Mitchell County Georgia Obituaries Mary Lee Shirah Crosby 1957 ****************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ****************************************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sam Luckey Oct 2002 Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/mitchell.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Obituary of Mary Lee Shirah Crosby as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 21 Jun 1957. Mrs. Hiram Warner Crosby, age 75, passed away at Howard Hospital, 12 Jun 1957, after a brief illness. Funeral services were held 14 Jun 1957, at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, at 4:00 PM. Rev H. N. Earnest officiated assisted by Rev Charles Duncan. Interment was in the church cemetery. Bramlett Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Pall bearers, all grandchildren of the deceased were: J. E. Worsham Jr., Paul Bailey, D. J. Crosson, Warner Crosby, Warner Worhsam, Woodrow Worsham, Lester Allen, G. W. Hinley and James Johnson. Mrs. Crosby was the former Miss Mary Shirah, daughter of the late Jim Shirah and Avie Goodson Shirah. She was born and reared in Mitchell County, and a lifelong member of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. She made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Ernest Griffin in Pelham. Survivors include one son, S. E. Crosby of Camilla; four daughters, Mrs. J. L. Bettison, Mrs. Edgar Worsham and Mrs. W. H. Worsham of Camilla, and Mrs, Ernest Griffin of Pelham; one brother, Otis Shirah of Moultrie; twenty grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren.