By Staff
November 22.2003
Funeral for Essie Dae Garnett, 90, was Monday, Nov. 24, at 2:30 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Bro. Jack Bailey officiating.
Burial was in Johnson Chapel Cemetery in Danville.
Mrs. Garnett died Saturday, November 22, 2003, at Parkway Medical Center in Decatur. She was born November 26, 1912, in Morgan County to Wheeler Segars and Georgia Hensley Segars. She graduated from Danville High School and retired from the United States Postal Service as a clerk. She was a member of Danville United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband James Deloise (Dee) Garnett; son-in-law, James B. Ward; grandson Alan Ward; three sisters Violine Harris, Creasie Kelsoe and Mable Blankenship; and five brothers Leldon Segars, Harold L. Segars, T. G. Segars, Gurney Segars and Ralph Segars.
She is survived by one daughter, Bobbie N. Ward of Decatur; two grandsons, Andy Ward and his wife Kathy of Decatur and Arlon Ward and his wife Pam, of Cartersville, Ga.; and seven great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Jimmy Segars, Charles Segars, Jerry Segars, Mike Segars, Ricky Segars and Richard Segars.