Mrs. Rosa Mae Brown, age 73, Higgston, died Monday, September 29, 2003.

She was born in Telfair County. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Henry Brown, and her parents the late Wallace and Eliza Walker.

Survivors include three sons, John R. Brown, Jacksonville, Georgia, Ralph Brown, Normantown, and Michael Ray Brown, Vidalia; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Wedndesday, October 1, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. in the Sand Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Prentice Herndon officiating. Interment followed in the Sand Grove Church Cemetery.

Lowes Funeral Home of Helena, Georgia, is in charge of the arrangements.

We are rerunning this obituary due to an error in last week's edition of The Advance. We apologize for the inconvinence this may have caused. The Editor.

The Advance, Wednesday, October 8, 2003, page 1c.

Mrs. Fanny Kelley, Vidalia, died Saturday, September 27, 2003, in Meadows Regional Medical Center of Vidalia.

She was Baptist.

Survivors include six sons, Adolph Kelley, George Kelley, Raymond Kelley, Dennis Kelley and Benjamin Kelley, all of Vidalia; two daughters, Jacqueline Kelley, Vidalia, and Carolyn Easter, Hillside, N.J.; her mother-in-law, Mary Kelley, Caux Hall, N.J.; 20 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Vidalia with Rev. Willie Haynes officiating. Interment followed in East Park Cemetery of Vidalia.

Vidalia Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

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Mr. R. J. Kennedy, Jr., age 93, died Saturday, October 4, 2003, at his residence.

He was born in Bulloch County. He was a registered professional engineer and surveyor. He has been a member of the Statesboro Rotary Club and was a Paul Harris Fellow and Will Watt Fellow. He was a founding member of the Georgia Concrete and Products Assocation. He was a member of the St. Andrews Society, the Scottish Heritage Society of Southeast Georgia, a lifetime member of the Bulloch County Historical Society and was one of the founding members of Forest Heights Country Club. He was former chairman of the Statesboro Board of Education and a former president of the Statesboro Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce. He founded Concrete Products Co., which became Kennedy Concrete and later became Kennedy Industries. He was a Chairman of the Board for Kennedy Truck and Trailer in Statesboro and Augusta. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ellen Rice Kennedy, and his second wife, Edna Spell Newton.

Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Verdery Kennedy, Statesboro; two grandchildren, Reed Kennedy and wife Cheryl and Anna Kay Hotchkiss and husband, Jamie; five great-grandchildren, Ellen, Garrett and Grace Kennedy and Evan and Bobbie Anna Hotchkiss; three step-children; and several step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. in the Statesboro First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Tim Bauler, Rev. John Bressler and Rev. Bill Perry officiating. Interment Followed in the Eastside Cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers were employees of Kennedy Industries.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Statesboro, 1215 Fair Rd., Statesboro, Georgia 30458, or the Georgia Southern Botanical Gardens, P.O. Box 8039, Statesboro, Georgia 30461.

Hodges-Turner-Anderson Funeral Home of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.

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Mrs. Margie Knight, age 42, Lyons, died Friday, September 26, 2003, in Meadows Regional Medical Center of Vidalia.

She was a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, living in Folkston most of her life and in Toombs County the past two years. She was a licensed cosmotogisit. She was prcdeded in death by her mother, Margaret M. Atkins.

Survivors include her husband, Gene Knight, Lyons; one daughter, Bethany McCallister, Folkston; two sons, Tyler and Doug McCalllister, both of Folkston; three step-daughters, Mandi Douglas and Angie Waller, both of Lyons, and Gabrielle knight, Prarieville, Louisiana; one step-son, Mathew Knight, Lyons; her father, Alfred Atkins, Sr., Folkston; three sisters, Debra Woods, Lumber City, Jenny Crews and Becky Todd, both of Folkston; three brothers, David Phillips, Folkston, and Alfred Atkins, Jr., Cummining; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:00 a.m. in the St. Matthews Church of God with Rev. Harry Sims and Rev. Shannon Mimbs officating. Graveside services were conducted at 3:30 p.m. in Sardis Cemetery near Folkston.

Pallbearers were Lloyd Knight, Charles Coleman, Barry Waller, Pete Mimbs, Vance Knight and Dale Woods.

Murchison Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangments.

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Mr. John Hilton Lee, age 65, died Friday, August 8, 2003, in the Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia after an extended illness.

He was a native of Wheeler County living most of his life in Toombs County.

Survivors include his wife Madeen Lee; one son Tracy Jerome Lee, Brandbidge, Georgia; one daughter, Dorthea A. Clarkson, Ailey; three sisters, Velmon Brown, St. Petersburg, Florida, Florine Harris, Vidalia, and Mary Stokes, Macon; three brothers, Eddie A. Lee, Ailey, Charlie Lee, Lyons, and Albert Lee, St. Petersburg; five grandchildren; two aunts; one uncle; several half-brothers and sisters; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 1:00 p.m. in the Poplar Spring Baptist Church. Interment followed in the Poplar Spring Cemetery.

Smalley Brown Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

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Mr. M.C. Meeks, age 72, Lyons, died Monday, September 29, 2003, in Toombs County Nursing Home of Lyons after an extended illness.

Mr. Grable Leon Rhymes, Vidalia, died Friday, August 29, 2003, in the Meadows Regional Medical Center of Vidalia.

Mrs. Bessie Fields Scott, age 97, Toombs Nursing Home, Lyons, died Saturday, September 27, 2003, after an extended illness.

Mrs. Dorothy Louise Smith Stinson, age 88, Dublin, died Tuesday, September 30, 2003.

Mrs. Frances Kay West, age 60, Lyons, died Friday, October 3, 2003, after an extended illness.