Berrien-Tift County GaArchives Obituaries.....Benefield, Thelma "MeMa" Connell February 9, 2009 ************************************************ 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 February 5, 2016, 4:11 pm The Berrien Press - February 18, 2009 CHULA - Thelma C. “MeMa” Benefield, 82, of Chula died Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev. Donnie Wright officiating. Burial will follow at Vickers Holiness Baptist Church Cemetery in Berrien County. The family will receive friends from 7-9 tonight at Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors. Jamie Miley, Rodney Patterson, Jimmy Benefield Jr., Andy Thompson, Jeff Thompson and Timmy Thompson will serve as pallbearers. Grandsons and great-grandsons will serve as honorary pallbearers. Born Nov. 20, 1926, in Berrien County to the late Robert George Connell and Lonnie Barber Connell, Mrs. Benefield was also preceded in death by a daughter, Jerrynell Miley; four brothers; six sisters; a grandson, Little Sonny Patterson; and a son-in-law, Walter Thompson. Mrs. Benefield, a longtime resident of Tift County and formerly of Berrien County, was a homemaker and a member of Pine Hill Baptist Church. She enjoyed crossword puzzles, embroidery and raising and taking care of her animals. Mrs. Benefield loved her children, grandchildren and all of her family. Mrs. Benefield is survived by her husband, James Edward Benefield of Chula; two daughters and two sons-in-law, Judy B. Thompson of Tifton, Cathie and Sonny Patterson of Sumner and Bill Miley of Chula; two sons and one daughter-in-law, James Donald Benefield of Nashville and Jimmy Lee and Sharon Benefield of Tifton; two sisters, Hazel Knowles of Nashville and Alma Sirmans of Tifton; 28 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. You may sign the registry at www.albritton-beaumontfuneralhome.com . Albritton beaumontfuneralhome.com>. Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors was in charge of ar arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/obits/b/benefiel4530nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb