Sally “Delores” Withers Stone, 81, of Tifton passed away Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, January 27, 2025, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with the Rev. Rickey Wells officiating. Mrs. Stone will be laid to rest at Oak Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Sunday, January 26, 2025, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals.
Stevie Landers, Dale Harper, Bobby Blanchard, J. T. Barber, Bobby Kirkland and Lee Whittle will serve as pallbearers.
Born July 8, 1943, in Tifton, Mrs. Stone was the daughter of the late Julius Daniel Withers and Fanny Futch Withers. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Curtis Withers and Robert Withers, Jr.; two sisters, Betty Jean Harper and Pauline Tucker; and one granddaughter, Marissa Lynne Rowe Purvis. Before retiring, she was a Quality Control Supervisor at Prestolite Wire in Tifton; and she was a member of Tifton’s First Assembly of God. She loved her fur babies, Sugar, Lucky and Rosie.
Mrs. Stone is survived by her husband, Vickers “Vick” Stone of Tifton; one son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy and Lynne Stone of Tifton; one daughter and son-in-law, Brenda Carol and Julian Rowe of Tifton; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Juanita and Harmon Tawzer and Sarah Ledford, all of Tifton; one grandson, Caleb Matthew Stone of Tifton; and two great-grandchildren, Jesten Luke Purvis and Maylin Lane Purvis.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Breast Cancer Awareness at www.give.bcrf.org or www.komen.org.