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Artie Tift Fletcher

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Artie Tift Fletcher

Birth
Irwin County, Georgia, USA
Death
2 Mar 1967 (aged 76)
Tifton, Tift County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Ocilla, Irwin County, Georgia, USA GPS-Latitude: 31.5765619, Longitude: -83.3620642
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The Ocilla Star, March 1967
Saturday Rites held for Artie Fletcher, Prominent Farmer
Funeral services for Artie Tift Fletcher, 76, of Route 2, Ocilla, who died Thursday , March 2, at the Tift County General Hospital, were conducted Saturday morning at the Pinetta Baptist Church. The Rev. R. J. Eldridge, Elder Ashley Griffin and Rev. J. D. Murray officiated. Interment
followed in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jesse Griffin, Jim York, Sonny Pate, Charles Harris, J. F. Drummond and Arlie Bowen. Honorary pallbearers were Otto Griner, T. W. Morris, Sam Turk, Richard Gibbs,Sr., R. K. Parrish, Henry Cox, Robert Mangum, K. N. Phillips, Elbert Kilgore, H. L. Dismuke, Ernest Hunter, and W. H. Morris.
Mr. Fletcher, a native of Irwin County, was born November 29, 1890. He was a member of the Pinetta Church and had lived in the community all his life. He had extensive farming interests in the Pinetta area.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs Jane Sutton Fletcher, Ocilla; two sons, Paul Fletcher and Amos Fletcher, both of Ocilla; two daughters, Mrs. Ed Cox, Fitzgerald and Mrs. Doris Staten, Moultrie; four brothers, Warren D. Fletcher, Frank Fletcher, Plemon Fletcher and Clinton Fletcher, all of Ocilla; two sisters, Mrs. Ines Paulk of Willacoochee; and Mrs. Alice Dorminey, Fitzgerald.
Paulk Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
The Ocilla Star, March 1967
Saturday Rites held for Artie Fletcher, Prominent Farmer
Funeral services for Artie Tift Fletcher, 76, of Route 2, Ocilla, who died Thursday , March 2, at the Tift County General Hospital, were conducted Saturday morning at the Pinetta Baptist Church. The Rev. R. J. Eldridge, Elder Ashley Griffin and Rev. J. D. Murray officiated. Interment
followed in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jesse Griffin, Jim York, Sonny Pate, Charles Harris, J. F. Drummond and Arlie Bowen. Honorary pallbearers were Otto Griner, T. W. Morris, Sam Turk, Richard Gibbs,Sr., R. K. Parrish, Henry Cox, Robert Mangum, K. N. Phillips, Elbert Kilgore, H. L. Dismuke, Ernest Hunter, and W. H. Morris.
Mr. Fletcher, a native of Irwin County, was born November 29, 1890. He was a member of the Pinetta Church and had lived in the community all his life. He had extensive farming interests in the Pinetta area.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs Jane Sutton Fletcher, Ocilla; two sons, Paul Fletcher and Amos Fletcher, both of Ocilla; two daughters, Mrs. Ed Cox, Fitzgerald and Mrs. Doris Staten, Moultrie; four brothers, Warren D. Fletcher, Frank Fletcher, Plemon Fletcher and Clinton Fletcher, all of Ocilla; two sisters, Mrs. Ines Paulk of Willacoochee; and Mrs. Alice Dorminey, Fitzgerald.
Paulk Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Gravesite Details

Husband of Jane Sutton Fletcher; Son of James Paulk Fletcher and Mary Lenora Hutchinson Fletcher



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