Katie Pearl

Humphrey

Mrs. Katie Pearl Humphrey, most affectionately known as "Ganny", will be remembered as one of the sweetest, most loving, strong, resilient, and giving women to ever live!

Her journey began on September 4, 1928, when she was born to the late Jasper Coggins and Katie Phinazee Coggins in Zebulon, Georgia. She was the 7th of 12 children. She received her early education in the Pike County Public School System.

She accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior at a young age and later joined Mt. Hope Baptist Church in Zebulon, GA where she remained a faithful member until her death.

As a young adult, she moved to Griffin, Ga and worked for many years at Bunn Laundry before changing careers to work at Henry Channing Mill in Atlanta, GA with several of her older sisters. Later, she returned to Griffin to continue her career at Crompton-Highland Mill and Thomaston Mill where she eventually retired.

Katie was known for her "open door" and sweet spirit. Her home was always available to ANYONE who needed a good meal and a place to rest their head – whether they were family or not! She was also the neighborhood "candy lady" and was a grandma to any and everyone who came to her "store".

One of her greatest pleasures was listening to her grandchildren sing because she loved hearing good gospel singing and would lay on her bed listening with her eyes closed and her right foot tapping to the beat of the songs they sang for her.

While Ganny was the name that her grandchildren gave her, she was and always will be "Katie C." to her children. They rarely ever called her "Moma", because "Katie C" was their term of endearment for her and the name that she loved to hear.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her children: Rickey Coggins and Eva Jean Coggins; her siblings: Ida (K.C.) Burnett, Leon Coggins, Daisy Hughes, James Coggins, Annie (B.J.) Shannon, Joe Henry (Emma Rose) Coggins, Sr., Charlie (Lizzie Ruth) Coggins, Mary Lizzie (Willie) Walker, Lucille (Noah) Martin, Ruby Reid, and Viola (Robert) Dorsey; her grandchildren: Joseph Welch, Eva L. Welch, and Derrick J. Peavy; her great, great grandchildren: Destiny K.C. Welch, and Kaycen K. Peavy; and her daughter-in-love Peggy Humphrey.

Katie answered God's call and went to be with Him and her loved ones on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, at 1:35pm at her residence surrounded by her family.

Left to honor her legacy and cherish her memory are her six children: John Humphrey, Sr., Shirley Welch, Brenda (Eddie) Peavy, Samuel (Carolyn) Coggins, Barbara Coggins, and Randolph Coggins; her niece-daughter: Peggy Richards; her twenty-three grandchildren (including the four that she raised Anthony Peavy, Nikita Talley, Deaundra Dorsey, and Joshua Sanders); her sixty great grandchildren; her thirty-four great, great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, from 4:00 Pm - 6:00 PM at Burden's Funeral Home. A Home Going service will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 11:00 AM in the Chapel at Burden's Funeral Home. The body will lie in state one hour prior to the service hour. Interment will follow in Fuller Xhapel Church Cemetery in Zebulon. Pastor Claude Franklin is the Eulogist.