Obituaries

Janie Collins Lynn

Feb 14, 2013

Janie Collins Davis Lynn, 86, died Thursday, February 14, 2013 at her home in Decatur. The Collins, Georgia native was the daughter of Orie and Alice Blalock Collins. She moved to Decatur 54 years ago and retired from the Met Life Insurance Company after 39 years of employment. Although, she was still a member of the Pine Grove Baptist...

Maude Miles Willingham

Jan 29, 2013

Maude M. Willingham, 89, died Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at Jacksonville Nursing and Rehab in Jacksonville, FL. A native of Metter, she was one of 16 children of John Benjamin and Minnie Berry Miles. She moved to Macon working at the U.S. Naval Plant during World War II and later settled in Jacksonville in 1959. There she retired as...

Robert "Bob" Wilson Harrington

Jan 25, 2013

Robert "Bob" Harrington, 93, of Metter died Friday, January 25, 2013 at Cedar Plantation. He was born in Cambridge, Kansas, the son of the late Allen and Letha Hill Harrington. Bob was a World War II veteran serving in the U.S. Air Force. A retired watchmaker, he had studied his trade at Southern College of Watchmaking in Memphis, TN....

Jesse Coleman Qualls

Jan 18, 2013

Jesse Coleman Qualls, 91, of Metter, Georgia died Friday, January 18, 2013, at Ogeechee Area Hospice. The Arkansas native moved to Metter in 2006 from Jacksonville, FL. One of 10 children, he was the son of Henry A. and Ella Elizabeth Qualls and lived most of his life in Arkansas and Indiana. He was an Army veteran and retired...

J.R. Edenfield

Jan 1, 2013

J.R. Edenfield, 87, of Metter died Tuesday, January 01, 2013, at Cedar Plantation. The Candler County native and lifelong resident was the son of William Henry and Myram Addie Grubbs Edenfield. A 1943 graduate of Metter High School, he was an Army veteran of World War II. J.R. and his wife, Hazel, owned and operated Edenfield Grocery for 35...

Vickie June Deloach

Dec 25, 2012

Dateline: Metter Vickie June DeLoach, 55, passed away Tuesday, December 25, 2012 at her home in Statesboro. She was a Metter High School graduate and attended Swainsboro Tech, East Georgia College receiving her Master Degree in early childhood education from Georgia Southern College. She was preceded in death by her father, Bill DeLoach; grandparents, Fred and Myrtle DeLoach, Lela...

Helen Sikes Collins

Dec 23, 2012

Helen Sikes Collins, 92, of Cobbtown died Sunday, December 23, 2012, at Hospice of Savannah. She was born in Bulloch County, the daughter of Virgil and Annie Belle Howard Sikes. Before moving to Cobbtown in 1975, she had lived in Savannah 45 years working with Seaboard Coastline Railroad and retiring with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Savannah. Mrs....

Hubert Daughtry

Nov 30, 2012

Roy Hubert Daughtry, 86,of Metter died Friday, November 30, 2012 at the Candler County Hospital. The Candler County native and son of Roy and Ida Bowen Daughtry returned to the family home place in 1999. He was a 1944 Metter High School graduate and a 1952 graduate of University of Georgia with a B.S. degree in Agriculture. The Army...

Delores Durden Collins

Nov 25, 2012

Delores "Cat" Durden Collins, 62, of Aline died Sunday, November 25, 2012 at Ogeechee Area Hospice. The daughter of Darnell "Baby" and Dollie Collins Durden, she was a lifelong resident of Aline and a member of the Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church. She was a Metter High School graduate and retired from Pride Manufacturing Company in Portal after working...

June Collins Strange

Nov 13, 2012

June Collins Strange, 82, died Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at Cedar Plantation in Metter. Born in Cobbtown, the daughter of Laun and Winnie Hamm Collins, she had lived most of her life in Candler County near Metter. She was a 1947 graduate of Collins High School and attended Georgia Teachers College. After many years of assisting her husband on...

William Laurence Sparrowhawk

Oct 28, 2012

William Laurence Sparrowhawk, 57, of Brandon, FL died Sunday, October 28, 2012 in Candler County in an ATV accident. He owned a home in the Rosemary Community where he came to hunt. All services will be held in Brandon, FL. Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks chapel.

Ralph Anthony Gouldsmith

Oct 18, 2012

Ralph Gouldsmith, 65, of Claxton died peacefully Thursday, October 18, 2012, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Savannah. He was a 1965 Collins High School graduate and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Ralph was a self-employed truck driver for the past 40 years. Claxton became home in 1988 after leaving Collins. He was a member of the Calvary...

Willie Mae Cox Sapp

Oct 8, 2012

Willie Mae Cox Sapp, 75, of Cobbtown died Monday, October 8, 2012, at her home under the care of her family and Spanish Oaks Hospice. She was born in Toombs County, the daughter of Willie M. and Allie Phillips Cox. She has lived in Cobbtown most of her life and was a retired seamstress at Argo Mills in Metter....

Margaret Dekle Parker

Sep 30, 2012

Funeral services for Margaret Dekle Parker, 90, of Metter was held Wednesday, 2:00 PM, October 3, 2012 at the Metter Primitive Baptist Church. Burial was in the Lake Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the Metter Primitive Baptist Church, POB 672, Metter, GA 30439 Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter is in charge.

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Remer Collins

Remer Joe Collins, 70, of Cobbtown, Georgia died of colon cancer in the home he shared with his daughter, Christian Angelique Collins, and granddaughter, Andersen Jin Matsusaka, on January 25, 2019 in Mililani, Hawaii.

Remer was a loving father, grandfather, son, brother, uncle, and friend. He spent his younger years in Statesboro and Atlanta where...

Sam Edenfield Jacobs

Sam Edenfield Jacobs, 76, of Marietta and husband of the late Sulayne Aaron Jacobs, passed away at his residence.

Born in Stillmore, he was the son of Dewitt Pate and Louise Edenfield Jacobs.  Mr. Jacobs was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Marietta and was a retired regional manager for the Health and Safety Industry....