Colquitt-Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Anna Pidcock Searcy February 5 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Winnette Stinson gnw@rose.net February 7, 2003, 8:34 am Allen & Allen Funeral Home Anna Pidcock Searcy THOMASVILLE -- Services for Anna Pidcock Searcy of Thomasville will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at First Baptist Church in Thomasville, where she was a member. The Revs. Dr. Milton C. Gardner, Dan Spencer and A. C. Gilliard will officiate with interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers are Floyd Harts "Field" Searcy III, Ashburn Pidcock Searcy Jr., John Lake Roberts III, Frank Ramsey Pidcock IV, Fritz Buchanan Roberts, John Daniel Stokes, Daniel Z. Jacobs and Dan L Parker. Mrs. Searcy died Feb. 5, at Archbold Memorial Hospital. Born Jan. 22, 1909, in Moultrie, she was the daughter of the late Frank Ramsey Pidcock Sr. and Willie Warren Ashburn. She was married in Moultrie to the late Floyd Hartsfield Searcy Sr. A 1929 graduate of Shorter College, she was named Alumna of the Year in 1978 and for a number of years served on the Board of Trustees, receiving its award for outstanding service in 1984. As an organizer of Thomasville's School Interest Association, later the Parent-Teacher Association, she served as president of both organizations and in other capacities from 1943-1960. She served on the Board of Directors of Thomasville YMCA for nine years. She was a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as chaplain, vice regent and regent of her chapter. She was a member of Briarcliff Garden Club and Pilot Club of Thomasville, and in 1984 received the Distinguished Service Award from the Thomas County Chamber of Commerce. A former member of First Baptist Church in Moultrie, teaching Sunday school from age 14, she was an active member of First Baptist Church in Thomasville, serving as Sunday school teacher and as superintendent of Sunday School Extension Department for several years. She served as Director for Sunbeams, Mission Friends, Young Peoples Director, Royal Ambassador leader, chairman of Missions Committee, Nominating committee, Pulpit committee, co-teacher of Adult Ladies Class, Bible study leader and Sunday school extension visitor. Active in Women's Missionary Union, she served as president of WMU and WMS for four years and as both district secretary and director of WMU for Thomas County. She was included in Who's Who of American Women 1972-1973 and was a member for more than 30 years of the Board of Directors of Citizens Bank of Cairo, serving as vice president, chairman of the board, and at the time of her death as vice chairman of the board. Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law, Floyd Hartsfield Searcy Jr. and Gloria Robinson Searcy of Cairo; Dr. Ashburn Pidcock Searcy and Nancy Ford Searcy of Kennesaw; and Maj. Gen. William Nelson Searcy and Camille Heery Searcy of Savannah; grandchildren, Floyd Hartsfield Searcy III, Marian Searcy Jacobs, Kendall Searcy Parker, Desire' Searcy Stokes, Heather Searcy, Shelly Searcy, Ann-Maxwell Searcy, Ashburn Pidcock Searcy Jr. and Amelia Ashburn Searcy; one great-grandchild, Michael James Maloy; sister, Mildred Pidcock Cross; sister-in-law, Emily Barclay Searcy, both of Thomasville. She was preceded in death by sons, William Harris Searcy and John Frank Searcy; grandchild, John Frank Searcy Jr., great-grandchild, John Voyk Searcy; brothers, Frank Ramsey Pidcock Jr. and John Faulks Pidcock. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 2790, Thomasville, Ga. 31799. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. tonight. Visitors may sign the online guest register at www.allenfh.com. Allen & Allen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb