Dougherty-Crisp-Taylor County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hankinson, Helen Taunton  October 6, 2002
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The Albany Herald - Obituaries
Helen Taunton Hankinson

ALBANY — The funeral services of Helen Taunton Hankinson, 76, of National 
Court, who died Sunday, October 6, 2002, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. 
at Mathews Funeral Home. The Rev. Buford Taylor will officiate. Interment will 
follow in Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Cordele, GA.

A native of Taylor County, GA, Mrs. Hankinson had resided in Atlanta until 
retirement from Roebuck Southern Territory Offices and a private tax consultant 
firm while in Atlanta. She was a member and past president of Peachtree Chapter 
of American Business Women's Association where she was honored as "Woman of the 
Year." She moved to Cordele in 1978 on beautiful Lake Blackshear. She 
volunteered at Crisp Regional Hospital for many years where she served as 
president of the Hospital Auxiliary and was honored as "Volunteer of the Year." 
She moved to Albany in 1993 where she was a member of Elk's Auxiliary of B.P.O. 
Elk's Lodge #713, where she served as president and was a member of the Past 
Presidents Club of the Elks Auxiliary. She was a member of A.A.R.P., Golden Key 
55 Plus at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Golden Striders, Senior Friends at 
Palmyra Medical Centers, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Forever Young 
Club at Christ United Methodist Church, National Association of Retired Federal 
Employees, Southwest Georgia Genealogical Society Inc., Burke County Georgia 
Genealogical Society, Taylor County Georgia Historical Society, Christ United 
Methodist Church and was a hostess for Mathews Funeral Home. She was the widow 
of J.C. "Hank" Hankinson and was preceded in death by her parents, John 
Franklin Taunton and Rena Rosebud Bryan Taunton and two brothers, Winston 
(Slick) Taunton and John Raymond Taunton.

Survivors include a sister, Edith T. Hobbs Barrer of Smyrna, GA; and a number 
of nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends today from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mathews Funeral Home 

Albany 229/435-5657 



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