FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Jeff Cordle, Sr.

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Rome News Tribune April 6, 1972
Jeff Cordle, Sr.

Thomas Jeff (Shorty) Cordle, Sr. 55, of the Texas
Valley Community, died Wednesday following injuries
received in an on-the-job accident. Cordle was born
in Floyd County Aug. 2, 1916, the son of Lucille
Broom Cordle and the late Will Henry Cordle. He had
spent his entire life here. He was a veteran of
World War II, having served with the U.S. Army, a
member of Antioch Baptist Church, and the Men's
Bible Class. He had been employed by General
Electric Co. as a welder since Jan. of 1854.

Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Elva
Boggs, to whom he was married Sept. 20, 1941; two
sons, Thomas Jeff Cordle, Jr. and Ricky Cordle, both
of Rome; his mother, Mrs. Lucille Cordle, Rome;
three brothers, Herbert Cordle, and Marion Cordle,
both of Rome, and W.H. Cordle of Summeville; four
sisters, Mrs. Sidney Avery, Alto, Mrs. Herchel
Avery, Rome, Mrs. Margaret Patterson, Armuchee and
Mrs. Edna Ford of Anniston, Ala.; two grandchildren
also survive.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 a.m.
at Antioch Baptist Church in Texas Valley with Revs.
Clifford LeMaster and S.H. Pendley officiating.
Interment will be in Antioch Cemetery.

The body will remain at the Jennings Funeral Home
where the family will receive friends from 7 until 9
p.m. today. At other hours they will be at the
residence in Texas Valley. The body will lie in
state at the church from 10 a.m. Friday until the
funeral hour.

Active pallbearers are C. L. Hicks, Horace Smith,
Harold Eleam, Raymond Davis and Max Worley.
Employees of the Parts Welding Section at General
Electric will  serve as honorary escort. All
pallbearers are asked to meet at the church at 10:45
a.m. Friday. Jennings Funeral Home has charge of the
arrangements. (note: died Apr. 5)