Obituaries

Mrs. Hazel B. Clark, 83, of Clarksville, FL, passed away on Thursday, February 11, 2016, in Starke, FL.
Mrs. Clark was born in Starke, FL on January 25, 1933, and lived in Clarksville for several years. She was a retired nurse and a manager of a restaurant for many years and also a homemaker. She was a devoted gardener, loved music, and loved to travel. She loved to plant and work with her flowers. She was of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Champ Clark, of Clarksville.
She is survived by three sons, Champ Clark, Jr., and wife, Sandy, of Howards Creek, FL; Johnny Allred, of Jacksonville, FL; Steve Allred, of Seattle, WA; one daughter, Hazel Clark, and husband, Richard, of Lawtey, FL; eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 15, at 2:00 PM (CST) at Peavy Funeral Home Chapel in Blountstown with Richard Clark officiating. Interment will follow in Clarksville Cemetery in Clarksville. The family will receive friends on Monday, February 15, at 1:00 PM until service time at 2:00 PM (CST) at Peavy Funeral Home Chapel in Blountstown.
All arrangements are under the direction of Marlon Peavy of Peavy Funeral Home in Blountstown (ph. 674-2266). [Full Story »] 

Mr. Chris W. Acree, 63, of Bristol, Florida, passed away in the early Thursday morning, February 11, 2016, at his mother’s home in Bristol.
Chris was born in Wyandotte, MI, on December 22, 1952, and had lived in Liberty and Calhoun counties for most of his life. Chris was a 1971 graduate of Blountstown High School. He was an avid lover of horses and also a part time cowboy. He was employed as a mill wright. Chris was a member of Blountstown First Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his son, Christopher Lee Acree, and his step-father, Glenn Bateman.
He is survived by his mother, Shirley Bateman, of Bristol; his wife, Donna Acree, of Boyce, LA; one son, Scooter Acree, and wife, Carabeth, of Port St. Joe, FL; one daughter, Jenny Acree (Brian), of Georgia; one brother, Tim Acree, and wife, Christine, of Beverly Hills, FL; two step-brothers, Jim Bateman, of Blountstown, FL, and Joe Bateman, of Lake Talquin, FL; one sister, Debbie Acree, of Bristol; and seven grandchildren, Garrett, Myles, Mason, Ross, Scout, Katie Lou, and Kassidy.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, February 14, at 2:00 PM (CST) at Peavy Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Matt Basford officiating. Interment will follow at Lake Mystic Cemetery in Bristol. The family will receive friends on Sunday, February 14, from 1:00 PM until service time at 2:00 PM (CST) at Peavy Funeral Home Chapel in Blountstown.
All arrangements are under the direction of Marlon Peavy of Peavy Funeral Home in Blountstown (ph. 674-2266). [Full Story »] 

Michael Daniel Bailes, 66, of Altha passed away Tuesday, February 2, 2016.
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Connie Jean Baxter, 51, of Wellington, Alabama, passed away Friday, February 5, 2016, in Wellington. [Full Story »] 

