Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Drawdy, Meldrim Akin September 17, 1987 ************************************************ 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: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 October 23, 2005, 7:49 pm 18 September 1987; The Brunswick News; pg. 3A col. 2 Meldrim Akin Drawdy, 78, of Brunswick died Thursday evening after an extended illness. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Chapman Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Charles Green and George Clary officiating.  Interment will follow at the Whitaker Hill (Harrison) Cemetery in Thalmann. Visitation will be at the chapel from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight. Pallbearers will be Gary Nail, Billy Freeman, Travis Bridges, Ricki Miller, John Yonkosky and Joe Cranshaw. Honorary pallbearers include Charles Kilby, N.W. Spell, Greg Gibbs, Richard Parker, Ed Liles, DeWayne Underwood, Gerald Arnett, Ed Long, Jimmy Sears, Grover Hope, Clint Poppell, Woodrow Gale, Sammy Hope, Calvin Hope, Tom Howard, Rodney Harrison, Wilmer Drury, Dr. Salem Osta, and all the Hospice personnel. The family will be at 101 Oak St. in Highland Park and requests that those wishing to make contributions make them to the Hospice Society of Glynn County. Survivors include his wife Naomi Spell Clary Drawdy of Brunswick; two sons, Rene Drawdy of Brunswick and Ronald Clary of Springfield; three daughters, Jeanett Nail Clark of Thalmann, Laurie Cauldwell of Savannah, and Francis Josey of Augusta; a brother, Col. Frederick W. Best, U.S. Army Retired, Fayetteville, N.C.; two sisters, Minnie Bridges of Jacksonville, Fla., and Emma Jean Gale of Brunswick; 12 grandchildren and seven great- grandchildren. Drawdy was a life-long resident of Glynn County, and a retired contractor and developer.  He developed Highland Park subdivision.  He was also a member of the Buckingham Church of God. Chapman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at www.glynngen.com or the sister site at www.rootsweb.com/~gaglynn/ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/d/drawdy2999gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb