Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Savannah, Garden City, Georgia

Gwendolyn Winters

Gwendolyn Winters

Feb 4, 2023

Gwendolyn Blalock Winters, 75, passed away on February 4, 2023 at home. She was loved and adored by many. Born on October 10, 1947 in Metter, Georgia, she was the Daughter of Willard Blalock and Mary Bandora (Heartsil) Blalock. She graduated from Robert W. Groves High in 1965. Gwen spent most of her career as an employee of the Coca-Cola...

Gloria Andrews Sumner

Gloria Andrews Sumner

Feb 2, 2023

Gloria Andrews Sumner, age 85, of Savannah passed away Thursday, February 2, 2023 at home. Mrs. Sumner was born on February 27, 1937 in Macon, GA, the daughter of the late Jefferson Greenwood Andrews and Edith Josephine Kitchens Andrews. Gloria was raised in Savannah and was a 1954 graduate of Commercial High School. She served as a secretary with the...

Harriet Jane Lynch

Harriet Jane Lynch

Feb 2, 2023

Harriet Brunson Lynch (89) passed away February 2, 2023 at Memorial Medical Center. She was born December 27th, 1933 in Screven County in the Jackson Community and moved to Savannah as a small child. She attended kindergarten at Millhaven Plantation in Screven County and began elementary school in Savannah. She was a 1951 Graduate of Commercial High School. Harriet was...

Donald Lee Fallin

Donald Lee Fallin

Feb 1, 2023

Donald Lee Fallin, age 87, of Savannah died Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at his residence. Mr. Fallin was born March 1, 1935 in Savannah to the late Fay Warren Fallin and the late Marguerite Rose Byrnes. He was a veteran of the United States Army and a parishioner at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist. Mr. Fallin was...

Linda Diane Cleland

Linda Diane Cleland

Feb 1, 2023

Linda Diane Paden Cleland, 73, of Richmond Hill, passed away February 1, 2023 at Memorial Hospital. Linda was born December 22, 1949 in Marietta, Georgia to the late Harold and Jacqueline Paden. She was family oriented and doted on her sons, Stephen and Johnny. She put them first in everything she did including cooking and preparing their plates at every...

Bobby Eugene Griffin

Bobby Eugene Griffin

Feb 1, 2023

Bobby Eugene Griffin, 70, of Savannah, passed away February 1, 2023 at Candler Hospital. Mr. Bobby was born in Adel, GA March 19, 1952 to the late Vernon Griffin and Allie Mae Warren Griffin, one of five children. He was self-employed as a mechanic and worked alongside his son, Grif, for many years. Mr. Bobby was an avid fisherman and...

Roger Lynn Brucker

Roger Lynn Brucker

Jan 30, 2023

Roger Lynn Brucker passed away at home in Savannah on January 30, 2023. Roger was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 13, 1948. He was the son of a career Air Force major and moved with his family to bases all over the U.S. with overseas posts in Scotland and Japan. Roger’s favorite place to live was Honolulu, Hawaii where...

Larry Edward Carnahan

Larry Edward Carnahan

Jan 30, 2023

Larry Edward Carnahan, 74, of Ellabell, Georgia passed away Monday, January 30, 2023 at his home under the care of GHC Hospice. A native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, he was the son of the late Julian Carnahan and the late Anna Mae France Carnahan. Larry was a US Army Veteran having served during the Vietnam War. He was a retired...

William Yuki Kumagai Spivey

William Yuki Kumagai Spivey

Jan 29, 2023

William Yuki Kumagai Spivey, age 26, of Savannah, GA passed away Sunday, January 29, 2023. William was born on February 12, 1996 in East Stroudsburg, PA and was raised in Savannah. He was a graduate of Savannah Arts Academy where he was an accomplished violinist. He was a member of the Beaufort Symphony Youth Orchestra. William worked as a Forklift...

Glaen Richards

Glaen Richards

Jan 29, 2023

Vernon Glaen Richards, 95, passed away on January 29, 2023. Glaen was born in Savannah on April 29, 1927. After living with his two brothers for many years at Bethesda, he joined the Navy at a young age and defended his country during World War II. While Glaen’s ship was circling in the Sea of Japan, Admiral Nimitz asked for...

