Lillian M. Porchia

Feb 19, 2025

Lillian Marie Newby Porchia Obituary

 

Lillian Marie Newby Porchia was born on May 4, 1928, in Jones County, Georgia to Cuyler Newby and Ada Jessie Billingslea Newby. In addition to being a sharecropper, her father also worked for the Central Railroad Co., in Macon, Georgia, and for the Hudson Motor Car Company in Detroit. Her mother taught school, worked in a...

Lynneth Sherman Jones

Feb 18, 2025

Obituary of Lynneth Sherman Jones

 

Lynneth Sherman Jones, affectionally known as Lynn, was born November 9, 1932 in Charleston, WV, the daughter of the late William and Tiny Mae Grigsby. Lynn was the second of three children and was preceded in death by her two brothers, Bertram and Touissant.

 

Lynn was a lover of music and took to playing the violin as...