Funeral services are scheduled for Monday May 21, 2012 at 11 a.m. in the Ward’s Funeral Home Chapel in Gainesville for Mrs. Mable Gresham Mathis, 90. The Rev. Dr. Robert Powers will officiate. Interment will be in Georgia National Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Sunday, May 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Mathis died Thursday, May 17, 2012.
Mrs. Mathis was born in Columbia, S.C., to the late Harry McGinnis and Ethel Gresham McGinnis. She grew up in Atlanta from the age of 10 until 1986. She then moved to Monticello where she lived until 2011 before moving to Hall County. She was a member of Lake
Claire Baptist Church in Atlanta and Smithboro Baptist Church in Monticello. She was a homemaker, a Sunday School teacher and was very active in church activities. She was a member of the Garden Club of Monticello. At Christmas time she was known as Mrs. Claus
as she and her husband played Santa and Mrs. Claus.
Survivors include her husband Eugene Mathis, Gainesville; son and daughter-in-law, Rev. Mac and Nellie Mathis, Memphis, TN; daughter and son-in-law, Carlene and Tim Archer, Gainesville; grandchildren, John and Ame Archer, Cat Archer, Kelly Archer, Mark Mathis
and Karen Mathis.
Flowers are accepted or donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association Georgia Chapter, 1925 Century Boulevard N.E. Suite 10, Atlanta, GA 30345-3315.
Online condolences may be made online at
wardsfh.com. Ward’s Funeral Home, 758 Main Street S.W., Gainesville in charge of arrangements.