Obituaries

Oct 13, 2017

Services for William Clements, age 59, of Dublin, will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at New Bethel Baptist Church. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Rev. Grady Mimbs and Rev. Ken Rodgers will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Monday at Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Mr. Clements died...

Oct 10, 2017

Scott Michael Childers, 44, of Carson, VA, passed away Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Scott was a family man, patriot, avid Georgia football fan, and an active den leader for the Cub Scouts-Pack 917. He was preceded in death by his sister, Laura Childers and his grandparents, Alva J. Fordham, Pearlie Bryan Fordham, Dan R. Childers and Annie Ethridge Childers. He...

Oct 9, 2017

Iris Inez Wells Whittle passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family in Dublin, Georgia on Monday October 9, 2017 after a 10 year battle with dementia. Iris was 71 years of age and was born on February 16th, 1946 to Roger and Rosalind Smith Wells at their family farm house just outside of Dublin....

Oct 7, 2017

Grace R. Woody, age 93, of O'Fallon, IL, formerly of Rentz, passed away on Saturday, October 7, 2017. Mrs. Woody retired from J.P. Stevens and loved flowers, gardening, and playing the piano. She currently resided at the Liberty Village Retirement Center in Maryville, IL. She was preceded in death by her parents, W.N. Register, Sr. and Effie...

Oct 5, 2017

Biography Grace Garrett Gilder, age 95, of Dublin, passed away on Thursday, October 5, 2017. Services will be held at 11:00AM on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Union Springs Baptist Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10:00AM until funeral hour at the church. Rev. Dewayne Dunn will officiate. Grace was one...

Oct 4, 2017

Marette Romaine Will, age 93, of Montrose, passed away on October 4, 2017. Mrs. Will was a homemaker and a member of Montrose Women's Club. She was preceded in death by his parents, Theodore and Adra Rudabaugh Clelland and husband, Robert Lawrence Will. She is survived by her sons, Robert Will (Cyndie), of San Diego, CA and...

Oct 2, 2017

Rick Lee Wesner, age 70, passed away on Monday, October 2, 2017.

Mr. Wesner was a born in Battle Creek, Michigan to the late Ross and Ardabelle Cook Wesner. He was a graduate of Athens High School in Athens Michigan and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Mr. Wesner retired from AT&T, where he worked...

Oct 2, 2017

Funeral services for Cecil Passmore, Jr., age 81, will be held at 11:00AM on Friday, October 6, 2017 at Buckhorn United Methodist Church. Reverend Jared Middleton, Mr. Dennis Waldrep, and Reverend Sam Collins will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be D.J. Passmore, Trent Passmore, Todd Collins, Brad Collins, Sean Collins, Doug Collins,...

Sep 30, 2017

William Edward Meeks Sr. (Bill Meeks) passed away quietly in peaceful rest of natural cause on Saturday morning at his home with family members to comfort him. He was 89. Bill was born in Jacksonville, Florida on 10 September 1928 to Bryant Adams Meeks Sr. and Lola Leona Alderman Meeks of Plant City Florida. Both parents and...

Sep 26, 2017

Jimmy Mullis, age 71, of Cadwell, passed away on Tuesday, September 26, 2017. Mr. Mullis was born in Laurens County to the late James B. and Mary Alice Mullis. He was a retired correctional officer and loving husband, father, grandfather and brother. Survivors include his wife, Ophelia Mullis, of Cadwell; children, Michelle Forehand (Jim), of Melbourne, FL, Debbie Lauber,...

Sep 25, 2017

Robert E. (Ed) Dominey, age 90, of Augusta, formerly of Dublin, passed away on Monday, September 25, 2017. Mr. Dominey was born in Buckeye to the late Eulia Argene Dominy and Alma Morgan Dominy and raised in Dublin, GA. He graduated from Dublin High School and enlisted in the Army Air Corp in 1945. He served as a US...

Sep 24, 2017

Graveside funeral services for Jackie (Jack) Conley, 71, of East Dublin, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at Dublin Memorial Gardens.

A native of Hazard, Kentucky, Mr. Conley was the son of the late Chandler Conley and Kanzie Loving Conley. He was a U.S. Marine veteran, a member of the Masonic Lodge in...

Sep 23, 2017

Sophie Coreen Perry was born November 6, 1924 in Dublin, GA to the late Coreen Braddy Perry and the late Lewis Frank Perry, Sr. She graduated from Dublin High School in 1942, and then went to work at Warner Robins Army Air Force Base where she met her husband, Tinley Perry. Sophie and Tinley lived in many...

Sep 23, 2017

Services for Lynett McCoy, age 74, of East Dublin, will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday, September 26, 2017, in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow at McCoy and Jones Family Cemetery. Rev. Keith Collins and Rev. Ben Edwards will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Monday...

Sep 22, 2017

Services for James William "Jim" Ashley, age 86, of Rentz, will be held at 2:00 PM Sunday, September 24, 2017, in the chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Rentz Cemetery. Rev. Nolon McDaniel and Rev. Jeremy Ikner will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Saturday at the funeral home....

Sep 20, 2017

Charlie Walton Roberts, Jr., age 59, of Dublin, passed away on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. Mr. Roberts was of the Baptist faith and a veteran of the United States Army. He was a loving son and brother. He was preceded in death by his father, Charlie Walton Roberts, Sr. and brother, Randall "Buddy" Roberts. Survivors include his mother, Joyce...

Sep 16, 2017

Willie Everett Clements, age 72, of Dudley, passed away Saturday, September 16, 2017. Mr. Clements was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather as well as brother, and uncle. He was a member of Buckhorn United Methodist Church. Throughout his life, he was employed in the manufacturing industry in planning, production and logistics. He also worked for a...

Sep 13, 2017

William (Bill) Mark Tanner, age 76, of East Dublin, passed away on Wednesday, September 13, 2017.

Mr. Tanner was born in Wrightsville, GA to the late Mark and Jane Rowland Tanner. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy Seabees and was deployed to Vietnam for nine months. Some of his military decorations and awards were; Navy Expeditionary Medal,...

Sep 13, 2017

Sara Frances Baker, age 80, of East Dublin, passed away on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. Mrs. Baker was born in Columbus, GA, on November 14, 1936 to the late Frank Hampton Haines and the late Gladys Edwards Evans. She retired from the Laurens County Board of Education, where she worked as a...

Sep 12, 2017

Van Kirby, age 73, of Eatonton, passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.

Services will be held at 2:00PM on Thursday, September 14, 2017 in the Chapel of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Grady Mimbs will officiate.

Pallbearers will be James Williams, Chuck Parkerson, Dalton Threatt,...