Born November 10, 1921, in Phoenix, Arizona, to the late B. C. Stafford and Maude English Stafford, Mrs. Wakeman was also preceded in death by her husbands, Walter Carl "Jack" Lunden, Joe Henderson, and Tom Wakeman, and two sisters, Virginia Wakeman and Lois Walker. Mrs. Wakeman, a proud member of the "Greatest Generation," had lived in Tifton since 1962. When she was growing up, she lived half of each year in Flagler, Fla., and the other half in Washington, D.C. She attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va. During WWII, Mrs. Wakeman fulfilled her patriotic duty by working at her father's shipyard in Tampa, Fla. She was a great artist and exhibited with the traveling Georgia Art Train. She won numerous awards for her watercolors. She was a voracious reader and loved crossword puzzles and to travel. Mrs. Wakeman loved her pets, Bambi, Ginger One, and Ginger Two, and her special love was her friends and family to whom she was fiercely loyal...
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Born November 10, 1921, in Phoenix, Arizona, to the late B. C. Stafford and Maude English Stafford, Mrs. Wakeman was also preceded in death by her husbands, Walter Carl "Jack" Lunden, Joe Henderson, and Tom Wakeman, and two sisters, Virginia Wakeman and Lois Walker. Mrs. Wakeman, a proud member of the "Greatest Generation," had lived in Tifton since 1962. When she was growing up, she lived half of each year in Flagler, Fla., and the other half in Washington, D.C. She attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va. During WWII, Mrs. Wakeman fulfilled her patriotic duty by working at her father's shipyard in Tampa, Fla. She was a great artist and exhibited with the traveling Georgia Art Train. She won numerous awards for her watercolors. She was a voracious reader and loved crossword puzzles and to travel. Mrs. Wakeman loved her pets, Bambi, Ginger One, and Ginger Two, and her special love was her friends and family to whom she was fiercely loyal...
-Edited by findagrave.com guidelines to protect the living; full details on file at Albritton-Beaumont, Tifton, GA.
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