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Dennis B Mangum

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Dennis B Mangum Veteran

Birth
Rochelle, Wilcox County, Georgia, USA
Death
16 Dec 1986 (aged 74)
Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Rebecca, Turner County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Obituary originally published in the Macon Telegraph 19 December 1986 page 4F, Friday

Dennis B. Mangum

Rebecca-Dennis B. Mangum of Box 184, a retired State Department of Corrections employee (a retired guard), died Tuesday at the Dorminy Memorial Hospital in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia after an extended illness. He died due to cardiopulmonary arrest due to moderate arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease and COPD; also had been diagnosed with bladder cancer. He was 74.

He was the son of John William Mangum and Mildred Asilee Ambrose Mangum. He had five siblings: Hubert Mangum (1908-1988), Lula Beatrice Mangum Overby (1909-2010), Susan M. Mangum (1914-1972), John Woodrow Mangum (1917-2005), and Charles Ambrose Mangum (1922-1942).

Services will be held at 4:00 p.m. today in Rebecca Baptist Church. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Rebecca. The Revs. Clint Brown and Jim Wiley will officiate.

A Native of Wilcox County, Mr. Mangum lived in Rebecca for the past 60 years. He had proudly served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and returned to Turner County where he lived out his life with his wife Wilda Mae Handley Mangum. He was a member of Rebecca Baptist Church and the Georgia Peace Officers Association.

Survivors include his wife, Wilda Handley Mangum of Rebecca; a son, Ron Mangum of Norfolk, Virginia; a daughter, Sylvia Goodwin of Albany; two brothers, Hubert Mangum of Rebecca and J. W. Mangum of Gulfport, Mississippi; a sister, Beatrice Overby of Ashburn; and two grandchildren.

Perry Funeral Home in Ashburn has charge of arrangements.
Obituary originally published in the Macon Telegraph 19 December 1986 page 4F, Friday

Dennis B. Mangum

Rebecca-Dennis B. Mangum of Box 184, a retired State Department of Corrections employee (a retired guard), died Tuesday at the Dorminy Memorial Hospital in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia after an extended illness. He died due to cardiopulmonary arrest due to moderate arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease and COPD; also had been diagnosed with bladder cancer. He was 74.

He was the son of John William Mangum and Mildred Asilee Ambrose Mangum. He had five siblings: Hubert Mangum (1908-1988), Lula Beatrice Mangum Overby (1909-2010), Susan M. Mangum (1914-1972), John Woodrow Mangum (1917-2005), and Charles Ambrose Mangum (1922-1942).

Services will be held at 4:00 p.m. today in Rebecca Baptist Church. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Rebecca. The Revs. Clint Brown and Jim Wiley will officiate.

A Native of Wilcox County, Mr. Mangum lived in Rebecca for the past 60 years. He had proudly served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and returned to Turner County where he lived out his life with his wife Wilda Mae Handley Mangum. He was a member of Rebecca Baptist Church and the Georgia Peace Officers Association.

Survivors include his wife, Wilda Handley Mangum of Rebecca; a son, Ron Mangum of Norfolk, Virginia; a daughter, Sylvia Goodwin of Albany; two brothers, Hubert Mangum of Rebecca and J. W. Mangum of Gulfport, Mississippi; a sister, Beatrice Overby of Ashburn; and two grandchildren.

Perry Funeral Home in Ashburn has charge of arrangements.


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