Gregory David Collins

Gregory David Collins

Jan 26, 2023

Gregory David Collins, age 70, passed away peacefully Thursday, January 26, 2023. Greg was born in Savannah Georgia to the parents of J.C. and Ethel Collins. Starting from a young age Greg was always independent and was always on the go. In the late 1970's he worked at the Savannah Morning News in printing and was later featured in a...

Patricia Lynn Porter

Patricia Lynn Porter

Jan 23, 2023

Patricia Lynn (Peanut) Porter, 42, of Savannah, GA, passed away on January 23rd after a life-long battle with Systemic Lupus. She was born on March 17, 1980 to Lynn Smith and Dan Muller in Panama City, FL, and raised in Savannah, GA where she attended Windsor Forest Elementary School, Bartlett Middle School, and Windsor Forest High School. Patricia had a...

Patricia Ann Gordon

Patricia Ann Gordon

Jan 22, 2023

Patricia Ann Gordon, 60 years old died January 22, 2023 at home in Guyton, Georgia of natural causes. She is preceded in death by her mother, Sarah Jane “Betty" Adolph Gordon and her brother, Scott Lee Gordon. She is survived by two sons, Loren Scott Gordon (Dawn) of Tucson, Arizona and Gordon Turner Ratcliffe of Tucson, Arizona. Her father, Sidney...

Robert Scott Sexson

Robert Scott Sexson

Jan 20, 2023

Robert Scott Sexson (76), of Savannah, Georgia, formerly of Richmond Hill, Georgia and Bluffton, South Carolina, passed away at Memorial Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia on Friday, January 20, 2023. Born February 16, 1946, he was the son of the late Robert Bant and Annabel Sexson. Bob grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from Western Kentucky University. Most of...

Edward Ward Wheeler

Edward Ward Wheeler

Jan 19, 2023

Edward Ward Wheeler, 90, died January 19, 2023 at Ogeechee Area Hospice, Statesboro, Georgia. He was the son of the late Robert and Mildred Wheeler of Eatonton, Georgia. He is preceded in death by a son, Michael Edward Wheeler. Surviving are his wife of more than 64 years, Betty Jean Sharpe Wheeler of Statesboro; and a brother, Jack Wheeler of...

John David "Johnny" Roper

John David "Johnny" Roper

Jan 18, 2023

John David “Johnny” Roper, 68, died Wednesday, January 18, 2023. He was a lifelong beloved resident of Port Wentworth. He earned the nickname “Mr. Port Wentworth” because he seemed to know everyone and never met a stranger. He could often be found riding his bike all over the city. Johnny attended services at First Baptist Church of Port Wentworth alongside...

Jacqueline "Jackie" Ann O'Quinn Savard

Jacqueline "Jackie" Ann O'Quinn Savard

Jan 15, 2023

Jacqueline “Jackie” Ann O’Quinn Savard, age 92, of Savannah passed away Sunday, January 15, 2023 at home. Mrs. Savard was born on November 28, 1930 in Savannah, GA, the daughter of the late Dora E. O’Quinn and Edward F. O’Quinn. She was a 1949 graduate of Commercial High School and was a longtime member of Asbury Memorial Church. Jackie enjoyed...

Joyce Ellen Langley

Joyce Ellen Langley

Jan 12, 2023

Joyce Ellen Langley, Savannah, GA passed away peacefully at home with her family on January 12, 2023 under the care of Compassus Hospice. Joyce was born in Albany, NY on July 20th, 1943 to Margit Swenson Rubin and Nathan Rubin. Joyce is preceded in death by her mother, father, and brother, Paul Rubin, Ithaca, NY. She leaves nephews, Eli Rubin,...

Molly Beverly Buchans

Molly Beverly Buchans

Jan 12, 2023

Molly Beverly Buchans, 80, was born in Eastman, GA on January 9, 1943 was called home to heaven on January 12, 2023. Her passions were her family, cooking and gardening. Molly was preceded in death by her loving husband J.H. Buchans and her son J.H. Buchans III. She is survived by her daughters Marian, Melissa, and Melody; Grandchildren: Ashley, Kim,...

Willene Strickland Cobb

Willene Strickland Cobb

Jan 12, 2023

Mrs. Willene Strickland Cobb died Thursday, January 12, 2023 at home. She was born Sally Willene Fisher on April 14,1939 to Mildred Edenfield Fisher and William Cecil Fisher. Mr. Fisher died when Willene was very young. She and her mother lived with her maternal grandparents and extended family in Savannah. Years later, her mother remarried a wonderful man, Roy Whetstone....

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