Sympathy Saturday - Barb Sawyer Claxton 1955-2025

  Sympathy Saturday will be where I share the obituaries and my condolences for members of my family tree who passed recently.  When you get to be a certain age, you begin to read the obituaries every day.  As the days go by, you read about more and more of your friends and family members who have died.  You compare their age to your own and get a jolt. "That could have been me."

 

  For genealogists, checking obituaries and visiting cemeteries is as normal as breathing. I learn so much from an obituary, i.e., maiden names, parents' names; children's' and grandchildren's' names, funeral and burial locations, sometimes even a cause of death.  I want to learn these things not for any purpose but to put it on the family tree for future generations to see and learn about the family that went before them. I admit, most of these relatives I have never met, but I think it is important to share that they were here on this Earth, and they were important.

  So I am signed up with at least three funerals homes from Swainsboro, Vidalia, and Wrightsville to get daily notices of obituaries sent to my email.  Every day, I peruse them and with the help of the family tree, figure out who is related to me and add any new information to the tree.    Some weeks there are several, and some weeks there are none.  This week, there was one.        

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 Official Obituary of

Barber Sawyer Claxton

August 27, 1955 ~ March 21, 2025 (age 69)

Mrs. Barber Sawyer Claxton, 69, of Kite, passed away Friday, March 21, 2025, at her residence following an extended illness. She was born August 27, 1955, in Albany to Donald Jack Sawyer, Sr. and Sara Barber Sawyer. She is preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her husband, Jimmy Claxton of Kite; son, Jimmy Claxton, Jr. (Kim) of Danville; daughters, Karen Claxton Barry (Chris) of Eleville, Sandy Claxton Clayton (Anthony) of Cordele; brother, Donald Sawyer, Jr. of Atlanta; sister, Lynne Sawyer Travis (David) of Atlanta; grandchildren, Ben Barry, Will Barry, Brooke Glover, Cade Glover; great-grandson, Zayne Glover; nieces, Stephanie Patterson (Robert), Claire Kahn (Yaamer); great niece, Lucy Patterson; special people, Gina Copeland (Nate), Maibree, Mack, Brianna Heuett (Noah Way), Aria, Michael, Megan Wood, Alison, McKenzie, Skylar, Michael, Jr.

Services will be planned for a later date. 

Chapman Funeral Home of Swainsboro is in charge of the arrangements for Mrs. Barber Sawyer Claxton, 69, of Kite.

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  Barb was the wife of my 2nd cousin, Jimmy Claxton. Our common ancestors are James Madison "Jim" Tapley (1847-1912) and Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page (1844-1924). 

  Please join me in offering condolences to Barb's family and holding them in the light.