Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries Joseph Gidiere Crovatt Jr. 1965

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Obituary of Joseph Gidiere Crovatt Jr. 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 22 Oct 1965.  


Funeral services for Dr, Joseph Gidiere Crovatt will be held this 
afternoon, 22 Oct 1965 at 4:00 PM at the First Baptist Church of Camilla.  Coming to 
officiate will be a former pastor, Rev Charles Duncan of McCaysville.  Interment will 
take place at Oakview Cemetery. Bramlett Funeral Home of Camilla has charge of 
arrangements.  Active pallbearers will be Earnest Jones, Wallace Worsham, Hugh 
Dowdy, Charles Davis, Lewis Brooks, N. W. Green, Tom Hays and Billy Brooks. 
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. M. W. Williams, Dr. A. A. McNeill Jr., Dr. L. E. 
Hackett, Dr. J. C. Brim, Dr. W. C. Arwood, Dr. J. P. Doyle, Fr. Funderburke of Moultrie, 
Dr. C. A. Stevenson, Dr. W. A. Smith, Julian Rivers, Joel Rivers, Tom Cobb, Bob Davis 
and John Marshall.  Dr. Crovatt died early Thursday morning, 21 Oct 1965 at his 
residence on South Harney Street after an illness of several years which had seen him 
hospitalized at various periods.  The end came suddenly and quietly.  He arose and went 
to his bedroom door to tell his wife not to prepare any breakfast for him because he did 
not feel like eating any.  When she went into his room a short while later she found he 
had passed away.  He was a member of the Camilla First Baptist Church, the Camilla 
Rotary Club and the American Medical Association.  Dr. Crovatt moved to Camilla with 
his family in the early 1940's a short time before the start of World War II.  He retired 
from private practice in Camilla several years ago to accept an appointment as a member 
of the medical staff at the Veterans Hospital in Dublin, Ga., where he was also chief of 
the medical staff. Dr. Crovatt was a native of Thomasville, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
Joe G. Crovatt.  His father for many years was an engineer on the Atlantic Coast Line 
Railroad.  He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Louise Griner of Camilla and one 
daughter Mrs. Chester Tatum of Warner Robbins and two grandchildren. Other survivors 
include six sisters, Mrs. A. N. Tuck Sr., Mrs. Love douglas and Mrs. Margaret Titus, all 
of Thomasville; Mrs. W. R. (Ethel) Humphlett of Columbia, S. C., Mrs. Eva C. Gephert 
of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. E. W. Bowers of Dixie, Ga.  There are several nieces and 
nephews and other close relatives.  Dr. Crovatt spent his early life in Thomasville where 
he graduated from Thomasville High School later attending medical college in Augusta 
and serving his internship in the Coast Line Hospital in Waycross.