Vera Tanner Hunter, 98, of Ocilla, Georgia, died Thursday, December 15, 2005, at Dorminy Medical Center, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, December 17, 2005, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Ocilla, with Elder Otis McGee officiating. Interment will follow in Old Union Cemetery, Ben Hill County. Visitation will be held from 7 until 9, Friday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Hunter was born September 12, 1907, in Grannis, Arkansas, to the late John and Margaret Coker Tanner. She was a homemaker and lived in the community since October, 2000. Mrs. Hunter was a former resident of Conyers and Social Circle, where she was a member of Social Circle United Methodist Church. After moving to Ocilla, she joined the Ocilla Primitive Baptist Church.
Mrs. Hunter is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law: Faye and Dempsey Law of Social Circle and Joan and Roger Tucker of Mystic; 6 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Hunter, a daughter and a brother.