Jesse H. Sanford, 83, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Friday, January 20, 2006, at Dorminy Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held at 12 noon, Monday, January 23, 2006 at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Bayside Chapel, Virginia Beach, VA with Rev. Aubrey Maye officiating. Interment will follow in Rosewood Memorial Park, Virginia Beach, Virginia. The family will receive friends from 10 AM until the funeral hour at the funeral home.
Mr. Sanford was born November 16, 1922, in Windsor, North Carolina, to the late John T. and Daisy Sutton Sanford. He lived in Fitzgerald for the past ten years after moving from Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. Sanford was a former railroad employee and also refinished yachts. He served in the United States Army during World War II. Mr. Sanford was a member of the Azalea Garden Church Of God in Norfolk.
Mr. Sanford is survived by his daughters and sons-in-law: Edith and Marvin Jeffers and Rachell and Douglas Ausderau, all of Macon, GA; 3 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild; brother and sister-in-law: George and Ruby Sanford of Norfolk, VA. He was preceded in death by his wife, Edith Louise Spruill Sanford.