Tift County GaArchives Obituaries.....Conger, Joe December 18, 2014 ************************************************ 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: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 August 31, 2024, 10:52 am The Berrien Press - 21, 2014 Mr. Joe Conger, 78, of Tifton, died Thursday, December 18, 2014, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at Eastside Baptist Church with the Rev. Shane Ashley officiating. Interment will follow in Oakridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends 6-8 Saturday evening at Albritton Funeral Directors. The deacons of Eastside Baptist Church will serve as pallbearers. Mr. Conger was born January 9, 1936, in Berrien County to the late Barney and Bessie Viola Stephens Conger. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a grandson, Kenneth Sumner; two brothers, Odis Conger and Lee Wilson; two sisters, Orelean Statham and Ruth Adams; and one sister-in-law, Kate Wilson. Mr. Conger served in the United States Air Force. He retired from Firestone/Bridgestone Tire Company in Oklahoma after working at the Albany plant for many years. Mr. Conger was a former Sunday school teacher. He was a member of Eastside Baptist Church. He loved the Florida Gators and enjoyed bowling and baseball and softball which he played up until he was 63 years old. He is survived by his wife, Zelma Spradlin Conger of Tifton; daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Don Sumner of Brookfield, Renee and Byron Courtoy of Tifton and Brenda and Bill Plymel of Adel; sons and daughter-in-law, Gene and Rhonda Vickers of Crestview, FL, and Larry Vickers of Nashville; 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; a sister- in-law, Delma Conger of Nashville; a brother, Collis Adams of Nashville; and numerous nieces ands nephews. Flowers are being accepted or donations may be made to Eastside Baptist Church, P.O. Box 540, Tifton, GA 31793. You may sign the guest registry at www.albritton-beaumontfunerahome.com Albritton Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/tift/obits/c/conger7118nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb