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Larry James Grant

11/29/2015

 
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Larry James Grant, age 58, 3732 Charlotte Drive, Rex, Georgia passed November 28, 2015 at his home in the loving surrounding of his beloved family.
 
The funeral service will conducted at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, December 5,2015 at Zion Grove Baptist Church, Whitehorse Road, Montezuma, Georgia. Reverend Coley Clark, Jr., pastor, will officiate. Burial will follow at Champ Waters Cemetery, Twin Church Road, Montezuma, Georgia.
 
Mr. Grant was born December 10, 1956 in Montezuma, Macon County, Georgia to the late Mrs. Gladys Grant and O. C. Dawson.  He was a 1975 graduate of Macon County High School and a member of Zion Grove Baptist Church. He met the love of his life, the former Edna Hill, in 1991 and later joined her in holy matrimony on July 21, 2006. To this union, they were blessed with three children, Laron, Vincent, and Chase.   He was employed as a service Technician with ASAP Net Source  of New York.
 
Mr. Grant leaves a legacy of loving memories to his beloved wife, Mrs. Edna Hill Grant, Rex, Georgia and three children, Laron Grant, Decatur, Georgia, Vincent Hill, Chase Hill, both of New Jersey. Other survivors include his siblings, Louella Mann, Montezuma, Georgia, Betty Jo Joiner, Montezuma, Georgia, Betty Carr, Irvington, New Jersey, Willie Grant (Annie), Vienna, Georgia, and Claude Grant, Sr.; aunts and uncles, Rosie Lee Thomas, Montezuma, Georgia; mother-in-law, Kay Hill, Newark, New Jersey; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Dorothy Ginn, Newark, New Jersey, Toni Hill (Walter Williams), Norman Hill, Jr. (Tasha), Terrance Hill (Nakia), Kay Hill; a host of beloved nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends, including several devoted friends, who were like siblings: Stanley Taylor, Maurice Christian, Westley Monteiro, Charles Solomon, George Solomon, Emma Tonic, Tiny Solomon, Marie Solomon, and Raheem Williams,  Michael Williams,  who were like his sons.

Deacon Johnnie B. Solomon, Sr.

11/24/2015

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Deacon Johnnie B. Solomon, Sr., age 78, 100 Hayes Avenue, Apt. 7, Ellaville, Georgia passed Monday morning, November 23, 2015 at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, Americus, Georgia.

The funeral service will be conducted at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, November 28, 2015 at Jerusalem Baptist Church, Shiloh Road, Americus, Georgia.  Interment will follow in Hopewell Cemetery, Hopewell Road, Ellaville, Georgia.  The Reverend Lem Wright, pastor, will officiate.

Deacon Johnnie B. (King) Solomon, Sr. was born January 2, 1937 in Plains, Georgia to the late Willie B. Solomon and Willie Bell Myrick Thornton. He was a faithful member of the Jerusalem Baptist Church and served in the following capacities: Church Secretary, Sunday School Teacher, and Chairman of the Board of Deacons.

Deacon Solomon was a past Master of Ellaville Light Lodge #443.

He was married to Annie Carter Solomon for 36 years, and to this union five children were born.  One son, Johnnie B. Solomon, Jr., preceded him in death.  He was also preceded him in death by a sister, Rosetta Blackshear, and a brother, Robert Lee Solomon.

He leaves to cherish his memories: four sons, Kenneth Solomon (Margaret) College Park, Georgia, George Anthony Solomon (Dale), Powder Springs, Georgia, Barry Solomon (Christine), Lilburn, Georgia, and Wayne Solomon (Delphine), Ellaville, Georgia; seven siblings, Mary Morrison, Oakland Park, Florida, Ruby Solomon, Ellaville, Georgia, Patricia Solomon, Ellaville, Georgia, Bobbie Gainey (Sylvester), Dexter, Georgia, Linda Murray, Ellaville, Georgia, Ellis Thornton, Jr. (Gwendolyn), Buena Vista, Georgia and Nathaniel Thornton, Sr. (Shearlean).  He also leaves four grandchildren, five great grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends to cherish his memories.

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John L. Seay

11/24/2015

 
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John L. Seay, age 68, 215 Burton Circle, Americus, Georgia passed on November 21, 2015 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, Georgia.

