IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Marvin Alfred
Tyson
January 28, 1927 – September 5, 2009
Obituary
West Chatham Chapel
Bloomingdale-Mr. Marvin Alfred Tyson, 82, passed away on Saturday, September 5, 2009.
Mr. Tyson was born in Effingham County to the late Birdie Eugene and Annie English Tyson. He was a member of Central Baptist Church, the Richard T. Turner Masonic Lodge and the Operating Engineers Local 474. He served his country in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines and he enjoyed music, fishing, honeybees and growing fruit trees, vegetables and homemade wine. He was known as the Piggly Wiggly Santa Claus and was also preceded in death by five brothers.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Ann Tyson of Bloomingdale; daughters, Linda T. (Nestor) Gernay of Tybee Island, Charlotte T. (William Sidney) Jarrell of Wilmington Island and Marvelene T. Mohr of Wilmington Island; step-children, Laverne Opio of Texas, Becky Harrison of Richmond Hill, Lee Medlin of Rincon and Alan Hendrix of Alamo; five grandchildren and nine step-grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; brother, Donnie W. Tyson of Silk Hope; sisters, Eunice E. Smith of Savannah and Juanita Tyson Sparks of Athens, TN and a number of nieces and nephews.
Visitation: 4-9 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home.
Funeral: 11 a.m. on Thursday in the chapel of the funeral home with burial to follow at Hillcrest Abbey West Cemetery on Dean Forest Road.
Bloomingdale-Mr. Marvin Alfred Tyson, 82, passed away on Saturday, September 5, 2009.
Mr. Tyson was born in Effingham County to the late Birdie Eugene and Annie English Tyson. He was a member of Central Baptist Church, the Richard T. Turner Masonic Lodge and the Operating Engineers Local 474. He served his country in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines and he enjoyed music, fishing, honeybees and growing fruit trees, vegetables and homemade wine. He was known as the Piggly Wiggly Santa Claus and was also preceded in death by five brothers.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Ann Tyson of Bloomingdale; daughters, Linda T. (Nestor) Gernay of Tybee Island, Charlotte T. (William Sidney) Jarrell of Wilmington Island and Marvelene T. Mohr of Wilmington Island; step-children, Laverne Opio of Texas, Becky Harrison of Richmond Hill, Lee Medlin of Rincon and Alan Hendrix of Alamo; five grandchildren and nine step-grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; brother, Donnie W. Tyson of Silk Hope; sisters, Eunice E. Smith of Savannah and Juanita Tyson Sparks of Athens, TN and a number of nieces and nephews.
Visitation: 4-9 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home.
Funeral: 11 a.m. on Thursday in the chapel of the funeral home with burial to follow at Hillcrest Abbey West Cemetery on Dean Forest Road.
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