Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries Elizabeth Batchelor Shirah 1936

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Obituary of Anna Elizabeth Batchelor Shirah 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 9 Oct 1936.  

Camilla, Georgia.  Causing sadness to numerous friends 
in the county was the death of Mrs. D. V. Shirah, which occurred at her home near 
Camilla on Monday, 5 Oct 1936, afternoon at 3:00 PM.  Mrs. Shirah had been sick for 
about three months.  Funeral services took place Tuesday, 6 Oct 1936, morning at 11:00 
AM at Pleasant Hill church, a large company of sorrowing relatives and friends 
attending.  Rev Jim Rigsby conducted the service and comforting hymns were sung by 
the church choir.  Interment was in the cemetery beside the church.  Acting as pallbearers 
were Leo Hatcher, S. D. Hatcher, Harry Everson, Loyd Mulford, Bob Collins and Raiford 
Faircloth.  Mr. J. R. Bramlett, of Camilla Hardware and Implement Co. was in charge of 
the funeral.  Mrs. Shirah was sixty-five years of age.  She was born in Gray and spent her 
childhood there.  She was a Miss Batchelor.  She moved to Mitchell county forty-two 
years ago and was married to Mr. Dwight Shirah, spending her entire married life here.  
She was a good woman, a devoted wife and mother and a good neighbor.  She loved the 
church and had been a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist church for a number of years.  
Mrs. Shirah is survived by her husband, Mr. D. V. Shirah; three sons, G. H. Shirah of 
Sarasota, Fla.; L. H. Shirah of Camilla; and A. B. Shirah of Macon, and one daughter, 
Mrs. W. D.Williams of Camilla.  She leaves also three brothers, Jim Batchelor of 
Camilla; R. L. Batchelor of Fort Valley; Will Batchelor of Perry, and three sisters, Mrs. J. 
H. Todd of Perry; Mrs. W. A. Spencer of Gray and Mrs. A. J. Todd of Americus.  The 
bereaved family has the deep sympathy of numbers of friends in their sad hour.