Sarah Rucia Connell

February 5, 1918 - April 9, 2010

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Rucia Scott Connell, age 92 of Bainbridge, will be held Monday, April 12, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at Bainbridge Church of God with Rev. Perry Lamey, Rev. Dan Tomberlin and Rev. Robert Varnadoe officiating. Interment will follow at Calvary Assembly of God Cemetery with James M. Connell, Jr., Jack Roy Connell, Jr., Henry Connell, Brent Connell, Austin Trawick and Reggie Trawick serving as active pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Randy Connell, Mickey Connell, Tommy Connell, Stevie Connell and Chris Gatlin. Visitation will be Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Cox - Ware Funeral Home. Mrs. Connell was born in Decatur County February 5, 1918 the daughter of the late Marvin and Sarah Deese Scott. She was the oldest member of the Bainbridge Church of God. She attended Brinson School and later married Henry Grady Connell May 23, 1936. She loved her family and church and enjoyed cooking. Mrs. Connell passed away Friday, April 9, 2010 at Bainbridge Memorial Hospital. She is survived by four sons James M. Connell, Sr. and wife Ceil of Bainbridge, Scott Connell and wife Elouise of Bainbridge, Deese Connell and wife Carolyn of Chattahoochee, FL and Jack Connell and wife Dana of Bainbridge; fourteen grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one sister Nettie Baxley and two brothers C.M. Scott and William H. Scott.