Patricia "Pat" Louise Liner Statum, 87, of Tifton passed away Friday, January 10, 2025, at her residence. Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, January 13, 2025, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with the Rev. Gordon Statum, the Rev. Clayton Dowd and the Rev. Wayne Hughes officiating. Mrs. Statum will be laid to rest with a private family interment at a later time. The family will receive friends on Monday, January 13, 2025, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals from 9:30 a.m. until the hour of the service.
Honorary pallbearers will be any attending ministers and their spouses and her Church of God Campground neighbors.
Born September 1, 1937, in Lafayette, Mrs. Statum was the daughter of the late George C. Liner and Jeanette Hughes Liner. She was also preceded in death by three brothers.
Mrs. Statum was a homemaker and a devoted pastor’s wife for many years and ministered in many areas of the churches she and her husband pastored. She was very talented in making crafts including crocheting, sewing, knitting and needlepoint. She was also a GREAT COOK; and she was a member of Carpenter Road Church of God in Tifton.
Mrs. Statum is survived by her husband of 68 years, the Rev. Gordon Statum, of Tifton; two sons and daughters-in-law, Mike and Casey Statum of Lyons and Randall and Pam Statum of Hoschton; five grandchildren; and fifteen great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Hospice of Tift Area, 618 Central Avenue North, Tifton, GA 31794; or a charity of choice.