Willie Culverson

Willie Mae Bland Culverson, 72, of Whigham, GA, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2012 at Grady General Hospital in Cairo, GA. The funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bob Nipper and Rev. Herman Hand officiating, and will conclude at the chapel. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery in Whigham, GA. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 20, 2012 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mrs. Culverson was born July 18, 1939 in DeFuniak Springs, FL, the daughter of Irvin Lawrence Hoskins and Betty Golden Day Hoskins. She was a retired Certified Nursing Assistant from Whigham Nursing Home and attended church at The Potter's House. Survivors include her son, Rick Bland and his wife Pamella of Whigham, GA; her daughters, Brenda Anvar and her husband Bijon of Climax, GA, Gail Thomas and her husband Robert, Laura Lashley and her husband Harry, and Tammie Moore and her husband, Henry, all of Bainbridge, GA; her brothers, Ruben Hoskins and Irvin Hoskins, both of Panama City, FL; her sister, Maggie Hutto Myrick of Panacea, FL; her 16 grandchildren; and her 19 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roland R. Culverson.