The funeral services for the late Mr. Eric Rutland, who departed this life on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, will be held on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. from the Church Without Walls Ministries in Sylvester, Georgia, with the Apostle Bernard Johnson, Presiding, and the Reverend Terrell Carter, delivering the Eulogy. Burial will follow in the Shepard Memorial Garden Cemetery in Sylvester, Georgia. Services may be viewed Facebook Live from the "Shipps Funeral Home" Facebook page or by clicking the Video Stream link on this site Home Page.

Mr. Eric Rutland was born on May 20, 1968 in Sylvester, Georgia to the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee, Jr. and Geraldine Wallace Rutland. Eric was educated in the Worth County Public School System and graduated from Worth County High School in 1987. After graduation from high school, Eric enlisted in the United States Navy. After serving in the Navy, Eric returned home and worked at the Target Distribution Center in Tifton, Georgia. Eric was united in Holy Matrimony to Kimberly Dennison. This union was blessed with a daughter and four sons. Our loved one heard the Master’s call to come and take his rest on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia. His parents, grandparents, Perry, Sr. and Edna Wallace, uncles, Carl Perry Wallace, Clarence Wallace, Perry Wallace, Jr., Royce C. Wallace, aunt, Flossie Wade, sister-in-law, Jeanette Williams-Rutland, have all preceded him in death. Eric leaves to cherish his memories his wife, Kimberly Dennison-Rutland; his children, Autumn Rutland, Ezriel Rutland, Ezekiel Rutland, Eidan Rutland, Elias Rutland; his siblings, Sharon Wallace of Albany, Georgia, Janice Cheevers of Valdosta, Georgia, Charles Rutland (Angela), Donnell Rutland (Tracy), both of Sylvester, Georgia, Barbara Robinson( Jesse, Jr.) of Auburn, Alabama, Larry Gaines of Florida, Barbara Ann Rutland (Vernon) ; mother- and father-in-law, Bishop C.L. and Claudette Dennison, brother-in-law, Kevin Dennison (Simone); sister-in-law, Krystal Dennison; aunts, Annie Bell Collier, Mollie Wallace, Juanita Carroll, Lula Bell Fowler; nieces, Santana Branch, Celia Cheevers, Tamelia Wallace-Moore(David), Shonytaye Rutland, Tanzania Best-Hamilton, Alana Dennison, Anaya Dennison; nephews, Dr. Dennis L. Davis, Jesse O. Robinson III, Zachary Gibson, Corey McKeller, Demarcus Ingram, Demario Cheevers, Kentravis Rutland, Kalil Dennison, Kodie Dennison; special cousins, Greg Wallace, Rev. E. Terrell Carter, Felton Carter; and a host of other relatives and friends.