Tracy Hobby
The Albany Herald
FITZGERALD — Tracy Hobby, 81, of Fitzgerald, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006, at Dorminy Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Steve Waldorf officiating. Interment will follow at Irwinville Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at the funeral home.
Mr. Hobby was born on June 15, 1925, in Worth County, to the late Addie T. and Lula Estelle Gwines Hobby. He moved to Fitzgerald in 1954 to work for Benny Anderson at Fitzgerald Motor Company as an auto mechanic. He was a former employee of Kimball’s Dairy, a former bailiff for the Ben Hill County courts and retired as an automobile mechanic instructor for Ben Hill-Irwin Technical School.
Mr. Hobby served in the United States Army during World War II. He was a member of the American Legion, a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the Retired Teachers Association. Mr. Hobby was a member of Central United Methodist Church where he was a member and former president of the Carlyle-Mathis Sunday School Class.
Mr. Hobby is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, David T. and Judy Hobby of Fitzgerald; a stepdaughter and her husband, Pat Ross-Clark and Frank of Atlanta; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and a brother, Franklin Hobby of Sylvester. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucile Clements Hobby, a brother and two sisters.
Contributed by Lorie A. Everson
