VALDOSTA — Jeanette Southall, 85, of Valdosta died Monday, Dec. 21, 2009 in South Georgia Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Music Funeral Services with Pastor John Hanson officiating. Burial will follow at Cat Creek Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight at Music Funeral Home in Valdosta.
She was born in Berrien County on June 2, 1924 to the late Joseph and Alice Lewis Mathis. She was a resident of Lakehaven Nursing Home in Valdosta, and had lived in Berrien County and Lowndes County all of her life. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Valdosta. She is preceded in death by her first husband, Leon Warren; five sisters and four brothers.
Survivors include her husband, Joseph Frank Southall Jr. of Valdosta; daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and John Hodges of Tifton; sons and daughter-in-law, Eugene and Faye Warren of Fernandina Beach, Fla.; Herbert Warren of Valdosta; stepdaughter and son-in-law, Diana and George Wheeler of Clarksburg, W.Va.; stepsons and daughters-in-law, David and Jan Southall of Beaver Dam, Va., Donnie and Catherine Southall of Valdosta; eight grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren; sisters and brother-in-law, Idell and Wilbur Ridgon of Nashville and Vernell Myers of Lakeland; several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Diane Wheeler, Dr. Lori Wentland and Donna Starling, all of Valdosta.
Sympathy can be expressed online at www.musicfuneralservices.com. Music Funeral Services of Valdosta is in charge of arrangements.
Obituaries
December 21, 2009







