Eloyce Maddox Brantley, 80, of Ocilla, Georgia, died Monday, July 26, 2004, at Tift Regional Medical Center.
Graveside services will be held 4:00 P.M., Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at the Ocilla Cemetery, with Rev. Gerald Thomas officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home in Ocilla from 7:00 until 9:00, Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Brantley was born July 11, 1924, in Irwin County, Georgia to the late Coy and Mary Gray Maddox. She lived in the community all of her life. Mrs. Brantley was retired Head Start Program Director and Pre-K School Teacher. She was a member of the Ocilla Baptist Church and the Osceola Chapter # 431 Order of Eastern Star.
Survivors include: Daughter and son-in-law: Faith B. & Donald W. Tyson, Sr., Tifton, GA, son and daughter-in-law: Norman L. & Linda Brantley, Ocilla, daughter: Mary Ann Bryan, Cornelia, GA, son and daughter-in-law: Lester H. & Susan Brantley, Sumner, GA; six grandchildren and ten great grandchildren; sister: Molly Paul, Ocilla. Mrs. Brantley was preceded in death by her husband, Lester L. Brantley, a sister, Eunice Haynie and two brothers, Coy W. and John Henry Maddox.