Jewell Deal Powell

Mrs. Jewell Deal Rider Powell, age 87 went to meet her Lord and Savior on Monday, July 10, 2023.

A daughter of the late Duncan Oran Deal and Fannie Ruth Meeks Deal, she was born October 18, 1935 in Stephens County, Georgia where she lived most of her life.  She was retired from Stephens County Hospital where she worked for 30 years as a Registered Nurse.  Until her illness and covid, she was active in her church, Old Toccoa Baptist, Chattahoochee Baptist and North Trinity.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Duncan Oran Deal and Fannie Ruth Meeks Deal, by her first husband, John Henry Rider and second husband, Edward Powell, siblings, O’Neal Deal, Annette Smith, Linda Powell Cheek, Charollette Bailey and Kenneth Deal and son-in-law, Carroll Ivester.

She is survived by her children, Ronald and Claudia Rider, Diane Ivester and Alan and Sylvia Rider, all of Toccoa; grandchildren, David and Mandy Rider, Chris Rider, Jennifer Carvin, Vanessa and Eric Ivester and Wesley and Nicole Wright; a number of great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren; brother, Tyrus Deal of Swainsboro; brother-in-law, Derrill Bailey of Greer, South Carolina.

Funeral services will be Thursday, July 13, 2023, 11 o’clock a.m. at the Old Toccoa Baptist Church with The Reverend Stephen Harris officiating.  Nephews will serve as pallbearers, Charles Deal, Edward Deal, Brandon Deal, Phillip Powell, Johnny Rider and Brad Howard.  David Rider and Chris Rider will serve as honorary pallbearers.

The family will receive friends at the Acree-Davis Funeral Home on Wednesday, 6 p.m. until 8 p.m..  Online condolences may be left for the family at www.acree-davisfh.com.

Interment will follow in the Old Toccoa Baptist Church Cemetery with the Acree-Davis Funeral Home and Crematory in charge of the arrangements for Mrs. Jewell Deal Rider Powell. The Reverend Roger Elrod will have a closing prayer.