Tyrone News

2008-07-24 / News

By PRISCILLA MAXWELL Please call 706-678-7657

There will be a Poss family reunion at the Lions Club on Spring Street in Washington Sunday, July 27, for the descendants of John Callaway Poss. His first wife was Evie Epps; his second wife was Alice Wall. Lunch will be covered dish at 1 p.m. If you are interested please feel welcome to take part. Your interests will be greatly appreciated. .Please be in prayer for Jimmy Poss, son of Marion Combs Poss and the late Newton Poss of Carters Grove Baptist Church. He is in rehabilitation in Florida not doing well. Hopefully he can get closer home soon so the family can visit him more. Your prayers will be greatly appreciated. .Don't forget revival services at Sandy Cross Baptist Church Sunday night, July 27, through Wednesday night. Please feel welcome. Rev. Wade Palmer will be sharing God's Word. .Helen Lamar enjoyed having friends, Nell and J.C. Harris of Winder, to spend Sunday with her. Helen's sister, Virginia Hunter, joined them for lunch. .Ann and Warren Newsome, Dorothy Ann Saxon, Donnie and Claudia McAvoy, and pastor Robert Rayner visited Dan, Mildred, and Jerry McAvoy during the week. Rev. Rayner, his wife Nancy, and other family members appreciate all the prayers and loving concern, and so do the McAvoys. .Cousins enjoying a week together at Myrtle Beach, S.C., included Charles and Charlotte Waller, their children, Malory and Brandon; Robbie and Rhonda Newsome and sons, Brandon and Jake; Holly Lunceford and son Brett; Charlotte's mother, Mrs. Clemon Thigpen of Thomson. .Many hearts throughout the area were saddened over the death of a fine, loving, and devoted Christian couple who passed away only three days apart last week. Genelle Queen "Punk" Lunceford Gill, 79, died Monday, July 14, and her husband, Peyton Oliver Gill Jr., passed away on Thursday, July 17, at Wills Memorial Hospital in Washington. She had lost both of her legs within the past year or so. She kept a good outlook and made her home at Harper's Personal Care Home in Washington which was not far from their home. Oliver was faithful to visit every day. Genelle grew up at Phillips Mill Baptist Church, the daughter of the late Howell Boyce Lunceford and Leila Beazley Lunceford who are buried at Garters Grove Baptist Church cemetery. She was the last of 10 children. She was a graduate of Alexander H. Stephens Institute in Crawfordville. She kept her membership at Phillips Mill Baptist Church and enjoyed being a part of the Belle Williams Volunteer Sunday School Class at First Baptist, Washington. She and Oliver were blessed with three children, a daughter, Linda Corwell and her husband Otis of Augusta; and two sons, Peyton Oliver Gill III, and his wife Pamela of Cumming, and David Nixon Gill of Duluth. Oliver was the son of Peyton Oliver Gill and Mary Blackmon Gill of Wilkes County. He has a sister, Frances Mims of Savannah. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Washington. The 10 Lunceford children are Rachel Lunceford married James Armour of Rayle; George Lunceford married Hazel Griffin; Boyce Lunceford married Bennie Lunceford; Loyd Lunceford who died at the age of eight; Robert married Alma Norman; Gordon "Mug" married Vera Wolfe; Frances Lunceford married Ed Milner; Genelle married Oliver Gill; Norman Beazley married Sylvia Ruth Barksdale; and Emily Carolyn "Dot" married Milton Waller. .May we all have fond memories of all we meet and remember God's everlasting love.

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