Alice Connell

Alice Eloise King Connell, 69, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Friday, November 19, 2010 at Memorial Hospital. The funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, November 22, 2010 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Danny VunCannon, Dr. Lynn Massey, and Rev. Mike Bowman officiating. Interment will follow at Oak City Cemetery with Stuart Kelly, Chris Kelley, James Jordan, Mike Andrews, Roy Connell, and James Connell, Jr. serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 21, 2010 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Memorials may be made to Gideons International, Bainbridge Camp, P.O. Box 38, Bainbridge, GA 39818, or Flint River Hospice, 402 N. West Street, Bainbridge, GA 39817. Mrs. Connell was born March 17, 1941 in Bainbridge, GA, the daughter of Jesse Glen King and Ethel Lee Lynn King. Mr. and Mrs. Connell owned and operated a Sears Authorized Catalog Sales Merchant Store in Centre, AL and Bainbridge, GA for over 30 years. She was a member of West Bainbridge Baptist Church where she was a member of the Sunshine Sunday School Class. Mrs. Connell was a lifetime member of the Gideon International Auxiliary, and served as president of the Gideon International Auxiliary Bainbridge Camp for two years. She was a member and former treasurer of Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and an American Red Cross volunteer. Survivors include her husband of 52 years, Scott Connell of Bainbridge, GA; her son, Randy Connell and his wife Sarah of Bainbridge, GA; her daughters, Alecia C. McGatha of Centre, AL, Debbie C. Bowman and her husband Mike of Moody, AL, and Angie C. Meisenheimer and her husband Bill of Crawfordville, FL; her brothers, Raymond King of Bainbridge, GA and Allen King of Donalsonville, GA; her sisters, Edith King of Donalsonville, GA and Onez Lee of Bainbridge, GA; her grandchildren, Thomas McGatha and his wife Shannon, Scott J. Bowman and his wife Maribeth, Brooke Alice Bowman, and George "Cubby" Cuthbert; and her great-grandchildren, Ellarie Fayth McGatha and Caden Thomas Dale McGatha. She was preceded in death by her son-in-law, Harley McGatha; her brothers, Brewster King, Denmark King and Grover King; and her sister, Sadie K. Hargraves.