Joe Underwood

Alturas- Joe Underwoood, age 90, of Alturas, died Sunday evening February 5, 2012 at his home from complications of Leukemia. Mr. Underwood was the youngest of nine children born into the tight knit farming family of Leslie and Missie Underwood in Coffee County Georgia. Throughout his life he enjoyed entertaining family and friends with stories of growing up with his brothers and sisters. In 1943 Mr. Underwood moved to Alturas to work with his brother in the citrus business. That was interupted by WWII in which he served a year in the US Army in the Pacific on Saipan. He returned to Alturas and worked until selling his grove caretaking business in 1985 and started the first of many hobbies. He is survived by his wife Martha; three children: Chris Bernstein, Dick Murphy and Sue Carter; four grandchildren: Melanie, Susan, Carrie and Justin; four great grandchildren and many loving nieces and nephews. The family will recieve friends Wednesday February 8, 2012 from 6-8 pm at Whidden-McLean Funeral Home in Bartow. Funeral services will follow Thursday at 10.00 am at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Bartow Wildwood Cemetery with military honors.