Taliaferro County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ward, Lucy Lunceford February 24 1997
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Crawfordville Advocate Democrat, March 7, 1997

Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Lunceford Ward, 80, of Spring Street, 
Washington, were held Wednesday, February 26, at 4:30 p.m., at the Carters 
Grove Baptist Church, Rayle, with Rev. Colin Duncan, Dr. Tom Harper, and Rev. 
Jimmy Chapman officiating.  Burial was in the church cemetery.  She died 
February 24, at her home.

Mrs. Ward was a native of Taliaferro County and had spent most of her life in 
Taliaferro County.  She was the daughter of the later Overton Lunceford and the 
late Clara Cannon Lunceford.  She had served as a nurses aid at Wills Memorial 
Hospital, Washington, and was a homemaker.  She was a member of Victory Baptist 
Church, Washington, and a past member of Bethel Baptist Church in Union Point.  
She was the widow of Whitney Ward.

Survivors include three sons, Kermit Hocutt, Washington, Dr. Larry Ward, 
Arizona, and Whitney Ward, San Antonio, Fla.; two daughters, Doris Brown, 
California, and June Pereira, Arizona; three brothers, Owens Lunceford, 
Crawfordville, Hawes Lunceford, Rayle, and William Lunceford, Royal Oak, 
Michigan; a sister, Mrs. Mabel L. Fouche, Washington; 17 grandchildren; and a 
large number of great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers included Dr. William Rhodes, Donald Bowin, Larry Evans, Gerald 
Strozier, John Osborn, Ed Ogletree, and Gene Strozier.

Members of the Alexander Stephens Institute Class of 1934, Crawfordville, 
served as honorary pallbearers.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Bethel Christian School in Union 
Point.

Hopkins Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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