Crisp-Emanuel-Bulloch County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dekle, Robert  Lee March 18, 1953
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The Cordele Dispatch., Cordele., Crisp County., Georgia., Vol 36., No. 89., Monday Evening., 23 March 1953. 
             Robert L. Dekle Was Laid To Rest Friday Afternoon.
   Robert L. Dekle, 78, for more than fifty years a Citizen, Businessman, and 
Civic Leader in Cordele were held Friday afternoon at four o'clock fom the 
First Baptist Church of which he was a member.  The services were conducted by 
the pastor, Rev. C. E. Fite, and Rev. J. B. Smith, of the First Methodist 
Church.
   Two songs, "Abide With Me" and "Asleep In Jesus" were sung by Mrs. Ed. 
Jones and Curtis Jackson, with Mrs. Essie B. Cobb accompanying at the organ.
   Pallbearers were Geo Franklin, Jr. Lchman Franklin, Roger Dekle, Kermit 
Dekle, Robert D. Williams, Robert L. Fitzgibbons, Garriett Fitzgibbons, Britt 
G. Williams, Jr.
   Honorary Pallberers - Funeral Directors and salesman, Family Fund Life Ins 
salesman, Crisp County Democratic Executive Comm, Leo Mercer, S. D. Adkins, J. 
R. Collins, J. H. Dorough, M. V. Carden, J. R. Dowdy,Jr., Terrell Prevatt, 
William Brock, J. W. Sutton, John H. Stevens.
   Jack Sheppard, Harry Williams, Jake Sheppard, L. M. Hunt, Ike Long, Loran 
Moore, J. W. Rycroft, J. D. Smith, Ernest Rowland, M. H. Ellis, J. L. Dorough, 
L. G. Booth, Judge O.  T. Gower, Dr, P. L. Williams, Dr. L. E. Williams, Elder 
M. A. Hall, Shelby Westbrook, Jake Ledbetter.
   Dr. Charlie McArthur, J. H. Childs, Rev. A. B. Hosea, A. R. Harvard, Sr, C. 
C. Greer, S. J. Culpepper, F. B. Callaway, Paul Smith, P. H. Greene, J.R. 
Raines, Guy Cobb Sr, Judge O. E. Scott, Frank Chappell, C. L. McMillian, W. O. 
Dorough. John Williams, J. A. Lasseter, Ed Jones, W. F. Scarboro, E. K. 
Powers, Dr. W. W. Collum, J. H. Lamb, D. H. Standard, Elder T. J. McArthur, 
Lon Burton, M. R. Miller, T. V. Hyman and J. T. Westbrook.
   Mr. Dekle's death occurred in Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, following a major 
operation.  He had been in failing health for sometime.
   A native of Emanuel County, Mr. Dekle had been a resident of Cordele for 
more than fifty years and a pioneer in business.  He was one of the leaders in 
the movement to create Crisp County, which was formed from a potion of old 
Dooly County.  He was head of the Dekle Funeral Home here for many years.
   Mr. Dekle is survived by his wife, the former Miss Daisy Cobb; five 
daughters, Mrs. Dan Chappell, and Mrs. Carl Bass, of Miami; Mrs. Garriett 
Fitzgibbons of College Park, Mrs. Britt G. Williams  of Cordele, and Mrs Fred 
Derrick, Jr. of Clayton, and an adopted daughter Alice, also a brother J. 
Dekle of Swainsboro and one sister, Mrs. Ivy Fordham of Macon.
   Nine grandchildren and a great grandchild also survive 

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