Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Fitzgerald, Joe Brown July 1959
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"The Camilla Enterprise" dated 9 Jul 1959

Obituary of Joe Brown Fitzgerald as written on page 2 of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 9 Jul 1959.  Camilla, Georgia.   
After a lengthy illness, J. B. Fitzgerald died at Phoebe Putney Hospital in 
Albany Sunday afternoon at the age of 81.  Mr. Fitzgerald was the father of 
Mrs. Keaton Cox, of Hopeful, and Ralph Fitzgerald, of Greenwood community, and 
the brother of Mrs. J. C. deGraffenreid, also of Greenwood community.  Mr. 
Fitzgerald had been a resident of Albany for the past forty years, moving there 
from Camilla.  He was born in Camilla and was the son of the late Edgar T. and 
Emma Spence Fitzgerald.  He was a retired farmer and a member of Hopeful 
Baptist Church but attended Albany Gospel Chapel.  He made his home in Albany 
on North Slappey Drive.  Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, July 7th, 
at 10:00 A. M. at Albany Gospel Chapel with the Rev. Lester Wilson 
officiating.  Interment followed in Crown Hill Cemetery.  Pallbearers were 
Calvin Baggs, Tommy Gregors, Maurice McNeil, Hoke S. Fitzgerald, Jr., Rodney 
Fitzgerald and Tom H. Fitzgerald.  Survivors include his wife, the former Miss 
Juanita Mathis of Camilla; two daughters, Mrs. Alex Stewart fo Albany, and Mrs. 
C. K. Cox of Camilla; four sons, Harvey J. and Robert F. Fitzgerald of Albany, 
Hoke S. Fitzgerald of Winter Haven, Fla., G. Ralph Fitzgerald of Camilla; one 
sister, Mrs. J. C. deGraffenreid of Camilla; 14 grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren.  Mr. Fitzgerald's daughters, Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Cox were on a 
European vacation trip when he took a turn for the worse and they returned home 
exactly one week from the time they departed.  The message reached them as they 
landed in Germany.  They got back on Thursday evening before he died Sunday 
afternoon.



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