Birth Date:
1959-02-21
Deceased Date:
2012-01-05
Obituary:
Norman Allen Mathis Sr., 52, of Camilla, Ga., died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Funeral service will be held 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 14, at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 150 Bush St., Sale City, with Rev. W.C. Whitfield officiating. Burial will follow in Sale City Community Cemetery. He was the seventh child born to the late Freddie Mathis and the late Daisy Lee Mathis of Sale City, on Feb. 21, 1959. He graduated from Mitchell County High School in 1978. At an early age, he joined the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. His favorite saying was, "It is what it is," his family said. He worked for Moultrie Post Farms until his health failed. He was united in marriage on Feb. 14, 2009, to Rose Gardner Mathis. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Antonia and Daisy Mathis; and one brother, David Mathis. Survivors include his devoted wife, Rose Mathis of Camilla, Ga.; four devoted sons, Norman Allen Mathis Jr. and wife Felicia and Kentravius Gardner, both of Camilla, Ga., Marcus Moore and wife Renea of Atlanta, Ga., and Dominique Wiley of Moultrie; two devoted daughters, Carmelita Caison of Albany, Ga., and Sharonda Williams of Moultrie; seven grandchildren, Naquavion, Naria and Allandis Mathis, all of Camilla, Ga., Kalep Parker of Albany, Ga., Marcus Jr. and Kylee Moore of Atlanta, Ga., and Javen Jackson of Moultrie; six sisters, Johnnie Guyton and husband Nathaniel, Gloria Bryant and husband Willie, Brenda Sessions and husband Joseph, and Carol Mathis, all of Sale City, and Gladys Donaldson and Gwennette Turner and husband Calvin, both of Virginia; three brothers, Andrew Mathis and Sammy Mathis, both of Sale City, and Freddie Mathis and wife Mary of Douglasville, Ga.; a host of loving nieces, nephews, father-in-law, mother-in-law, step-father-in-law, mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, other relatives and friends. Nathaniel Thomas & Son Home For Funerals has been entrusted with arrangements.