Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries Rastus Mathews 1975

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Obituary of Rastus Mathews 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 27 Jun 1975.  

Camilla, Georgia.  Funeral Services for Mr. Rastus Mathews, age eighty-five, will 
be held this afternoon, Friday 27 Jun 1975, at three o'clock in the chapel of Parker-
Bramlett Funeral Home.  Mr. Mathews died around two-thirty o'clock Thursday, 26 Jun 
1975, morning at Mitchell Convalescent Center after an extended illness of more than a 
year that had him in and out of hospitals at various times.  Rev, Edgar T. Davis Jr., pastor 
of the First Baptist Church of Camilla where Mr. Mathews was a long time member, will 
officiate at the services.  Interment will follow in Oakview Cemetery.  Serving as 
pallbearers will be Wallace Watkins and Lee Sawyer of Sylvester, Brantley Collins, R. D. 
Covington, Douglas Collins Jr., Joe Morris Palmer, Charles Stripling and Joe Barber 
Adams.  Parker-Bramlett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  Mr. Mathews was 
born 24 Apr 1890, in Bethlehem in Barrow County, Georgia, son of the late Charles and 
Texanna Mathews.  He moved to Mitchell County and Camilla sixty-five years ago.  He 
was a Mason and a Shriner. As member of the First Baptist Church he served as Church 
Secretary for a number of years and was also for many years Secretary of his Baracca 
Sunday School Class.  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lula Mae Crosby Mathews of 
Camilla; one son, Charles Mathews of Camilla; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughn of 
Los Angeles, California and Mrs. Rebecca Hatfield of Imperial, California; one sister, 
Mrs. Rossie McDonald of Winder, Ga.; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.