Colquitt-Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Anna Pidcock Searcy  February 5 2003
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Allen & Allen Funeral Home

Anna Pidcock Searcy

THOMASVILLE -- Services for Anna Pidcock Searcy of Thomasville will be held 11 
a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at First Baptist Church in Thomasville, where she 
was a member. The Revs. Dr. Milton C. Gardner, Dan Spencer and A. C. Gilliard 
will officiate with interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers are Floyd 
Harts "Field" Searcy III, Ashburn Pidcock Searcy Jr., John Lake Roberts III, 
Frank Ramsey Pidcock IV, Fritz Buchanan Roberts, John Daniel Stokes, Daniel Z. 
Jacobs and Dan L Parker. 

Mrs. Searcy died Feb. 5, at Archbold Memorial Hospital. Born Jan. 22, 1909, in 
Moultrie, she was the daughter of the late Frank Ramsey Pidcock Sr. and Willie 
Warren Ashburn. She was married in Moultrie to the late Floyd Hartsfield Searcy 
Sr. A 1929 graduate of Shorter College, she was named Alumna of the Year in 
1978 and for a number of years served on the Board of Trustees, receiving its 
award for outstanding service in 1984. As an organizer of Thomasville's School 
Interest Association, later the Parent-Teacher Association, she served as 
president of both organizations and in other capacities from 1943-1960. She 
served on the Board of Directors of Thomasville YMCA for nine years. She was a 
member of Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as chaplain, vice 
regent and regent of her chapter. She was a member of Briarcliff Garden Club 
and Pilot Club of Thomasville, and in 1984 received the Distinguished Service 
Award from the Thomas County Chamber of Commerce. A former member of First 
Baptist Church in Moultrie, teaching Sunday school from age 14, she was an 
active member of First Baptist Church in Thomasville, serving as Sunday school 
teacher and as superintendent of Sunday School Extension Department for several 
years. She served as Director for Sunbeams, Mission Friends, Young Peoples 
Director, Royal Ambassador leader, chairman of Missions Committee, Nominating 
committee, Pulpit committee, co-teacher of Adult Ladies Class, Bible study 
leader and Sunday school extension visitor. Active in Women's Missionary Union, 
she served as president of WMU and WMS for four years and as both district 
secretary and director of WMU for Thomas County. She was included in Who's Who 
of American Women 1972-1973 and was a member for more than 30 years of the 
Board of Directors of Citizens Bank of Cairo, serving as vice president, 
chairman of the board, and at the time of her death as vice chairman of the 
board. 

Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law, Floyd Hartsfield Searcy Jr. and 
Gloria Robinson Searcy of Cairo; Dr. Ashburn Pidcock Searcy and Nancy Ford 
Searcy of Kennesaw; and Maj. Gen. William Nelson Searcy and Camille Heery 
Searcy of Savannah; grandchildren, Floyd Hartsfield Searcy III, Marian Searcy 
Jacobs, Kendall Searcy Parker, Desire' Searcy Stokes, Heather Searcy, Shelly 
Searcy, Ann-Maxwell Searcy, Ashburn Pidcock Searcy Jr. and Amelia Ashburn 
Searcy; one great-grandchild, Michael James Maloy; sister, Mildred Pidcock 
Cross; sister-in-law, Emily Barclay Searcy, both of Thomasville. 

She was preceded in death by sons, William Harris Searcy and John Frank Searcy; 
grandchild, John Frank Searcy Jr., great-grandchild, John Voyk Searcy; 
brothers, Frank Ramsey Pidcock Jr. and John Faulks Pidcock. 

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 2790, Thomasville, 
Ga. 31799. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. 
tonight. Visitors may sign the online guest register at www.allenfh.com.

Allen & Allen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 


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