PORTAL, Ga. -- Ms. Frankie Joyce McClendon Waters, age 65, died Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at Candler County Hospital under the care of Regency SouthernCare Hospice.
The native of Bulloch County was a 1973 graduate of Portal High School. Frankie later attended Swainsboro Technical College, where she received a degree in welding.
She began her welding career, traveling the Southeastern United States as a welding contractor. Most recently, she was employed with Fluor-Daniels Inc.
Frankie was of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank McClendon and Caroline Campbell Miller; her husband, Al Waters; a son, Eric Waters; and a half-sister, Gina Miller.
Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Shane and Heather Deal Stewart of Statesboro; a daughter and son-in-law, Lacie and Clay West of Portal; a sister, Missy Miller of Portal; four grandchildren, Ivy and Colby Stewart of Statesboro and Chayton and Charleigh West of Portal; and her special friends, Mary Anne Miller of Statesboro, Fran Moser of Pigeon Forge, Tenn.; and Sherry Hodges of Twin City.
The family will receive visitors on Saturday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home in Statesboro.
Friends may sign the online register book at www.joineranderson.com.
Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home & Crematory of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.
Statesboro Herald, March 27, 2021
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The native of Bulloch County was a 1973 graduate of Portal High School. Frankie later attended Swainsboro Technical College, where she received a degree in welding.
She began her welding career, traveling the Southeastern United States as a welding contractor. Most recently, she was employed with Fluor-Daniels Inc.
Frankie was of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank McClendon and Caroline Campbell Miller; her husband, Al Waters; a son, Eric Waters; and a half-sister, Gina Miller.
Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Shane and Heather Deal Stewart of Statesboro; a daughter and son-in-law, Lacie and Clay West of Portal; a sister, Missy Miller of Portal; four grandchildren, Ivy and Colby Stewart of Statesboro and Chayton and Charleigh West of Portal; and her special friends, Mary Anne Miller of Statesboro, Fran Moser of Pigeon Forge, Tenn.; and Sherry Hodges of Twin City.
The family will receive visitors on Saturday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home in Statesboro.
Friends may sign the online register book at www.joineranderson.com.
Joiner-Anderson Funeral Home & Crematory of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.
Statesboro Herald, March 27, 2021
Sign the Legacy online guestbook at www.statesboroherald.com.