Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Savannah, Garden City, Georgia

Stella M. Wilkes

Stella M. Wilkes

Oct 31, 2018

Mrs. Stella Mae Layne Wilkes, 89, of Garden City, GA, died Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at her home surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Jasper, Tennessee, but lived in Garden City, GA for the majority of her life. She was a long time member of the former Sharon Park Church of God. She was devoted to the...

Mary Jane Gibson

Mary Jane Gibson

Oct 31, 2018

On October 28, 2018, Mary Jane Simons Gibson entered into Heaven's gates.  Born January 13, 1936, Mary lived her life to serve others.  She graduated from Savannah High School and went on to receive her degree from Toccoa Falls Bible College and later the degree of Specialist in Reading from Pensacola Bible College.  She taught elementary school at Pensacola Christian...

Frances Mixon

Frances Mixon

Oct 31, 2018

Frances "Janelle" Mixon, 68, passed away October 30, 2018 after a short illness. She was born in Valdosta, Ga. She was the daughter of the late Nealie and Evelyn Crews. She enjoyed cooking for her husband as well as taking care of the children in her day care. She was preceded in death by her sister Patricia Ekern. Surviving is...

Tommie Dorsey Fordham

Tommie Dorsey Fordham

Oct 30, 2018

Tommie Dorsey Fordham Born Dec 23, 1944 to Hugh Dorsey Fordham and Vannie Rue Davis Fordham, left this world, as we know it, on Oct 25, 2018.  He died in a tragic motorcycle accident in Tennessee. He joined the Legion in 1999, which he loved along with the many friends he also loved being with.  Tommie was owner of Fordham...

Dora Attaway Roberson

Dora Attaway Roberson

Oct 29, 2018

Dora Bell Attaway Roberson, 86, of Savannah, died Saturday, Oct 27, 2018 at her residence after a short illness, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Millen, Ga., and was a former member of Woodlawn United Methodist Church and Clayton P. Miller United Methodist Church until they closed, and she then affiliated with the Harvest Church of the...

Anthony Francis Aliotta

Anthony Francis Aliotta

Oct 29, 2018

Anthony "Tootie" Francis Aliotta, 70, of Savannah, Ga, passed away peacefully the morning of October 28, 2018. Tony was a devoted husband, father, stepfather, brother, grandfather, uncle and friend. He was born in Savannah, GA on July 22, 1948. He attended Blessed Sacrament School, Benedictine Military School and Armstrong State College. Tony served as a Warrant Officer in the Vietnam...

Ann Leonard Oglesby

Ann Leonard Oglesby

Oct 27, 2018

Ann Leonard "Sister" Oglesby passed away from this life on Friday, October 26, 2018. She was the daughter of the late Fred E. and Bessie Brown Leonard and sister to Joseph D. Leonard of St. Augustine, Florida; aunt to Joseph "Joey" Leonard and great aunt to her dear Charlye and her family. Mrs. Oglesby was preceded in death by her...

Harold (Jaybird) Kaiser

Harold (Jaybird) Kaiser

Oct 27, 2018

Harold J. (JayBird) Kaiser, age 55, passed away unexpectedly after a short illness on Thursday morning, October 25, 2018 at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, GA. Born in Tawas City, MI, he was an Air Force brat who lived in a number of states before his father retired to Amarillo, TX, where he attended Tascosa High School.  A...

Lewis Augustus (Ted)Taylor

Lewis Augustus (Ted)Taylor

Oct 27, 2018

Early Saturday morning, Lewis Augustus (Ted) Taylor was ushered through the gates of heaven into the presence of His Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He was born in Charleston, SC on December 27, 1921. He was predeceased by his mother Thelma Thweatt Taylor Fitzgerald, his father Lewis A. Taylor, and his stepfather William Fitzgerald He was raised in downtown Savannah...

Skye Marie Gorlesky

Skye Marie Gorlesky

Oct 26, 2018

Skye Marie Gorlesky gained her Angel wings Saturday October 20, 2018. Baby girl we love and miss you so much. Not a day will go by that you will not be on our minds and in our hearts. We know your time on earth was short but now you are with your New Father. She was predeceased by her great-grandmother...

Tommie Fordham

Tommie Fordham

Oct 26, 2018

Family has entrusted Baker McCullough Funeral Home Hubert C. Baker Chapel for making arrangements.

Fran Waters Shuptrine

Fran Waters Shuptrine

Oct 26, 2018

Fran Waters Shuptrine, 54, of Savannah, GA passed away Friday October 26, 2018. Fran was a loving mother and grandmother and a great friend to any one she met. She enjoyed cooking and loved animals (including her pet Stella). She was preceded in death by her parents Wade and Mary Deak Waters; brother, Joe Waters. She is survived by her...

George Register Chapman

George Register Chapman

Oct 25, 2018

Family has entrusted Baker McCullough Funeral Home Huber C. Baker Chapel for making arrangements. Visitation: 10 - 11 AM Tuesday October 30, 2018  at Hubert C. Baker Chapel Graveside Service to follow at 11:30 AM at Greenwich Cemetery.

Annie Nease Brusie

Annie Nease Brusie

Oct 25, 2018

Annie R. Nease Brusie, passed away peacefully in her home on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at the age of 92.  She was born in Savannah, Ga, August 30, 1926. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert F. Nease and Nettie Kessler Nease; her brothers, Sergeant C. M. "Donald" Nease, Major Robert F. Nease, Jr., and Harold Ray Nease;...

Sharon Deloach

Sharon Deloach

Oct 25, 2018

Sharon Deloach Sharon passed away after a short illness  Tuesday October 16, 2018 at Candler Hospital. She was born in 1946 and worked for Savannah Christian Prepatory School in Day Care. She is survived by a son, Richard Bacon (Wendy), daughter, Shellie Nicholson, daughter in law, Tracey Deloach and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and two pets who were the...

Diane Lawhorn

Diane Lawhorn

Oct 25, 2018

Family has entrusted Baker McCullough Funeral Home Hubert C. Baker Chapel for making arrangements.

Lewis A. Schley

Lewis A. Schley

Oct 23, 2018

Lewis Schley passed away at Hospice of Savannah on October 20 after struggling with health issues for several years. He was born to John and Clara Schley in Cleveland Ohio on April 27, 1932. He graduated from Strongsville High School.  In his teen years, he built a small greenhouse behind his parents' home which grew into a family retail business....

Sonja Lynn Fields

Sonja Lynn Fields

Oct 21, 2018

Sonja Lynn Fields , age 57, died peacefully October 18  , 2018 after fighting brain cancer. Sonja is survived by husband Jamie of 35 years, son Justin , and daughter Mallory, and her husband Rich Poythress, granddaughter Reagan, father John D Jensen ,  two sisters Nancy, and her husband David Thomson, Dina Jensen, two brothers, Randy, Richard and their families,...

Melba Jones Burnett

Melba Jones Burnett

Oct 19, 2018

Melba Jones Burnett,79, left this world Sunday, October 7th, to meet her Lord and reunite in heaven with the husband she loved and lost 55 years ago, leaving her to raise their two little girls on her own at the age of 24. She did an amazing job raising those daughters and relished her role as grandmother to their five...

Doris Bullock Nash

Doris Bullock Nash

Oct 18, 2018

Doris Bullock Nash 84 of Savannah Georgia went peacefully  to her happy place with the Lord on October 15 2018. She was born in Oxford North Carolina on September 23 1934 to Hilary Milton Bullock and Pauline Johnson Bullock. Mrs. Nash graduated from Duke University School of Nursing. During her long career she held registration in nursing in North Carolina,...

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