J.W. Morgan
Funeral services for J.W. Jim Morgan, 79, are planned for Wednesday, August 30 at 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church with burial in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville. The Revs. Jerry Bradley and Jeff Wilder will officiate. He died August 28.
Mr. Morgan was born in Columbus to the late J. Nathan Morgan and Grace Burrell Wilson Morgan. He spent most of his life in Covington and established a law practice in Milledgeville in 1982.
Mr. Morgan graduated from Georgia Military College and the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University.
In addition to serving in the U.S. Navy, he has been a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and investigator for the Georgia Underwriters Association, Juvenile Court Judge for Newton and Rockdale Counties, District Attorney for Newton and Walton Counties, and a practicing attorney for 54 years in Covington and Milledgeville. He had recently retired as city attorney for Milledgeville.
He had served as past president of Golden Fleece Masonic Lodge in Covington, and the Milledgeville Rotary Club. He was a brother of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, former member of the Covington Elks Club Lodge, the Georgia General Assembly House of Representatives, the former attorney for Exchange Bank of which he was on the Board of Directors.
He was preceded in death by one brother, J. Nathan Morgan, Jr., and one sister, Betty Lloyd.
Survivors include his wife, Brenda W. Morgan of Milledgeville; sons, James Michael Morgan of Apopka, Fla., Scott Tolleson of Oxford, and Monte Tolleson of Gray; daughters Cynthia Mahan of Cornelia, Judy Nelson of Monticello, Virginia Lee Saxton of Snellville, and Jaime Ruth Morgan of Milledgeville; 10 grandchildren; one great grandchild; sister, Mickey Burrus of Milledgeville; one sister-in-law; and a number of nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to the Georgia Cancer Center of Milledgeville or Heartland Hospice.
Williams Funeral Home & Crematory of Milledgeville is in charge of arrangements.