Sue
Sue Anderson Walea
d. January 18, 2018
Mrs. Sue “SuSu” Anderson Walea, 71, of Garden City, passed away on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at Candler Hospital.
Mrs. Sue was born in Statesboro to the late Jean Dupree Anderson Thompson and James DeWitt Anderson and was also preceded in death by her step-father, Amos Thompson . She was a 50 year member of the First Baptist Church of Garden City where she was a long time teacher of the Libby Tyner Senior Adult Sunday School Class. She taught school for the Chatham County BOE for 36 years, then at Savannah Christian Preparatory School for 10 years. She made a community wide impact on a multi-generational level. She was loved by all of her family and friends, and Heaven is full of souls she brought to the Lord.
Survivors include her husband of 50 years, James E. Walea, Sr.; two children, Kristi Walea (Patrick) Miller, and Jay (Karen) Walea; grandchildren, Briar Everett Miller, and Reed Walea Miller, Jayden Clarie Walea and Saige Evan Walea, and first cousins, Ronnie (Pam) Anderson, Tommy (Eliene) Anderson and Elaine (Stan) Bullington; sister-in-law, Sondra (Charlie) Blissett; niece, Kimberly (Louie) Gatch, late nephew, Ladd Blissett, and many other family and friends.
The visitation will be on Monday from 10 a.m. until 12 noon at the First Baptist Church of Garden City located at 35 Nelson Avenue. The funeral will follow at 12 noon.
An additional visitation will be on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. at J. Mellie NeSmith Funeral Home located at 513 West Main Street in Claxton. The graveside funeral and burial will follow at 11 a.m. at Brewton Cemetery in Hagan.
Friends may sign the online register book at www.stricklandandsonsfuneralhome.com
Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Homes – West Chatham Chapel (912) 748-2444
Mellie NeSmith Funeral Home in charge of arrangements
“Our Family Serving Your Family”
“Since 1917”
(912) 739-3338
www.nesmithfuneralhome.com
Mrs. Sue was born in Statesboro to the late Jean Dupree Anderson Thompson and James DeWitt Anderson and was also preceded in death by her step-father, Amos Thompson . She was a 50 year member of the First Baptist Church of Garden City where she was a long time teacher of the Libby Tyner Senior Adult Sunday School Class. She taught school for the Chatham County BOE for 36 years, then at Savannah Christian Preparatory School for 10 years. She made a community wide impact on a multi-generational level. She was loved by all of her family and friends, and Heaven is full of souls she brought to the Lord.
Survivors include her husband of 50 years, James E. Walea, Sr.; two children, Kristi Walea (Patrick) Miller, and Jay (Karen) Walea; grandchildren, Briar Everett Miller, and Reed Walea Miller, Jayden Clarie Walea and Saige Evan Walea, and first cousins, Ronnie (Pam) Anderson, Tommy (Eliene) Anderson and Elaine (Stan) Bullington; sister-in-law, Sondra (Charlie) Blissett; niece, Kimberly (Louie) Gatch, late nephew, Ladd Blissett, and many other family and friends.
The visitation will be on Monday from 10 a.m. until 12 noon at the First Baptist Church of Garden City located at 35 Nelson Avenue. The funeral will follow at 12 noon.
An additional visitation will be on Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. at J. Mellie NeSmith Funeral Home located at 513 West Main Street in Claxton. The graveside funeral and burial will follow at 11 a.m. at Brewton Cemetery in Hagan.
Friends may sign the online register book at www.stricklandandsonsfuneralhome.com
Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Homes – West Chatham Chapel (912) 748-2444
Mellie NeSmith Funeral Home in charge of arrangements
“Our Family Serving Your Family”
“Since 1917”
(912) 739-3338
www.nesmithfuneralhome.com
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