The funeral service will be conducted at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, November 28, 2015, Big Bethel Baptist Church, 1330 North Jackson Street, Americus, Georgia, where the Reverend Calvin Rollins is pastor. Elder E.G. Lundy will officiate. Burial will follow at Eastview Cemetery, Ashby Street, Americus, Georgia

John L. Seay was born August 20, 1947 to the late Ike Seay and Annie Mae Burrows.  He received his education in the public school system of Schley County and was a graduate of John Lewis High School.  He was employed with King Custom in Ellaville, Georgia as an Electrician for many years. At an early age he confessed Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. He was a member of Oasis World Outreach Church in Americus, Georgia. John enjoyed doing electrical work and video recording family and friends capturing memories on film that would last a lifetime. John was preceded in death by one daughter, Jennifer Ann Seay, and a sibling, Isaiah Seay.

Survivors are three children, Debra Denise Seay (Clifford Carter), Americus, Georgia, Kenzie Seay-Burgess (William), West Columbia, South Carolina, Johnathan  Seay, (Bernadette), Lexington, South Carolina; 10 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; a fiancée, Blanche Holder, Americus, Georgia; siblings, Bobby Seay, Dawson, Georgia, Gloria Sims (Charles), Americus, Georgia, Helen Gordon (James), Americus, Georgia, and Eddie Seay (Lucille), Montezuma, Georgia;  aunts and uncles, Martha Black, Ellaville, Georgia, Rosa Mae Harrell, Orlando, Florida, Louise Jackson, Ellaville, Georgia, Nettie Ruth Kendrick, Tampa Florida, Bobby Jackson (Henrietta), Ellaville, Georgia, Earnest Seay (Willie Mae), and Charlie James  Seay (Mary), all of Americus, Georgia; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.

Bernice Smith

11/17/2015

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Bernice B. Smith, of Rochester, New York, passed away on October 30, 2015.

The funeral service will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, November 21, 2015 at St. James C.M.E Church, 215 Railroad Street, Marshallville, Georgia, where Reverend Billy Heard is pastor. Burial will follow at Willow Lake Memorial Gardens, Willow Lake Road, Fort Valley, Georgia.    

Bernice B. Smith was born on January 20, 1952, in Macon County, Georgia, to the late Maggie Pearl Blue and Henry L. Blue.  She relocated to Rochester, NY with her family in 1957.  She graduated from Monroe High School in 1969 and was employed at Eastman Kodak for many years, retiring from the Film Finishing department in 2007. Bernice was always taking pictures of family and friends. She had boxes upon boxes of pictures. This served as proof that she single handedly intended to save the Eastman Kodak Company film business, despite the digital evolution.

Bernice was known for her love of order and process.  She always knew exactly how things should go and was always willing to share with her family, whether they wanted to hear it or not. She had a heart of gold and was always willing to help anyone. She was a true Georgia Peach.

The Lord saw fit to call Bernice home on October 30, 2015.  We will miss her dearly. She rests in the Lord's tender care and joins her loved ones who have preceded her in death: her mother and sister, Delores Smith.

Those left to cherish her memory include her loving daughter, MaToya Smith; brothers, Henry Lewis (Ann) Blue, Bernard Blue; sister, Deborah Elaine (LeRoy) Quick, all of Rochester, NY;  twin goddaughters, Dominique and Monique Miller; a special great niece who was like a daughter, Modesty Gause, and her children who were like grandchildren, Taniah and Candace McCutcheon and Isis Rutledge; lifelong friends Marina Alvarez, Jackie Hannah, Evelyn Walters, and Jannette Leary (Marshallville, GA); a special neighbor, Jennifer Rozzi, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

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Christine Green Harvey

11/10/2015

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Christine Greene Harvey, age 81, 115 Pecan Terrace, Americus, Georgia passed Monday, November 9, 2015 at Phoebe Sumter Hospital in Americus Georgia .

The funeral service will be conducted 2:00 P.M., Saturday, November 14, 2015 at United Holiness Church Headquarters, 901 Aaron Snipes, Sr. Drive, Americus, GA, where Bishop Arthur Fulton is pastor. Evangelist Buford Snipes will officiate. Interment will follow in the Eastview Cemetery, Ashby Street, Americus, Georgia.
 
Christine was born January 14, 1934 to the late Clarence Greene and Emma Green Greene in Schley, County, Georgia.  Christine acquired her education in the public school system of Schley County. Christine worked as a Nurse’s Aide providing personal care and assistance to many at the Sumter Regional Hospital and retired after devoting over 30 years of service in order to care for her mother. Christine was a faithful member of United Holiness Church Headquarters of Americus, Georgia for many years. She was one of the pillars who helped to organize the Church.

She was united in holy matrimony to Charlie Criss Harvey on November 1, 1953, and to this union, seven children were reared. She was preceded in death by three siblings, Alvin Greene, John Henry Greene, and Barbara Hunt, and five sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Emmitt Harvey, Henry Harvey, Jenny Harvey Terry, Nettie Mae Harvey, and Ziella Harvey Huff.
 
