Shuan Michael Jeffers, 53, of Callahan, FL, passed away Sunday evening, October 19, 2025, at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, FL, following an extended illness.
Born January 27, 1972, in Waycross, he was the son of Jonathan Craig and Kathryn Vaughn Jeffers. He was a 1990 graduate of Pierce County High School and a 1992 graduate of Okefenokee Technical College with a degree in Forestry.
Through the years, he had lived in Statesboro, Reidsville, Savannah and Blackshear before moving to Callahan earlier this year. He had worked as a plumber, an Ag Inspector with the State of Georgia Department of Agriculture, a maintenance technician with Memorial Hospital in Savannah; and a machinist with CSX Transportation.
He enjoyed attending Journey Church in Blackshear and was your typical South Georgia guy as an avid outdoorsman, master fisherman, enjoyed racing and Georgia football fan.
He also enjoyed spending time with his family and will be remembered as a devoted father, and a loving husband, son, brother, nephew, cousin and friend.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Dick and Doris Jeffers; grandfather, Tommy Vaughn; three aunts, Sandra Hooks, Vicky Lynn Vaughn, and Alice Jeffers and cousin, Eric Vaughn.
Survivors include his wife, Ashley Hart Craig Jeffers, Callahan; three children, Walt Jeffers, Brooklet (who shared the same birthday as his dad and was considered his greatest birthday present ever) and Jordan Craig and Ansley Craig, both of Callahan; parents, Jon and Kathy Jeffers, Blackshear; sister, Stephanie Ebersole (husband Phillip), Blackshear; grandmother, Marlene Tomlinson, Blackshear; his in-laws, David and Tish Hart, Callahan; sister-in-law, Charla Carter (husband Quinton), Jasper, FL; aunts and uncles, Jimmy and Bernadette Vaughn, Blackshear, Keith Jeffers, Waycross, the Rev. Richard and Karen Jeffers, Waycross; nieces and nephews, Caleb Walker, Mooresville, NC, Taylor Dixon (fiancé Michael Dahl), Hoboken, Kameron Ebersole, Waycross and Carlee Warren, Jasper, FL and many friends and other relatives.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, from the chapel of Hart Funeral Home.
Interment will follow in the Blackshear City Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Southeast Cancer Unit, P.O. Box 667, Blackshear, GA 31516.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing online at www.hartfh.com.
Hart Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.