Obituaries

Services for Wilma Powell Walker, affectionately known as Monkey, will be held on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 1:00 PM at First United Methodist Church in Dublin. Burial will follow at 3:30pm in Bethlehem United Methodist Church Cemetery (Sand Hill) in Telfair County. Dr. Rick Mitchell and Rev. Jim Dominey will officiate. Mrs. Walker was 71 years old. Mrs. Walker...

Joshua Josh Johnston Davis, age 31, of Dublin and Athens, passed from this life Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Visitation will be held at the home of Judith J. Davis, on Friday, January 21st, 2011 from six o clock pm to eight o clock pm. Services will be held on Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 at two o clock pm at the...

Mrs. Christine Bessie Horne Bearden passed away at 12:15 am on Friday morning at Serenity Hospice in Dublin, after a long illness. She was surrounded by family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. James W. Horne and Mrs. Clarkie McConnell Horne and also her late husband, Mr. J.D. Bearden and a daughter. Mrs. Bearden was...

Funeral services for Nell Hanson Perry, age 80 of Dublin, will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, September 25, 2010 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Dr. Jack Key will officiate. Mrs. Perry was the daughter of the late James Hanson and the late Nellie Virine Spivey. She was a...

Services for Daniel Ray Evans, age 25, of Rentz, will be held on Wednesday, February 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Rentz Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Rev. Tom Vann will officiate. Mr. Evans was of the Baptist faith and attended Northwest Laurens Elementary School. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Jackson Robert Evans...

Virginia W. Duncan died on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. She was born in Dublin, Georgia on January 15, 1923 to the late Kibbie Clifford and Eula Posey Wigins. Mrs. Duncan was preceded in death by her loving husband of almost fifty years William Thomas Duncan. The funeral will be held Wednesday, November 24 at Pine Forest United Methodist Church at...

Charles Albert Tennant, Jr., age 93, left his earthly home on Friday, September 10, 2010. He and his wife, Erbis Washington Tennant, had been married for over 63 years. Visitation will be held Sunday, September 12th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Townsend Brothers Funeral Home in Dublin. The funeral will be held at Dublin First United Methodist Church on...

Funeral services for Emory Lee Yarbrough, age 87 of Dublin, will be held at 2:00 PM Wednesday, December 15, 2010 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Rev. Paul Wilkes will officiate. Mr. Yarbrough was a member of Springdale Baptist Church and the Heart of GA Ambassadors Macon Chapter. He was...

Services for Melissa Grant Rice, 72, will be at 2:00 PM Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at Pine Forest United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Dr. Joel Dent and Rev. Steve Patton will officiate. Mrs. Rice was a member of Pine Forest United Methodist Church, Lawrence-Smalley Sunday School Class and the Adult Chancel Choir. She had worked...

Services for Ron Gay, age 46 of Dublin, will be held at 11:00 AM Friday, October 1, 2010, in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Northview Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Hutto and Rev. Jim Sowden will officiate. Mr. Gay died Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Ron was born October 3, 1963 in Laurens County. He was a...

Services for James Elton Price, age 85, of East Dublin will be held at 2:00PM Tuesday, November 23, 2010 in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Mount Olive Nazarene Church Cemetery in Scott. Rev. Myron Wise and Rev. David Canen will officiate. Mr. Price died Friday, November 19, 2010. Mr. Price retired from J. P....

Services for Bessie B. Holmes, 89 of Wrightsville, GA, will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at Bethsaida Baptist Church, burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Rev. Jerry Collins and Rev. Tom Harrison will officiate. Mrs. Holmes was born in Milledgeville, May 23, 1921. She was the daughter of the late Henry Lee Osborne and the...

Graveside services for Eddie Emerson Mackey, age 87, of Dublin, will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, September 18, 2010 at New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Jack Sapp will officiate. Mr. Mackey was a member of New Bethel Baptist Church and the owner and operator of Mackey Plumbing & Heating. He was a United States Army Veteran and...

Hellene Stracke, age 89, of Dublin, GA died Monday, December 27, 2010. A memorial service for Mrs. Stracke will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, January 15, 2011 at Dudley Baptist Church. Rev. Billy Daws will officiate. Mrs. Stracke was born in Dallas, Texas. She was the daughter of the late Leroy Wood and the late Willie Lois Shelton Wood....

Funeral services for Dollie Barbee Dominy, age 87, will be held at 2:00PM on Monday, October 4.2010, in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow at Northview Cemetery. Dr. Glenn Langner will officiate. Mrs. Dominy died Saturday, October 2, 2010. Mrs. Dominy was a native of Laurens County, but had lived the past eight years at...

Services for Ouida Pope Bush, age 93, of Dublin will be held at 2:00PM on Monday, December 13, 2010 at Union Baptist Church. Rev. Randy Graham will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mrs. Bush was born in Glenwood to the late George Pope and the late Dollie Rogers Pope. She was a member of Union Baptist Church...

Funeral Services for Fannie Jo Bedingfield Holt, age 94, will be held at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, December 22, 2010, in the Cadwell Baptist Church with burial to follow in the Cadwell Cemetery. Rev. Glynn Cranford and Rev. Al Haywood will officiate. Mrs. Holt died Saturday, December 18, 2010 in the Westbury Medical Care Home in Jackson. Mrs. Holt lived most...

Services for Earl Wesley Turner, Sr., age 80, of Dublin, will be held on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow at 3:30 p.m. at the Gibbs Family Cemetery in Uvalda. Reverend Jim Sowden will officiate. Mr. Turner was a member of Northside Baptist Church and was a Veteran...

Services for Billie Jean H. Lake, of Dublin will be held at 2:00 PM Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Dublin Memorial Gardens. Dr. Jack Key and Rev. Tommy Veal will officiate. Mrs. Lake was born February 9, 1935 to the late Newbern Holton and the late Callie Lumley Holton. She was a...

Funeral services for Grady Wayne Light, age 63 of Dublin, will be held at 2:00 PM Thursday, in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home with burial to follow in Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Tim Lumley will officiate. Mr. Light died Tuesday December 21, 2010. Wayne was born in Alabama. He was the son of the late Buster...