Martha White Bailey - SAVANNAH - Martha White Bailey, 88, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, died Friday, October 5, 2007 at her residence at The Marshes on Skidaway Island. She was born in Baxley, Georgia on February 26, 1919 and lived her childhood years in Jesup, Georgia. In 1944, she moved to Savannah, graduated from the Warren A. Candler School of Nursing, and worked at Southern Paperboard as a registered nurse. Mrs. Bailey was a member of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension and the Savannah Yacht Club. She enjoyed reading, traveling, playing bridge, and the time she spent with her family. She was preceded in death by her parents, David and Mattie White and her husband, Raiford T. Bailey. Mrs. Bailey is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Nancy B. and Leo G. Beckmann, Jr., her grandson and his wife, Lee and Dani Beckmann, of Savannah, her granddaughter and her husband, Martha Ann and Wynne Pearson, of Macon, Georgia, her great-grandson, Andrew Beckmann, of Savannah, her sister, Jean Foster, of Charlotte, NC, and several nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held 4:00-6:00 p.m., Sunday, October 7, 2007 at Fox and Weeks, Hodgson Chapel. Services will be held 12:00, noon, Monday, October 8, 2007 at Fox and Weeks, Hodgson Chapel with burial at the Greenwich Section of Bonaventure Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401or Hospice Savannah, P.O. Box 13190, Savannah, Georgia, 31416. Savannah Morning News October 7, 2007 Please sign our Obituary Guest Book at www.savannahnow.com