Dougherty-Bibb-Lee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Arthur, Sara Ann Sanford February 13, 2006
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Kimbrell - Stern 2006
Date of Birth: July 12, 1931  
Date of Death: February 13, 2006  

Sara Ann Sanford Arthur, 74, of Leesburg died Monday at Phoebe Putney Memorial 
Hospital. The funeral service will be 11 AM Saturday at Kimbrell-Stern Funeral 
Directors with interment to follow in Leesburg City Cemetery. Rev. Ben Rice and 
Rev. John Warrener will officiate. 

She was born in Macon, GA to the late Eugene and Sara Hightower Sanford but 
lived most of her life in Leesburg. She was a life long member of Leesburg 
Presbyterian Church, Golden Key Club member, XYZ member at Porterfield United 
Memorial Methodist Church and was a ”special lady” that dearly loved her family 
and had a heart for children. She taught thousands of children to swim; she ran 
the best full day camp programs with the YMCA, the Recreation Departments and 
at her own home backyard. Mrs. Arthur taught children to have fun by playing 
volleyball, swimming, fishing, horseback riding, arts and crafts, floating down 
the river and even jumping on the trampoline. She had a great love for horses 
and in 1978 she and her horse won the World Cutting Horse Championship in 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was deeply loved by all who knew her, and she was 
a legend. 

Survivors include her husband of more than 55 years, Sam P. Arthur of Leesburg, 
son Sandy Arthur of Santa Fe, New Mexico, daughter, Brandy Lee Arthur of Macon 
GA, 8 grandchildren: Sam C. Arthur, Sara A. Sena, Eugene A. Arthur, Joseph M. 
Arthur, George S. Arthur, Jalila Ann Arthur, Liberty Chamberlain, and Justus 
Chamberlain, 2 great-grandchildren, a nephew and several nieces and their 
children. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother Raleigh 
Sanford. 

The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 9 PM at Kimbrell-Stern Funeral 
Directors. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Lee YMCA Building 
Fund, 1701 Gillionville Rd, Albany, GA 31707, or to the Thornton Home and 
School for Children, PO Box 60, Clinton SC 29325-0060, or the Leesburg 
Presbyterian Church, Leesburg, GA 31763. 

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