Abigail T. “Abbie” Morgan, 91, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Friday, March 25, 2005 at Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, March 28, 2005, at Arbor Baptist Church, with Rev. David Fisher, Dr. Lloyd Stembridge, and Rev. John K. Mobley officiating. Interment will follow in the Old Valley Grove Cemetery, Irwin County. Visitation will be held from 7:00 until 9:00, Sunday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Morgan was born July 19, 1913, in Chambers County, Alabama, to the late W. T. and Susan Annie Mann Tucker. She had lived in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties all of her life. She was a farm wife who raised six children following her husband’s death in 1949. She was a former manager for Cohen’s Department Store in Ocilla. Mrs. Morgan was a charter member of Northside Baptist Church, now Crossview Baptist Church, and a member of the Nancy Gordon Sunday School Class. She also worked with the Green Thumb Senior’s Program of Ben Hill County.
Mrs. Morgan is survived by her children: Jenny and Donald Miles of Fitzgerald, Buster and Christie Morgan of Moultrie, Brenda and Edwin Paul of Fitzgerald, Linda and Herman Griner of Perry, and Buddy Morgan of Fitzgerald; daughter-in-law: Edna Morgan of Albany; sixteen grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and one sister: Myrtle Bridges of Albany. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hollis P. Morgan, one son: Preston R. “Bud” Morgan, two brothers, and one sister.