Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:15 pm Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Waymon “Bodge” Gober

Waymon “Bodge” Gober

October 22, 2012

Waymon “Bodge” Gober, 68, died Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, at Cottage of the Shoals in Tuscumbia.

He was born March 29, 1944, in Atwood and had worked at Ocean Spray Cranberry Co., North Chicago, Ill. He was a member of Freewill Baptist Church, Red Bay.

Services were Thursday, October 25, 2012, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Steve Lindsay officiating. Burial was in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Red Bay.

Survivors are three sisters, Faye Tate, Golden, Miss., Shirley Springer, of Virginia, and Marie Seal, Tuscumbia; four brothers, Lowell Gober and Dorvan Gober, both of Red Bay, and Orville Gober and Ronald Gober, both of Belmont, Miss., and a host of nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Dellie Oakland Gober and Delma Lou Scott Gober.

His nephews will serve as pallbearers.

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