Hazel Anita Ward Law, 95, of Chula passed away Friday, September 10, 2021, at Palemon Gaskins Memorial Nursing Home in Ocilla following a brief illness. Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with the Rev. Larry Layfield officiating. Mrs. Law will be laid to rest at Tift Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals from 10:00 a.m. until the hour of the service.
Mrs. Law's grandsons and great-grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Mrs. Law was born May 11, 1926, in Ashburn. She grew up on the family farm in Irwin County; attended school in Mystic and graduated high school in 1944.
Mrs. Law was the daughter of the late William Patrick Ward and Doxie Anna Farmer Ward. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Dalton Avon Law, who she married on April 6, 1946. In addition to her parents and her husband, she was also preceded in death by one grandson, John William Brady; and her ten siblings, Aubrey Patrick Ward, Wilburn Lawrence Ward, Lemma Elois Ward Speight, Marvin Emory Ward, Rassie Cleo Ward, Blonnie Nadine Ward Speight, Cecil Grady Ward, Vera Beatrice Ward Pitts, Milton Lamar Ward and Velma Aldine Ward.
After marrying Mr. Law, she moved to the Law Family Farm in Chula, where she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother for the rest of her life. She loved her children and her grandchildren and she loved flowers (day lilies) and enjoyed visiting flower farms. She was a bargain hunter and she was always busy. She was picking up pecans at the age of 94 from her pecan orchard. She liked catching, cooking and eating catfish. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church of Chula, where she was a member of the 5C Club.
Mrs. Law is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Sidney and Dianne Law of Davisboro, Dwayne and Marilyn Law of Chula and Kenny and Cindy Law of Chattanooga, Tennessee; two daughters and one son-in-law, Susan and Roger Warnock of Pooler and Jeannie Law Brady of Chula; twelve grandchildren; nineteen great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Flowers will be accepted or memorial gifts may be made to a charity of choice.