Gerald Wayne Kirby

Gerald Wayne Kirby, 30, of Buena Vista, Georgia, died Saturday, July 26, 2014, at Phoebe-Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.

A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 1, 2014, at 3:30PM in the Chapel of Watson-Tante Funeral Home. Reverend Raymond Smith will officiate the service.

Gerald was born August 31, 1983, in Columbus, Georgia, to Jerry Wayne Kirby and Tina Hendon Kirby. He loved life and was kind hearted. He loved fishing and had been employed in landscaping. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Francis Hendon and Samuel E. Hendon, by a paternal grandfather, James Kirby and by great-grandparents Louis Guice Lyles and Margaret Eva Lyles.

He is survived by his mother, Tina Kirby of Buena Vista, GA; his father, Jerry and Cindy Kirby of Bracey, VA; by his grandmother Macie Storey; by a sister, Robin and Michael Hamby of Phenix City, AL; by a niece, Selah Hamby, and by a step-brother, C. J. Rice of Susanville, CA. Numerous Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and other family also survive.

Watson-Tante Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.