Dougherty-Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rainey, Sr., J.D. July 25, 2006
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The Albany Herald - July 26, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

 J.D. Ralney, Sr.

CORDELE — J.D. Rainey, Sr.,96, died at Cordelia Manor in Cordele Tuesday, July 
25,2006.

Mr.Rainey was born Wednesday, November 10, 1909 in Perry and was the son of the
Late William McMurray Rainey and  Florine Jennings Culler Rainey. He is a 
graduate of Perry High School and Gupton-Jones School of Embalming. Mr. Rainey
was a retired funeral director and founder of Rainey Family Funeral Services. 
He was the oldest funeral director in the state of
Georgia. Mr. Rainey was the 1968 president of the Academy of Graduate 
Embalmers, a member of the  Georgia  Funeral Directors association, the nation-
al Funeral Directors Association and the Independent Funeral Directors 
Association. He was a former city commissioner and a member of the Cordele Lions
Club for 66 years. Mr. Rainey was the oldest active member of Cordele First 
United Methodist Church and the Fellowship Class.

Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Rainey Funeral Services 
Thursday, July 27,2006 at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at Sunnyside Cemetery 
in Cordele.

He is survived by his children; Aubrey Derrilldine Jackson and her husband, 
Jackie and James Derille Rainey, Jr. and his wife, Judy, all of Cordele; 
grandchildren, Johnny C. Jackson and his wife, Connie of Collierville, TN,
Tony Jackson and his wife. Lisa of Kennesaw, Wesley Rainey and his wife, Tina, 
and Cynthia Elaine Clifton and her husband, Teddy, all of Cordele, and Angela 
Leigh Young and her husband, Tommy of Macon; and great-grandchildren,  Jessica  
Jackson  and Johanna  Jackson,  both  of Collierville, TN, Emma Jackson and 
Chandler Jacksoh, both of Kennesaw, Trent Miles, Madison Miles and Nate Miles, 
all Of Macon, and Wade Rainey of Cordele.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Jessie Cleo Smith Rainey, 
sisters; Marylou Rainey Fudge,Willerien Overstreet, Florine Culler Rainey,
Aubrey Estelle Rainey, and Doris Houser Rainey Hane and brothers; William  
McMurray Rainey,Jr., and Edgar Leigh Rainey.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday, July 26, 2006 
from 6 until 8 p.m. Friends may register online at www.raineyfuneral.com

Rainey Funeral Home, Cordele 229/273-2231

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