Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Nelms, Thomas Junior December 8, 2010 ************************************************ 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 13, 2016, 5:47 pm The Berrien Press - December 8, 2010 Thomas Junior Nelms, 83, of Nashville, passed away Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010, in S South Georgia Medical Center. He was born Nov. 26, 1927, in Pulaski County, to the late Dorsey Nelms and the late Sadie Vaughn Nelms. He was a retired mechanic with Dorsey Garage and the Berrien County Board of Education Bus Shop, where he was the foreman for many years and known as “Papa Bear.” He was a member of Mt. Pleasant Missionary B Baptist Church and was an Air Force veteran. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Cersey Nelms of Nashville; a daughter, Bonnie Nelms Bush of Nashville; a son, Tommy George (Susan) Nelms of Nashville; a sister, Loretha Nelms Cersey of Nashville; four grandchildren, Alisha (Rodney) Sirmans, Chad (Amanda) Nelms, Brandon Bush and Courtney Nelms; three great-grandchildren, Kyle, Carlileigh and Lee. Services will be held at 2 p.m. today, Dec. 7, 2010, in the chapel of Lovein Funeral Home with the Rev. Franklin Vinson, the Rev. Stan Stalvey and the Rev. R.T. Castleberry officiating. Interment will follow in Westview Cemetery. - Lovein Lovein Funeral Home, Nashville. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/obits/n/nelms4692nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb