Twiggs County GaArchives Obituaries.....Newby, Jerome Lee Sr. 1964 ************************************************ 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: Jim Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net October 4, 2008, 9:54 am Macon Telegraph Jerome Lee Newby Sr. was born 11-4-1893 and died 1-2-1964 (GA DC# 000144) and is buried in the Lee Cemetery in Twiggs County. His wife, Nettie Pauline Jenkins Newby as well as his parents, Jesse Ivey "Jess" Newby and Dora "Dode" Estella Lee Newby, are also buried there. From The Macon Telegraph 1-3-1964 Page 7 J. L. Newby Sr. Dies In Hospital Jerome Lee Newby Sr., 70, of Rte. 1, Jeffersonville, died in a local hospital at 3PM yesterday. Mr. Newby was born in Twiggs County, the son of Jessie and Mrs. Dora Lee Newby and has lived there most of his life except for 17 years in Texas. He was a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the Masonic Cool Springs Lodge, the Shrine Mosley Temple of Fort Worth, and a veteran of World War I and II. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Nettie Pauline Jenkins, Jeffersonville; a son, Jerome Lee Newby Jr., Jeffersonville; three daughters, Mrs. Virginia Ham, Danville, Mrs. Barbara Payne, Port Wentworth, and Mrs. Jeannette McGuffin, Bangor, Maine; 12 grandchildren; a brother, Herbert Newby, Macon; three sisters, Mrs. Alma Blount, Macon, Mrs. Margaret Faulk, Jeffersonville, and Mrs. Aline Hodges, Rutledge, Tenn.; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Hart's Mortuary. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/twiggs/obits/n/newby9240gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb