Transcribed and Submitted by:
Lorie A. Everson  lorieeverson@bellsouth.net

Published:  The Albany Herald

L.O. "Hob" Peebles Sr. 

PITTS - Funeral services for L.O. "Hob" Peebles Sr. will be held at 2 p.m. 
today, Nov. 24, 2004, at Pitts Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the 
Pitts Cemetery. The Revs. Jack Dowdy and Royce Freeman will officiate the 
services. 

Mr. Peebles died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004, at his residence. 

Born July 4, 1920, in Wilcox County, he was the son of the late Clyde 
Lyston Peebles and Floy Osborne Peebles. He was a farmer and member of 
the Pitts Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and Sunday School 
teacher. He was a member of the Rochelle Masonic Lodge #190 F&AM and was 
former director of Colony Bank. He also was a former mayor of Pitts and 
a World War II Army veteran. 

Survivors include his wife, Laura Peebles of Pitts; two sons, Pete (Kay) 
Peebles of Pitts, and Furman (Maxine) Peebles of Rochelle; a daughter, 
Tena Peebles of Douglasville; a sister, Sarah P. Royal of Ashburn; eight 
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 

Frazier & Son Funeral Home of Rochelle has charge of the arrangements.