Many of us remember Mr. Griffis, jovially greeting us at Griffis Fish Camp on the Suwannee River just downstream from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and showing us his museum. He will be missed.

According to Roundtree Funeral Home, Inc.

Edwin Alphin Griffis

June 21, 1930 — October 27, 2024

Edwin Alphin Griffis, 94, of Fargo passed away Sunday morning, October 27, 2024 at his residence after an extended illness. He was born in Clinch County to the late Elemuel “Lem” and Alice Howell Griffis. Mr. Griffis lived in Clinch County for most of his life where he retired from the Clinch County Board of Education as the Principal of Fargo Elementary School. He was a member of the Clinch County Retired Teacher’s Association, Fargo Senior Citizens. Mr. Griffis was a member of the Fargo United Methodist Church where he taught Sunday School for thirty-five years. He always enjoyed talking with people staying at Griffis Campground in Fargo.

Alphin Griffis at the Griffis Camp office, near Fargo, Georgia. The office is home to dozens of well-prepared mounts of animals native to the swamp (as a young man, Griffis taught himself the craft of taxidermy). [Dirk Stevenson/for Savannah Morning News
Dirk J. Stevenson, SavannahNow, August 16, 2019, Learning from a lifelong swamper.

Along with his parents he was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Grace Barineau Griffis; grandson, Kyle Ware; two sisters, Maldine Barnhill and Mary Alice Griffis; one brother, Arden Griffis.

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