Mrs. Helen Sandifer Whitley, 95, of Ocilla, died Thursday, September 6, 2007 at her residence.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 P.M., Sunday, September 9, 2007, at Old Valley Grove Primitive Baptist Church, with Elder Charles Tyson and Elder Chad O’Quinn officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Saturday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Born July 13, 1912 in Greene County, Georgia to the late W.L. and ElVira Harkness Sandifer, she was a homemaker and a farmers wife. Mrs. Whitley lived in Irwin County most of her life. She attended Old Valley Grove Primitive Baptist Church.
Mrs. Whitley is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Jerry & Buck Hall and Shirley & Eugene Chambers all of Ocilla; grandchildren, Cheryl Ann Gibson and Wanda Paulk of Ocilla and Craig Hall of Perry; 2 great grandchildren, Hunter and Dustin Hall of Perry as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Whitley and 13 brothers and sisters.