Mattie Roselyn Durrance Lovell, 78, of Blackshear, passed away Tuesday morning, September 27, 2022, at her residence following a strong, determined and courageous battle against an illness that never took her humor or joy of life away. She passed exactly seven years to the day that her first born son, Danny, went to be with the Lord.
Born January 17, 1944, in Alma, she was a daughter of the late Harley and Iris Taylor Durrance Courson. She lived most of her life in Bacon and Pierce Counties and was a “jack of all trades”. She had worked as a seamstress in a local sewing factory and in the mental health field in Ware County but spent most of her life as a self-employed florist. She had owned the Dodge City Flower Shop, Flowers on Morningside and retired as the owner of Johnson’s Florist.
She was a longtime member of Shady Grove Baptist Church where she attended the Senior Adult Sunday School Class, had been a former Sunday School Teacher, served on the Building Committee, Chairwoman of the WMU and other church committees.
She was also a former member of the Waycross Kiwanis Club and the Waycross-Ware County Chamber of Commerce and had been a volunteer with the Easter Seals.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Earl Monroe Lovell; a son, Danny Earl Lovell; her brothers, David Durrance, Clyde Durrance, Lamar Durrance, Harold Durrance, Harry Courson and Larry Courson; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Iris Lee Carroll and Lera and Bruce Hyers; and a sister-in-law, Glenda Curl Durrance.
Survivors include her daughter, Myrtice Lorraine “Lorrie” Lovell Davis (husband Harry), Waycross; two sons, Andy Monroe Lovell (wife Amanda) and Randy Glen Lovell (wife Deanne), both of Patterson; grandchildren, Mindy Eunice (husband Cecil), Early Taylor, Jessica Combee (husband Devlin), Kristian Aultman Hardy (husband Dez), Willie Aultman, Cayden Lovell, Andee Lovell and Sadee Lovell; great-grandchildren, Mattie, Cole, Mavery and Mykah Eunice and Madison Combee; two foster daughters, Jean and Mary; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Aaron “Cotton” and Glenda Durrance, Blackshear, Glynn and Carolyn Durrance, Wetumpka, AL, Howard and Mickey Courson, Monticello, FL and Homer and Kathy Courson, Alma; two sisters, Ora Lee Hagan and Linda Palmer (Al), both of Blackshear; several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Juanita Durrance, Roberta, Marie Durrance, Wetumpka, AL, Judy Durrance, Waycross, Darlene Durrance, Lake Park, Pat Courson, Monticello, FL, Yvonne Murphy and Ronnie Lovell, both of Blackshear and Mitchell Lovell (wife Gloria), Sylvester and many nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
Visitation will take place from 2-4 p.m. Monday, October 3, at Shady Grove Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, from the Shady Grove Baptist Church.
Interment will follow in the Shady Grove Cemetery.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing online at www.hartfh.com.
Hart Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
