PATRICIA "PAT" HALTOM BOHLER, 89, of
Garden City, GA, passed away on Sept. 17, 2022,
at her daughter's residence.
She was born in Strawn, TX to the late William
Everett Haltom & the late Lillian Opal Johnson
Haltom. She attended Ranger High School in the
Class of 1951 at Ranger, TX. Pat then attended
Texas Tech & then completed her Education degree
at Armstrong State College. She received her
Masters and Teachers Specialist degrees from
Georgia Southern University. Pat retired from
the Savannah Chatham County Public School System
where she taught elementary, Title 1 Reading &
adult education classes.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
death by her husband of 51 years: Bobby Gordon
Bohler; brother, Dowell Hartsfield (RHS-1967),
& her infant granddaughter, Courtney Elizabeth
Alford.
Pat was a faithful member of Garden City UMC for
57 years where she taught Sunday School, served
as president of the United Methodist Women, and
on other church committees. She was a member of
the Barrett/Cadle Sunday School Class and Hooks
Circle. She rarely missed attending worship and
church activities. The only birthday gifts she
requested in her later years were for her kids
and grands to be in church with her.
Community activities included girl scout leader,
softball coach, recreation commission, and the
GC housing committee. In addition to her time
with family, she also loved spending time with
her friends at the Garden City Senior Center &
assisted with delivery of Meals-On-Wheels in GC.
She is survived by four daughters and sons-in-law,
Leesa and Greg Hunter, Bendy and Mark Grainger,
Becky and Troy Alford, and Vicki and Ricky Meeks;
11 grandchildren and their spouses, Gordon and
Hannah Hunter, Jesse and Lauren Hunter, Sam and
Kacie Grainger, Luke & Katelyn Grainger, Garrett
& Chrissy Alford, Judd and Bailey Alford, Caroline
and Tim Fortier, Spencer Alford, Olivia and Jesse
Osborne, Benjamin and Mikaela Meeks, Nolan Meeks
and his fiancé Jessica Cooper; 13 great-grand-
children; sisters, Betty Lincoln of Dallas, TX,
Mary Haltom Railston (RHS-1958) of El Paso, TX;
and brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Don Hartsfield
(RHS-1965) & Dorothy of Austin, TX; brothers-in-law
and sister-in-law, Darwin & Joyce Bohler & Charlie
Millican of Statesboro, and many nieces and nephews.