Daisy Day

Daisy Lucille White Day, 80, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Monday, March 8, 2010 at her residence. The funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 2010 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Tony Haire officiating. Interment will follow at Greenshade Cemetery with her grandchildren serving as active pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be the loving and caring men and women of Flint River Hospice. The family will receive Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mrs. Day was born November 9, 1929 in Bainbridge, GA, the daughter of Franklin Boyd White and Daisy Lucille Boutwell White. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, co-owned the Franelgo Motel and Restaurant and was the retired co-owner of Flint River Seafood Restaurant with her late husband. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Thomas J. Day, her daughter, Zelinda Day Kelly, and siblings Betty L. White, Franklin Boyd White, Jr., Herbert L. White and Terrell White. "Nana" as she was affectionately known by her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and many others that she mentored, loved, and nurtured through their lives, is survived by her two daughters, Gerraine Day Strickland and her fiancé Robert Starling of Bainbridge, GA and Jackie Day Biletzskov and her husband Mike of Darien, GA; her two brothers, R. C. White and his wife Bettye of Barnesville, GA and Doug White and his wife Joan of Bainbridge, GA; her three sisters, Shelva Jean Dean and her husband Floyd of Bainbridge, GA, Jeanette W. Pittman of Tallahassee, FL, and Barbara W. Crawley of Bainbridge, GA; her six grandchildren, Robin Goodman Gaddy, Rachel Goodman, John L. Goodman, II, Jennifer Strickland Owens, Jessica Rich Cannon, and Robert L. Rich, IV; her nine great-grandchildren; a special sister-in-law, Lynn White of Decatur, GA; and a special caregiver, Margaret Jewell Pulley and a host of nieces and nephews.