Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wingate, Rosier  K.,, Sr. August 11, 1956
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The Camilla Enterprise
Funeral services for Rosier Kelly Wingate, Sr., age 59, who died at an early 
hour Saturday morning, August 11, were held Sunday afternoon, August 12, at 
four o'clock at the Pinecliff Baptist Church.  Rev. Charles Duncan, pastor of 
First Baptist Church of Camilla, officiated, and was assisted by Rev. Alvin L. 
Croy, of Pine Cliff Baptist Church.

Interment took place in Oakview Cemetery in Camilla.  Active pallbearers were 
Neal Shiver, Lewis Campbell, Dolph Holton, James Holton, Charles Matthews, 
Wilson Rivers, Billy Phelps, and Raymond Waters.  An honorary escort was 
formed by Woodrow W. Brooks, Troy Shiver, E. T. Hughes, Robert Culpepper, Jr., 
George M. Perry, Sr., Walter B. Tennyson, Jessie Shiver, Duane Phelps, J. A. 
Mauldin, T. D. Cochran, and Dr. C. A. Stevenson, Jr.

Mr. Wingate was born October 31, 1896 in Mitchell County, the son of Lewis G. 
Wingate and the late Lula Augusta Key Wingate.  He was a veteran of World War 
I, where he was wounded in action.  A Pharmacist by education, Mr. Wingate was 
a March 22, 1921 graduate of the Southern College of Pharmacy, and as a young 
man, practiced Pharmacy in Miami, but returned to Camilla and Mitchell County 
to pursue a successful career in farming, his home place, originally settled 
by his Wingate grandparents, who were among the pioneer settlers of Mitchell 
County, being located just west of Camilla off of the Newton Highway. 
Progressive, he was among the first farmers in Mitchell County to install an 
irrigation system in the mid '50's, and in addition to a general row-crop and 
livestock operation, he also operated Wingate Dairy.  He was a member of the 
Pine Cliff Baptist Church and took a prominent part in its activities.

In the last several months, he had suffered extensively with cancer, spending 
a while in the hospital in Albany, where he underwent major surgery.

Mr. Wingate is survived by his father, L. G. Wingate; his wife, Ethel Musgrove 
Wingate; a son, Rosier (Bo) K. Wingate, Jr. and wife Louise; a daughter, 
Eleanor Wingate Davis and husband Jeff, all of Camilla; four brothers, Lt. 
Col. J. Woodrow Wingate, Albany; Joe D. Wingate, Columbus; Jake Wingate, 
Camilla; and Lewis G. Wingate, Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs. W. K. McCaskill, 
Camilla; and Mrs. Charles L. Heard, Atlanta, and three grandchildren.

Bramlett Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.     

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