Annie Ruth

Womble

Ann Ryan Pafford Womble, was born December 11, 1930, in Prentise County, MS. She was the daughter of the late Clarence Ryan and Lizzie Boren Ryan. Her family moved to Georgia in 1936 where she lived in Brooks and Thomas County the remainder of her life. She attended Boston High School and was a graduate of the first class of LPN's taught at the Thomas Area Technical School. She received her Associate Degree in Nursing in 1979 from Darton College in Albany, GA. A dedicated nurse working 28 years at Archbold Memorial Hospital before retiring in 1992. She married Robert Lee Pafford in 1947 who preceded her in death. She later married Johnnie L. Womble in 1967, who also preceded her in death. She enjoyed reading, gardening, and baking for her family and friends. She was a member of Dawson Street Baptist Church & Georgia Baptist Nursing Fellowship. Survivors include; daughters, Carla Womble Barrow, Mary Jackson (Lee), stepson, Stan Womble (Leigh), grandchildren, Elizabeth Ann Barrow, Robby Cooper, Chad Cooper, Al Weeks, Tonya Simons, Stuart Womble, and Seth Womble, several great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren, and several nieces & nephews. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Robert Lee Pafford and Johnnie L. Womble, daughter, Sheri Weeks, sisters, Edna Burns and Barbara Newell, brothers, Randel Ryan and Robert Ryan, and grandson Sterling Womble. Memorials can be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – www.stjude.org

Services will be held at Dawson Street Baptist Church on Wednesday – July 31, 2024 at 11:00 am with Pastor Lee Waller and Pastor Bobby Miller officiating. Interment will follow at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service from 10:00 am – 11:00 am in the Dawson Street Baptist Church Sanctuary.

"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." – John 14:1-3