Metter High School Class Of 1980

Hey y'all!! I had one suggestion for a tentative date for our reunion. That date would be the weekend of 4/25-4/27 2025! Are there anymore suggestions??

Well hello classmates! It's that time again! That is......planning our class reunion. It's only going to be 45 years next year! A few of us met a couple of weeks ago to get rhis thing started. Now, we are open to suggestions as for dates and places! Please chime in with your suggestions!!!

Thoughts and prayers go out to the McGowan family!!!🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾

Harry “Brian” McGowan,65, of Metter, passed away after a short illness early Sunday morning, March 24, 2024 at Community Hospice in Vidalia.
Brian was born in Statesboro and was a lifelong resident of Candler County and the Ollifftown community. He grew up going to church at Rosemary Primitive Baptist Church with his sisters Violet and Angie and parents, George W. and Mary Ann McNair McGowan. He was a 1977 graduate of Metter High School and after graduation he began farming. He later went to work for the Georgia Forestry Commission at the Candler Office and worked there for over sixteen years. Later, he and his wife Lori, owned and operated Brian’s Oak Tree Express from 2000-2010. In recent years, he tended the family pecan and timber farm. Brian was an avid outdoorsman enjoying hunting and fishing. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, especially his grandchildren.
Surviving are his wife, Lori Lanier McGowan of Metter; his son Matt McGowan and his wife, Jessica, of Metter; his daughter, Marlie McGowan Hilton, and her husband, Matt, of Vidalia; his sisters, Violet Coleman and her husband, Barry, of Vidalia and Angie Franklin and her husband, Brad, of Metter; his grandchildren, Jase McGowan, Saylor McGowan, and James Hilton; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be held Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 3’oclock in the afternoon at Rosemary Primitive Baptist Church.
The family will receive friends at the church from 1 o’clock until 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
Interment will be in Rosemary Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.
Rememberances may be made to Rosemary Primitive Baptist Church, 60491 Georgia Highway 121 North, Metter, Georgia 30439.
Guestbook: www.kennedyfuneralhomechapels.com
Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter is in charge of the arrangements.

Please keep the Kemmerlin family in your prayers.

Albert “Raymond” Kemmerlin, 89, of Metter, GA and husband of the late Annie Lee Kemmerlin, passed away on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at Candler County Hospital surrounded by his family.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, February 29, 2024, at Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter from 5 until 7 o’clock in the evening.

The funeral service will be held on Friday, March 1, 2024, at Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

A full obituary will be released soon.

Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter is in charge of the arrangements.

Hello classmates!!! It is with a sad heart to find out about another parent making his transition. Please keep the family of Mr. Earl Cook lifted up in prayer. He is the father of our dear classmate, Melissa Cook Williams. Prayers for Mr. Nancy!!!

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Hey Metter High School Class Of 1980!!! Please keep Jackie Ellis in your prayers as she lost her mother today.

Hey members!!! Please keep our classmate, Brenda (Herrington) Hilaire lifted up in prayer on the passing of her mother!!!