Hazel Birdell Colbert

Mrs. Hazel Birdell Colbert, 85, of Crawford Rd., Blairsville, Ga., died Saturday July 7, 2007 at her home following an extended illness.

Mrs. Colbert was born Nov. 30, 1921 in Robbinsville, N.C., the daughter of the late Casey V. Jones and the late Mary R. Anderson Jones. She was a lifelong resident of Union County. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dorris George Colbert in 2006; brothers, Harold, Clyde and Toby Jones; and sister, Lina Seabolt. Mrs. Colbert was of the Baptist faith.

Surviving Mrs. Colbert are daughters and son-in-law, Jo and Carroll Weaver of Blairsville, Elouise Weaver of Douglasville; sons and daughters-in-law, Rev. James and Sharon Ingram of Harem, Ga., C.A. and Beverly Ingram of Mass.; sisters, Ida Jackson of Blairsville, Ruth Payne of Forest Park, Ga., Shirley Moore

of Fayettville, Bobbie Lou

Gentry of Forest Park, Polly

Henson of Blairsville;

brothers, Jack Jones of

Blairsville and Rev.

Tommy Jones of

Blairsville; 103 grandchildren

and great

grandchildren; many

other relatives and

friends also survive.

Funeral services were

held Monday, July 9, 2007 at 2 p.m. from the funeral home chapel with the Rev. James Ingram and Rev. Tommy Jones officiating. Special music was presented by the Dyer Family. The grandsons and great grandsons served as pallbearers. Interment followed in the Union Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Mountain View Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuneralhome. com