Mattie Ruth Childree Streetman, 90, of Tifton passed away Thursday, September 23, 2004, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Her funeral service was held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 26, 2004, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with the Rev. Eddie Hutcheson officiating. Mrs. Streetman was laid to rest at Tift Memorial Gardens.
Bobby Hobby, Lamar Brooks, Steve Edenfield, Claude Selph, Harvey Shaw, Scott Bradford and Larry Streetman served as pallbearers.
Born May 14, 1914, in Taylor County, Mrs. Streetman was the daughter of the late George David Childree and Clara Bell Windham Childree. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Lemuel Eugene Streetman; and three brothers. Before retiring, she was a dietician at a nursing home; and she was a member of Tifton's First Assembly of God. She had lived in Tift County since 1950.
Mrs. Streetman is survived by one son, Lester Streetman of Lawrenceville; two daughters, Connie Jackson of Tifton and Dianne Brown of Alvin, Texas; two brother, Ennis Childree of Butler and Arthur Childree of Macon; two sisters, Myrtice Roberts of Gray and Edna Carroll of Butler; fourteen grandchildren; and sixteen great-grandchildren.