Obituaries

A graveside service for Mattie Lois Stephens Culpepper, 85, of Cordele, will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 19, 2009.  The family will receive friends  prior to the service Saturday from 10:00 until 11:00 a.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church.  Mrs. Culpepper passed away Thursday, September 17 at Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany.  She was a native of Crisp County and the daughter of the late John Cozzie and Mattie Ester Stephens.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Adger William Culpepper.  Mrs. Culpepper was an active member of Arabi United Methodist Church and the Bridges Communty Club.  She is survived by her three children, Dianne Culpepper Simmons, Johnny Culpepper and his wife, Joanne, and Linda Finch, all of Cordele;  one brother and his wife, David and Ima Stephens of Cordele; six grandchildren, Holly Hudson and her husband, Jon, Hillary Finch, Ben Finch, William Culpepper and his wife, Heather, Jamie Culpepper and Jennifer Culpepper and three great-grandchildren, Jade Hudson, Wesson Culpepper and Peyton Hudson.  She was preceded in death by siblings, Robert Stephens, J.C. Stephens and Irma S. Barry.  The family requests that anyone wishing to honor Mrs. Culpepper with memorials may send them to Arabi United Methodist Church, Bedgood Avenue, Arabi, GA 31712 or to Ebenezer Baptist Church, 118 Crisp Academy Drive, Cordele, GA 31015