MATTIE LOU SAXON, Obituary, 30 Dec 2000, Madison County, GA

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Story last updated at 7:13 p.m. on Sunday, December 31, 2000

Mattie Lou Saxon 
Danielsville 

Mattie Lou Drake Saxon, 80, of 284 Crawford W. Long St., died Saturday, 
Dec. 30, 2000.

A native of Madison County, Mrs. Saxon was a daughter of the late Joe 
and Mary Roberts Drake, and was the widow of Thurman Saxon. She was a 
retired textile spinner, a homemaker and a member of Tabernacle Baptist 
Church.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Vineyard Creek Baptist Church 
with the Revs. Tommy Seay and Douglas Duncan officiating. The body 
will be placed in the church at 1:30 p.m. Burial will be in the church 
cemetery.

Survivors include a daughter, Reba Rowland Hanley, Danielsville; two 
sons, Joe Grady Saxon, Gipson, and Thurman ''Buddy'' Saxon, Bowman; 
24 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

The family is at the home of granddaughter Cindy Kohal, 3060 Grady 
School Road, Canon, and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at 
Strickland Funeral Home, Hartwell.

Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Monday, Jan. 1, 2000