UPSON COUNTY, GA -Obits Mr. Joe E. Cooksey Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Fletcher Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Mr. Joe E. Cooksey Funeral services were held for Mr. Joe E. Cooksey, 53, of Griffin Wednesday, November 19, 1986 at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home of Griffin. Mr. Cooksey died early Tuesday morning, November 18 at Emory University Hospital of Atlanta. The Rev. James Royals and Elder John Hendricks officiated. Burial was held in Glenwood Cemetery of Thomaston. Pittman-Rawls Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Cooksey was a native of Upson County, but made his home in Griffin for the past 26 years. Mr. Cooksey was a Marine Corps Veteran, member of Griffin Moose Lodge and was a retired construction inspector for DeKalb County. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sylvia Punds Cooksey of Griffin, two sons, Mr. Bobby Cooksey of Atlanta, and Mr. Terry Cooksey of Griffin, mother, Mrs. Josephine Cooksey of Thomaston, one sister, Miss Evelyn Cooksey of Thomaston.