This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Donaldson, Farris, GIbson, Whitehead, Smith, Mauldin, Eccles Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.farris/2697/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dothan Eagle Dothan, AL October 2, 2006 Farris, Bama Bama Gail Donaldson Farris of Samson passed away Saturday, September 30, 2006 at her home in Samson. She was 42. Funeral services will be held at Hayes Funeral Home Chapel today beginning at 3 p.m. with Rev. Nathan Carroll, and Rev. Sam Totten officiating. Burial will follow in the New Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery with Hayes Funeral Home of Elba, Alabama directing. Bama was preceded in death by her father Jack L. Donaldson. The family will be accepting flowers or those whom wish may make memorial contributions in her honor to a church or charity of their choice. Survivors include her husband-Scott Farris of Samson, AL, son-William Scott Gibson and daughter-in-law-Jessica Gibson of Fort Hood, Texas, daughter-Brittany Whitehead, daughter-Christy Marie Farris of Enterprise, mother-Wanda Wynell Donaldson of Elba, sister-Jacqueline Ann Smith and brother-in-law-Jack Smith of Panama City Beach, Fla., sister-Wanda Sue Mauldin and brother-in-law-Chippee Mauldin of Elba, grandson-Ethan Jack Gibson, granddaughter-Hannah Rose Eccles, and granddaughter-Morgan Brooke Eccles all of Fort Hood, Texas. Hayes Funeral Home of Elba, (334) 897-2225, is in charge of arrangements.