Funeral services for Evelyn Jones Mercer will be held 4:00 P.M. Wednesday, September 26, 2007, at the Ashburn First Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Ashburn. Mrs. Mercer passed away, Sunday, September 23, 2007 at approximately 1:45 p.m. at Baptist Village in Waycross, Ga., where she was living with her husband, Ray L. Mercer, Sr.
Mrs. Mercer was an outstanding business woman having managed WMES Radio and Mercer Communications, Inc. in Ashburn, Ga. She also worked in financial services in Moultrie, Ga.
Mrs. Mercer was a 1951 graduate of Moultrie High School after transferring from Savannah High in Savannah, Ga. in 1949. She was born in Chatham County, Georgia and was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Jones, Sr.
She is survived by her husband, Ray L. Mercer, Sr., Waycross, Ga., to whom she married on May 8, 1953. Mrs. Mercer is also survived by two sons, Mark Brannen Mercer, Carraibelle, Fla., and Ray L. Mercer, Jr. of Daisy, Ga., five grandchildren and four step grandchildren. She is also survived by one brother, Robert V. Jones, Jr. Charlotte, North Carolina.
The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 2:00-4:00 P.M. at the Ashburn First Baptist Church.