Ethel J. Harrell, 83, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Friday, February 13, 2004 at Osceola Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 4 P.M. Monday, February 16, 2004, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Interment will follow in Lax Cemetery, Irwin County. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Sunday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Harrell was born August 30, 1920, in Irwin County, Georgia, to the late Gaines and Emma Chaney Joiner. She lived in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties most of her life and was a former resident of Albany, Georgia. Mrs. Harrell was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith.
Mrs. Harrell is survived by her companion: Lamar Goodman, Fitzgerald; four daughters: Sue Haney, Clara Ruth Harrell, Mary Ann Fuller and Bonnie Jowers, all of Fitzgerald; twenty one grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren; one brother: Willis Joiner, Waco, TX and one sister, Clara McCowen, Fitzgerald. She is preceded in death by her husband, Jim Harrell; one son: Clifford Harrell, two sisters and one brother.