Rebecca Sue Sheffield Taylor, 59, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Saturday, June 30, 2018, at Pruitt Health in Fitzgerald.
Graveside services will be held 4 PM, Monday, July 2, 2018, at Evergreen Cemetery in Fitzgerald. The family will greet friends following the service at the cemetery.
Mrs. Taylor was born December 29, 1958, in Douglas, Georgia to the late William & Stella Mae Stone Taft. She graduated as class valedictorian and with honors from high school. She was a CNA and an LPN for Life Care Center as well as Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. She was a member of First Baptist Tabernacle.
She is survived by a daughter, Shannon Sheffield Duckworth and her fiancé Walden Lee Fountain, both of Fitzgerald; son, Ronnie Allen Batten of Vidalia; her grandchildren: Nicholae Sheffield, Le’Stat Sheffield, Emily Rebecca Duckworth, and Kaden Fountain; and two nieces, Ann Taft Adams & Morgan and Vickie Taft, all of Douglas. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Maxwell Reese and a son, Brandon Jay Sheffield.