Sally Goodwin Gibbs Stanley, 88, of Irwinville, GA, died Sunday, July 26, 2009 at the Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 1 P.M., Wednesday, July 29, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald, with the Rev. Rex Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery. The Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 P.M. Tuesday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Stanley was born December 9, 1920, in Wilcox County, Georgia to the late Joe N. and Rissie Vaughn Goodwin. She grew up in Owensboro, GA, and was a former resident of Fitzgerald, Savannah, Orlando, Miami and Lake Worth, FL, before moving back to Irwinville. She was a homemaker and antique dealer. She was a member of the Faith Baptist Church.
Mrs. Stanley is survived by her children: Deborah and Stephen Schanamann of Gathersburg, Maryland, Charles and Anita Gibbs of Key Largo, FL and daughter-in-law, Sue Gibbs: thirteen grandchildren, twenty one great grandchildren and sixteen great-great grandchildren. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her husbands, James Stanley and Henry Milton Gibbs; Son: Joe Wayne Gibbs, Sr., grandson: Henry Keith Gibbs; four sisters, Temp McDuffie, Deal Clements, Mildred Pennington, Mary Jo LeMaire and one brother, Joe Nathan Goodwin, Jr.