Ware-Jeff Davis County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sweat, Alma L. Rowell Harvey March 20, 1989 ************************************************ 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: William J. (Jim) Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net August 16, 2011, 7:27 pm The Waycross Journal-Herald 3-21-1989 Page 24 Alma Rowell Sweat Mrs. Alma Rowell Sweat, 63, died Monday afternoon at Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. A native of Jeff Davis County, she had lived most of her life in Ware County. She was the daughter of the late Riley Lee Rowell. She attended Liberty Baptist Church in Jeff Davis County. Survivors include her husband, Dennis Sweat; a daughter, Laverne Smith, Hoboken; a son, Gilbert Harvey, Douglas; a stepson, Dennis Wayne Sweat, Homerville; her mother, Mrs. Margaret Cleo Carey, Waycross; four sisters, Mrs. Lois Beaty, Mrs. Lurlyne Chancey, and Mrs. Carletta Brookshire, all of Waycross and Mrs. Pearlie Mae Steverson of St. Marys; a brother, Offie Rowell, Waycross; 12 grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives. Funeral will be held Wednesday at 2pm in the chapel of Miles-Odum Funeral Home with burial in the Piney Grove Primitive Baptist Church cemetery. The body will be carried to her home at Rte. 3 Waycross this afternoon and friends and relatives may call. 23 Mar 1989 Page 19 The Waycross Journal-Herald Alma Rowell Sweat The Rev. Rubin Brookshire conducted the Wednesday afternoon funeral for Mrs. Alma Rowell Sweat in the chapel at Miles-Odum Funeral Home. Pallbearers were George David Sweat, Levey Arnold Herrin, James Englett, Raymond Sweat, Samuel Sweat, Billy Harris, and Robert Beaty. Burial was in Piney Grove Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/ware/obits/s/sweat2203nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb