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Charles Irelan

Interlachen, Florida

February 21, 1925 - January 4, 2021

Charles Irelan Obituary

Charles Hubert Irelan, age 95, of Interlachen, FL, went home to heaven on Monday, January 4, 2021. Born in Atlanta, GA, Charles served honorably in WW II and retired in 1964 from the U.S. Navy following 20 years of faithful service. He also worked as a church custodian at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville Beach and First Baptist Church Tuscawilla in Winter Park, FL cooking, mowing, maintaining and driving the church bus. Charles was a member of American Legion Post #293, the Interlachen Tree Board and Historical Society and First Baptist Church of Interlachen. Charles loved his family, his pets, fishing, playing cards and being home to make sure his grass didn’t grow too high. He was predeceased by his parents, Ernest Irelan and Ada Ledbetter Irelan, brothers, Elbert (Beatrice) Irelan and Bobby Irelan, a sister, Dorothy (L.C.) Allen and his son, Charles (Susan) Edwards. Charles is survived by his wife of 33 years, Susan Slayton Irelan, his daughter, Tracey Lynn Smith, step-daughters, Susan McMillan and Mary (Todd) Viellenave and step-son, Michael McMillan, 11 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren and beloved nieces, nephews and cousins. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be sent to Guiding Eyes for the Blind, 611 Granite Springs Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Memorial services will be at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, January 9, 2021 at the First Baptist Church in Interlachen with Pastor Chris White officiating. Interment will be at a later date at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Orlando with the U.S. Navy rendering military honors. Memories and condolences may be expressed to the family at Charles’s Book of Memories page at www.johnsonoverturffunerals.com. Arrangements are entrusted to Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Interlachen.

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