Nashville, GA - Dr. Henry Reed Richbourg, of Nashville, Georgia, beloved husband, father, "D daddy" and physician passed away on October 4, 2025. He was 89 years old.

Born October 31, 1935, in Anderson, South Carolina, Henry grew up in the "Low Country" of South Carolina and graduated in 1953 from St. George High School in Dorchester County. He worked to put himself through college and medical school, earning a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of South Carolina in 1957. Henry spent a year in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian Institute's Entomology Department. In 1962 he graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and remained to complete a year-long fellowship in Internal Medicine. While he was a medical student, Henry met his future wife, Mary Ann Guinn, a nursing student at St. Francis Xavier. Henry and Ann married on November 22, 1962.

Following his fellowship, Dr. Richbourg served as a Captain and flight surgeon in the United States Air Force. He was stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, where two of his three children were born.

Dr. Richbourg began his private practice in St. George, South Carolina where he welcomed his third child. In 1967 the family moved to Nashville, Georgia where he served as a much beloved family physician. Henry didn't limit his practice to patients with two-legs. When Nashville had no local veterinarian, it wasn't uncommon to find patients with fur and four-legs in the Berrien County Hospital Emergency Room. Although Dr. Richbourg initially retired in 2001, his passion for medicine and dedication to his patients led him to return to work from 2003 to 2016 at Tift Regional Medical Center's rural clinics, where he offered compassionate care and support and made a lasting impact on countless lives throughout the communities surrounding Nashville.

While medicine was Henry's primary passion, he found tremendous joy in his leisure time with motorcycles, travel, planes, farming and a lifelong hobby of collecting knives. He was a long-time member of Jackson Moore's Sunday School class at the Nashville First Baptist Church.

Dr. Henry made several trips to Bike Week in Daytona, rode his Harley Davidson Road King, from Nashville to the California coast and back, took an extensive motorcycle ride in Alaska and even celebrated the 100th anniversary of Harley Davidson in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2003 on his Heritage Softail Classic. During those trips he hiked the Grand Canyon, around Linville Gorge, as well as in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. Henry also traveled extensively with his wife and their lifelong friends from Nashville, both in the United States and abroad. His military service fostered a love of flying, including obtaining his private pilot's license and ultimately the ownership of a 1977 Cessna Cardinal RG, which was his pride and joy. On his farm in Nashville, Henry tried his hand at farming - once requesting a 10-pound bag of okra seed from the Nashville Feed and Seed store, to plant in his estimation "two to three rows of crops." His farm also supported a few cows, horses and pigs. In addition, he adopted, fed and fell in love with a wide variety of other animals, including dogs, fish, deer and even a snake he named Cedric.

Dr. Henry was preceded in death by his parents, Helen Lucretia Campbell, a homemaker, and Henry Bruce Richbourg, a South Carolina State Trooper, his sister, Lynda Richbourg Bannister, his brother-in-law, Jerry Kay Bannister, his wife of almost 60 years, Ann Guinn Richbourg, and his son, Michael Elliott Richbourg.

He is survived by his daughter: Mary Helen Davis and her husband G.R, son: Robert Bruce Richbourg and his wife Marian; daughter-in-law: Nicole Jones Richbourg, grandchildren: Gentry Earle O'Steen and her husband Paul, Fletcher Jordan Earle, Guinn Parker Richbourg, Henry Reed Richbourg II, Benjamin Reed Cornelius and Emma Caroline Cornelius; great-grandchildren: Hollis Earle O'Steen, Henry Atkins O'Steen and Easton Brooks Jones; nieces: Jerri Lyn Bannister Donohoo and her husband Dean and Sarah Luann Bannister; great niece: Julia Donohoo.

Dr. Richbourg will be remembered for his dedication to medicine, his adventurous spirit and the love he shared with his family and the Berrien County community. His legacy lives on in the lives he touched, healed and saved, along with the memories he created.

The family would like to give special recognition to the staff of Fellowship Nashville, Georgia Hospice Care, his devoted caregivers Joye Lemmerman, Susie Cooper-West, his grandson and namesake, Henry II and other individuals who supported Doc Richbourg over the past several years.

On Monday, October 13, 2025 the family will receive visitors from 10:00-11:00 AM, with a memorial service following at 11:00 AM at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church (2530 Garner Road, Ray City, GA 31645). A private interment will be held on Tuesday, October 14 at Westview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Nashville First Baptist Church (301 West Washington Avenue, Nashville, GA 31639) or St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church (2530 Garner Road, Ray City, GA 31645).

Lovein Funeral Home, Nashville, GA