Bill Rosenbury

Bill Rosenbury, 88, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Friday, May 27, 2011 in Plantation Manor, in Thomasville, GA. The graveside funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 30, 2011 at Sylvania Cemetery with Rev. Randy Mosley officiating. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the Recovery Volunteer Fire Station. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mr. Rosenbury was born January 20, 1923 in Oden, IN, the son of Wertzel Vern Rosenbury and Josephine Barker Rosenbury. He was a retired salesman for an agricultural storage equipment company and a member of First United Methodist Church in Bainbridge, GA. He met his wife in high school and they enjoyed traveling extensively. He enjoyed his work with dairy cattle and fishing. He was a commercial fisherman and fishing guide, and loved to read about history and politics. He was the first Fire Chief of the Recovery Volunteer Fire Department. Survivors include his sons, William Mark Rosenbury and his wife, Janet, of Des Moines, IA, George Timothy Rosenbury and his wife, Genie, of Springfield, MO, and Robert T. Rosenbury and his wife, Pam, of Thomasville, GA; his daughters, Mary Jo Pritchett and her husband, Ed, of Deland, FL, Beth Shoenberger and her husband, Clark, of Fernandina Beach, FL, Sue Elam and her husband, Sandy, of Corinth, MS, and Nancy Young and her husband, Mike, of Robinsonville, MS; 13 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Branaman Rosenbury.