Estelle Connor Spurlin, 95, of Tifton passed away Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at Tift Health Care. Her funeral service was held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, October 25, 2002, in the Memorial Chapel of Tifton's First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Wayne Roe and the Rev. Dr. W. Ches Smith, III officiating. Mrs. Spurlin was laid to rest at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Ken Spurlin, Johnny Spurlin, Joe Spurlin, Jamie Spurlin, Arch Howell, Todd Slappey and Kevin Belflower served as pallbearers.
Born September 26, 1907, in Old Fort, North Carolina, Mrs. Spurlin was the daughter of the late Joseph Connor and Gertrude Barnwell Connor. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Walter Crawford Spurlin; two brothers; and two sisters. Before retiring, she was a clerk at Roddenbery Hardware in Tifton; and she was a member of Tifton's First Baptist Church.
Mrs. Spurlin is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, James K. and Gwendolyn Spurlin of Ty Ty; one daughter, Laurel S. Crawford of Demopolis, Alabama; one sister and brother-in-law, Pauline and Allen Johnson of Tifton; three sisters-n-law, Eunice Spurlin, Annie Lou Connor and Velma Connor; six grandchildren and their spouses, Ken and Connie Spurlin, John and Mary Spurlin, Joe and Cindy Spurlin, Susan and Kevin Belflower, Karen and Archer Howell and Kelley and Todd Slappey; and eleven great-grandchildren.