Early County  Georgia Obits Carl H. Lanier
	
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Funeral Held Thursday P. M. For Carl H. Lanier


Damascus, Ga. - Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon, 3 o'clock in the Damascus Methodist Church
for Carl Hamilton Lanier, 66, who died at his
residence here late Tuesday night.  Mr. Lanier had
been ill for several weeks.


A native and life-long resident of Early County, he
was born February 2, 1892, and was a son of T. J. and
Lula Coleman Lanier.  He had engaged in farming and
was chief of police in Damascus for 15 years.  He was
prominent in the affairs of this community and held in
high esteem by his friends.


Mr. Lanier's funeral was held in the Damascus
Methodist Church, of which he was a member, with the
Rev. I. M. McDuffie and the Rev. Guy Walton
officiating.  Interment was in Blakely Cemetery.
Bryan Funeral Home directing and Joe Bryan, W. T.
Dowdy, Lamar Billings, Liston Radney, and E. R. Pullen
serving as active pall-bearers.  An honorary escort
comprised W. H. Haddock, Bert Tarver, Sid Howell, Mal
Simmons, Tom Metts Pullen, Cecil Godwin, Johnny Webb,
Roy Pullen, Edwin Hunter and Ira Walton.


Surviving Mr. Lanier are his widow, Mrs. Ella Loyless
Lanier; three daughters, Mrs. David Billings, of
Damascus, Mrs. Willis Pittman, of Bainbridge, and Mrs.
C. C. Clarke, Jr. of Atlanta.


Source: Early County News, Blakely, Georgia Thursday,
January 29, 1959


*Note* Carl Hamilton Lanier, Sr. was born 02 February
1892 in Early Co., GA and died 13 January 1959 in
Early Co., GA.  He was the son of T. J. Lanier and
Lula Coleman.  Carl Hamilton Lanier, Sr. was married
to Clemmie Loyless on 09 April 1914 in Early Co., GA
Book J, Page 331.

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