Wallace Stephenson 'Steve' Conley, Sr., 69, formerly of Savannah, Georgia, died Saturday evening, April 26, 2014, at Evans Memorial Hospital in Claxton, Georgia.
Born in Portal, Georgia, he was a son of the late Wallace Conley and the late Willie Louise Brown Conley. Steve was a member of Fellowship Assembly of God. He was a United States Army veteran and a former member of the Georgia Army National Guard. Steve worked with Derst Baking Company and later with Kroger. He was a volunteer for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and enjoyed dressing as Santa Claus for area nursing home residents.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Frances Newton, and a brother, Nolan Conley.
Surviving are two daughters, Elizabeth Lynn Hodge of Rockingham, North Carolina, and Charity Anne Stewart and her husband, Randall, of Sumter, South Carolina; two sons, Theodore 'Ted' Conley of Madisonville, Kentucky, and Wallace 'Wally' Stephenson Conley, Jr. and his wife, Kiyomi, of Tokyo, Japan; twelve grandchildren; four sisters, Jackie Stanfield, Shelby Jean Surgener, Celia Sales and Debra Ray; one brother, The Reverend Richard Allan Conley, and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 o'clock Tuesday at Gamble Funeral Service ' 410 Stephenson Avenue.
The funeral service will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the chapel of Gamble Funeral Service conducted by The Reverend Richard Allan Conley. Interment, with military honors, will be in the Greenwich section of Bonaventure Cemetery.