Georgie Roper, 77, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Friday, August 12, 2005 in Sylvester, Georgia.
Funeral Services will be held 2:00 PM Sunday, August 14, 2005 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald, with Rev. James Faircloth officiating. Interment will follow at Evergreen Cemetery, Fitzgerald. Visitation will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 Saturday evening at the funeral home.
Ms. Roper was born June 28, 1928 in Chatsworth, Georgia, to the late Hubert and Alice Greenway Place. She was a former employee of Surry Industries in Pilot Mountain, NC. She moved to Fitzgerald in 1984 and had lived in the community since that time. Ms. Roper was a loving mother and grandmother who loved to baby-sit her grandchildren. She was of the Baptist faith.
She is survived by her children: James Robert Collins of Fitzgerald, Peggy Collins Dahn of Sylvester, Barbara Jean (Howard) Rawley of Sylvester, Charlotte Collins of Fitzgerald, Rex Alton (Donna) Cromer of Abbeville and Julie Cromer Warren of Sylvester; eighteen grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren; a brother, Robert L. Place of Ft. Payne, AL; and two sisters, Kathryn Cromer of Greensboro, NC and Ruth Welcher of Lawrenceville. She was preceded in death by a son Sanford Collins, Jr., and a grandson, Stephen Anthony Coan.