Ronnie Joe Young, 76, of Tifton passed away Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Tift Regional Medical Center. A graveside funeral service will be held for Mr. Young at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at Oakey Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Berrien County, 622 Brookfield-Lenox Road near Highway 125, where he will be laid to rest. The Rev. Ike Thomas will officiate. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at the graveside at Oakey Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Berrien County from 10:00 a.m. until the hour of the service.
Joey Young, Michael Young, Sam Young, Derrick Johnson, Michael Smith and Eugene Turner will serve as pallbearers.
Born September 15, 1945, in Berrien County, Mr. Young was the son of the late J. P. Young and Carrie Olline Rutland Young. He retired from the Georgia Department of Transportation and he loved to fish and go to the Gulf Coast.
Mr. Young is survived by his wife, Sherry L. Young of Tifton; two sons and one daughter-in-law, Joey and Angie Young of Tampa, Florida and Michael Young of Tifton; one brother, Charles V, Young of Tifton; two sisters, Gwen Aultman of Tifton and Glenda Hiers of Greenville, South Carolina; three grandchildren, Brittany Paige Wilson and her husband Cameron, Andrea Dawn Young and Samuel Joe Young; and one great-grandson, Emmett Wilson.