The True Citizen Obituaries - The True Citizen (2024)

Geneva Hall Jenkins, 89, of Waynesboro died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003 at

Brentwood Terrace Health Center. Her funeral was 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.

4, at the Chapel of DeLoach-Kennedy Funeral Home in Waynesboro, with the

Rev. Roland Dann and Joe Snipes officiating. Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery.

Mrs. Jenkins was a native of Jenkins County and the daughter of Charlie

B. and Lexie Peel Hall. She spent most of her life in Burke County and

at the age of 79 retired as secretary/receptionist for Ann B. Harden Realty

Co. A graduate of Jenkins County High School, she was a member of the

Eastern Star and a former member of the First Baptist Church, where she

was active in the WMU and Joy Sunday School Class. Later she became a

member of the Fleming Church of God in Augusta.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Fulton Jenkins.

Survivors include two daughters, Patsy Thompson of Mc-Bean and Janice

O’Quinn of Waynesboro; two sisters, Dorothy Hall Hodges of Beaufort,

S.C. and Sue Hall Kicklighter of Millen; a brother, John Randall Hall

of Walterboro, S.C.; five grandchildren, Lexie TenHui-sen, Ann C. Roose,

Chuck Curr-ington, Kim Smith and Kelli O’Quinn; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Andy TenHuisen, Ronald Smith, Paul Smith, Dan Weirsma,

Chuck Currington and Steven Hall.

Honorary pallbearers were John Russell, Frank Vetter, Albert Jordon, Lynn

Jenkins and John Moll. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s

G. Jones Sr.

Hugh “Boots” Gordon Jones Sr., 76, died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003

at Doctors Hospital in Augusta. His funeral will be 2 p.m. today (Wednesday,

Feb. 5), at DeLoach-Kennedy Funeral Home Chapel in Waynesboro, with the

Rev. Roy White officiating. Burial will follow at Burke Memorial Gardens

with full military honors accorded.

Mr. Jones, a native of Dekalb County, had resided in Hephzibah since 1974.

He was a retired Gunnery Sgt. for 20 years serving in World War II, Korean

War and Vietnam. He also retired from the Veterans Administration Medical

Center in Augusta after 21 years. He was a member of the Crossroads Baptist

Church, the Waynesboro Masonic Lodge #274 and a former member of the Burke

County Sheriff’s Posse.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Fred G. Jones and Mary Elizabeth

Webb Jones, seven brothers and two sisters. Survivors include his widow,

Della M. Jones of Hephzibah; four sons, Hugh Gordon Jones Jr. of Harlem;

David Paul Jones of Grovetown, George Ronald Beckworth of Dearing and

Kenneth Wesley Jones of Wrens; a daughter, Sandra Dean Boone of Hephzibah;

two brothers, Hilliard Jones of Rock Hill and Ned Jones of Conyers; and

12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be members of the Masonic Lodge #274.

Memorials may be made to the Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center,

Bennefield Sr.

James Bennefield Sr. of Waynesboro died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003 at Burke

Medical Center. His funeral was 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, at Phillip Grove

Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Eugene Tanzymore and the Rev.

Dr. Walter J. Crockett, pastor emeritus, officiating. Burial was in the

church cemetery.

Mr. Bennefield, a native of Burke County, was a retired truck driver at

Mundy, Inc. He was a member of Phillip Grove Missionary Baptist Church,

where he served as deacon assistant chairman of the Deacon’s Ministry

and as church treasurer.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Lillie Mae and Steve Bennefield.

Survivors include his widow, Helen Bennefield of Waynes-boro; two sons,

Willie Benne-field of Irvington, N.J. and James Bennefield of Hillside,

N.J.; five daughters, Mildred Matthews of Hillside and Doris Spence, Janie

Brime and Lillian Bennefield, all of Manhattan, N.Y. and the Rev. Ella

Thomas of Waynesboro; a sister, Annie Kent of Waynesboro; two sisters-in-law,

Pearl Ellison and Lillie Mae Parker, both of Waynesboro; two sons-in-law,

Aaron Thomas of Waynesboro and Earl Spence of Manhattan; a brother-in-law,

John Parker of Waynesboro; Dexter Bennefield and Cassandra Spence, whom

he reared; and 11 grandchildren and over 20 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers

were George Lloyd, Michael Davis, Willie Mack, Willie Lockhart, Julius

Lewis, Andrew Clay and Louia Sapp.

