Emma Jarrell Polasik, 71, of Albany passed away Tuesday, Oct. 20 2009 at Palmyra Medical Center. Services honoring the life of Mrs. Polasik were conducted Friday at Hall and Hall Funeral Home. Rev. Wayne Morey officiated and interment will be in Andersonville Cemetery.

Emma Jarrell Polasik was born Jan. 11, 1938 in Sale City to the late Thomas Jarrell and Evelyn Willoo Hasty Jerrell. She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. She was greatly loved by all her family, friends and will be greatly missed. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Polasik was preceded in death by her brother, William Charles Broadbeck.

Survivors include her husband, Casimir Joseph Polasik of Albany; daughters, Velda Ann Schram and her husband, Wade of Orlando, Fla., JoAnn Nanes and her husband, Tony of Loganville, Dianne Simpson of Thomasville and Kim Polasik of Eatonton; sons, Carl Buckhalter of Albany and Myron Buckhalter of North Carolina; brothers, Joseph Broadbeck of Charllotte, N.C., Glynn Broadbeck of Leesburg and Dewey Hatcher of Worth County; and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.