Survivors included a loving and devoted husband of sixty-two years, Charlie Harvey, Sr., Americus, Georgia; eight devoted children, Charlie C. Harvey, Jr. (Martha), Dennis Harvey (Margaret), Wayne Harvey (Deborah), Cheryl Clemons (Joseph), and Eric D. Harvey (Dorothy), all of Americus, Georgia, Carol D. Wright, (Warren) Columbus, Georgia, Cassandra Chan (Michael), Jonesboro, Georgia, Johnny Barron (Meliton), Fairburn, Georgia; twenty-one grandchildren; a host of great grandchildren; two siblings, Caleb Greene, Missouri, Cassie Floyd (Homer), Americus, Georgia; sisters-in-law, Julia Harvey, Lorene Harvey, Mary Jones, and Christine Sales, all of Atlanta, Georgia; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.

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Tavoris Ashmon

11/9/2015

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Tavoris Rashaun Ashmon, age 29, 825 Thornton Road, Montezuma, Georgia passed Saturday, November 7, 2015.
 
The funeral service will be conducted at 11:00 A.M., Saturday November 14, 2015 at Shade Arnold Baptist Church, Georgia Highway 26 East, Montezuma, Georgia.  Reverend Dr. George Porter will officiate.
 
Tavoris was born April 22, 1986 in Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia to Claudia Louise Ashmon.  He was a 2004 graduate of Macon County High School. He attended Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia. At the age of six, he joined Shade Arnold Baptist Church, under the leadership of the Reverend Harold Ross.
 
Survivors are a loving and devoted mother, Claudia Louise Ashmon, Montezuma, Georgia; siblings, Arnold Ashmon (Donna), Covington, Georgia, Cheryl Thomas (devoted friend, Stephen Scott) Perry, Georgia, Daryl Ashmon (Machell) Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Maryland Grace, Unadilla, Georgia; aunts and uncles, Agnes Smith, Perry, Georgia, Ann Plant (Hilliard), Fort Valley, Georgia, Rose Thornton, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Helen Jordan, Montezuma, Georgia, Jerry Thornton (Teresa), Macon, Georgia; six nieces and nephews, six great nieces and great nephews, and host of other relatives and friends. 

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Ernest Hopkins, Jr.

11/9/2015

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Mr. Ernest Hopkins, Jr. age 74, Americus, Georgia passed Saturday, November 7, 2015 at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, Americus, Georgia.
 
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, November 14, 2015, Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, 132 Bumphead Road, Americus, Georgia, where Reverend Curtis Frazier is pastor. Burial will follow at Stanley Memorial Gardens, Corner of Mayo Street and Southerfield Road,  Americus, Georgia.  
 
Ernest was born March 14, 1941 in Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia to the parentage of the late Ernest Lee Hopkins, Sr. and Annie Ruth Ingram Hopkins.  After his completion of high school in 1954, he moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was employed as a city worker for Fort Lauderdale Sanitation Department. Later he was employed with South Florida Mack Trucking Company, where he retired in 1980 as a tractor-trailer driver. In 2002, he moved back to his native land - Americus, Georgia.
 
Survivors are three siblings, Connie Hopkins Shepphard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Johnny Hopkins, and Charlie Lee Hopkins, both of Americus, Georgia, and host of other relatives, and friends.

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Maple Wright

11/9/2015

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​Maple Wright age 62, 163C Lakeview Circle, Americus, Georgia passed away at her residence on Friday, November 6, 2015.
 
The funeral service will be conducted at 3:00 P.M., Saturday,  November 14, 2015, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, Georgia Hwy 195, Leesburg, Georgia, where Reverend Sterling Calhoun Jr. is pastor. Apostle Henry Holsey, pastor of Mount Pleasant, Lee County, Georgia, will officiate. Burial will follow in Mt. Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Georgia Hwy 32, Lee County, Georgia.
  
Maple was born January 13, 1953 to the late Julia Lee Sailor and Michael Charles Wright in Leesburg, Georgia. She acquired her education in the Lee County and Sumter County school systems. At an early age, she confessed Jesus Christ as her personal Savior.
 
Maple was member of Mount Hope Baptist Church in Lee County, Georgia where she was a member of the church choir. After many dedicated years of service, Maple retired as a homemaker.
 
She was preceded in death by seven siblings, Willie Lee Wright, Rosa Taylor, Lillie Harris, John Ted Wright, Sallie Jean Wright, Tommie Wright and Barbara Wright, one granddaughter, Julie Wright and Betty Wright who she reared as her own.
 
