Mrs. Vera Frances Laye, age 88 of Blairsville, GA, passed away Sunday, January 27, 2008 at Union General Hospital. Mrs. Laye was born Thursday, May 1, 1919 in Calhoun County, Alabama to the late David Thompson and the late Janie Cochran Thompson. She was a member of Damascus Baptist Church and was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur Winkler.
Survivors include: daughter, Nancy R. Kimball of Bethel Maine; brother, Clyde Cecil Thompson of Buloxi, MS; grandson, Daniel Carlisle, Jr. of Blue Ridge, GA; 2 granddaughters, Christina Kimball Goss of Douglasville, GA and Frances Carlisle of Wichita, KS; six great grandchildren and 7 great-great grandchildren also survive.
Graveside services will be held Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 2:00 PM from the Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. David Mashburn officiating.
The Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville, Georgia is in charge of arrangements.