Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Griner, Elsie Higgs November 30, 2002
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The Berrien Press - Dec. 2002
 NASHVILLE -- Elsie Higgs Griner, 106, of Nashville, the oldest member of the 
State Bar of Georgia died Saturday, Nov. 30, 2002 at Presbyterian Home in 
Quitman after several years of declining health
 Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Chapel of Lovein 
Funeral Home in Nashville. The Very Rev. Stanley White will officiate. Burial 
will follow at the family plot of Nashville's City Cemetery.
 The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. tonight at Lovein Funeral Home.
 Born Sept. 6, 1896, in Berrien County, Mrs. Griner was the fourth of five 
children born to John Taylor Higgs and Elizabeth Adams Higgs, both deceased. 
She was also preceded in death by her husband, George A. Griner and one son, 
Geunie Griner.
 The petite, red-haired, lady lawyer, known to many friends as "Miss Mama," 
retired in 1990 after 68 years of active practice in her chosen profession. 
Her record for length of service at the Georgia Bar has not been surpassed.
 Pioneering the practice of law by the gentler sex, Miss Mama stood and passed 
the Bar in Homerville in December, 1921, and began her practice in January 
1922, in Nashville with one of her mentors, the now late Attorney Jeff S. 
Story.
 In addition to her devotion to the practice of law, Miss Mama was a seasoned 
stage performer, having sung high tenor with her family's gospel singing 
group, The Holy Notes.
 Over the years, in addition to having served as president of the Alapaha 
Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Miss Mama held membership in the American 
Bar Association, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Nashville's First Baptist 
Church and Circlestone County Club.
 Family members left to mourn her leaving and to remember in love include her 
only granddaughter and longtime law partner, Galen A. Mirate; her gradson-in-
law, Dr. Donald J. Mirate; her great-grandson, Milo Mirate, all of Valdosta; 
one daughter, Annabel Alderman of Nashville; and a virtual grandson, James 
Cleon Knight of Nashville.
 Lovein Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

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