Honorary pallbearers were deacons and trustees of Phillip Grove Missionary

Baptist Church. Flower bearers were the Phillip Grove Missionary Baptist

D. Shuman

Robert Daniel Shuman, 86, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003.

Graveside services were 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, at Burke Memorial Gardens

Cemetery in Waynesboro, with the Revs. David Carter and Henry Erwin officiating.

Mr. Shuman, a native of Vidalia, grew up in Statesboro. He was the son

of the late John Jarvin and Mary Alice Stewart Shuman, In January of 1940,

he saw a need to stop Hitler and went to Canada to train as a Royal Canadian

Air Force fighter pilot. He participated in the Battle of Britain at its

height when the average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was two weeks,

and all that stood between Hitler and the free world were 59 squadrons

of the RCAF and RAF. Churchill made reference to these valiant men when

he said, “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed

to so few.”

When the war was moved to the European continent he was shot down over

France while on a mission to support Allied commandos behind the German

lines. He spent 3½ years in German POW camps. While imprisoned

he lived next door to Paul Brickhill who wrote The Great Escape that later

became the movie starring Steve McQueen. Mr. Shuman is featured in a video

at the American POW Museum in Andersonville, Ga.

After the war he met and married Carolyn Mundy Shuman, moving to her hometown

of Waynesboro where he became a merchant and a farmer. He lived and worked

in Waynesboro for the next 58 years where he founded Mundy-Shuman Furniture

Company. He was active in the First Baptist and First Methodist churches

of Waynesboro and established four college scholarships for those interested

in entering the full-time Christian ministry. He was an active Rotarian

for over 50 years and was recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow for his service

to his country in the RCAF and his service to Rotary.

Survivors include his widow, Carolyn Mundy Shuman; a son, Robert Daniel

Shuman Jr. of Dublin; two brothers, the Rev. L.J. Shuman of Kingstree,

S.C. and Albert Shuman of States-boro; a sister, Mary Dell Trap-nell of

Dallas, Texas; and four grandchildren, Sarah Harper of Milledgeville,

Katherine Shuman and Robert Daniel Shuman III, both of Dublin, and Elizabeth

Shuman of Atlanta. Pallbearers were L.J. Shuman, Albert Shuman, Rob Shuman,

Dave Harper, Bobby Edmonds, Bobby Neely, Lamar Murray, Steve Crawford,

Dennis Taylor and Bo Cochran. Honorary pallbearers were members of the

Waynesboro Rotary Club. Memorial contributions may be made to Habitat

Ellison

Larry Ellison of Augusta died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003 at the residence

of his sister, Louise Jennings. His funeral was 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

1, at Faith Christian Fellowship Center in Sardis, with Elders Wallace

Mosley and Arnold Kelly officiating. Burial was in the Smith Chapel AME

Zion Church Cemetery.

Mr. Ellison, a native of Burke County, was a retiree of Sam-sons and a

member of the Pentecostal House of Prayer in Sardis. He was preceded in

death by his parents, Arnold Mack Ellison and Mae Etta Ellison. Survivors

include a son, Char-les Freeman of Sardis; three daughters, Nicole Ellison,

Ton-ya Ellison and Linda Ellison, all of Brooklyn, N.Y.; eight sisters

and two brothers-in-law, Louise Jennings, Alberta Lassiter, An-nie Mae

Dunn, Eleanor and Sa-mmy Bradford, all of Augusta, and Freddie Lee Kelly,

Sandra Ellison and Yvonne Harrison, all of Sardis, and Viola and Harvey

Anderson of Waynesboro. Pallbearers were Calvin Perkins, Mark Gardner,

Green

Bethel Green of Waynesboro died Friday, Jan. 31, 2003 at Br-entwood Terrace

Health Center. Her funeral was 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, at Phinazee

and Son Chapel, with the Rev. Dollie F. Jones officiating. Burial was

in Pines Cemetery.

Mrs. Green was retired. She was a graduate of Waynesboro High and Industrial

School. She moved to New York at an early age to pursue a career in singing

and stage performance and later moved to California. She was preceded

in death by her father, Talmadge Clark and husband, Mr. Green. Survivors

include a son and daughter-in-law, Talmadge Dewitt and Louise Lodge of

Waynesboro; three grandchildren, Talmadge Lodge Jr., Portia Lodge Washington

and Louis A. Lodge; six great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were Talmadge Lodge Jr., Bobby Givens, Tal-madge Givens, Nekita

Bostic, Elijah Williams and Thomas Lynch.