Glenda Lanier Sanders

Glenda Lanier Sanders, of Metter, and wife of Jimmy Sanders, passed away Monday, May 27, 2024, at Candler County Hospital.

Glenda was born July 30, 1946 in Cobbtown, Georgia and was a daughter of W. Willis Lanier and Marie Vaughan Lanier Collins.  Glenda was a member of El Bethel Baptist Church.  She was a homemaker and loved taking care of her family.  She raised her children and grandchildren whom she loved dearly.  Glenda cooked for her family on a regular basis and especially enjoyed having the family together for Sunday lunches.  She enjoyed the outdoors and cutting grass and loved her dog, Benji, like one of her own.  In addition to her parents, Glenda was preceded in death by a brother, Vaughan Lanier.

Surviving are her husband, Jimmy R. Sanders; a daughter, Joan Sanders Turner; two sons and daughters-in-law, Jim and Kimmy Sanders and John and Brandi Sanders; grandchildren, Anna Sanders, Bailey Sanders, Adam Sanders, Blake Sanders, Emily Turner, Ansley Turner, Payne Sanders, and Creed Sanders; a brother and sister-in-law, Willis and Tish Lanier; a sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and Van Pease; a sister-in-law, Faye Lanier; her other in-laws, Mary Gay, Jean Sanders, JoAnn Sanders, and Don Rabitsch; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 pm of Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter.

The funeral service will be held 2 o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at El Bethel Baptist Church.

Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Kennedy Funeral Homes, Hooks Chapel, of Metter, is in charge of the arrangements.