Laura Lynn Bacon Tootle

Laura Lynn Bacon Tootle, age 71, passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah.  She was born on June 12, 1951, the eighth of nine children, to the late James Alvin (A.B.) and Rebecca Martin Lynn in Claxton.  Her formative years were spent in and around Collins.  Ultimately, she would go on to graduate from Reidsville High School, class of 1969.  While still attending high school Laura met the love of her life, Clarence (Jr.) Tootle and the pair would be wed on August 11, 1968.  In 1979, they would move to Alabama to raise their family.  The blissful couple would make a wonderful life together for many years until the untimely death of Jr.  Over the years, through much adversity, Laura would always strive to care for her family.  For a number of years, she would work for Mon-Cre Telephone in Alabama and after moving back to Collins in 1990, she would finish her career at Stephens Truck Center.  Growing up in rural Tattnall County, some of Laura’s favorite hobbies were hunting and fishing.  Her introduction to hunting was with her brother, Wayne, when the two would trapse through the woods with sling shots hunting squirrel and rabbit.  Over the years, Laura became quite an accomplished hunter; in one trip she bagged a 12-point, an 8-point, and wounded a 6-point deer.  Her adept shooting skills may have been enhanced participating in the many turkey shoots she would participate in.  Although she was avid about the great outdoors, she knew her way around the kitchen.  One of her favorite dishes were speckled butter bean and dumplings; anytime this dish was prepared she was known to call on a favorite nephew (no one knew who it was!), but Ricky would often be in attendance for the meal.  Laura was a loving wife, mother, sister, and friend to all she met and will be dearly missed.  She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two sisters, Margaret Hutcheson, and Annette Knowles; a brother, Leonard Allen Lynn.

Left to cherish a lifetime of memories is her children Dawn (Jamie) Adams of Goshen AL, Melissa (Shannon) Sapp of Claxton, and Tracy Tootle of Collins; ten grandchildren; six great grandchildren; three sisters, Bonnell Reese of Collins, Bessie Moore of Collins, and Linda McDilda of Lyons; two brothers, Charles Lynn of Augusta, and Wayne Lynn of Collins; numerous nieces, nephews, extended relatives, and friends made along life’s journey also survive.

Visitation will be held on Monday, February 20, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the chapel of Low Country Cremation & Burial.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday, February 20, 2023 beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the chapel of Low Country Cremation & Burial with Bro. Lonnie Hutcheson officiating.

Honorary pallbearers will be Gerald Reese, Steve Reese, and Ricky Andrews.

Interment will be held on Friday, February 24, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. at Community Baptist Church Cemetery in Grady AL in the family plot.

Low Country Cremation & Burial is serving the Bacon-Tootle family.