Jo Nell Cleveland Long, 81, passed peacefully with family by her side on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. A thirty-one year resident of Callahan, Florida she was born in Lavonia, Georgia, and went from being a sharecropper’s daughter to traveling the world as a military wife and mother. As a child in Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia she had the honor of meeting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on three different occasions. She never realized she would later meet many other dignitaries in her life, which included at the time, Vice President Richard Nixon in Warsaw, Poland. She met and married Beauford A. Long, her loving husband of fifty-five years, in Norfolk, Virginia on November 15, 1950. She was a loving, compassionate, giving and forgiving lady who made her friends, family and her family her all. She leaves memories to be cherished by her four daughters, Deanna, Joanna, Anita and Mariella, their husbands, eight grandchildren, their spouses, three great-grandchildren, one sister, loving relatives and many long-standing friends. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Lighthouse Baptist Church, 9777 Ford Road, Bryceville, Florida 32009. Flowers welcomed or donations in her name may be made to Haven Hospice, 4200 NW 90th Blvd. Gainesville, Florida 32606 of your local Humane Society. Arrangements by HOLLY HILL FUNERAL HOME, 3601 Old Jennings Rd. Middleburg, FL. Post tributes at www.hollyhillfunerals.com.
