Obituaries

Johnny Edgar Elrod

Johnny Edgar Elrod

Jan 1, 2016

Mr. Johnny Edgar Elrod, age 64 of Morganton, passed away Friday, January 1, 2016 at his home. Johnny was born November 30, 1951 in Cleveland, OH. He attended Boiling Gap Baptist Church and Sunrise Tabernacle. He was preceded in death by his parents, John E. Elrod and Nora Lee Elrod, one brother, Abraham Elrod and one sister, Frances Plush. In...

Attle Ware

Attle Ware

Jan 1, 2016

Mr. Attle Ware, age 79 of Blue Ridge, passed away Friday, January 1, 2016 at Pruett Health Care in Blue Ridge. He was born June 21, 1936 in Mineral Bluff, GA, to the late Homer Ware and the late Bertha Flowers Ware. He was a member of Mount Gilead Baptist church. Mr.Ware retired from Levi Strauss. He loved spending time...

David Jonathan Sedgwick

David Jonathan Sedgwick

Dec 30, 2015

Mr. David Jonathan Sedgwick, passed away Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at his home. He was 88 years old.David was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 19, 1927, to the late David and Margaret Sedgwick. He was a World War II Navy veteran, and a member of First Baptist Church of Blairsville. David worked as a building contractor and carpenter for...

Billy Joe Payne

Billy Joe Payne

Dec 30, 2015

Mr. Billy Joe Payne, age 76 of Mineral Bluff, passed away Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. Mr. Payne was born March 14, 1939 in Mineral Bluff, GA to the late Howard Homer Payne and Joyce A. Arp Payne. He was a member of Hot House Baptist Church and had retired from Fannin County Road Department. He enjoyed...

Ricky Lee Stewart

Ricky Lee Stewart

Dec 29, 2015

Mr. Ricky Lee Stewart, age 57 of Morganton, passed away Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at the Union General Hospital in Blairsville, GA. Ricky was born June 27, 1958 in West Virginia to the late Jack Stewart and the late Shirley Simmons Stewart. A member of the Morganton Baptist Church, Ricky enjoyed fishing and wood working in his spare time. He...

Effie Free

Effie Free

Dec 29, 2015

Mrs. Effie Free, age 92 of Morganton, passed away December 29, 2015 . Mrs. Free was born December 30, 1922 in Morganton, GA to the late John Stewart and Myrtle Cochran Stewart. Mrs. Free was Baptist in faith. She was preceded in death by husband, John Free, Brother's, Arvil Stewart, Winston Stewart, Johnny Stewart, Eddie Hyde, Sister's, Edith Stewart, Marie...

Richard Charles Albury

Richard Charles Albury

Dec 27, 2015

Richard Charles "Dick" Albury Sr., long time summer resident of Young Harris, Georgia, passed away on December 27th after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Dick was born and raised in Miami, Florida. After he retired from a family-run steamship agency in 1980, he and his wife of 49 years, Carolyn, developed property in the Truelove Mountain area. They motorhomed and...

Glenda Louise Walker

Glenda Louise Walker

Dec 27, 2015

Glenda Louise Hughes Walker, age 66, of Ducktown, TN passed away Sunday, December 27, 2015 at Copper Basin Medical Center. Mrs.Walker was born January 30, 1949 in Polk County, to the late Harold Lloyd Hughes and Mrs.Carolyn Stiles Hughes. She was a member of Zion Hill Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roger Walker.Survivors include: her...

Mitchell Anthony Ellis

Mitchell Anthony Ellis

Dec 27, 2015

Cochran Funeral Home of Hiawassee announces funeral services for Mr. Mitchell Anthony Ellis, age 38, of Hayesville, NC, who passed away on Sunday, December 27, 2015 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA.Mitchell was born in Atlanta, GA on November 6, 1978, a son of Anthony Edward Ellis and Rhonda Sue Moss Ellis. Mitchell had lived in Hayesville for...

Anita Davenport Olmos

Anita Davenport Olmos

Dec 25, 2015

Mrs. Anita Davenport Olmos, age 62 of Calhoun, formerly of Blairsville, passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 at her home. Mrs. Olmos was born April 12, 1953 in Copperhill, TN to the late Vernon and the Ellav Newman Davenport. Anita was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church. Anita would tell you that her occupation was a Domestic Goddess. She loved...

