Area Obituaries

Services for Ms. Karen Day, 52, who died Oct. 31, were held Nov. 9 at Bennett Tabernacle Holiness Church.Pastor Reuben Bennett Jr., Pastor Reginald Cordy and Bishop Williams Hollis officiated with burial in Northview Cemetery. Ms. Day was the daughter of Leroy Carter Sr. and Mollie Wiley. She was a 1985 graduate of Jeff Davis…

Graveside services for Ms. Jennifer Dotson, 57, who died Nov. 7, were held Nov. 16 at Philadelphia Cemetery in Hazlehurst where Dr. James Minor of True Christ Outreach Ministries of Norcross and the Rev. Joe McCloud officiated. Ms. Dotson was the daughter of Mattie Jo Kirby Collins and the late Roland McKinnely Dotson Sr. She…

Mrs. Shirley Pennington, formerly of Hazlehurst, went to be with the Lord Oct. 17. She was a native of Charleston, W.Va., but had resided in Hazlehurst for a number of years. She was an active member of Southside Baptist Church where she served in many areas of the church. She had 23 years of service…

Services for Mrs. Artha Jane Reeves Evans, 98, were held Nov. 10 at Northgate Baptist Church with burial at Hazlehurst City Cemetery. The Rev. Prentice Herndon officiated. Mrs. Evans was born Oct. 18, 1921, in Lumber City. She was preceded in death by her parents, the late William Allen Reeves and Verna Lee Powell, her…

Mrs. Jerricene Ricketson Tate, 80, formerly of Hazlehurst, died Nov. 4 in Jacksonville, Fla., at her son’s home. Mrs. Tate was born July 12, 1939, in Jeff Davis County to the late Jim Vinson Ricketson and the late Lorena Trowell Ricketson. She was a retired secretary with Bell South and a member of Mt. Pleasant…

Services for Ms. Twyla Simone Kirby, 41, who died Nov. 1 at Jeff Davis Hospital, were held Nov. 9 at Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. Moderator E. Neal Dixon and Pastor Cyprus O’Neal officiated with burial in Hill Memorial Gardens. Ms Kirby, daughter of Rueben and Gloria Eloise Mitchell Kirby, was born in Hazlehurst. At…

Mrs. Delle Hammock Strawn, 80, of Hazlehurst, died Oct. 30 at Coliseum Health System in Macon. Mrs. Strawn was born Sept. 5, 1939, in Wilkes County to the late Ollie Brantley Hammock and the late Louise McAvoy Hammock. She was retired from the Bank of Hazlehurst and was a member of Hazlehurst First Methodist Church.…