Tollie Hurley

Tollie Fay Hurley, prominent Summerville, Ga., businessman and chairman of Southeast First National Bank passed away Saturday, April 26, 2014. Mr. Hurley was born Feb. 21, 1934 in Summerville, to the late Tollie Ross Hurley and Anna Elsberry Hurley. He was a 1953 graduate of Summerville High School where he served as captain of the Summerville High football team that broke a 13-year losing streak to Trion High. Mr. Hurley was in the grocery business of 44 years, owning stores, with his father and brother, in Summerville, Trion and Fort Payne, Ala. He served as chairman and CEO of Hurley Food Inc., served on the board of directors of Dixie Savings Stores Inc. of Chattanooga, a founding board member, in 1967, of First National Bank; also served as chairman of the board of the bank and chairman of the board of Summerville/Trion Bancshares Inc. Mr. Hurley was a past member of Summerville/Trion Rotary Club and the City of Summerville Industrial Development Board. He also served on the board of Bank of Adairsvile Inc., the Peoples Bank of Crawfordville, Ga., Adairsville Bancshares Inc. and was one of three investors who purchased Bank of Lowes in Lowes, Ky. and moved it to Rome, Ga. under the name of Heritage First Bank. Surviving are his wife, of 61 years, Linda Sue Woods Hurley; daughter and son-in-law, Suzanne Hurley Bowman and Timothy E. Bowman; sons and daughter-in-law, Edward F. Hurley, William B. Hurley and Jamie Keeling Hurley; brother and sister-in-law, Benjamin Gene Hurley and Marceline Mobbs Hurley; and 10 grandchildren, Alexandria Dawes Hurley, Katherine Cutler Hurley, Madeline Grace Hurley, William Evan Bowman, Haley Bowman Barbaro, Jennifer Bowman Rogers, Kelsey Bowman Wiggins, Jacob E. Bowman, Kendall Keeling and Kaitlyn Keeling. Visitation will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at Earle Rainwater Funeral Home, in Summerville, at 2 p.m. with the funeral service to follow at 4 p.m. with Dr. Jerry Mahan and Rev. Thurston Garrett officiating; active pallbearers, Edward F. Hurley, William B. Hurley, Timothy E. Bowman, William Evan Bowman, William M. Tutton, Joseph William Cornish and William Nickolas Tutton; honorary pallbearers, Jimmy Barron, Jimmy Woodard, Rex Jackson, Bob Mahan, Jeremy Mahan and Leo Lanier. Interment will follow, for the family, at Summerville Cemetery. Earle Rainwater Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.