Sylvia Sherrell Yancey, 66, of Fitzgerald, Georgia died Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at Tift Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held at 4 P.M. Saturday, May 28, 2011, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Randy Holt officiating. Interment will follow in Lax Holiness Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Friday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Yancey was born October 4, 1944 in Plant City, Florida to the late Herman and Cleo Tant Sherrell. She moved to Fitzgerald in 1976 from Tifton. Mrs. Yancey was a former employee of Irwin County Hospital, Life Care Center and Dorminy Medical Center. She was a member of the Apostolic faith.
She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law: Walter & Pam Chaney, Charles & Susan Chaney and Tracy Chaney all of Fitzgerald; 5 grandchildren and 2 great grandchild; brothers and sisters: J.C. Gaddy and Freddy Lee Gaddy both of Tift County, Herman Sherrell of Rhine and Shirley Smith of Warner Robins as well as several nieces and nephews. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Walter Raleigh Chaney, Sr. and Robert Ward Yancey.