She leaves to cherish her memories: two daughters, Nozine Wright and Angela Wright Banks (Doug), all of Americus, Georgia; five grandchildren, Kadijah R. Banks, Kanisha M. Wright, Kevin Banks, Jr. Keaisjah M. Brown and Kurtis K. Banks; six siblings, James Wrights and J.C. Wrights, both of Leslie, Georgia, Michael Charles Wrights, Jr., St. Petersburg, Florida  Harold Wright, Atlanta, Georgia, Sonny Wright, and Nathaniel Wright, both  of Americus, Georgia;  one aunt, Minnie Kate James (Frank), Leesburg, Georgia; Michael Wright, lll of Americus, Georgia, whom she reared as her own;  a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends, including a devoted niece, Gwendolyn Wright-Cobb. 

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Freddie Mae Taylor Reagan

11/5/2015

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Freddie Mae Taylor Reagan, age 57 passed away November  04, 2015  at Phoebe Sumter  Medical Center, Americus, Georgia.

A wake will be held at 5:00 P.M., Sunday,  November 8, 2015 at the Oglethorpe Funeral Chapel, Inc., 607 Kaigler Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia.

The funeral service will be conducted at 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Jefferson Street, Americus, Georgia, where Reverend H.C. Wilson is pastor. Elder  Larry Taylor, pastor of Inspirational Church By Faith, will officiate. Interment will follow in Eastview Cemetery, Ashby Street, Americus, Georgia.

Freddie Mae Taylor Reagan was born November 19, 1957 to the late Willie Fred Taylor  and Mary Ruth Millner Taylor in Americus, Georgia.  She attended the public school system of Sumter County.  She was  employed over the years with the Sumter County Board of Education as a Food Service Worker. She was preceded in death by three siblings, George  Bernard Taylor, Virgil Lee Morris, and Evelyn Belinda Taylor.

Freddie Mae was a member of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Americus, Georgia where she served in the Church Choir. Freddie was join in Holy matrimony to Amos Reagan.

Survivors are her husband, Amos Reagan, Americus, Georgia; two daughters, Deborah Nesbitt (Anthony Harvey), Albany, Georgia, Tameka Nesbitt, Americus, Georgia; three grandchildren, Javin Baker, Wartavis Thompson, Shadtavis Nesbitt;  two stepchildren, Marvin Sampson, Yazmine Reagan; siblings, Willie Taylor (Deborah C.), Americus, Georgia, Dorothy Hooks, Wildwood, Florida, Tyrone Williams, Virginia; an aunt, Ethel Millner, Albany, Georgia, Lady B Sims, Elnora Gervin, Lois Taylor, Lillie Cladd; sisters-in law and brother–in-law, Annie Lee Reagan, Emma Reagan, both of Leslie, Georgia, Thomas Reagan (Lynn), Americus, Georgia, John Reagan (Dorine), Americus, Georgia;  two nieces she reared on as her own, Chandra Garry and Mikita  Millner; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends, including a few devoted cousins and friends: James & Betty Millner, May Boone, Cynthia Bell, and Kay Dee Jones, Sarah Bacon, Annie B Reese, and Johnnie B Thomas.    

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Marsha Ruth Merritt Johnson

11/5/2015

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Mrs. Marsha Ruth Merritt Johnson, age 60, 911 Magnolia Street, Americus, Georgia passed Friday, October 30, 2015 at the Phoebe Putney Hospital, Albany, Georgia.

The graveside service will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, November 7, 2015 at Mt. Zion Webster Baptist Church, Young Mill Road, Preston, Georgia.

Marsha was born December 5, 1954 in Americus, Sumter County, Georgia to the late Eddie Lee Green and Mae West Merritt.  She attended the public school system of Sumter County and was a 1972 graduate of Americus High School. Following graduation, she enlisted in the Armed Forces of the USA Air National Guard and was honorably discharged July 21, 1976.  Marsha furthered her education and became a graduate of Atlanta Technical College with a degree in the Clerical Profession.  Marsha was employed with Fuller McFarlan as a Paralegal and later with Zavatta as a Recording Clerk and Habitat for Humanity as an Executive Assistant.  On  November 12, 2004, she was united in Holy Matrimony to Larry Johnson, Sr. 

Survivors are her husband, Larry Johnson, Sr., Americus, Georgia; two sons, Larry Johnson, Jr. and Jermaine Johnson, both of Americus, Georgia; one grandchild, Le’Jaylen Mikale Johnson, Americus, Georgia; three siblings, Jerryel Battle, Americus, Georgia, Michael Battle (Karen), Charleston, South Carolina, and Terry Tyson, Americus, Georgia; brothers-in- law and sisters-in-law, Evelyn Hayes, Jacksonville, Florida, Kenneth Terry (Sarah), Atlanta, Georgia, and Freida Jones, Americus, Georgia; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

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