Vera Lucille Currington

Mrs. Vera Lucille Currington, 90, of Butler, GA, passed away on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, GA. Funeral services will be held at 2:00PM on Saturday, January 25, 2020, at Moore’s Chapel Baptist Church with Rev. Terry Hudson officiating. Burial will follow the service at Pine Level Cemetery. The family will greet friends on Friday, January 24, 2020, from 6:00-8:00PM at Way-Watson Funeral Home in Buena Vista, GA.

Mrs. Currington was born December 14, 1929, in Marion County, GA, to Alva and Lizzie Applewhite Phillips. A homemaker, she was a member of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. Mrs. Currington enjoyed going to Sunday school and cooking before moving to the nursing home in Taylor County. After moving to Taylor County Health Care, she enjoyed playing BINGO and listening to gospel music, especially anything sung by Elvis Presley. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Currington, by two sons, Harold Currington and Jack Currington, and by several siblings.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Herbert Wayne and Catherine Currington of Mauk, GA, and Charlie and Donna Currington of Butler, GA; by six grandchildren, Gary Currington, Jack and Jacqueline Currington, Tina Harrington, Jackie Barrentine, April Currington, and James Herbert Currington; by five great-grandchildren, Cassie Currington, Little Jackie Currington, Grace Currington, Cayson Currington, and Little Wayne Layfield.

Way-Watson Funeral Home of Buena Vista, GA, is in charge of these arrangements.