Leon Barwick Obituary
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at West Bainbridge Baptist Church with Rev. Kent Barwick officiating. Interment will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery with Todd McMillan, Bradley Watts, Steve Key, Don Maxwell, Cody Singleton, and Spencer Shreves serving as active pallbearers.
The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.bryantfuneralga.com.
Stephen Leon Barwick was born April 23, 1982, in Bainbridge, GA, the son of Lee Barwick and Sherrie Phillips Barwick. After high school, Leon married Holly Smith, and they made their home in Bainbridge. Leon installed signs for Quality Signs and was a member of Climax Baptist Church.
Leon was a hunter, a fisherman, a family man, and his little boy, Easton's, best friend. He hung the moon if you ask his oldest daughter, Gracie. And his second daughter, Kennedy, would tell you in a heartbeat, she has the best daddy in the world. If you saw Leon, you saw Holly and the kids. Unless he was out on the gulf. Holly was at the house fussing until he got home safely because Life360 didn't track out there.
Leon's magnetic personality drew others to him. He quickly became friends with most anyone he met. He loved being on the water or in the woods. Conversations seemed to circle back to fishing, deer hunting, or turkey hunting, and every event became an adventure noted in the history books.
Survivors include his wife, Holly Barwick; his children, Gracie, Kennedy, and Easton; his parents, Lee Barwick and Sherrie & Doug Bailey; his siblings, Heath Barwick and Morgan Newsome (Chris); his grandfather, Gordon Barwick; his mother-in-law, Sherry Smith; his sisters & brothers-in-law, Tiffany & Cody Singleton and Faith & Spencer Shreves; and his nieces & nephews, Fisher, Noah Kate, Mallie, Case, and Aleigha. Leon was preceded in death by his grandparents, Judson & Lou Ellen Phillips and Betty Sue Barwick.
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