Troup-Sumter-Dooly County GaArchives Obituaries.....LANIER, Marie (Lamar) January 19, 1987 ************************************************ 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: Valerie (Johnson) Freeman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00009.html#0002248 May 23, 2005, 10:41 pm Unknown (possibly LaGrange Daily News - Troup Co., Georgia) - January 1987 Mrs. George H. Lanier [nee Marie Lamar] LANETT, Ala. - Mrs. George H. Lanier, 103, died Monday at her home in Lanett. A graveside service will be 3 p.m. today at West Point Cemetery in West Point, Ga., according the McCarthy Funeral Home, West Point. Mrs. Lanier was born Sept. 26, 1883, in Americus, Ga., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lamar. She was the widow of George H. Lanier, who was president of the West Point Mfg. Co., today the West Point Pepperell Co. Mrs. Lanier was a member of the Spring Road Christian Church for 80 years. She was the founder of The Chattahoochee Valley Girl Scout Council, and served as the council's first president. She was the chairman of the Juliette Lowe (sic - should be Low) Girl Scout Camp in north Georgia. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Joe L. Jennings of West Point, two sons, Joe L. Lanier, Sr. and Bruce Lanier, both of Lanett; 15 grandchildren; 19 great- grandchildren; a great-great grandchild. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the George H. Lanier Memorial Hospital in Langdale or to charity. Additional Comments: Mrs. Lanier was my husband's Great-grandmother who lived to be 103 1/2! He remembers going to her house and being offered Coke and cheese straws (yum). Her birthplace is wrong in the obituary. She was born on the plantation of her Grandfather, Harrison Nichols, near Snow Spring, Dooly Co., Georgia. She and her parents later made their home in Americus, Georgia. Descendants of Charles Winn Lamar 1 Charles Winn Lamar b: Feb 1852 in Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia d: 7 Aug 1912 in Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery - Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia +Josephine Elizabeth Nichols b: 13 Feb 1862 in Worth Co., Georgia m: 3 Mar 1880 in Dooly Co., Georgia d: 20 Sep 1915 in Resident of West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery - Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia Father: Harrison Nichols Mother: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Freeman ~ 2 Marie Lamar b: 26 Sep 1883 in Nichols Plantation - Snow, Dooly Co., Georgia d: 19 Jan 1987 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: Jan 1987 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~ +George Huguley Lanier, Sr. b: 22 Aug 1880 in West Point, Troup Co., Georgia m: 20 Feb 1904 in Americus, Sumter Co., Georgia d: 17 Sep 1948 in "Clovernook" - Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: Marseilles Cemetery, West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Father: LaFayette Lanier, Sr. Mother: Ada Alice Huguley ~~~~ 3 Marion Lanier b: 1904-1905 d: Abt 1905 in Infancy - Jackson, Butts Co., Georgia ~~~~ 3 Joseph Lamar Lanier, Sr. b: 12 Feb 1906 in Jackson, Butts Co., Georgia d: 28 Nov 2000 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: 29 Nov 2000 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Lura Brown Fowlkes b: 22 Nov 1909 in "of Birmingham, Alabama" m: 1931 d: 12 Oct 1997 Burial: Marseilles Cemetery, West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Father: Mother: ~~~~ 3 George Huguley "Uncle Bubba" Lanier, Jr. b: 25 Oct 1907 d: 25 Oct 1982 Burial: Moultrie, Colquitt Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Rosalind Vereen b: 24 May 1911 m: Nov 1936 d: 7 Jul 1997 Burial: Moultrie, Colquitt Co., Georgia Father: Mother: ~~~~ 3 Marie Lamar Lanier b: 19 Sep 1909 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 28 Jun 1994 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: 30 Jun 1994 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Joseph Leslie Jennings, Sr. b: 26 Jul 1901 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama m: 31 May 1935 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 7 Jul 1971 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia Father: Reuben William Jennings Mother: Sara Frances Burdette ~~~~ 3 Lucy Janet Lanier b: 11 Jan 1912 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 21 Jul 1981 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: Jul 1981 Shadowlawn Cemetery - LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ +Otis Florence "O. F." Nixon, Jr. b: 23 Feb 1911 in Senoia, Coweta Co., Georgia m: 25 Sep 1937 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 21 Jun 1994 in LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Burial: 23 Jun 1994 Shadowlawn Cemetery, LaGrange, Troup Co., Georgia Father: Otis Florence Nixon, Sr. Mother: Dollie Bob Hardy ~~~~ 3 Bruce Nichols Lanier, Sr. b: 11 Jun 1913 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama d: 9 Dec 2002 in Lanett, Chambers Co., Alabama Burial: 11 Dec 2002 Marseilles Cemetery - West Point, Troup Co., Georgia ~~~~~ + (LIVING) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/troup/obits/l/lanier6997ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.2 Kb