Jimmie Carr

Rev. Jimmie Slaughter Carr, 81, Austin Street, entered into rest Saturday, March 12, 2011 at McDuffie Regional Medical Center. Mr. Carr was the beloved husband of Betty Golden Carr. Funeral services will be 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from the Marshall Baptist Church with the Revs. Bruce Poss and Phillip Gandy officiating. Interment services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Thursday, March 17, 2011 from the Resthaven Cemetery, Lanett, Alabama with the Revs. Dexter James and Howard Golden officiating. Serving as pallbearers will be Robert Rozier, Mike Madden, Jason Brooks, David Lloyd, William Lloyd, James Lloyd, Zeke Lloyd and Ethan Lloyd. Members of the Marshall Baptist Church Men's II Sunday School Class will serve as honorary pallbearers. A native of Ashland, Alabama Mr. Carr was a retired Baptist minister serving a number of churches in the south since 1955. Having last served at Bethany Baptist Chruch, Mr. Carr was a graduate of Howard College now known as Sanford University. His last service as pastor was at Bethany Baptist Chruch. He also attend the New Orleans Baptist Seminary and was a U. S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He had lived in Alabama most of his life before making his home in Thomson from Phenix City , Alabama about three years ago. In addition to his wife survivors include two daughters, Lynn Carr and Lisa Bolton and husband Madison, all of Thomson; a sister, Mavis L. Fields, Hugley Alabama; grandchildren, Matt Bolton, Glen Bolton, Ginny Bolton, Rebekah Bolton, Jonathan Rosenburg, Joel Rosenburg and Joy Rosenburg; great-grandchildren Gabby Bolton, Miaciah Bolton, Kade Bolton, Blake Davis, Hunter Bolton, Natalie Bolton, Aiden Bolton, Chase Bolton and Delaney Bolton. Memorials may be made to the Marshall Baptist Chruch Building Fund, International Mission Fund or Mission Trip Fund, 436 Marshall Church Road, Thomson GA 30824. Friends may call at the residence or at Beggs Funeral Home from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Beggs Funeral Home, 799 Cobbham Road, NE, Thomson, Georgia 706/595-4100.