Robert Yancey, 56, of Fitzgerald, died Tuesday, July 17 at the Life Care Center in Fitzgerald.
Funeral services will be held 2 P.M., Friday, July 20, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Edsel Young officiating. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 until 9 Thursday evening at the funeral home.
Mr. Yancey was born December 12, 1950, in Ben Hill County, to Dorothy Wiley Yancey and the late James Yancey. He was a former resident of Tifton and Nashville, GA. Mr. Yancey was a former employee of J & L Gas Station. He attended Eastside Holiness Church.
He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Yancey of Fitzgerald; mother, Dorothy W. Yancey of Fitzgerald; stepsons, Tracey L. Chaney. Walter R. Chaney and Charles R. Chaney all of Fitzgerald; brothers and sisters-in-law, Lamar & Lois Yancey, Fitzgerald, Kenneth & Tammy Yancey and Victor Yancey of Fitzgerald; sisters, Dorothy Louise Mock of Nashville and Linda Gail Baldree of Fitzgerald.