Hinson Mosley

George Hinson Mosley was born on 21 October 1932 in Hazlehurst, Georgia, the youngest of five children of Nan Lou Mosley and Robert Mosley. He grew up in Jeff Davis County farm country and finished school in Screven.

As a young man he worked three years for the Atlantic Coast Railroad, then enlisted in the United States Air Force and served four years during the Korean War. Returning to southeast Georgia, he joined Rayonier and began the long industrial career that supported his later public life.

At Rayonier Mosley worked as an instrument technician for thirty-seven years, completing night courses at Waycross College and Foxboro Instrumentation School while also running the family farm. He retired from the mill in 1994.

In 1992 he won election to the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat, campaigning as "one of you." After Republicans gained control of state government in 2002 he switched parties. Over fourteen years he served chiefly on Appropriations, chairing Game, Fish and Parks, and on Transportation as vice-chairman. Coverage in Wayne and Pierce counties credited him with advancing four-lane work on U.S. Highways 84 and 301 and with helping Long County on roads and community facilities.

After leaving the legislature he was elected in 2007 to the Satilla Rural Electric Membership Corporation board of directors and served as vice-chairman until retirement from that role.

Mosley was an active member of Odum Baptist Church, a charter member of the Young Farmers, a supervisory-committee member of the Altamaha Federal Credit Union, and a long-time member of Local 787 and Screven Masonic Lodge 368, which awarded him a fifty-year apron.

He was married for fifty-one years to Linda Lawson Mosley. They raised four children: Kim (Mel) Wages, Andy (Starla) Mosley, Sharon (Harold) Hilton and Darrell (Venita) Mosley. He was predeceased by brothers Osteen, J.E., Conrad and Wayne Mosley and sisters Dot Scott Leggett and Delaine Jones. Survivors also include brother R.N. Mosley, sister Lee Mosley Roberts, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Hinson Mosley died on Tuesday, 1 September 2026, in Jesup, Georgia, at the age of 93. Rinehart and Sons Funeral Home of Jesup published the family obituary.

Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 3 September 2026, at Calvary Baptist Church in Jesup, with the Rev. Vann Dempsey, Chaplain Phil Bunce and the Rev. Kipp Manning officiating. Interment followed in Screven City Cemetery with Masonic rites. The family suggested memorial gifts to Hospice of South Georgia or Odum Baptist Church.

Mosley is remembered in southeast Georgia as a mill worker and farmer who carried constituent service into the Capitol without losing the plain speech of home. Local papers called him "the people's representative" and tied much of Wayne County's four-lane highway progress on Highways 84 and 301 to his Transportation work.

His later service on the Satilla REMC board extended that habit of practical public work past elective office. Wikipedia and regional obituaries place him among Georgia House members of the 1990s and 2000s who bridged rural industry and state appropriations.