Cecelia Stockwell Mathis, 83, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Friday, October 21, 2022, at her residence.
Graveside services will be held 2 PM, Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at Big Creek Cemetery in Irwin County, Georgia. The family will receive friends from 6-8 Monday evening at the funeral home in Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Mathis was born March 30, 1939, in Orlando, Florida, to the late Robert Dale & Dorothy Florence Matthews Stockwell. She graduated high school in 1957. She was a homemaker and formerly attended Big Creek Baptist Church.
She is survived by her sons: Norman Mathis of Fitzgerald, Michael Mathis & Dawn of Fitzgerald, and Keith Mathis of Michigan; four grandsons: Bobby Mathis, Kristopher Warren, Jonathan Rigdon, and Tommy Narron; several great-grandchildren; and a sister, Joyce Harvey of Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Johnie Lee Mathis; a daughter, Lisa Ann Mathis; and an infant grandson.