TIFTON — Miles Tipton Clements Sr., 87, a longtime resident of Tifton, died Friday Oct. 23, 2009 at Tift Health Care Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Albritton–Beaumont Funeral Directors with Dr. Fred Evers officiating. Burial will follow at Tift Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors.
Miles “Chip” Clements III, John H. Clements, Emory “Al” Clements Jr., James T. Clements, Stephen M. Clements, Joshua T. Clements, Jeffrey Dorman and Bill Clements will serve as pallbearers.
Mr. Clements was born July 27, 1922 in Sycamore to R. W. and Cinnie Wynn Clements. He was preceded in death by his son Wesley Walton Clements, who died in 2000; a granddaughter, Angela Grace Clements, who died in 1986; and six siblings.
Mr. Clements graduated from Sycamore High School in 1941. Here he met and married his wife of 67 years, Esma Smith Clements. He served a tour of duty for the U. S. Army during World War II in Italy. Mr. Clements is remembered for his charitable and Christian service as a TRMC Auxiliary Red Coat, American Red Cross Walking Blood Bank, helping to start Calvary Baptist Church and Brother Charlie Rescue Center. He served as a deacon, Sunday school superintendent and church treasurer for Second Baptist Church in Tifton. During his working years he owned Tiftarea Egg and Feed, managed the Varsity Drive-In and the Bonanza Gift Shop. He then completed his working life with the Tift County Sheriff’s Department.
Mr. Clements truly enjoyed his civic work and charitable Christian activities along with his love of gardening flowers and vegetables which he always shared abundantly with family, friends and neighbors.
Along with his wife, Mr. Clements is survived by five sons and daughters-in-law, Miles T. Jr. and Mary Clements of Fairhope, Ala., Julian T. and Lynne Clements of Cornelia, Emory “Moe” and Peggy Clements of Chula, Thomas H. and Gail Clements of Thomasville and Robert C. and Ellen Clements of Cape May, N.J.; and his grandchildren, Miles III and Michelle Clements, Christi and Darrell Grimsley, John H. and Kelly Clements, Dan and Kira Smith, Andy and Liz Smith, Stephen and Melinda Clements, Roy and Stephanie Ferrell, Tommy and Serita Lindsey, Anna and Jeff Dorman, Al and Rachel Clements, Jamie Clements, Josh and Karrie Clements, Lauren Clements and Maggie Clements. He is also survived by two sisters, Hazel Searcy and Marlyon Peterson, both of Tifton; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Flowers will be accepted or donations may be made to Northside Baptist Church Building Fund, 4605 Murray Ave. Tifton, Georgia 31794. You may sign the on-line registry at www.albritton-beaumontfuneralhome.com. Albritton–Beaumont Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
