Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....George Elwood Tinsley June 25 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: Sheila Martin SheilaM78@comcast.net July 5, 2003, 9:27 pm Thomasville Times Enterprise - June 26, 2003 George Elwood Tinsley Services for George Elwood Tinsley, Thomasville, are at 2 p.m. Friday, June 27, 2003, at First Newark Baptist Church, with the Rev. Michael Bass officiating. Interment is at Murphy Cemetery. Pallbearers are nephews Todd Tucker, Mark Tinsley, Carlos Bass, Tim Stokes, Chris Hopkins and Brooks Hopkins. Mr. Tinsley died Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at Archbold Memorial Hospital. He worked in the maintenance department at Days inn in Thomasville. Mr. Tinsley was a son of Hettie Plymel Tinsley and the late James E. Tinsley. He was born May 5, 1957, in Pavo. Mr. Tinsley was a member of Kennedy Chapel Freewill Baptist Church. He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Alex and Christy Tinsley, Leesburg; a daughter and son-in-law, Tina Marie and Jeremy Davis, Omaha, Neb.; a sister, Janice Tucker, Woodville, Fla.; sisters and brothers-in-law, Ellie and Virgil Melton, Thomasville, Gaynell and Rex Purvis, Monticello, Fla., Emma and Wayne Stokes, Thomasville, Janie and Bill Long, Thomasville; brothers and sisters-in-law, Verlon and Carol Tinsley, Barwick, Russell and Ruby Tinsley, Thomasville; a brother, Larry Tinsley, Thomasville; a special friend, Martha White, Thomasville; and a number of nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at Whiddon-Shiver Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. -- Whiddon Funeral Home Additional Comments: THOMASVILLE -- George Elwood Tinsley died Wednesday morning after he lost control of his vehicle which struck an embankment and drain culvert. Tinsley, a 46-year-old Thomasville resident, was traveling south on County Line Road in a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass. The accident took place three miles north of Thomasville at about 10:20 a.m., according to the fatality report prepared by Post 12 of the Georgia State Patrol. He was not wearing his seat belt, the report says. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb