Mr. Luther W. Maddox age 75 of Jonesboro, GA passed away Monday, June 27, 2016. Mr. Maddox was elected to a new four year term as Mayor on November 6, 2007 after serving on the Jonesboro City Council for six years. Mayor Maddox was born in Lovejoy Georgia. He started school at Jonesboro Elementary in 1947 and graduated from Jonesboro High School in 1959. After 30 year career with the Ford Motor Company, he retired as a Production Engineer in June 1995. While retired for ½ of a day, he started a consulting company- Q-1 Customer Service, which he ran until the Ford Plant Closed in October of 2006. He then retired again. Mr. Maddox attended and graduated from Clayton State College by attending night classes. While taking advantage of all the educational classes and seminars that Ford offered, and since being elected to the City Council in 1999, he pursued taking numerous classes offered by the Georgia Municipal Association related to City Government functions. Mr. Maddox and his wife are members of the Jonesboro First Baptist Church and the Jonesboro Historical Society. He is also a member of the Jonesboro Masonic Lodge. Mr. Maddox is survived by his wife: Jo Maddox; children: Bill Maddox (Kelley) of Fayetteville, and Dawn Chandler (David) of Fayetteville, GA; grandchildren: Anthony Rice (Keyanna), Jonathan Chandler, Leigh Ann Dickens, Gwendolyn Maddox, Trevor Chandler, Luke Maddox, Meghan Chandler. Funeral Services will be held 2 PM, Thursday, June 30, 2016 in the Chapel of First Baptist Church of Jonesboro with Rev. Irvin Pearre officiating. Burial to follow at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6-8 PM, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at the funeral home and also from 1-2 PM at the church before the service. Ford-Stewart Funeral Home, Inc., Jonesboro/Stockbridge 770-210-2700. www.fordstewartfuneralhome.com