Mrs. Verna P. Long, 104, of Fitzgerald, Georgia died Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at the Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Thursday, July 24 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald with Rev. Godfrey O’Rear officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Wednesday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Long was born April 22, 1904 in Soperton, Georgia to the late William and Mattie Cobia Phillips. She lived in the community most of her life and was a former resident of Waycross for 15 years when her husband worked for AB & C Railroad. Mrs. Long was the oldest living member of Arbor Baptist Church and a member of the former Rebekah Sunday School Class.
She is survived by two nieces and a nephew, Eleanor Stark of Bulloch County, GA, Sonya Roberts of Chattanooga, TN and Maxie Phillips of Jonesboro; great nephew, Nathan E. “Woody” Bagley of Rincon, GA; great nieces, Ty Hodges of Statesboro, GA, A. Gail Hadley of Flowery Branch, GA and G. Susan Hadley of Guyton, GA. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, George E. Long.