Corene M. Mashburn

Corene M. Mashburn

Dec 23, 2015

Mrs. Corene M. Mashburn, age 84 of Blue Ridge, passed away December 23, 2015 at North Georgia Medical Center. Mrs. Mashburn was born January 30, 1931 in Gardendale, AL to the late Joe Muncher and Floyd Patterson Muncher. A member Zion Hill Baptist Church, she was preceded in death by both of her parents.Survivors include: daughter, Linda (Roger) Sisson, daugher,...

John Richard "Dick" Lynn

John Richard "Dick" Lynn

Dec 22, 2015

Mr. John Richard Lynn (Dick), age 80 of Murphy, went home to glory on December 22, 2015. Dick was born May 1, 1935 in Ohio to the late John Lynn and the late Lucille Burt Lynn. A member of Antioch Baptist Church, he lived and had a business in Venice, FL for forty years before he and his wife moved...

Wayne Henderson

Wayne Henderson

Dec 22, 2015

Mr.Wayne W. Henderson, age 93 of Blairsville, passed away Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at his home. Mr. Henderson was born July 20, 1922 in Blairsville to the late Arthur and Inkabo Grant Henderson. Wayne was a member and deacon of Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was also a member of Dooley Lodge #367 F&AM. As a young man, Wayne worked with...

Sue Ann Smith

Sue Ann Smith

Dec 22, 2015

Sue Ann Smith, age 74 of Ellijay, passed away December 21, 2015 at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. Sue Ann Smith was born September 3, 1941 in Lubbock, TX to the late Edward Parks Freeman and the late Gladys T. Hensley Freeman. Sue Ann enjoyed sewing, quilting and gardening. Sue Ann was a retired office manager with UPS in Ellijay, and Seven...

James Leon Deal

James Leon Deal

Dec 21, 2015

Mr. James Leon Deal, better known as "Pee Wee" age 66, of Epworth, GA passed away December 21, 2015 at his home. Mr. Deal was born October 17, 1949 in Polk County, TN to the late Mr. Norman B. Deal and the late Mrs. Mary L. Ensley Deal. He was of the Baptist Faith. Pee Wee retired as a lab...

Gladys Lucile Mason

Gladys Lucile Mason

Dec 19, 2015

Mrs. Gladys Lucile Mason, age 97 of Kernersville, NC passed away Friday, December 18, 2015 at home in Kernersville, NC. Mrs. Mason was born April 28, 1918 in Shoal Creek, NC to the late Thomas Ledford and the late Nona Torrence Ledford. A member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Farner, TN she was preceded in death by her...

Soundra Renee McCoy

Soundra Renee McCoy

Dec 18, 2015

Mrs. Soundra Renee McCoy, age 46 of Murphy, passed away Friday evening December 18, 2015 at her home. Soundra was born August 10, 1969 in Blairsville, GA to the late Richard McCoy and Mary Gibby McCoy. A member of the Hayesville Church of God, she was preceded in death by her father and one brother Marvin Lynn McCoy. Soundra worked...

Rebecka Yolanda Miller

Rebecka Yolanda Miller

Dec 11, 2015

Rebecka Yolanda Miller, age 28 of Warne, full time student and devoted, loving wife and mother, died unexpectedly on December 11, 2015 passing gently in her sleep. Rebecka is survived by her husband, Justin L. Miller, son, Tyson Shane Miller, mother, Imelda M. Dennis, step-father, Don Dennis, brothers, Anthony Dennis and Jonathon Taylor, sister, Alyssa Hogan, grandmother, Nelda Garcia, in-laws,...

Tammy Payne Allan

Tammy Payne Allan

Dec 11, 2015

Mrs. Tammy Allan, age 56, of Blairsville, Georgia went home to Heaven on the morning of Friday, December 11, 2015.Tammy was born in Toccoa, Georgia, on May 13, 1959, a daughter of Homer and Louise Payne. Tammy had lived in Blairsville since 2010, after many wonderful years in Ft. Pierce, Florida. She worked for Harbor Federal Bank, which later became...

Leo Hesson

Leo Hesson

Dec 8, 2015

Minister Leo D. Hesson, age 95 of Young Harris, passed away Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at North East Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. Leo was a minister in the Church of Christ and was a charter member of the Hiawassee Church of Christ. He was a WWII Army Veteran having served in the European Theatre and in India. He had...

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