Leo Jacobs Altman, 78, of Tifton died Sunday, November 4, 2012, at Coffee Regional Medical Center in Douglas. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals. Rev. Dale Smith and Rev. John Jacobs will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Taylor Pullen, Trey Mackie, Rex Hill, Glynn Smith, Carl Stalvey, Brice Hill and Corey Hill will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. until the hour of the service at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Mrs. Altman was born on January 27, 1934 in Berrien County and was the daughter of George Amos Jacobs and Maggie Julia O’Neal Jacobs, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Wayne Alvin Altman; one brother and sister-in-law, Perry and Valdee Jacobs. She was a retired nurse and had worked for Dr. Bill Bridges and Tifton Women’s Clinic. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church.
Mrs. Altman is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Ronald and Betty Metts of Alapaha; one daughter and son-in-law, Missy and Trey Mackie of Newnan; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Lucious and Louise Jacobs of Alapaha and Cleo and Rachel Jacobs of Oveida, Florida; one sister and brother-in-law, Delores and Vickers Smith of Ambrose; three grandchildren and their spouses, Ashli and Carl Stalvey, Taylor Pullen, Rebecca Pullen; two great-grandchildren, John Haven Stalvey, and Autrey Stalvey; and several nieces and nephews.