Benhill-Turner County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mary Bailey Stickland February 13 1997 ************************************************ 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: Kay Music http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00028.html#0006826 January 16, 2003, 8:25 pm The Ocilla Star Feb.26,1997 Mary Strickland Mrs. Mary B. Strickland, 85, of Fitzgerald, passed away February 13, 1997 at Dorminy Medical Center in Fitzgerald. Mrs. Strickland was born October 13, 1911 in Turner county and had lived in the community since 1994, moving back from Cochran. She was the daughter of Jim E. and Belie Nipper Bailey. She was a homemaker and was a member of The Church of Christ in Cochran. Survivors include her husband,James Harvey Strickland of Fitzgerald; one son, Ronnie Maddox of Yulee, FL; three stepsons, Junior L. Strickland of Duke, Missouri, Bobbie R. Strickland and Sage A Strickland, both of Fitzgerald, two stepdaughters,Lenora S. Kerby of Stillwater, OK and Doshia E. Mullis of Senoia, GA; 15 grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one grandchild. Funeral services were held Sunday, February 16, 1997 at 2:00 p.m. at the Burch-Hudson Funeral Home CBapel in Tifton with Jim Shadwick and Grandson Joe Hall officiating. Interment followed at Evergreen Cemetery in Fitzgerald. Burch-Hudson Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. File size: 1.5 Kb