Mary Martin Killough, 75, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Sunday, January 6, 2019, at Tift Regional Medical Center, in Tifton, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held 2 PM, Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Westside Baptist Church, in Fitzgerald, with the Rev. Dr. Brent Duncan officiating. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery, in Fitzgerald. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the services at the church.
Mrs. Killough was born July 9, 1943, in Oakman, Alabama, to the late Robert Elbert & Amy Autince Dobson Martin. She graduated from Oakman High School in Alabama and moved to the community in 2000 from Douglasville, Georgia. She did clerical work for Lawyer’s Title in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama. Mrs. Killough was a member of Westside Baptist Church and served on the Kitchen Committee.
She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Arthur W. Killough of Fitzgerald; a daughter, Amy During & Don of Fitzgerald; granddaughter: Chelsea Dowling & Dalton ; special grandchildren: Abigail Sumner, Bryanna Sumner and Emily During; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law: Hershel & Brenda Killough of Saucier, Mississippi, Shirley & Wayne Bishop of Pleasant Grove, Alabama, Chuck & Dedra Killough of Alabaster, Alabama, Jackie & Dan Whalen of Marion, Alabama and Pam & David Mayes of Chattanooga, Tennessee; a host of nieces and nephews, including two nephews: Claude Elbert Patton & Jan and Richard C. Patton; a special cousin, Joyce & Layton Todd; and the During family. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister, Jane Patton; her step-mother, Carthey Martin; and a cousin, Marty Todd.