Lillie Barfield Bess, 86, of Irwinville, Georgia died Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at Palemon Gaskins Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held 2 P.M. Sunday, December 9, 2012 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Ocilla with the Rev. Rex Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in the Irwinville Cemetery. The family will receive friends Saturday evening from 7-9 at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Bess was born August 5, 1926 in Worth County to the late Green Barfield and Fannie Parrish Barfield. Mrs. Bess lived in Irwin County most all of her life. She was a homemaker who enjoyed crocheting, fishing and cooking for her family. She was of Baptist faith.
She is survived by her children: Raymond Bess of Houston, Texas, Betty & Darrell Moore of Irwinville, Georgia, Larry & Peggy Bess of Ocilla, Georgia, Melvin & Nora Bess of Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Mary Jane & Charlie Harper of Cartersville, Georgia; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one brother: Troy & Bobbie Barfield of Bainbridge, Georgia and a twin sister: Lilla Burns of Bainbridge, Georgia. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her husband: Eugene Brantley “Frog” Bess; one son: Kenneth Bess; two grandchildren: Darrell & Jenny Moore; two brothers and one sister.