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January 4, 2024
Remembering those who passed in 2023

Many have left us in the past year, but they will never be forgotten by their friends and loved ones.

Here is a list of those who left behind family and friends in 2023. Their obituaries appeared in the McIntosh County Democrat.

January

Sally Linda Ashby March 17, 1949 – Jan. 7, 2023 Don Maple Head Oct. 19, 1942 – Jan. 9, 2023 Harold Luke Nov. 10,1942 – Jan. 12, 2023 Patricia June Smith May 26, 1930 – Jan. 17, 2023

February

Vickie Rae Allen Feb. 22,1950 – Feb. 9, 2023 Kathleen Turner Dobson Sept. 16, 1922 – Feb.14, 2023 Bill Alley March 9, 1932 – Feb. 24, 2023 Margaret Claire Sutton Feb. 19, 1942 – Feb. 26, 2023 Donald G. Pemberton June 1, 1938 – Feb. 27, 2023

March

Tamara Kaye Abla Oct. 2, 1968 – March 4, 2023 Gregory Todd York July 1,1948 – March 9, 2023 Shaw Byrd Brandon July 18,1931 – March 14, 2023 Claudette Sue Mitchell Aug. 4, 1943 – March 15, 2023 Betty Louise Pruitt April 18, 1931 – March 21, 2023 Larry Lee Shirley Dec. 18, 1942 – March 26, 2023

April

Emmy Stidham August 30, 1927 – April 5, 2023 Louie Dean Sevier May 3,1936 -April 11, 2023 Valton Laroy Eugene Luce April 12, 1942 – April 13, 2023

May

Howard Glen “Jockey” Fairchild July 2, 1937-May 11, 2023 Rockney Lee Longcrier April 9, 1960-May 22, 2023

June

Claudine Delozier Sizemore Nov. 19, 1955 – June 7, 2023 Jake Wayne Newell Sept. 1, 1990 – June 19, 2023 Tommy Neumeyer Jan. 13, 1933 – June 21, 2023 Ernest Wayne “Whitey” Hale Dec. 15,1945 – June 23, 2023

July

Clara Jane Leak (infant) July 20, 2023. Sarah Jane Williams Cloud June 23,1964 – July 21, 2023

August

Sherry Price Johnson Aug. 16, 1938 – Aug. 2, 2023 Joe Edd Humphrey March 9,1934 – Aug. 24, 2023 Faye Kathryn Storm Oct. 17,1928-Aug. 25, 2023

September

Winzley Joe Vanna Ray White Sept. 11, 2023 – Sept. 15, 2023 Dorothy Gladys Coleman Feb. 26, 1927 – Sept. 15, 2023 Nancy Marie Mouser Nov. 3,1956 – Sept. 21, 2023 Ceazer Warrior, Jr. Dec. 11, 1946-Sept. 26, 2023

October

Richard Lawrence Anderson May 28, 1938 – October 4, 2023 Larry Merl Hays March 3, 1939 – Oct. 4,

2023 Kathy Lynn Drabek-Farrow Nov. 20, 1957 – Oct. 5,

2023 Alice Faye Pouncil Sept. 1, 1939 – Oct. 14,

2023 Ima Jean Bush May 8, 1935 – Oct. 16,

2023 Dan Sisemore March 5, 1950 – Oct.

16, 2023 Jerry Lemon Jeffries July 17, 1936 – Oct. 21,

2023 Sheila Overmon Jan. 24, 1957 – Oct. 26,

2023 Mary Louise Haltom Harper Dec. 14, 1955 – Oct. 30,

2023

November

Mark “Hot Rod” Schroeder Nov. 19, 1948 – Nov. 2,

2023 Leona Charlene (Sullivan) Ruble Aug. 15, 1938 – Nov. 8,

2023 Connor Bryan Teague July 27, 2001 – Nov. 9,

2023 Ernest James Sumner Sept. 17, 1937 – Nov. 20,

2023

December

Anna Nell McAdoo May, 12, 1937 – Dec. 5,

2023 Deborah Lee Kauffman April 11, 1968 – Dec.

22, 2023

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