Mrs. Worbie Mae Tuggle Sellers of Cairo, Ga., died on Monday, July 20, 2009, in Pelham, Ga., after an extended illness. Funeral services for Mrs. Sellers will be held on Thursday, July 23, 2009, 2 p.m. at the Pine Level Baptist Church where she was a member. The Rev. Jim Weaver and the Rev. Roger Brinkley will officiate. Interment will follow in the Pine Level Cemetery.
A member of a large, loving family, Mrs. Sellers was born in Grady County on Feb. 11, 1920, to the late James Watson and Ruby Bell Hester Tuggle. She lived her lifetime in the Pine Level Community and married Thurman Lee Sellers on Sept. 13, 1936. He preceded her in death in 1977.
Survivors are her sons and daughters-in-law, Larry Thurman (Jillian) Sellers, Albany, Ga.; Dr. James Elvis (Thelma) Sellers, Adel, Ga., Carroll Lee (Suzanne) Sellers, Cairo, Ga.; grandchildren, Rebecca Elizabeth (Dave) Drum, Marietta, Ga., Michael Watson (Heike) Sellers, Alpharetta, Ga., Dr. Tim Markam (Traci) Sellers, Adel, Ga., Tess Angel (Jeff) Taylor, Dublin, Ga., Christopher Lee Sellers, London, England; great-grandchildren; Ryan Lawrence Drum and Dylan Howard Drum, both of Marietta, Ga., Anna Elizabeth Sellers and Emily Margaret Sellers, both of Alpharetta, Ga., James David Taylor and Julia Grace Taylor, both of Dublin, Ga., Madison Suzanne Sellers, Adel, Ga.; brothers and sisters, Margaret Inez Tuggle, Thomasville, Ga., Hester Agnes Tuggle Prince, Faceville, Ga., James Frazier Tuggle, Cairo, Ga., Martha Tom Tuggle Williford, Atlanta, Ga., Shirley June Tuggle Bennett, Cairo, Ga., Ruby Annell Tuggle Barrett, Cairo, Ga., and Linda Annette Tuggle Counts, California.
Mrs. Sellers was preceded in death by her husband, parents, brother, Watson Milton Tuggle, and a sister, Jane Helen Tuggle Smith.
Clark Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.