Myrtle Grace Dilling, 78, of Fitzgerald, died Monday, December 11 at the Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM Thursday, December 14, at the Paulk Funeral home Chapel, Fitzgerald. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Wednesday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Dilling was born February 24, 1928, in Marietta, Ohio to the late Ben F. and Dulcie Grace Holdren Brown. She lived in the community since 1972 and was a former resident of Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Dilling was a former employee of Modern Fibers, Piggly Wiggly and she loved to keep children. She was of the Methodist faith.
Mrs. Dilling is survived by her husband: Robert F. Dilling of Fitzgerald; son: Shane Dilling of Fitzgerald; daughter: Velva Jean Lanier of Tampa; 5 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren; sisters: Wilda Beebe of Marietta, OH, Ruth Riemenschneider of Atlanta and Ila Buchanan of Kingman, AZ. She was preceded in death by twin brothers, Virgil and Vernon and a daughter, Sharlene.