JEFFERSON – Donald O. Segraves, 84, entered into rest Thursday, June 18, 2015.
Mr. Segraves was born in Ocoee, Fla., the son of the late Oscar Wilde Segraves and Dorthea Klinect Segraves. He was the first building inspector for Jackson County and retired from the Jackson County Planning and Development Department. Mr. Segraves was a member of Apple Valley Baptist Church, where he served as a Deacon for 48 years.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Jean Wall Segraves, Jefferson; daughter, Donna Segraves Golden Sikes and her husband Joe, Jefferson; daughter, Gayle Segraves Berryman and her husband Richard, Jefferson; grandchildren, Mandy Golden Cowart and her husband Joseph, Abbie Berryman and her fiancé Josh Brockman, and Austin Berryman; three great-grandchildren, Joleigh, Emmie and Harper Cowart; brothers, Louis Segraves, Hogansville, and Wayne Segraves, Thomaston; and sister, Marilyn Grantham, Lavonia.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, from the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Clarence Cannon officiating. Burial will follow in Jackson Memorial Park in Commerce. Gentlemen honored as pallbearers will be Stan Beeco, Joseph Cowart, Mitch Mitchell, Steve Looney, Steve Holbrook, and Darrell Segraves. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday, June 19. from, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to the Apple Valley Baptist Church, P.O. Box 449, Jefferson, GA 30549.
Evans Funeral Home, Jefferson, is in charge of arrangements.
