H. Marie (Crosby) Andersen

Mrs. Helen Marie Crosby Andersen, 90, of Nashville, GA, formerly of Blackshear, passed away late Wednesday evening, December 4, 2024, at the South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta.

Born in Offerman, GA on February 5, 1934, she lived in Pierce County most of her life prior to moving to Nashville nine months ago.  Mrs. Marie was a homemaker and an excellent seamstress.  She also enjoyed crocheting and knitting.  Mrs. Marie had a passion for writing poetry, having compiled them in notebooks to give to her family.  One of her poems even hung in an Air Force base hospital.  Mrs. Marie was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and dog mom.  She attended New Home Primitive Baptist Church.

She was a daughter of the late Robert Lester & Hester Savilla Chancey Crosby.  She was also preceded in death by her husband, Earl Arthur Andersen; both of her daughters, Joan Marie Howard and Donna Kaye Bullard; four of her sisters, Nita Weir, Annette Sikes, Sarah “Lil” Thrift, and Carol Payne; and all three of her brothers, Eddie, Joe, and Ronnie Crosby.

Survivors include her son, Thomas Miller, Jr. of Blackshear; her sister and brother-in-law, Savilla “Billie” & Don Cornelius of Nashville; two sisters-in-law, Edna Crosby of Jacksonville, FL and Diana Crosby of Tulsa, OK; a brother-in-law, Donald Payne of Blackshear; 4 grandchildren, Chris McAtamney, Donovan McAtamney, Shanna M. Bullard, and Thomas J. “T.J.” Miller; 3 great grandchildren, Colby Williams, Chasitey Williams, and Thomas J. Miller, Jr.; her beloved dog, Duke; and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives.

Funeral services for Mrs. Marie will be held Wednesday afternoon, December 11, 2024, at 1:00 o’clock from the Pearson-Dial Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Jerry Chancey officiating.

Interment will be in the New Home Cemetery.

The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home 1 hour prior to the service.

Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online register at www.pearsondial.com.

Pearson-Dial Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.

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