Julie Walker Keller, 97, of Blackshear, passed away early Thursday morning, September 5, 2024, at Harborview Health Systems – Pierce County.
Born in Patterson July 15, 1927, she lived in Pierce County all her life. She worked as a sales associate for Pierce Trading Company and later Gilmore’s Department Store for many years. She would go on to work at Classy Rags in Waycross before retiring and becoming a homemaker. She enjoyed tending to her flowers and being with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a member of First Baptist Church – Blackshear where she was in the Alathean Sunday School Class.
She was a daughter of the late Andrew Middleton and Isabelle Thornton Walker. She was also preceded in death by her husband, John Raymond Keller; a son, Bill Keller and all of her sisters and brothers.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Ray and Susan Keller, Alma; a daughter and son-in-law, Beth and Tommy Lloyd, Blackshear; four grandchildren, Chris (Erica) Keller, Misty (Donavan) Johns, Thomas (Heather) Lloyd and Mark (Lisa) Lloyd; nine great- grandchildren, Walker, Graysen and Sydney Keller, Tyler, Andrew, Landry and Preston Lloyd, Colton Johns, and Willie Altman and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Visitation will be from 2:30-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, from the Pearson-Dial Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Steve Boatright officiating.
Interment will be in the Blackshear Cemetery.
The family kindly requests memorials be made to Hospice Satilla, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross, GA 31501 or to First Baptist Church, 670 Main Street, Blackshear, GA 31516.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online register at www.pearsondial.com.
Pearson-Dial Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
