Obituaries

Graveside services for Evelyn Hortence Faulk Powell, age 97, of Dublin will be held at 2:00 PM Friday, November 26, 2010 at Northview Cemetery. Rev. Jim Sowden will officiate. Mrs. Powell was a waitress and a homemaker. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She was preceded in death by her parents, Alex Faulk and Clyde Stevens Faulk...

Services for Mrs. Ruby Bailey Tyson, age 88, of East Dublin, will be held at 2:30 PM Tuesday, December 21, 2010, in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Rev. Kenneth Greene will officiate. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 1:30 PM until 2:30 PM at the funeral home. Mrs. Tyson was...

Services for Mildred Young McNeal, age 88 of Dublin, will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, January 1, 2011 at Marie Baptist Church with burial to follow in the Cedar Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Hutto, Rev. Robert Rogers and Rev. Tom Vann will officiate. Mrs. McNeal died Wednesday. Mrs. McNeal was born in Laurens County; she lived...

Services for Edwin Paul Fountain, age 79, of Rentz, GA will be held on Friday, October 1, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at Rentz Baptist Church with burial to follow in the Rentz Cemetery. Reverend Tom Vann and Reverend Grady Mimbs will officiate. Mr. Fountain was a member of Rentz Baptist Church and the Over Comers Sunday School Class. He was...

Funeral services for Barbara A. Radney, age 62 of Dublin, will be held at 2:00 PM Friday, September 10, 2010 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow in Northview Cemetery. Rev. Randy Mimbs will officiate. Mrs. Radney was a Baptist by faith and a devoted, wife, mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by...

Services for Kodell Montford Thomas, age 93, of Dublin, will be held on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 2:30 PM in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow in Northview Cemetery. Dr. Cliff Morris will officiate. A lifelong resident of Laurens County, Mrs. Thomas was the daughter of the late Dr. H.L. Montford and the late...

Thomas Andrew Curry, Jr. was born September 10, 1921, in Dublin, Georgia. He was Chairman of the Board of The Curry Companies. Mr. Curry was preceded in death by his wife, Frances Walker Curry, and his son, Thomas Andrew Curry, III. Mr. Curry passed away on Tuesday, October 19, 2010. He is survived by two daughters, Dedie Curry Maffett of...

Funeral Services for Paul M. Watson, Jr. age 86 of Dublin will be held at 12:00 Noon Thursday January 20, 2011 at First United Methodist Church. Dr. Jack Key and Dr. Rick Mitchell will officiate. The family will receive friends at First United Methodist Church from 11:00 AM until the funeral hour. A private family interment service will be held...

Graveside Services for Jimmie Lee Hart, age 82, of East Dublin, will be held on Friday, December 10, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. at Forest Hill Memorial Gardens in Forest Park, GA. Rev. Tommy Veal will officiate. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Gethsemane United Methodist Church in East Dublin. Mr. Hart was a Veteran of...

Memorial services for Clara Foskey Simmons, age 67, of Dublin, will be held at 10:00AM on December 4, 2010 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Rev. Everett Foskey and Rev. Robbie Jones will officiate. Mrs. Simmons was a member of Central Drive Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Jim Foskey and the late Thelma Hall...

Services for Freddy P. Churchwell, Sr., age 91, of Dublin, will be held at 11:00 AM, Tuesday, October 5, 2010, in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow in the Dominy Family Cemetery. Rev. Benny Tanton and Rev. Steve Hardeman will officiate. Mr. Churchwell died Saturday. Mr. Churchwell was born in Statesboro and was the son...

Graveside services for Luciano Tony DiSciullo, age 50, of Dublin, will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at Dublin Memorial Gardens. Father Richard Hart will officiate. Mr. DiSciullo was born in Warren, Ohio. He served in the Navy and was a retired millworker. Mr. DiSciullo was preceded in death by his father, Camillo DiSciullo. He died Saturday,...

Ethel Hardy Fountain, 95, died peacefully on September 15, 2010, in Richmond, Virginia. Born on September 16 in Toombs County, GA, she was the widow of the late James Robert Fountain, Sr. She is survived by three children, James Robert, Jr., wife Kimberlee, and their son William (her only grandchild), of Benicia, CA; Derric Fountain, and wife Frances, of Damascus,...

Graveside services for Deborah Lee Baggett Scarborough, age 48 of Dublin, will be held 2:00 PM Monday, November 15, 2010 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Dr. Larry Daniel will officiate. Deborah was a lifelong resident of Laurens County. She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and was a graduate of West Laurens High School. She was preceded...

Services for John Louis Thomas, age 75 of Cadwell will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday, November 18, 2010 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Visitation will be Thursday from 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM. Mr. Thomas was born in Laurens County. He was the son of the late Jim Wesley Thomas and the late Beatrice Sheffield Thomas....

James Hugh Alligood, 72, of Dexter, GA, died Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, with his loving and dedicated family by his side. Mr. Alligood was born on Sept. 11, 1938 in Cedar Grove and lived all of his life in Laurens Co. Being a salesman by trade, he worked with Laurens Equipment Co., L.J.L., B&H Transfer and Farmers Furniture. He served...

Funeral Services for Wanda Faye Lumley Melton, age 59 of Dublin will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at the Lighthouse Church of God. Pastor Ben Lumley, Pastor LeRoy Spivey and Pastor Monty Lasseter will officiate and burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Melton died Saturday, January 15, 2011. Mrs. Melton was born in Lyons,...

Services for Elizabeth Gail Edgar age 72 of Dublin, will be held at 10:00 AM Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at the Christ Episcopal Church. Burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. The Reverend Louis O. Miller will officiate. Mrs. Edgar died Sunday, February 20, 2011. Mrs. Edgar was born in Madison Wisconsin, February 13, 1939, moving with her family to...

Barbara Jean (B.J.) Nelson Achord June 26, 1938 November 18, 2010 Dublin GA--- In my Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2 Barbara Jean (B.J.) Nelson Achord, age 72, entered into eternal rest on November 18, 2010. B.J., the daughter of Lucille...

Services for Mary Lauvernia Screws, 81, will be at 11:00 AM Monday, October 18, 2010, in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Glenwood City Cemetery. Rev. Glenn Russell will officiate. Born and raised in rural Laurens County, Mrs. Screws attended school at Lowery. After she was married, she moved with her husband to Glenwood where...