Eula Birdsong

Eula R. Birdsong, 94, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Sunday, December 4, 2011 at Memorial Manor Nursing Home. The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at Eldorendo Baptist Church with Rev. Thomas P. Long officiating. Interment will follow at Eldorendo Baptist Church Cemetery with her grandsons serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Eldorendo Baptist Church, P. O. Box 7095, Bainbridge, GA 39818. Mrs. Birdsong was born October 19, 1917 in Danville, AL, the daughter of Eugene Roper and Annie Mae Johnson Roper. She was a graduate of Danville High School and attended the University of Alabama. Mrs. Birdsong was a homemaker and member of Eldorendo Baptist Church. Survivors include her sons, John H. Birdsong, Jr. of Baconton, GA, William H. "Billy" Birdsong and his wife, Lynn, of Bainbridge, GA, and Vic Birdsong of Shellman, GA; her daughters, Myralynn Tutwiler of Sunrise, FL, Janice Young and her husband, Grant, of Tulsa, OK, and Elaine Denham and her husband, Ed, of Thomaston, GA; her sisters, Nila D'Aniello of Port Charlotte, FL and Imogene Baker of DeFuniak Springs, FL, her 15 grandchildren, and her 33 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Birdsong was preceded in death by her husband, John Henry Birdsong; her sons, David Eugene Birdsong and Don Birdsong; and her daughter, Deloris Tilton.