Emanuel-Washington County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tyson, Joseph T. "Joe" May 30, 1958 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William J. (Jim) Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net March 6, 2011, 3:01 pm The Savannah Morning News 6-1-1958 Page 8A Joe T. Tyson, Wrightsville SWAINSBORO, Ga. May 31----Joe T. Tyson, 78, of Route 2 Wrightsville, died in a Laurens County hospital Friday after an extended illness. He was the son of the late Joe Tyson and Cindy Johnson and was a native of Washington County. Survivors are his wife, the former Curlie Powell; five sons, Joe C. Tyson, Fellsmere, Fla., Wylie Tyson Jr., Pembroke, Robert E. Tyson and Preston, Dublin, and Ernest Tyson, Wrightsville; six daughters, Mrs. A. G. Kight, Springfield, Mrs. H. D. Lindsey, Wrightsville, Mrs. Leon Nobles, Kite, Mrs. J. M. Flanders, Twin City, and Mrs. V. T. Ivey, Dublin; 29 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3:30pm at the Bethel Methodist Church by Elder Rollie Riner, Rev. W. P. Smitson, and Rev. M. R. Kenoyer. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be at the residence until time for funeral services. T. C. Hunnicutt & Son of the Swainsboro Mortuary will be in charge of funeral arrangements. Pallbearers will be grandsons. Honorary pallbearers will be Tobe Fields, Otis Lee Kight, Joe H. Rowland, Emory Rowland, Charlie Meeks, Virgil Ivey, Leonard Powell, L. E. Parker Sr., Grayson Rowland, George Lawson, Jesse Anderson, Melvin West, Eason Foskey, George Webb, Leon Lamb, Gordon Greenway, and Marcus Anderson. Additional Comments: Joe was born 25 Feb 1880 to William Joseph "Joe" Tyson and Lucinda "Cindy" Johnson Tyson. Georgia death certificate #13106. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/emanuel/obits/t/tyson1801nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb