Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mercer, Ida Reba Keadle 1956
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The Camilla Enterprise 24 Feb 1956 page 6 Camilla Ga.

  Mrs. G. W. (Bill) Mercer, 40, prominent young Camilla matron who was active 
in church, social and educational circles, died at nine o'clock Friday morning, 
February 17, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where she underwent an 
operation the day prior for a brain tumor.  She had been losing her eyesight in 
recent months but otherwise apparently was enjoying good health and kept active 
in community life up until she went to Atlanta for examination.  Prayers of the 
entire community were with her during her last several days as news of her 
illness became known.  Many of her wide family connection were in Atlanta with 
her during the last long hours.  Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 
three-thirty o'clock at the First Baptist Church of Camilla.  The pastor, the 
Rev. Charles Duncan, and Rev. T. M. Underwood of Pelham officiated.  Flowers 
evidencing love and sympathy for the bereaved family were banked in every 
available space around the pulpit and singing comforting hymns was a quartet of 
men in which the deceased's husband, Bill Mercer, usually sings.  The quartet 
was composed of Tom Collins, Brackett Hardy, Bill Drennon, and J. Wayne 
Robertson.  Following services at the church, attended by a large concourse of 
friends, interment took place in Oakview Cemetery.  Bramlett Funeral Home was 
in charge of arrangements.  Forming an honorary escort at the funeral services 
were the ladies of the Fidelis Class of the First Baptist Church.  Active 
pallbearers were all nephews and included Otis Keadle, Edward Keadle, Fredrick 
Keadle and Luke Keadle, all of Thomasville, and Lee West, Lamar Shirah, Robert 
Sawyer and Gene Keadle.  Daughter of the late W. W. and Clara Ada Moroney 
Keadle, pioneer citizens of Mitchell County.  Mrs. Mercer was the former Ida 
Reba Keadle.  She was reared in Hopeful community and moved to Camilla a number 
of years ago.  Active in many phases of youth work, Mrs. Mercer was chosen last 
year as senior mother to accompany the MCHS graduates on their annual trip to 
New York.  She was head counselor of the Girl's Auxiliary of the First Baptist 
Church, teacher in the Primary Department of the Sunday School, and served as 
band mother in both the local elementary and high school.  She was a member of 
the Board of Directors of Camilla Garden Clubs, Inc., served as a leader in the 
Adult Baptist Training Union, held different offices in the Woman's Missionary 
Society, was active in the Camilla PTA.  She was a long time member of the 
First Baptist Church where she took active part along with her husband and 
other members of her family.  She was also a member and active in the Cherokee 
Garden Club.  Besides her husband survivors include three daughters, Mrs. 
Morris Wynn of Pelham, Jan Mercer and Sandra Mercer of Camilla; one son, Larry 
Mercer, student at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.; six brothers, N. F. 
Keadle of Thomasville, the Rev. P. J. Keadle, L. Z. Keadle, Homer Keadle, 
Nathan Keadle and W. L. (Mutt) Keadle, all of Camilla, and one grandchildren.

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