Charles Nathan Page

Charles Nathan Page April 4, 1936 - April 4, 1936 BUENA VISTA, GA — Charles Nathan Page, 72, died Sunday, September 28, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, GA. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at the Tante Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jimmy Ford and Nicholas Page officiating. Music will be provided by Brenda Humber. Burial will immediately follow in the Buena Vista City Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Tante Funeral Home in Buena Vista. Serving as pallbearers will be Ray Page Jr., Scottie Page, Quinton Wood, Michael Brady, Bart Pond, Dennis Thompson and Jimmy Pond. Mr. Page was born April 4, 1936, in Stewart County, Georgia to Julian Grady and Jessie Bussey Page. Baptist by faith, he was a member of Omaha Baptist Church. He attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and the University of Georgia. He was a forester with Georgia Kraft Company, which brought him to Buena Vista where he met and married his wife, Mary Jo Brady Page. He owned Page's TV and Appliance Retail Store. He was an active advocate for developmental disabilities. He built the Little Log Chapel on Hartage Ford Road in Marion County. He loved people, especially those less fortunate. His hobbies included sugar cane syrup making and farming and he was known for the best tasting sweet potatoes near and far. He was a Mason and a member of the Cusseta Lodge. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Julian Grady Page, Jr. and by a nephew, Julian Grady Page III. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Mary Jo Brady Page, of Buena Vista, two sons, Charles Nathan Page, Jr. and Paul Brady Page, both of Rose Haven Intermediate Care in Thomasville, GA; one brother, Raymond Page of Louvale, GA; one sister, Frances Page Travis, of Columbus, GA; one sister-in-law, Betsy Brady Pond (Jimmy) of Americus, GA; one brother-in-law, Billy Brady (Ginny) of Warner Robins, GA; three nieces, Robin Page Wood (Quinton), Page Travis Sobek (Dave), and Connie Page Juhan (Danny), five nephews, Ray Page, Jr., Scottie Page, Larry Travis, Michael Brady (Elizabeth), and Bart Pond; great nieces, Jessica Juhan, Crystal Pilkauskas (Jim), Ashley Page Davis (Nathan), Andrea Page, Stephanie and Belinda Brady, and great-nephews, Nicholas Page (Kimberly), David Page, David Sobek and John Brady, along with several great-great nephews and nieces. In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations be made to Buena Vista UMC, P.O. Box 449, Buena Vista, GA, 31803, or Buena Vista Cemeteries, 137 Harold Harris Road, Buena Vista, Georgia, 31803. Tante Funeral Home of Buena Vista is in charge of arrangements.