Mary Elizabeth Coleman, 78, of Irwin County, Georgia died Thursday, February 25, 2010, at Langdale Hospice House in Valdosta.
Funeral services will be held 2 P.M. Saturday, February 27, at Big Creek Baptist Church with Rev. Wayne McCrimmon officiating. Interment will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Rebecca. The family will receive friends from 7-9 P.M. Friday evening at the funeral home in Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Coleman was born October 9, 1931 in Wilcox County to the late Lewis W. and Nettie McGlamry White. She lived in the community most of her life, graduating from New Tapley School. Mrs. Coleman was a homemaker and a former employee of H.R. Kaminsky & Son’s. She was a member of Big Creek Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband: Ken Coleman of Irwin County; son and daughter-in-law: Tony & Becky Coleman of Irwin County; daughter and son-in-law: Brenda & Lamar Roberson of Irwin County; grandchildren: James Roberson, Joyce & Bobby Clark, Janet Reliford, Samantha Coleman and Rebekah Coleman; great grandchildren: Kyle and Joey Roberson, Lee & Meghann Clark, Chip Bowen, Destiny, Dustin and Devin Reliford. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by four brothers and four sisters.