Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sasser, Donnie October 2, 2002
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The Albany Herald - Obituaries
Donnie Sasser

ALBANY — Donnie Sasser, 49, of Albany, GA, died Wednesday, October 2, 2002, in 
Panama City, FL.

The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Kimbrell-Stern with interment 
to follow at Floral Memory Gardens. Pastor Bill Sasser will officiate.

A native of Albany, Mr. Sasser graduated from Westover High School in 1971. He 
went on to attend Middle Georgia College on a baseball scholarship. He played 
baseball locally with the American Legion Post 30, and helped lead them to win 
the state tournament in 1970. In 1973, he started his professional baseball 
career with the San Francisco Giants where he stayed until 1981. He went on to 
play baseball with the Canadian League where he was also the manager. He later 
returned to Georgia Southwestern College in Americus where he not only received 
his masters degree in education, but also coached the baseball team and helped 
lead them to the conference title. He then came back to Albany and opened 
Sasser Mattress Factory and worked until he retired last year. He not only 
enjoyed baseball, but he was also an avid fisherman.

He is survived by his wife, Lee Culbreth Sasser of Albany; brother, Bill Sasser 
and his wife Lynn of Franklin, TN; father and mother-in-law, Hershell and Betty 
Culbreth of Albany; sister-in-law, Donna Elliott and her husband Mike of 
Albany; brother-in-law, Robert Culbreth and his wife Staci of Newnan, GA. He 
was preceded in death by his father and mother, William Woodrow Sasser and 
Margie Mae Sasser; two nephews, Tres Sasser and Kyle Elliott; three nieces, 
Hannah Culbreth, Sarah Culbreth and Mariah Elliott.

The family will receive friends at Kimbrell-Stern from 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. today.

Those desiring may send memorials to the American Legion Post 30 Baseball, P.O. 
Box 514, Albany, GA 31702.

Kimbrell-Stern 

Funeral Directors 

Albany 229/883-4152 



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