Ellen Marie Clemons Dove, 83, of Tifton died Friday, January 30, 2009, at her son’s residence. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, February 2, 2009, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Pastor Ronnie Vice will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Son, Gary Dove; grandsons, Jeff Dove and Brett Dove; son-in-law, Kenny Chambless; and nephews, Randy Manning and Eddie Clemons, will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Sunday, February 1, 2009, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funreals.
Mrs. Dove was born on December 31, 1925 in Augusta and was the daughter of Martin A. Clemons and Idell Hancock Clemons, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Leroy E. Dove; two sons, Ronald Leroy Dove and an infant son; one sister, Louise Dove; four brothers, Howard Clemons, Avery Clemons, James Edward Clemons, and a baby boy Clemons; and one son-in-law, Roger D. Hill. She was retired from the Housekeeping Department at Tift Regional Medical Center and a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Tifton.
Mrs. Dove is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, Gary and Glenda Dove of Tifton, and Danny E. Dove of Valdosta; two daughters and a son-in-law, Joann and Kenny Chambless of Poulan, and Sandra Hill of Tifton; three brothers, Cecil Clemons of Tifton, Gerald Clemons of Branford, Florida, and Robert Clemons of Arcadia, Florida; one sister, Betty Taylor of Tifton; 14 grandchildren; and several great grandchildren.