Person:Joseph Crovatt (1)

Obituary of Dr. Joseph Gidiere Crovatt Jr as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 22 Oct 1965. Funeral services for Dr. Joseph Gidiere Crovatt will be held this afternoon, 22 Oct 1965 at 4:00 PM at the First Baptist Church of Camilla. Coming to officiate will be a former pastor, Rev Charles Duncan of McCaysville. Interment will take place at Oakview Cemetery. Bramlett Funeral Home of Camilla has charge of arrangements. Active pallbearers will be Earnest Jones, Wallace Worsham, Hugh Dowdy, Charles Davis, Lewis Brooks, N. W. Green, Tom Hays and Billy Brooks. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. M. W. Williams, Dr. A. A. McNeill Jr., Dr. L. E. Hackett, Dr. J. C. Brim, Dr. W. C. Arwood, Dr. J. P. Doyle, Fr. Funderburke of Moultrie, Dr. C. A. Stevenson, Dr. W. A. Smith, Julian Rivers, Joel Rivers, Tom Cobb, Bob Davis and John Marshall. Dr. Crovatt died early Thursday morning, 21 Oct 1965 at his residence on South Harney Street after an illness of several years which had seen him hospitalized at various periods. The end came suddenly and quietly. He arose and went to his bedroom door to tell his wife not to prepare any breakfast for him because he did not feel like eating any. When she went into his room a short while later she found he had passed away. He was a member of the Camilla First Baptist Church, the Camilla Rotary Club and the American Medical Association. Dr. Crovatt moved to Camilla with his family in the early 1940's a short time before the start of World War II. He retired from private practice in Camilla several years ago to accept an appointment as a member of the medical staff at the Veterans Hospital in Dublin, Ga., where he was also chief of the medical staff. Dr. Crovatt was a native of Thomasville, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe G. Crovatt. His father for many years was an engineer on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Louise Griner of Camilla and one daughter Mrs. Chester Tatum of Warner Robbins and two grandchildren. Other survivors include six sisters, Mrs. A. N. Tuck Sr., Mrs. Love douglas and Mrs. Margaret Titus, all of Thomasville; Mrs. W. R. (Ethel) Humphlett of Columbia, S. C., Mrs. Eva C. Gephert of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. E. W. Bowers of Dixie, Ga. There are several nieces and nephews and other close relatives. Dr. Crovatt spent his early life in Thomasville where he graduated from Thomasville High School later attending medical college in Augusta and serving his internship in the Coast Line Hospital in Waycross.