TIFTON —
Mary Frances Driggers Turner, 69, of Tifton died Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev. Ronnie Howell officiating. Burial will follow at Mount Calvary United Methodist Church Cemetery with her grandsons serving as the pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. today at Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors.
Born on May 14, 1943 in Tift County to the late Clarence Edgar Driggers Sr. and the late Edna Lucille Ray Driggers, Mrs. Turner was a homemaker and a member of Mount Calvary United Methodist Church. She loved her grandchildren, cooking, growing flowers and collecting cookbooks. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Rev. C. E. "Buddy" Driggers Jr. and Ray Driggers.
Survivors include her husband, Robert "Rob" Turner of Tifton; one son and daughter-in-law, Robbie and Rhonda Turner of Tifton; two daughters and sons-in-law, Kathy and Salvador Paniagua of Dalton and Fran and Karl Yost of Leesburg; one sister, Ann O'Quinn of Tifton; and a sister-in-law, Betty F. Driggers of Tifton; granchildren's mother, Freida West of Tifton; six grandchildren, Daniel Paniagua, David Paniagua, Salvador Paniagua Jr., Josh Turner, Mitchell Turner and Jordan Turner; three great-grandchildren, Brittany Payne, Emma Grace Turner and Dixie Lee Turner; and several nieces and nephews.
You may sign the guest registry at www.albritton-beaumontfuneralhome.com .
Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
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September 8, 2012
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