Mr. William Edwin "Ed" Mikell

STATESBORO, Ga. - Mr. William Edwin "Ed" Mikell, age 85, died Monday at the Ogeechee Area Hospice Inpatient Facility. Edwin was a Bulloch County native and a lifelong resident of Bulloch County. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the United States Army. He served in Company E, 14th Infantry in the Rhineland Central Europe Campaigns from 1943 through 1945. He received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star medals, the American Theater Ribbon, EAMET Theater SV Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the World War II Victory Medal while serving as a combat Infantry rifleman.
Following the war, he owned and operated a Shell and Union 76 Service Station for over 20 years. He then worked for Stubbs Oil Company for 15 years, retiring in 1991. He was a member of the Statesboro First Baptist Church, recently receiving his 50-year membership pin. He was an active member of the Harmony Fellowship Sunday School Class and cooked weekly breakfast for FBC youth students at the church for many years. He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Golden K and Kiwanian of the Year in 1996. Edwin received a Deen Day Smith Service to Mankind Award in 2004.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Wiley and Effie Mikell; his son, Larry Mikell; his brother and sister-in-law, Carl and Myrtis Mikell; and his two sisters and brothers-in-law, Elizabeth and Lewis Hall and Rubie Forrester; sisters-in-law, Sybil and Olen Brown and Mary Edna C. Anderson.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Katie Laurine C. Mikell; his son and daughter-in-law, Bobby and Kris Mikell, all of Statesboro; his daughter, Pamela Finderup of Marietta; grandchildren, Robert William Mikell, Brooks Laurine Mikell and Erik Mikael Finderup; sisters-in-law, Rita Underwood, Hilda Cannady, Mickey Davis; and brothers-in-law, Bob Davis and Louis Anderson; and many nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel of Hodges-Moore Funeral Home.
Active pallbearers will be Jody Stubbs, Bill Stubbs, Bill Green, Glenn Rogers, Bobby Davis, Jim Saylors, Rob Davis and Robert Hall.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Harmony Fellowship Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Burial will be in Bulloch Memorial Gardens.
Memorial contributions may be made to Ogeechee Area Hospice, P.O. Box 531, Statesboro, GA 30459; or Statesboro First Baptist Church Building Fund, 108 North Main Street, Statesboro, GA 30458.
Please visit our online memorial at www.hodgesmoore.com to share your thoughts and fond memories with the Mikell family.
Hodges-Moore Funeral Home of Statesboro is in charge of the arrangements.

Statesboro Herald, June 24, 2010
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