Herta Charlotte Stumpel Pitts, 67, of Tucker died Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 16, 2007, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Jack Perrin will officiate with burial to follow in Union Grove Church of God Cemetery in Eldorado. Pallbearers will be Ernest Mitchell, Bennett Boyd, Joe Boyd, Bobby Stinson, Van Houston and Keith Johnson. The family will receive friends on Friday, June 15, 2007, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Ms. Pitts was born on April 28, 1940 in Essen, Germany and was the daughter of Friedrich August Stumpel and Margarete "Gerda" Juttler Jerofke, both deceased. She was a dialysis nurse at Emory Crawford Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
Ms. Pitts is survived by two sons and one daughter-in-law, Jason and Laurie Pitts of Albany, and Dr. Wayne Pitts of Tifton; four daughters and sons-in-law, Audrey and Barry Franklin of Lilburn, Sharon and Randy Justice of Stone Mountain, Selena and David Athon of Shula, and Gail and Larry Stinson of Tifton; one step-sister, Jutta McChesney of Alberta, Canada; 12 grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.