Annie B. Wheeles, 101, of Fitzgerald, Georgia died Saturday, July 16, 2005 at Dorminy Medcial Center in Fitzgerald.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Monday, July 18, 2005 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald with the Rev. David Fisher and the Rev. Glenn Fussell officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 7:00 until 9:00 Sunday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Wheeles was born April 8, 1904 to the late Charles and Docia Sloan Berryhill. She had lived in the community most of her life. She was a retired textile worker having worked as a spinner at the Fitzgerald Cotton Mill. She was a member of the Fitzgerald Church of God.
She is survived by three sons: Rudolph Wheeles and Doug Wheeles, both of Forest Park, GA and W.R. Wheeles of Orangeburg, SC; one daughter: Mary Jo Blackstock of Fitzgerald; eight grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; twenty-two great-great-grandchildren; and a sister: Ola Ethridge of Fitzgerald. She was preceded in death by her husband: Lewis Hardy Wheeles, a brother: Will Berryhill, and a sister: Eva Merritt.