Shirley

Wiggins

Shirley B. Wiggins, 86, of Monticello, FL, passed away on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Funeral Services will be held at Antioch Baptist Church on Saturday, July 31, 2021 at 2:00 pm with Dr. Ron Fussell and Rev. Jered Day officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. She will be laid to rest at Lebanon Cemetery in Pavo. Pallbearers will be; Billy Hart, Darrell Hart, Bobby Hart, James Hart, Hurbert Hart, and David Repass. Shirley was born on May 26, 1935 in Pavo, GA to the late Howell Hart, Sr. and Roselia Bryant Hart. She attended Pavo High School and played on the basketball team. She worked for her father at Hart's Grocery Store. On November 26, 1952 she married Clayton M. Gandy, Sr. and moved to Dade City, FL. It was there they opened Gandy's Food Lane as well as a store in Zephyrhills, FL. They had 4 children in total. Three sons, Clayton M. Gandy, Jr., William Howell and Mark Gandy, and 1 daughter, Tammy Rodgers. Mark passed away in 1961, and her husband, Clayton M. Gandy, Sr., passed in 1990 after 38 years of marriage. Shirley moved back to Pavo in 1991 where she began working with her brother Charles Hart in his grocery store as well as the next store owner, Benny Bufford. She later worked at the BP Station in Thomasville. On June 2006 she married her high school sweetheart after 56 years, Donald Wiggins. They lived in Holly Hill, FL for a little over 5 years. Donald passed away September 17, 2011 and Shirley then moved back to Monticello next to her daughter Tammy Rodgers. Shirley was a member of Antioch Baptist Church, that her grandfather organized in 1921. Shirley is also 3rd cousins to the 39th President Jimmy Carter. Survivors include; her son, Clayton M. Gandy, Jr. of Horseshoe Beach, FL, and daughter, Tammy Rodgers (Bobby) of Monticello, FL, 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. In addition to her husbands and her parents, she was preceded in death by two sons, William H. Gandy and Mark Gandy, 4 brothers, Edgar, Bernard, Charles and Marvin, and 3 sisters, Katherine, Louise and Sarah. Guests may sign the online register at www.whiddonshiverfuneralhome.com.