Allie Mae Cornwell

Mrs. Allie Mae Cornwell, 95, of Columbus, formerly of Sumter County, passed away at St. Francis Hospital early Friday morning, April 30, 2010. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 2, in St. Andrews Lutheran Church, with Rev. Charles Thompson officiating. Interment will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Grandchildren will serve as active pallbearers. Born November 29, 1914, she was a daughter of the late John Calhoun Wise, Sr. and Eola Anderson Wise. She was a homemaker and a very active member of St. Andrews Lutheran Church. She was also a member of the Pilot Club, Plains Homemakers Club, Plains PALLS Club, and the Plains Garden Club. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the J. C. Wise, Jr. Scholarship Fund at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, 304 North Bond St., Plains, Georgia, 31780 or to any favorite charity. Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Hardie Jo and James Rossitter of Mt. Juliet, TN, and Elizabeth Lane Brown of Columbus; a son and daughter-in-law, John Woody Cornwell, Sr. and Elaine of Newberry, SC; grandchildren, Drew Kingery, Lynn Kingery Sanders, Miles and Shelly Erb, Woody Cornwell, Jr., Mark and Kelly Cornwell, Lindsay Brown and Tim Ratliff, and Jamie Brown; great grandchildren, Kristen Kingery, Andrew Kingery, Esther Erb, Abigayle Ratliff, Harry Cornwell, Morgan Moss and Hardy Moss; a great-great grandson, Elijah Moss; and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Joel Hardy Cornwell, a grandson, Brian Kingery, and siblings Margaret Wise, Elizabeth Wise, Loris Walker, Hilda Williams, Thomas Wise, and J. C. Wise, Jr. Hancock Funeral Home, 427 South Lee Street, Americus, GA. 229-924-3645