Mr. Roger Hutchison, age 79, of Ailey, died Friday, February 23, 2024, at his home, following an extended illness.  He was a native of the Boilingbroke Community in Monroe County, Georgia, and later moved to Macon where he graduated from Lanier High School in 1963.  He was a U.S. Army veteran, and he moved to Vidalia in 1971.  He was a millwright from 1971 until 1988 when he went to work with Georgia Power at Edwin I. Hatch Plant, retiring in 2007.  He helped build Plant Hatch from the ground up.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Vidalia and the Pairs and Spares Sunday School Class.  He was a member of Vidalia Masonic Lodge #330 and had been a Mason for more than fifty years.  He enjoyed fishing and gifted in carvings.  He is preceded in death by his parents, J.J. Hutchison and Emma Lee Skinner Hutchison; a brother, Roy Hutchison, and an infant brother, Robert Hutchison.

His family includes his wife of fifty-seven years, Kaye Hutchison of Ailey; two sons, Mark Hutchison and wife Connie of Baxley, and Kevin Hutchison and wife Barbara of Ailey;  three grandchildren, Katie Hutchison of Baxley, and Michaela Hutchison and Kevin Hutchison II of Ailey; and four great-grandchildren.

The funeral service will be Monday, February 26th, at 12:00 noon in the chapel of Ronald V. Hall Funeral Home with Reverend Don Moye and Reverend Tracy Todd officiating.  Burial will follow at Lakeview Memorial Gardens with Masonic Rites.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday morning from 10:30 until just prior to the service.

Flowers will accepted, or memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church Children’s Ministry, PO Box 631, Vidalia, GA 30475 or The Masonic Home of Georgia, 1417 Nottingham Drive, Macon, GA 31211 or the Community Hospice Foundation, PO Box 2277, Vidalia, GA 30475.

Ronald V. Hall Funeral Home of Vidalia is in charge of arrangements.    

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