Ada Merkison

Ada Lee Merkison, 89, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at Memorial Hospital. The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, April 29, 2011 at Harvest Assembly of God Church with Rev. Malcolm Parker and Rev. Paul Wade officiating. Interment will follow at Calvary Assembly of God Church Cemetery near Brinson, GA with Larry Harrell, Bryan Hall, Mike Andrews, Danny Thompson, Edward Deal, Mitchell Comerford serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mrs. Merkison was born on October 20, 1921 in Colquitt, GA, the daughter of Walter Edward Wade and Alma Gay Wade. She was a homemaker, a charter member of Calvary Assembly of God Church, and a member of Harvest Assembly of God Church. Survivors include her daughter, Helen Tate of Bainbridge, GA; her brother, Paul Wade and his wife, Liz, of Flowery Branch, GA; her sisters, Minnie Mash of Cairo, GA and Thelma Davis and her husband, Cal, of Eatonton, GA; her grandchildren, Terry Duane Tate of Bainbridge, GA and Kimberly T. Newberry and her husband, Jack, of Iron City, GA; her great-grandchildren, Laura Leigh Andrews and her fiancé, Jared Long, Kacee Tate, Derry Tate, Lane Newberry, and Kerri Ann Tate. Mrs. Merkison was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters.