Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hancock, Frances Butler November 19, 2010
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The Berrien Press - November 24, 2010
 Frances Butler Hancock, 90, of Nashville died November 19, 2010, at Berrien 
Nursing Center.
 Born April 21, 1920, in Burke County to the late Tate and Mary Williams Butler, 
she was a direct descendant of two American Revolutionary War Soldiers, Neil 
Culbreth and Charles Butler, both of Sampson County, NC. She was proud of being 
a descendant of the Galbraith Clan of Scotland.
 She attended Georgia College for Women in Milledgeville for two years before 
coming to Nashville in September, 1938 as a second grade teacher at Nashville 
Elementary School. She met and married Yates W. Hancock. During WWII, Yates 
served in the U.S. Navy aboard LST 293 and participated in the invasion of 
Normandy on June 6, 1944. White her husband was in the Navy, she decided to do 
her part in the war effort so she moved to Warner Robins and worked at Robins 
Air Base in one of the airplane hangars issuing parts needed to repair damaged 
aircraft to get them back into service. Many weeks were spent working seven 
days.
 After the war ended, she and Yates returned to Berrien County. Yates taught on-
farm agricultural classes to returning farm veterans and she taught fourth 
grade. She attended Valdosta State College and earned a B.S. degree in 
elementary education. She remained on the faculty at Nashville Elementary until 
she retired on July 1, 1977. She was a life member of Georgia Retired Teachers 
and a member of the Nashville United Methodist Church.
 She was preceded in death by her husband, Yates W. Hancock, who drowned in a 
boating accident on the Ocmulgee River on July 8, 1985. She was also preceded in 
death by her seven sisters, Eva Reeves, Lenna Sutton Tew, Ruth Kirkland, Ethelyn 
Bargeron, Elva Nobles, Margaret B. Butler, and Doris Horton, two nieces and five 
nephews.
 Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Wynn and Jean Hancock; grandson, 
Lawrence Hancock of Nashville; two step-granddaughters, Rhonda Carroll Smith of 
Nashville and Melanie Carroll of Atlanta, three step-great-grandchildren, one 
step-great-great-grandchild, three nieces, two nephews.
 Funeral services were held November 21 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Lovein 
Funeral Home with Dr. Russ Elkins and Dr. Danny Ray officiating. Music on CD 
included “In the Garden” and “Abide with Me.”
 Interment was in Westview Cemetery.
 Pallbearers were Butch Houston, Don Williams, Johnny Lovein, Randy Hancock, 
Timmy Hughes, Hank Decker, Kenny Hughes.
 Lovein Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.


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