Mr. Boyd Andrew Lovingood, age 90 of Hiawassee, GA, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at Chatuge Regional Nursing Home.
Mr. Lovingood was born Thursday, August 15, 1918 in Cherokee County, NC to the late Noah Andrew Lovingood and the late Emma Peak Lovingood. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and was preceded in death by wife, Inez Johnson Lovingood, sons, Grady and Leon Lovingood, daughters, Alice Woodring, Mary Ruth Burch and Marie Lovingood, brother, Frank Lovingood, granddaughters, Sharon Berry and Pamela Woodring, great grandson, Austin Allen and great great grandson, Kyle Sutton.
Survivors include: daughter & son-in-law, Margie and Willie Allen of Cornelia, GA, son & daughter-in-law, Arsel and Donna Lovingood of Young Harris, GA, son & daughter-in-law, Wayne and Margie Lovingood of Hiawassee, GA, son & daughter-in-law, Max and Frances Lovingood of Hiawassee, GA, daughter & son-in-law, Karen and Frank Rodriguez, Jr of Franklin, NC, son, Phillip Lovingood of Hiawassee, GA, son, Boyd Andrew Lovingood, Jr of Dallas, TX, daughter-in-law, JoAnn Lovingood, son-in-law, Clay Woodring, son-in-law, Buford Burch, sister, Edna Hilton of Morganton, GA, sister, Minnice Kirby of Blue Ridge, GA, 23 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren, 8 great great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 2:00 P.M. from the Cochran Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Glen Eller and Pastor Frank Rodriguez, Jr. officiating. Music will be provided by, Bobby Taylor, Margie Lovingood, Glen and Sheila Eller and Bruce Blaisdell. Interment will follow in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers are: Frank Rodriguez, III, Randy Lovingood, Eric Woodring, John Burch, Eugene Lovingood and Stanley Berry. Honorary pallbearers include: Joshua Barnes, Houston Moss, Heath Moss, Willie Allen, Robert Berry and Clint Berry.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-9, Friday, May 8.
The Cochran Funeral Home of Hiawassee, Georgia is in charge of arrangements.