Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Robert Horton  Griffin, Sr.  March 7 2003
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Services for Robert Horton Griffin Sr. of Thomasville are at 11 a.m. Monday, 
March 10, 2003 at Dawson Street United Methodist Church.The Rev. Bob Hall will 
officiate and interment is in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Mr. Griffin died March 7, 
2003 at Archbold Memorial Hospital. Born Oct. 3, 1923 in Grady County, Georgia, 
he was the son of the late Wiley R. and Martha Aleta Jones Griffin. On January 
10, 1943, he married Edna Lynn Edmonds, who survives. Mr. Griffin was a World 
War II veteran having served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. He was 
a member of Dawson Street United Methodist Church and Lifeline Ministries Inc. 
He was a lay minister, song evangelist and former Christian Counselor for the 
Georgia Board of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was a member of Masonic 
Lodge No.369 F & AM where he served as chaplain. He is a recently retired 
member of the Thomasville City Planning and Zoning Commission. Other survivors 
include a daughter, Sandra Griffin of Waynesboro; son and daughter-in-law, 
Robert Horton Jr. and Janet Griffin of Orange Park, Fla.; sister, Ruth G. 
Murray of Alexandria, La.; grandchildren, Lynn Griffin Boone and Jim Broone of 
Orange Park, Lynda Griffin Dotson and John Dotson of Middleburg, Fla., Robert 
Hunter Parrish, III and Denise Parrish of Waynesboro, Nancy Parrish of Atlanta, 
Lydia Griffin Haydu and Matt Haydu of Jacksonville Beach, Fla.; great-
grandchildren, Devon Blair of Middleburg, Fla., Kaley Lynn Boone of Orange 
Park, Dylan Martin of Jacksonville Beach, Tyler Griffin Boone of Orange Park, 
Larissa Haydu of Jacksonville Beach, Dalaina Dotson of Middleburg; numerous 
neices and nephews. He was preceded in death by a grandson, four sisters and 
two brothers. Memorials may be made to Lifeline Ministries Orphanage. The 
family will receive friends from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. 
Allen & Allen Funeral Home

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