Grace Griffin, 76, of Ocilla, Georgia, died Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at the Irwin County Hospital.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M., Friday, December 10, 2004, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Ocilla, with the Rev. John Gibbs, Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Brushy Creek Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home in Ocilla from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Thursday evening.
Mrs. Griffin was born October 15, 1928, in Irwin County, Georgia, to the late Osie and Elda Whitley Giddens. She was a 1946 graduate of Irwin County High School in Mystic, where she played basketball. Mrs. Griffin was a former Activities Director and Certified Nurses Assistant at Pleamon Gaskins Nursing Home. She was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Irwin County. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.
Mrs. Griffin is survived by her daughter & son-in-law: Nancy and Howard Mitchell, Ocilla; sons & daughters-in-law: Jerry W. and Mary Griffin, Ocilla, Robert L. and Becky Griffin, Fitzgerald and Marty D. Griffin, Ocilla; eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren; one brother: Franklin Giddens, Nashville, GA and one sister: Louise Harper, Orlando, FL. She was preceded in death by her husband, W.O. Griffin, a daughter, Emily Jane Griffin, two brothers and two sisters.