Martha Jane Sumner McDaniel, 96, of Tifton, died Sunday, June 4, 2006 at Tift Health Care. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, June 8, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Martin Wilson will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, June 7, 2006, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Ms. McDaniel was born on January 25, 1910 in Tift County and was the daughter of James "Jim" Sumner and Jane BethSheba Lindsey Sumner, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Wilburn McDaniel, who died in 1989. She was a homemaker and a member of Enigma Congregational Christian Church.
Ms. McDaniel is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law: Randolph and Shirley McDaniel of Mill Spring, North Carolina and James Donald and Teresa McDaniel of Clover, South Carolina; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Pat McDaniel Brewer and her husband, Edward, of McCaysville, Georgia; Bonnie McDaniel Keiffer of Enigma; and Shelba McDaniel Cipriano and her husband, Michael, of Stanley, North Carolina; thirteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.