Mrs. Martha Elizabeth "Mattie Beth" Cordle, age 92, of Summerville, GA, died Wednesday, January 27, 2016, at Oakview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Mrs. Cordle was born May 6, 1923, at home on Little Sand Mountain, GA, the youngest daughter of the late Joseph Pinkney Cordle and Avis Victoria Warren Cordle.  She attended school at Armuchee School and Gore School, and worked in the Trion Glove Mill in the 1930's.  She married W. H. "Nub" Cordle in 1941, and they enjoyed 60 years together before Nub's death in 2001.  During those years, she worked as a homemaker, a child care keeper for children of several families, and later for the Chattooga Head Start Day Care in Summerville and in Holland.  She resided at Ellenburg Subdivision for 45 years and enjoyed the friendship of her good neighbors during that time.  She was a member of the Old Armuchee Baptist Church.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Henry "Nub" Cordle; siblings, Ennis and Turner Cordle, Lena Mae Selman, and Addie Lou Pledger.

Mrs. Cordle is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Joel and Alice Cordle; daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Bill Williams; and grandchildren, Asa Cordle and parner, Nina Forestieri, Stephen Williams and partner, Terry Morrow; special niece, Judy Spurgeon.  Several other nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services for Mrs. Cordle will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, January 30, 2016, from the Mason Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Larry Scoggins officiating.  Interment will follow in the Greenhills Memory Gardens.  Active pallbearers will be Terry Bohannan, Lann Cordle, Jerry Lambert, Terrell Perry, Bill Spurgeon, and David Spurgeon.  Honorary pallbearers will be the staff and employees of  Oak View Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Mrs. Cordle will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive friends from 12:00 Noon until the hour of service on Saturday.

The family respectfully requests no food, and in lieu of flowers, friends are asked to make a contribution in her memory to the charity of your choice.

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