Bessie Mae Milner, 94, of Albany died Saturday, July 19, 2008 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Ocilla with the Rev. Noah Phillips officiating. Interment will follow in Brushy Creek Cemetery, Irwin County. The family will receive friends 9:00 AM until the funeral hour.
Mrs. Milner was born June 17, 1914 in Dodge County to the late Sam Holcomb and Mattie Singletary Holcomb Jones. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Albany. She had lived in Albany since 1954 coming from Irwin County. She was a wonderful mother and loved cooking and caring for her family
She is survived by her children and their spouses: Armond E. & Betty Milner of Albany, Jerdine & William Kenneth Webb of Sylvester, Mary E. Jenkins and James F. & Becky Milner of Albany, Marvin & Teresa Milner of Worth County, Mildred & Doug Grace of Evergreen, Alabama, and Howard & Latrelle Milner of Albany; son-in-law: Donald Roberts of Naples, Idaho; seventeen grandchildren; twenty-two great-grandchildren; ten great-great-grandchildren; one sister: Alma Buchanan of Bonaire; and one brother: Sam Holcomb of Jacksonville, Florida. Several nieces and nephews also survive. She was preceded in death by her husband: Armond Esther Milner; one daughter: Mattie M. Roberts; and three brothers: O’Neal Holcomb, Jack Holcomb, and Elbert Holcomb.