91, entered into rest Sunday, August 31, 2008. Mrs. Helms was born in Anderson, South Carolina on April 3, 1917. She was a member of First Baptist Church. She was predeceased by her husband, Gilbert R. Helms, parents, Henry Scott and Allie Broadwell Scott, sisters, Christine Lopez, Mildred Cheek and Pauline Drake. Cherishing her memory are her...

Lucius H. Anderson

Lucius H. Anderson

Aug 30, 2008

– Lucius Anderson, 89, entered into rest on Saturday, August 30, 2008.Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 3, 2008, at Elam-Millen Cemetery in Millen, Georgia, pastor Randall Smith officiating. Mr. Anderson was born on March 15, 1919, in Collins, Georgia. After graduating from ECI High School in Twin City, Georgia, he proudly served in the...

Ethan Michael Renner

Ethan Michael Renner

Aug 29, 2008

Precious angel, Ethan Michael Renner, infant son of Dr. Michael John Renner and Stacey Elaine Favre Renner, passed on August 28, 2008, at the Medical Center of Central Georgia.Ethan was born in Macon on August 12, 2008, and is survived by his loving parents; three sisters, Allison, Kristin and Rachel, Warner Robins; brother, Nathan, Warner Robins; grandparents, Terry Lees, Warner...

Kent Mitchell Irelan

Kent Mitchell Irelan

Aug 28, 2008

Mitch Irelan, 52, entered into rest on August 28, 2008.Mr. Irelan was born on January 25, 1956, in Albany. He was a civil service welder at Robins Air Force Base for more than twenty years. He enjoyed hunting, trapping, working in the woods and cooking. His parents, Keith Irelan and Ester Manning Irelan, preceded him in death.His memory will forever...

Samuel Ellis Privette

Samuel Ellis Privette

Aug 27, 2008

Sam Privette, 78, entered into rest on August 27, 2008. Mr. Privette was born on July 20, 1930, in Spring Hope, North Carolina. With pride and honor he served his country in the U.S. Air Force in electronics, air conditioning, and in Aero-technology for twenty years. Following retirement he continued to serve as a civil servant at Robins Air Force...

Kathryn Virginia Pope

Kathryn Virginia Pope

Aug 26, 2008

Kathryn V. Pope, 68, entered into rest August 26, 2008. Ms. Pope was born on May 2, 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She worked at Wal-Mart as a greeter for eleven years and attended Westminster Presbyterian Church. Her parents, Fithian Joel Barnett and Catherine Entrekin Barnett, preceded her in death.Her memory will forever be treasured by her children, Kathy Sellers (Dick),...

Danale Randolph

Danale Randolph

Aug 26, 2008

Danale Randolph, 73, entered into rest on August 26, 2008. Ms. Randolph was born on September 20, 1934, in Pampa, Texas. Formerly from North Augusta, South Carolina, she lived in the middle Georgia area for the past eight years. She retired after thirty years of teaching in early childhood. She enjoyed singing in the choir of her home church, St....

Gladys C. Ivie

Gladys C. Ivie

Aug 22, 2008

Gladys C. Ivie, 80, made her heavenly flight to be with her Lord and Savior on August 22, 2008. Mrs. Ivie was born on June 4, 1928, in Telfair County. She retired from Robins Air Force Base as a Supply Specialist. She was also a licensed barber and cosmetologist, and a member of the Disabled American Veterans Ladies Auxiliary Club....

Twila Fae Hovis

Twila Fae Hovis

Aug 21, 2008

Twila Hovis, 78, entered into rest Thursday, August 21, 2008. Mrs. Hovis was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, on January 29, 1930. She was a member of Fox Street Church of God and attended Central Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Dan Hovis, parents, Elmer Dewey Sutley and Dessie Heffernan Sutley, brothers, Wilbur Sutley and Paul...

John Franklin Burke, Jr.

John Franklin Burke, Jr.

Aug 20, 2008

John Franklin Burke, Jr., 60, entered into rest on August 20, 2008. Mr. Burke was born on July 5, 1948 in Macon. He graduated from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College with an associate degree in Farm Equipment Technology. He retired after thirty-five years as a Special Agent with CSX Railroad. With pride and honor, he served his country in the Army...

Richard Glynn Pope

Richard Glynn Pope

Aug 19, 2008

Richard Pope, 72, entered into eternal life on August 19, 2008. Mr. Pope was born on September 21, 1935, in Columbia, Mississippi. He graduated from Pearl River Jr. College in Poplarville, Mississippi, and then attended Southern Mississippi University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, receiving a degree in Finance and Accounting. Following graduation, he worked for six years as an accountant for W.E....