Charles Sellers, 70, of Chula died Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at Life Care Center in Fitzgerald. Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November 26, 2010, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Brad Hughes will officiate with a private burial to be held at a later date. The Tifton-Tift County Fire Department will serve as honorary escort and honor guard. The family will receive friends on Friday, November 26, 2010, from 12:00 p.m. until the hour of the service.
Mr. Sellers was born on April 20, 1940 in Greenville, South Carolina and was the son of Ernest William Sellers and Helen Wilkie Sellers, both deceased. He was retired from the City of Tifton Fire Department and the University of Georgia Plant Pathology Department. He was also a United States Army veteran.
Mr. Sellers is survived by his wife of 51 years, Gloria Duncan Sellers of Chula; one son, Rock Shane Sellers of Tifton; two daughters, Misty Burnette of Arkansas and Lisa Boyd of Tifton; two brothers, Mitchell Sellers and Johnnie Sellers, both of Hendersonville, North Carolina; three sisters, Linda Gordon, Darlene Yow and Gail Thomason, all of Hendersonville, North Carolina; and four grandchildren, Hunter Shane Sellers, Abigail Lake Baldree, Ethan Avery Baldree and JohnPaul Boyd.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorial gifts to the Alzheimer’s Association, Tifton Chapter, 100 Central Avenue South, Tifton, Georgia 31794.