Cecilia Marie Smith Mann, 86, died peacefully at home in Ocala, Florida on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
Graveside services will be held at 2 PM Saturday, October 22 in the Evergreen Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Faircloth officiating.
Mrs. Mann was born November 12, 1924 in Atlanta to the late Charles Hugh and Olive Campbell Smith. She was a 1941 graduate of Fitzgerald High School and attended Ben Hill-Irwin Technical School. Mrs. Mann retired from United Telephone Company in 1987. She served as an auxiliary volunteer for Marion Community Hospital for thirteen years and a charter member of Highlands Baptist Church since 1957, both in Ocala.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Chuck & Sandy Mann and granddaughter, Abby Mann all of Tampa, FL; sisters-in-law, Reba Barnett and Margaret (Lester) Luffman all of Ocala, FL; caregiver, Bonnie Thompson as well as several nieces and nephews. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Roy C. Mann who was originally from Abbeville and a sister and brother-in-law, Melba & James Gordon of Tifton.