Lillian Whitmire Mitchell

Mrs. Lillian Whitmire Mitchell, age 87 of Toccoa passed away Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at Pruitt Health Toccoa.

A daughter of the late Yoda J. and Pearl Davis Whitmire, she was born October 15, 1928 in Stephens County, Georgia where she lived all her life.  She was a homemaker, a member of the Toccoa First Baptist Church, the Toccoa Elks Lodge, the Toccoa Cotillion Club and the V.F.W. Auxiliary.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Mitchell in 2000, brother, Quinton Whitmire and by a son-in-law, Bruce Waters.

Survivors include a daughter, LuAnne Waters of Toccoa; son and daughter-in-law, Ed and Leslie Mitchell of Ada, Oklahoma; grandchildren, Adam and Sara Waters, Jenny and Terry Reese and Holly Mitchell; great-grandchildren, Leah and Paige Waters; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Truett and Babbs Whitmire of Louden, Tennessee, Asbury and Susan Whitmire of Thomaston, Georgia, Robert and Shirley Whitmire of Athens, Georgia and Richard and Kathy Whitmire of Thousand Oaks, California; two sisters, Myrtice Moore of Florence South Carolina and Polly Snyder of Toccoa; a number of nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be Saturday, August 6, 11 O’clock AM at the Toccoa City Cemetery with The Reverend David Ritcey officiating.  The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers, Tommy Moore, Matt Moore, Bob Jamieson, Jay Whitmire, Jimmy Carpenter and Terry Reese.

The family will be at their respective homes and will receive friends at the Acree-Davis Funeral Home on Saturday from 10 AM until service time.  Online condolences can be made at www.acree-davisfh.com.

The family requests that flowers be omitted.  Memorials may be made to Elks Aidmore Childrens Center, 2394 Morrison Road, Conyers, Georgia 30094 in memory of Mrs. Lillian Whitmire Mitchell.

Interment will follow in the Toccoa City Cemetery with the Acree-Davis Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements for Mrs. Lillian Whitmire Mitchell.