Belinda Cartwright

Belinda Gail Cartwright (known in public records and family references as Belinda Cartwright) lived in the Valdosta, Georgia area and was 36 years old at the time of her death on February 22, 2001. Public records and later coverage identify her as a mother from Valdosta whose life and loss remained very present in her family’s memory.

What surfaces in the public record emphasizes Belinda first as a person connected to family and place. Accounts tied to her memory note that photographs of her children and personal items were important to her and to those who mourned her — small, human details that speak to someone whose roles at home mattered most. Local indexes and later reporting show that her death was felt in Lowndes County and Valdosta communities and that her family continued seeking information and answers in the years afterward.

Although much of what appears online about Belinda concerns the events surrounding her death, the enduring impression from accessible sources is of a woman whose life centered on family and whose absence was deeply felt. Local archival resources (newspaper indexes for Valdosta and Lowndes County) and later national reporting connected her name to the 2001 date given above; those same sources show that her family sought clarity and remembrance in the years that followed.

Because published funeral-home notices or a standalone obituary that exactly matches the February 22, 2001 date were not located in the public, freely accessible obituary databases searched, this remembrance focuses on the verified human details available: her name, age, hometown, and the fact that she was a mother from Valdosta whose death left lasting grief. Where the public record is limited, the facts are presented with restraint and respect rather than speculation. Belinda’s life mattered to her family and community; they kept her memory alive in private ways that public records can only partially reflect.

This page intends to honor Belinda Gail Cartwright by centering her as a person — a mother from Valdosta whose life and photographs mattered to those closest to her — and by acknowledging the limit of publicly available records while preserving the dignity of her memory.