Ser querido | Mattie Jo Duke
FECHAS | Diciembre 16, 1935 – Marzo 5, 2012
CEMENTERIO | Ocilla City
UBICACIÓN EN EL CEMENTERIO | Enter through the main gate, 2nd drive to the left and go to the end of the drive to the fence, el lote está a la derecha.
FUNERARIA | Paulk Funeral Home, 301 S. Main St., Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750 - T: 229 423 2033
Sra.. Duke was born December 16, 1935 in Irwin County to the late J.C. Pettis and the late Thelma Myrick Pettis Grantham. A graduate of Ocilla High School, she received her nurse’s training at Portsmouth General Hospital in Portsmouth, VA where she lived for 20 año. She was retired Director of Irwin County Emergency Medical Services, a former nurse at Irwin County Hospital, office nurse for Dr. Billy Sams, and a nurse for Palemon Gaskins Nursing Home. Sra.. Duke served as Deputy Coroner of Irwin County for 12 año. She was Volunteer Chairman of the Red Cross Blood Mobile. A giving and caring person, Irwin County Commissioners recognized her in March, 2000 with a resolution showing gratitude for her many years of service to Irwin County. She was a member of Pine Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Ocilla.
She is survived by her children: Michael and Cheryl Royals, Becky and Jerry Edwards, and Fred L. Duke, Jr., all of Ocilla, Linda D. Bullington and Jerry Williams of Fitzgerald, and Jimmy and Angel Duke of Birmingham, AL; 12 nietos, 20 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Junto con sus padres, she was preceded in death by a great-grandchild and a brother.