IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Samuel Alonzo
Duzan
June 28, 1923 – August 12, 2011
Mr. Samuel Alonzo Duzan, age 88, of Felton passed away Friday, August 12, 2011. He was known as "Uncle Sam" to his truck driving friends and collegues, Sam to his family and friends in the south and as Lonnie to many of his family and friends in the north. He was the tenth of eleven children born to Joseph Oliver Duzan and Elizabeth Ann Allen. He was born in Plainville, Indiana and lived most of his early years on the banks of the White River. He often told stories that centered around his childhood "on the river bottom" and later on "out on the sands", life on a working farm, the shenanigans of his siblings or his children. He often said that the only present he ever wanted was for his family to get together. In the early sixties, he migrated to Georgia to drive for the Terminal Transport trucking company, later renamed American Freight. He retired to his Georgia farm where his days were filled with tinkering in his garage or mowing the pastures on the John Deere that he got from his kids for his 80th birthday. He was a member of the Plainville Masonic Lodge #678 F.&A.M. of Plainville, Indiana for 66 years. He married three times and produced six children: Bill Max, Lonnie Joe, Sameria "Sam" Gay, Michael Kem, Nola Faye and Russell Kevin. He has four grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He has well over one hundred nieces and nephews of the plain, great and great-great variety. Preceding in death are his parents: Joseph Oliver and Elizabeth Ann; his ten siblings: Joseph Ora, Queenie Angeline, Hugh Franklin, Mary Olive, Vivian Lucile, Robert William, Charles Mack, Shirley Margaret, Betty Lou and John Andrew; three spouses: Nadean Overton, Nola Grace Eubank and Ida Belle Hopson Shep; and his daughter: Sameria Gay Avery. Surviving him in life are his children: Billy Max Duzan and his wife Janice M. Duzan of Jonesboro, Lonnie Joe Duzan and his wife Shirley O. Duzan of Hampton, Michael Kem Duzan and his wife Connie Duzan of Winchester, TN, Nola Faye Duzan of Douglasville and Russell Kevin Duzan of Bruceville, IN; and his grandchildren, Shannon Duzan Fowler, Dana Marie Duzan, Steven David Avery. Misty Disheroon Maxwell, Stacy Disheroon and Sarah Duzan. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, August 15, 2011 at 1:00 P.M. from Hutcheson''s Memorial Chapel with Reverend Rodney Wilburn officiating. Interment will follow in Centre Baptist Church Cemetery with Masonic Graveside Rites. Serving as pallbearers will be members of the Buchanan Masonic Lodge #78 F. & A.M. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday evening from 6:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. Hutcheson''s Memorial Chapel & Crematory of Buchanan is in charge of the arrangements.
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