Abuwi Talib Daaliya (Randolph McGill)

Services for Abuwi Talib Daaliya (Randolph McGill), 59, of Evanston, Ill., are at 2 p.m., Oct. 10, 2009, at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 515 Oak St., Thomasville. The Rev. Dennis McGill Jr. will officiate. A private interment will be held at a later date. Honorary pallbearers are members 1967-1968 class of Magnolia High School and band members. Mr. Daaliya died Sept. 28 at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. He was born in Thomasville and a member of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. In August of 1970 in Chicago, Ill., married Meryl Hall. Mr. Daaliya was a water treatment chemist in Highland Park, Ill. Survivors include siblings, the Rev. Dennis M. McGill Jr. (Lula), the Rev. Alexander McGill (Bridgett) all of Thomasville, Dr. Lafils Ann McGill Rivers (Ronnie) of Savannah; sons, Randolph McGill Jr. (Odu) of Dallas, Texas, Adam McGill (Sharee) of Union City; daughter, Brett-Joyce McGill of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; former spouse, Meryl Hall McGill of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; aunts, Florance McGill of Coolidge, Mildred Barns Grady of Jefferson, Ohio, Elizabeth Worthy of Columbus, Louetta Williams of Coolidge, Annie E. Daniels of Moultrie; other family members, Allen and Gail McGill of Houston, Texas, Sylvester and Rebecca McGill of Rialto, Calif., David and Gladys McGill, Melodie McGill of Thomasville, Allen and Cora House of Thomasville, Donie Wayne McGill of Atlanta, Ralph McGill, Nickole McGill Franklin, Norma Jean McGill Winn of Coolidge, John Glenn Jr. of New Jersey, Lawrence Daniels of Moultrie, Freddie Williams, Albert Williams Jr., Carl Williams, Vernell Williams, Zestus Williams, Elijah Williams of Coolidge, Alfred Williams of Atlanta, Sgt. Major Mack Williams of Iraq, Rebecca and Alvin Jones of Thomasville, James Worthy of Dallas, Texas, Vivian S. Worthy Nobles, Lewis Worthy, Gail Worthy of Columbus, Robert Lee and Alberta Burns of Coolidge, Solomon Moore, Prophet. Hazel M. Wilkes of Thomasville, Pam-Shaw Barnes Hobson of Powhatan, Va., Emma C. Drummer, Pauline C. Hartman, Hazel C. Brown of Newark, N.J., Leslie Geraldine Brown of Gainesville, Fla.; and numerous other relatives and friends. — Hatcher-Peoples Funeral Home