Thomas Day

Thomas J. Day, 82, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Friday, May 22, 2009 at Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, GA. The funeral service will be at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, May 24, 2009 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Tony Haire officiating. Interment will follow at Greenshade Cemetery with his grandchildren serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mr. Day was born October 13, 1926 in Bainbridge, GA, the son of Thomas Riley Day and Etta Harrell Day. He was a U. S. Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. He was a welder for Attapulgus Clay Company and later owned the Franelgo Motel and Restaurant and was the retired owner of Flint River Seafood Restaurant. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Zelinda Day Kelly. Survivors include his wife, Lucille White Day of Bainbridge, GA; two daughters, Gerraine Day Strickland and her fiancé Robert Starling of Bainbridge, GA and Jackie Day Biletzskov and her husband Mike of Darien, GA; a brother, Richard Day of Palm Harbor, FL; two sisters, Christine D. Bullock of Bainbridge, GA and Lorine D. Craft of Palm Harbor, FL; six grandchildren, Robin Goodman Gaddy, Rachel Goodman, John L. Goodman, II, Jennifer Strickland Owens, Jessica Rich Cannon, and Robert L. Rich, IV; and nine great-grandchildren.