Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thornton, Edwin ' Buddy " November 29, 2007
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Tante Funeral Home   November 2007
Edwin “Buddy” Thornton, 63, of Buena Vista, Georgia died Thursday, November 
29, 2007 at his home.

Funeral services were held Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of 
Tante Funeral Home in Buena Vista with Reverend David Chapman and Reverend Pat 
Taylor officiating.  Music was provided by Brenda Humber.  Pallbearers were 
Greg Oliver, Fred Renfroe, Rusty Taylor, Jason Posey, Chris Hudson and Bubba 
O’Neal.  Interment followed in the Tazewell Cemetery in the Tazewell 
Community.  

Mr. Thornton was born October 29, 1944 in Covington County, Alabama to Olen 
Okland and Fannie Mae Meadows Thornton.  In addition to his parents, he was 
preceded in death by a brother, Wilburn Thornton and a sister, Opal Preskitt. 
He had lived in Buena Vista since 1960 and worked for King’s Custom Builders 
as a carpenter for 25 years.  He was Baptist by faith and a member of Tazewell 
Baptist Church.  He was also an inventor, a woodworker and was always 
tinkering.  

He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Shirley Ann Cromer Thornton; a son, 
Bobby Junior Thompson and wife Cathy of Bluffton, South Carolina; a daughter, 
Barbara A. Church and husband Oscar of Bluffton, South Carolina; and by four 
sisters, Estelle Wilson and husband James, Doris Usry and husband Barry, all 
of Americus, Georgia, Evelyn Howell of Plains, Georgia and Mary Register of 
LaGrange, Georgia. Four grandchildren, Teresa Posey, Brittany Thompson, Leigh 
Hudson and Derek Church, also survive him, as well as seven great 
grandchildren, Ryan, Dawson, Dakota, Tori, Keaton, Cameron and Jeremy.

Tante Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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