Susan Yancey Perkins
August 15, 1941 – September 27, 2022
Funeral services for Susan Yancey Perkins, 81, of Cairo, GA, are at 3:00 p.m. Friday, September 30, 2022, at the First United Methodist Church, Cairo, GA. Rev. Sam Vernon will officiate. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Cairo, GA. Mrs. Perkins passed away at her home on Wednesday, September 27, 2022.
Pallbearers will be: Bart Corrington, Sam Kines, Alberto Peralez, Malcolm Hosford, Yancey Sutton, and Paul Whitman.
Mrs. Perkins was born on August 15, 1941, in Tallahassee, FL, to the late Malcom N. and Annie Mae Yancey. On March 16, 1963, she married Charles Patrick Perkins, Sr., who preceded her in death on April 16, 2021. She was a graduate of Florida State University and held a master’s degree from Valdosta State University. She was an advocate for youth and spent her career in education. She founded Cairo Kiddie College and later taught in the Grady County Public School system. Best known by students as the librarian at Northside Elementary, she truly loved to read to children. After retirement Susan devoted herself to her children and grandchildren. She was most proud of all of their successes, from Daniele Bussey’s Nurse Practitioners License to Ava Perkins’s commitment to play softball for Lee University. Susan always looked forward to spending time with Charlie and looked forward to her phone chats with him. She was devoted to Hannah who she dedicated so much of herself to.
Survivors include: children, Mary Frances Perkins and her sweetheart, Mike Black, of Dawsonville GA, Charles Perkins, Jr. of Thomasville, GA, Dave Perkins and his beautiful wife Allison of Cartersville, GA. She doted on her three grandchildren: Daniele and her husband Aaron along with their daughter, Hannah, Ava Katherine Perkins and Charlie Perkins of Cartersville GA. She is also survived by three sisters, Mary Stuart Hartmann, Jane Sutton, and Joyce Post.
Memorials may be made in Mrs. Perkins’ memory to: Feeding for Christ or Roddenbery Memorial Library.
The family will receive visitors at Rosemary Plantation on Meridian Road from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 29, 2022. (Address for visitation is 1298 Meridian Road, Thomasville, GA 31792)
