Mrs. Dinah S. Floyd Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Cochran - Mrs. Dinah S. Floyd, age 82, died Saturday, March 19, 2022, at Serenity Place Hospice in Dublin, GA, after a short bout with COVID 19. Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at 2:00 PM in the Chapel of Fisher Funeral Home. Burial will be private in Coody - Berryhill Cemetery. Elder Spencer Fussell will be officiating. The family will greet friends following the service Tuesday in the chapel. The family requests that masks be worn at the service on Tuesday. Mrs. Dinah was born on September 29, 1939, in Bleckley County and lived her entire life there. She was the daughter of the late Rob and Emmie Lou Anderson Simmons and was preceded in death by her husband Mr. Archie Floyd and her stepfather, Skeet Simmons. She attended Cochran Schools and was a member of Cochran High School's 1957 graduating class. Mrs. Floyd continued her education attending Emory University where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in nursing and Georgia Southern University where she received her Master’s Degree. She was a former employee of Bleckley Memorial Hospital, Carl Vinson Veterans Hospital in Dublin, the Bleckley County Health Department, and taught health education in the Pulaski County School system and Middle Georgia Technical College. Mrs. Dinah was a member of Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church. Left to cherish her memories: son, Tim Floyd and his wife Lisa of Cochran; daughter, Tina Whittle and her husband James of Statesboro; grandchildren, Kaley Whittle of Statesboro, Connor Floyd and Drew Floyd both of Cochran; sister, Patsy Tripp and her husband Earl Ray of Hawkinsville; nephew Mike Kerce of Cochran, Jeffery Teston of Naples, FL., Dr. Bruce Tripp of St. Simmons, GA; Niece, Tat Harvey of Hawkinsville, GA and a host of cousins. In Lieu of Flowers the family requests that donations be made to the Georgia Humane Society (https://secured.humanesociety.org/page/81880/donate/1) or Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church, PO Box 105, Cochran, GA 31014.

Mrs. Dinah S. Floyd

September 29, 1939 - March 19, 2022