Brian David Spikes, 45, died Monday, February 1, 2016, near Cottondale, Florida.
He was born January 15, 1971, at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. He lived in Hosford, Florida, moving to the area with his parents in 1986 as an ex-military “Brat”. He graduated from Liberty County High School in 1990, continuing his education in 1992 at Washington-Holmes Area Vocational-Technical Center, Chipley, Florida, completing a certificate in Commercial Vehicle Driving. After successfully completing the training he made a career of semi-trucking and worked with several companies for well over twenty years. He remained employed the longest with Wiley Sanders Trucking, Troy, Alabama. At the time of death he was employed with Pritchett Trucking Lines. He had friends and acquaintances in Calhoun, Liberty, Gadsden, Leon, and Wakulla Counties, Florida, and Troy, Alabama.
He was a long-time member of Corinth Baptist Church, Hosford, of late attending two other churches, Bristol Pentecostal Holiness Church, Bristol, and Mount Zion Pentecostal Church, Hosford.
He was admired and loved by family and friends for his good nature and sense of humor. He will be remembered long after his death for his sweet spirit, soft spoken personality, and gentleness. Family was important to him and he often took his nieces, Desirae and Disnee, to movies, the fair, shopping, and other events during their teenage years. He inherited a caring and giving personality from his grandfather Spikes. Most of the time he had a smile that could lite up the room. He was a dedicated Christian, friend, brother, uncle, son, and a bachelor who never married, never found his soul mate, and has no children.
He had two living brothers, Roger Hicks, of Colorado and Timothy Hicks, of Alabama, and one sister, Wendy (Spikes) Burch (deceased). He had four nieces and nephews, Desiree Barber and husband, Andrew, Disney Ward and husband, Chad, all from Bristol, and Dakota Hicks of Colorado, and Roddrick Hicks of Alabama. He had six great nieces and nephews, Caleb Barber, Madison Barber, Drayden Ward, Peyton Ward, Benjamin Ward, and Dylan Ward; four Ward great nieces and nephews, Brandon, Emma, Jordyn, and Sarah. Brian’s parents are Frederick “Ricky” and Laura Spikes, of Hosford, Florida. His grandparents were Lynn and Ruby Hale (both deceased) of Zephyrhills, Florida, and Winston and Annie Spikes (both deceased), Hosford. He will be greatly missed by family, friends, and Chihuahua, “Little Bit.”
The family will receive friends at Adams Funeral Home, 18034 Main Street North, Blountstown, Florida, on Friday, February 5, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. CT Funeral services will be graveside at the Hosford Cemetery, Highway 65 South, Hosford, Florida at 3 p.m. ET Saturday, February 6, with Rev. Coy Collins officiating. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Brian David Spikes’ name may be made to Big Bend Hospice, 1723 Mahan Center Boulevard, Tallahassee, Florida 32308.
Adams Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements (ph. 674-5449). You may offer the family condolences online at adamsfh.com. [Full Story »] 

Scott Wallace McCormick
Scott Wallace McCormick, a resident of Altha, Florida, died January 10, 2016, as the result of a boating accident in Jackson County, Florida.
Scott was born January 14, 1956, in Live Oak, Florida, to parents Wallace W. and Ethel G. McCormick. He was a fifth generation Floridian and a documented Florida Pioneer Family descendant. After high school Scott completed his BS degree in Animal Science at the University of Florida. Like his father before him, Scott was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.
Scott’s working career began and ended with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). He was an administrator with the Rural Rehabilitation Program (formerly Farmers Home Administration). In the middle of his career he also worked for the Farm Credit Administration as a senior bank examiner. During this time he advanced his education by completing the Graduate School of Banking program at Louisiana State University. After retirement from USDA, Scott returned to his roots to manage the family pine tree operations at McCormick Tree Farms, LLC.
Scott was an experienced outdoorsman who enjoyed and excelled at many forms of hunting and fishing. He was a skilled marksman who competed at the Master Class level in sporting clay competitions throughout the country and also served as an instructor and referee. He was a long term member of the National Rifle Association, the National Sporting Clays Association, the National Wild Turkey Federation and Ducks Unlimited. Scott was a skilled angler as well and enjoyed fishing both fresh and salt waters with conventional rods, fly fishing and net casting. He had a number of good friends in the hunting and sporting community in Alabama and in the Calhoun, Jackson, and Bay County areas of Florida.
As a lifelong Gator fan he loved Saturdays in The Swamp during football season. He was also a big fan of UF baseball, softball and basketball and would routinely attend and support Gator sports whenever possible. Scott was a talented woodworker who crafted fine furniture pieces to hand carved duck decoys. He loved a glass of fine scotch, boiled peanuts, fried mullet, grits and greens, a porch rail to prop his boots on, a good book to read, and a well told “fish tale” among friends and family.
Scott is survived by his mother, Ethel G. McCormick, of Live Oak; a brother Dean G. McCormick (Charlotte), of Crawfordville; a sister, Lee M. Cornman, of Tallahassee; and a sister, Jean M. Imes (Mark), of Ocala. He is also survived by nieces and nephews that he was proud of and loved dearly, Jason Cornman (Jessica), Brian McCormick (Vicki), Keri Cornman, Susan Imes, Kevin Imes and Carolyn Imes, along with a number of McCormick/Maxwell/Griffin family cousins.
Scott was preceded in death by his father, Wallace W. McCormick.
A memorial service will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 311 South Ohio Ave, Live Oak, FL at 2 pm on Saturday, February 13.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial donations be made to the Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida at http://www.fishwildlifeflorida.org/donate-to-the-fish-wildlife-foundation-of-florida/ or the National Rifle Association Foundation at www.nrafoundation.org/donate/.
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Daniels Funeral Homes & Crematory of Live Oak and Branford, FL, is in charge of all arrangements. [Full Story »]