Joe Preston Phelps

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Posted by: Manry Jordan Hodges
Date: Aug 26 2015 12:55 PM

     Mr. Joe  Preston Phelps, 68, of 67 Oklahoma St., Blakely, Ga., died Monday night, Aug. 24, 2015 in the Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Al. His funeral will be held Saturday morning, August 29, 2015 at 11 AM EDT in the Colomokee Baptist Church with the burial to follow in the church cemetery. Rev. Robert Mitchell officiating. The family will receive friends Friday evening, August 28th, from 6 until 8 PM EDT at Manry-Jordan-Hodges Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are Robbie Hayes, Jasper Doswell, Isaac Cox, Glynn Floyd, Ricky Taylor and Scott Anglin.

Joe was born on Jan. 26, 1947 in Blakely, Ga. to the late Veto Franklin Phelps and Lila McCraine Phelps. He was a 1965 graduate of Blakely High School and received his A.A. degree from Middle Georgia College in Cochran, Ga. He had just retired in June from the Federal State Inspection Service in Blakely as an Inspector for the past 15 years. Other than his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Aaron Phelps and a daughter, Angela Phelps and a brother, Veto Phelps Jr.

His survivors include his daughter: Melissa Branton and her husband Keith of Dothan, Al., 2 sisters: Lottie B. Phelps of Blakely, Ga. and Dorothy P. Goolsby of Lilburn, Ga., a granddaughter: Kira Branton of Dothan, Al., a niece: Cathy Goolsby of Decatur, Ga. and a nephew: Frank Goolsby of Norcross, Ga.

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