Graveside services for Rachel Brown Ward, 88, of Washington, were held Saturday, June 2, 2007, in Resthaven Cemetery, Washington, with Rev. Bill Boyd and Rev. Dinni Moss officiating. She died Wednesday, May 30, at Washington Manor.
Mrs. Ward was a native of Commerce and had lived in Wilkes County for 52 years. She was the daughter of the late Dewey and Clara Haggard Brown and was the widow of Barrington Ward. She was a retired school teacher and a member of the Church of the Mediator of Washington.
Survivors include a son, Ernest Barrington Ward Jr., Woodstock; a daughter, Pat Niemann, Washington; three grandchildren, William E. Niemann II, Cynthia Niemann, and Lynn Young; six great-grandchildren, Mandy, Melanie, Naomi, and Brooke Niemann, and Levi and Lily Young; a sister, Ann Traylor, Kennesaw; and a sister-in-law, Eloise Brown, Lake Park.
Pallbearers included Bill Bennett, Lawrence Burton, Steve Blackmon, Randolph Lawrence, Jack Leard, and Alex Tyler.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Church of the Mediator, 212 E. Robert Toombs Ave., Washington 30673; or to United Hospice, 620 Ponder Place Drive, Suite A, Evans, GA 30809.
Hopkins Funeral Home of Washington was in charge of arrangements.
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