Alfred Loren Hendley, 88, of Ocilla, Georgia, died Thursday, July 20, 2023 at his residence.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM Monday, July 24, 2023, at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Irwin County, with the Rev. James Griffin and Rev. John S. Gibbs Jr officiating. The family will receive friends Sunday evening, from 6 PM to 8PM, at the funeral home in Ocilla. The interment will follow in the Henderson Chapel Cemetery in Irwin County.
Mr. Hendley was born March 18, 1935, in Holt, Georgia, to the late Alfred Lewis and Juanita Pettis Hendley. He was a 1953 graduate from Irwin County High School. He served his country honorably, in the United States Army, where he served in Vietnam and retired as a Staff Sergeant First Class. Mr. Hendley was a faithful member of the American Legion post 99 in Fitzgerald, and was very devoted to the South Georgia Studebaker Drivers Club. He was very devoted to his family, and his church family at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife: Betty Walker Hendley of Ocilla; step children: Brenda Fletcher & Rick, Michael Cleghorn & Linda, Joy Edenfield & James and Paula Cleghorn; 12 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and 2 great-great grandchildren; sister-in-law, Joyce McCrimmon; sister-in-law & special caregiver, Marilyn Seagroves; and several nieces and nephews also survive. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers Johnny Hendley and Curtis Hendley, and a stepson Donald R. Cleghorn Jr.