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A color coordinated Sunday afternoon in South Georgia, Brogdon style

Until her death a few weeks shy of 101, Sarah Brogdon was a feisty, kind-hearted homemaker who served dinner for a half dozen farmhands specializing in poultry and row crop production in Alapaha, Georgia. She spent her 95th birthday on Sept. 29, 2016, with Dixie the bulldog, Missy the snow white cat, chrysanthemums, friends, and family. In the accompanying photo submitted to the local Berrien Press newspaper, from left to right are Ms. Brogdon, niece Lori Tyler Fillyaw, eldest grandson William Brogdon, only child Arnold Brogdon, his wife Janie Tucker Brogdon, and Lori’s kids, 11-year-old Sarah and nine-year-old Lucas. Photography by Jeremy Roberts

Sarah Railey Brogdon of Alapaha, Georgia, spent her 95th birthday with friends, family, Dixie the bulldog, Missy the snow white cat, and four surprise chrysanthemums. Still cooking for six or more farmhands — dinner preparations begin before 7:30 each morning — the feisty, kind-hearted homemaker and late husband Owell were poultry production innovators, entering the industry in 1967 and never looking back. After eating a delicious helping of ice cream cake from Dairy Queen, Ms. Sarah gathered chicken eggs and oversaw the pruning of some old-timey English dogwoods in her front yard [yours truly has never sweated so profusely on a birthday]. Next up on her to-do list is sewing a patch of mustard and turnips. Ms. Sarah has one sister still living, Mamie Gaskins, while youngest grandson Winston Brogdon was busy digging peanuts when this moment was captured three days prior to her monumental birthday [Winston’s wife is Lori Spikes, and they have a cute little farmer-in-the-making named Hudson and two daughters — Henslee and Heidi].

Oh no, you’re not about to take a slice of this delicious walnut cake! Lori Tyler Fillyaw playfully kids cousin William Brogdon with a scary butcher knife in hand. Full disclosure: this writer urged her to brandish that knife in a nod to Norman “Pyscho” Bates. Photography by Jeremy Roberts
Sarah Fillyaw, a natural born egg picker should she decide to pursue poultry production, learns the value of hard work in one of the Brogdon family chicken houses. Photography by Jeremy Roberts
In a scene reminiscent of a Norman Rockwell family home portrait, William Brogdon browses the Sunday edition of the Tifton Gazette while Dixie the Georgia bulldog tries to capture his attention to little avail. Photography by Jeremy Roberts
Janie Tucker Brogdon, mom-in-law Sarah Brogdon, and Sarah’s niece Lori Tyler Fillyaw survey a job well done on a late Sunday afternoon during the first official week of fall. Photography by Jeremy Roberts
Lucas Fillyaw, Sarah Railey Brogdon, Lori Tyler Fillyaw, and Sarah Fillyaw are definitely color coordinated on Sunday, September 25, 2016. Lori’s grandma was the late Allie Railey Mixon, Sarah’s younger sister. The old-timey English dogwoods behind the quartet were significantly renovated three days later. Photography by Jeremy Roberts

© Jeremy Roberts, 2016. All rights reserved. To touch base, email [email protected] and mention which story led you my way. I appreciate it sincerely.

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