Mr. Jerry Robert Curry, age 76, of Tennille died at his residence on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. A funeral service celebrating his life will be held on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. at Piney Mount United Methodist Church with Reverend Gary Griffin officiating. Pallbearers will be Ken Jackson, Jimmy Lewis, Wayne Layton, Randy Flanigan, Kenny Smart, Waylan Hitchcock and Jimmy Ray Smith. The Washington County High School Class of 1963 will sit as an honorary group. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends on Friday, March 4, 2022 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. at May and Smith Funeral Home in Sandersville.
Jerry was a Washington County native, the son of the late Curtis Curry and the late Mary Ellen Hyatt Curry. He was a member of the Washington County High School class of 1963, where he discovered his love of machinery while in Mr. Robert Young's industrial arts class. Following high school, Jerry attended Trinidad State College in Colorado where he graduated as a machinist and a gunsmith. Jerry enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country during Vietnam as an instructor with the U.S. Army School Europe in Germany. After military service, Jerry returned to Washington County and began a career as a machinist working for American Industrial Clay Company and Georgia Kaolin. Following work in the kaolin Industry, Jerry worked as an instructor for Oconee Fall Line College as well as working for himself as a gunsmith and a machinist. He was reared in the Bay Springs Methodist Church in Oconee and was a current member of the Piney Mount UMC in Tennille. In addition to his parents, Jerry is predeceased by his daughter, Lisa Caryn Curry.
May and Smith Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
[Bio and photo courtesy of the May & Smith Funeral Directors website, March 1, 2022.]
Jerry was a Washington County native, the son of the late Curtis Curry and the late Mary Ellen Hyatt Curry. He was a member of the Washington County High School class of 1963, where he discovered his love of machinery while in Mr. Robert Young's industrial arts class. Following high school, Jerry attended Trinidad State College in Colorado where he graduated as a machinist and a gunsmith. Jerry enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country during Vietnam as an instructor with the U.S. Army School Europe in Germany. After military service, Jerry returned to Washington County and began a career as a machinist working for American Industrial Clay Company and Georgia Kaolin. Following work in the kaolin Industry, Jerry worked as an instructor for Oconee Fall Line College as well as working for himself as a gunsmith and a machinist. He was reared in the Bay Springs Methodist Church in Oconee and was a current member of the Piney Mount UMC in Tennille. In addition to his parents, Jerry is predeceased by his daughter, Lisa Caryn Curry.
May and Smith Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
[Bio and photo courtesy of the May & Smith Funeral Directors website, March 1, 2022.]
Mr. Jerry Robert Curry, age 76, of Tennille died at his residence on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. A funeral service celebrating his life will be held on Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. at Piney Mount United Methodist Church with Reverend Gary Griffin officiating. Pallbearers will be Ken Jackson, Jimmy Lewis, Wayne Layton, Randy Flanigan, Kenny Smart, Waylan Hitchcock and Jimmy Ray Smith. The Washington County High School Class of 1963 will sit as an honorary group. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends on Friday, March 4, 2022 from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. at May and Smith Funeral Home in Sandersville.
Jerry was a Washington County native, the son of the late Curtis Curry and the late Mary Ellen Hyatt Curry. He was a member of the Washington County High School class of 1963, where he discovered his love of machinery while in Mr. Robert Young's industrial arts class. Following high school, Jerry attended Trinidad State College in Colorado where he graduated as a machinist and a gunsmith. Jerry enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country during Vietnam as an instructor with the U.S. Army School Europe in Germany. After military service, Jerry returned to Washington County and began a career as a machinist working for American Industrial Clay Company and Georgia Kaolin. Following work in the kaolin Industry, Jerry worked as an instructor for Oconee Fall Line College as well as working for himself as a gunsmith and a machinist. He was reared in the Bay Springs Methodist Church in Oconee and was a current member of the Piney Mount UMC in Tennille. In addition to his parents, Jerry is predeceased by his daughter, Lisa Caryn Curry.
May and Smith Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
[Bio and photo courtesy of the May & Smith Funeral Directors website, March 1, 2022.]
Jerry was a Washington County native, the son of the late Curtis Curry and the late Mary Ellen Hyatt Curry. He was a member of the Washington County High School class of 1963, where he discovered his love of machinery while in Mr. Robert Young's industrial arts class. Following high school, Jerry attended Trinidad State College in Colorado where he graduated as a machinist and a gunsmith. Jerry enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country during Vietnam as an instructor with the U.S. Army School Europe in Germany. After military service, Jerry returned to Washington County and began a career as a machinist working for American Industrial Clay Company and Georgia Kaolin. Following work in the kaolin Industry, Jerry worked as an instructor for Oconee Fall Line College as well as working for himself as a gunsmith and a machinist. He was reared in the Bay Springs Methodist Church in Oconee and was a current member of the Piney Mount UMC in Tennille. In addition to his parents, Jerry is predeceased by his daughter, Lisa Caryn Curry.
May and Smith Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
[Bio and photo courtesy of the May & Smith Funeral Directors website, March 1, 2022.]
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