Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bailey, Charles Wesley December 29, 2011 ************************************************ 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 August 25, 2018, 3:11 pm The Berrien Press - January 1, 2012 Charles Wesley Bailey, 72, of Orlando, FL died December 29, 2011, at his r residence following a lengthy illness. He was born March 20, 1939 in Moultrie to the late James Seaborn and Carrie Ella McKinnon Bailey. He attended school in Nashville, graduating from Berrien High School in 1957. After graduation, he moved to Orlando where he met and married Peggy Joyce Hamby. They had been married 52 years at the time of his death. Charles will be remembered for his love of baseball. He was on the Berrien High School baseball team and was an accomplished pitcher with an ability to hit, as well. He loved the outdoors, gardening and fishing, particularly. He enjoyed fishing trips to the Florida Keys or Port Canaveral, with his family, he often talked of relocating to The Keys but never realized that dream. He was also an accomplished musician, playing guitar for the pleasure of friends and family. He was a self-employed, small business owner for most of his working years, first in the scrap-metal industry and then o operating a commercial painting business. Survivors, in addition to his wife, includes his sons, Jonathan C. Bailey, Kevin L. Bailey (Annette), Nolan K. Bailey (Bridget); daughter, Mia Bailey Crawford (Robert); grandsons, Christopher Bailey, Andrew Bailey; granddaughters, Kristina Crawford, Charlotte Crawford and Tristan Crawford. Siblings, John David Bailey (Sandra), Clinton M. Bailey (Gaile) and Mary Alice K King (Richard); a number of nieces and nephews, as well as one aunt, Lillian E Eugenia McKinnon Cook. A viewing was held on January 2, from 2-4 p.m. at Baldwin Fairchild Funeral Ho Home, Lake Ivanhoe, in Orlando. Interment of cremains will follow at Westview Cemetery, Nashville at a later d date. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home of Orlando was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/obits/b/bailey5119nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb