Mary Ann Meeler

Anonymous CNHI The Tifton Gazette Mon Dec 27, 2010, 08:50 PM EST

LENOX — Mary Ann Lynch Blount Meeler, 60, of Lenox died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev. Jimmie Hinson and the Rev. Dillard Ensley officiating. Burial will follow at the Bethlehem Church Cemetery in Cook County. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 tonight at Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors.

Pallbearers will be Austin Smith, Jamie Thompson, Jon Thompson, Matt Thompson, Jesse Lynch and Nathan Lane. Honorary pallbearers will be Paul Bowden and the staff of the Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.

Born on March 25, 1950 in Adel, Ms. Meeler was the daughter of the late Grady Lee Lynch and Elizabeth Anne Abbott Lynch Moore. She was a graduate of Cook County High School and had served as the Chairman of the Lean Ox Festival in Lenox for several years. She enjoyed antique collecting, cooking, fishing, and she especially loved her grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, William Lamar “Doc” Blount; her second husband, Dwain Meeler; her nephew, Andrew Thompson; and her stepfather, Lonnie Lee Moore.

Ms. Meeler was the Victims-Witness Assistance Program Director in the District Attorney’s Office for the Tifton Judicial Circuit where she was instrumental in establishing Ruth’s Cottage in 2001 and The Patticake House in 2005. Through her professionalism and her extensive contacts in Tift, Irwin, Turner and Worth Counties, she was able to help establish both of these vital projects that make resources available to child witnesses and victims’ families. Mary truly took a personal interest in the victims and families that she served.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Janie B. and Chad Smith of Cedartown; sister and brother-in-law, Faye and Jimmy Thompson of Norman Park; brothers and sister-in-law, Roy and Barbara Lynch and Frankie Lynch all of Lenox; and her grandchildren, Lauren Smith, Austin Smith, and Alexis Smith, all of Cedartown.

Flowers will be accepted or donations may be made to Ruth’s Cottage or The Patticake House, P.O. Drawer 1169 Tifton, GA 31793.

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Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements