CHULA — Ilene Bishop Tidwell, 83, of Chula died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009 at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Liberty Baptist Church. The Rev. Gary Cadwell, the Rev. Gerald Purvis and the Rev. Steve Tucker will officiate with burial to follow at Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. The body will be placed in the church one hour prior to the service.
Jim Graham, Tony Dixon, Steve Cadwell, Mark Dean, Ricky Dean and Jonathan Graham will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be the deacons of Liberty Baptist Church and members of her Sunday School class at Liberty Baptist Church.
Mrs. Tidwell was born Dec. 18, 1925 in Irwin County and was the daughter of William M. Bishop and Jeania Arnold Bishop, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, George Leborn "Pete" Tidwell, who died in 2000; eight brothers; and two sisters. She was a retired bookkeeper and a member of Liberty Baptist Church. She was the WMU Director for the Mell Baptist Association for 29 years.
Mrs. Tidwell is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Marie Tidwell of Tifton; one daughter and son-in-law, Lutrelle and Ray Greene of Tifton; three grandchildren and their spouses, Dee Dee Greene, Candy and Mark Rigdon and Bobby "Roho" and Melissa Bennett; seven great-grandchildren, Hunter, Tanner and Savannah Ray, Eddie and Jaclyn Bennett, and Julie Bennett and Cole and Heather Rigdon; and one great-great-grandchild, Lily Grace Bennett.
You may express online condolences to the family at www.bowen-donaldson.com. Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements.
Obituaries
December 1, 2009
