Atkinson-Tift County GaArchives Obituaries.....Meade, Mary Peterson Payne January 14, 2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 October 15, 2016, 6:08 pm Atkinson County Citizen - January 14, 2010 Mary Peterson Payne Meade, 90, of Tifton, died Thursday, January 13, 2010, at T Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2010 in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev. Gary Cadwell officiating. Burial will follow in the Willacoochee City Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 till 7 p.m., Friday, January 15, 2010, at Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors. Pallbearers were Vance Peterson, Ray Peterson, Bill Chaplin, John P. Chaplin, Terry Morris, Charles Parrish, Randall Moss. Honorary pallbearers will be the Tift Regional Medical Center Auxiliary Ladies and Men. Mrs. Meade was born April 5, 1919 in Atkinson County to Emmett Peterson and Susie Marie Summerlin, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, A.A. Meade, a brother, Henry Alton Peterson and a sister, Annette Peterson. Mrs. Meade had lived in Tifton most of her life and was a member of Brookfield Baptist Church. Beaumont Funeral Directors. Pallbearers were Vance Peterson, Ray Peterson, Bill Chaplin, John P. Chaplin, Ter Terry Morris, Charles Parrish, Randall Moss. Honorary pallbearers will be the Tift Regional Medical Center Auxiliary Ladies an and Men. Mrs. Meade was born April 5, 1919 in Atkinson County to Emmett Peterson and S Susie Marie Summerlin, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her h husband, A.A. Meade, a brother, Henry Alton Peterson and a sister, Annette P Peterson. Mrs. Meade had lived in Tifton most of her life and was a member of Brookfield Baptist Church. She was a member of Tift Regional Medical Center Auxiliary for many years. She was manager and bookkeeper for Farmer’s Hardware for 25 years. M Mrs. Meade graduated from Pearson High School and later attended business s school in Atlanta where her first job was at the Georgia State Capital. Mrs. Meade is survived by her sisters and brothers-in-law, Sue Peterson Morris and Ellie Morris of Pearson and Betty Peterson Chaplin and Henry “Nick” Chaplin of Neeses, SC; a sister-in-law, Jean Young Peterson of Kirkland; several nieces and nephews whom she loved very much; and special friends, Mittie Dorminey, Lota Boltrucyk, Sarah Willis and Louise Woodham. Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/atkinson/obits/m/meade4685nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb