Obituaries

Jul 6, 2013

Mrs. Claudine Effieann Holmes Hughes, age 87 of McCaysville went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, July 6, 2013 at the Gilmer County Nursing Home in Ellijay. Mrs. Hughes was born February 7, 1926 in Pickens County, GA to the late Floyd Holmes and the late Estelle Grizzle Holmes. A member of the Fairview Baptist Church,...

Jul 4, 2013

Mrs. Thelma Juanita Copeland, age 77 of Ellijay, passed away Thursday, July 4, 2013 at her home. Mrs.Copeland was born September 19, 1935 in Point Pleasant, WV to Worthy and Thelma Nibert. Survivors include loving husband Fred Copeland, one sister, Phyllis Stephens, three adopted daughters, and 35 grandchildren.A private family service was held Friday, July 5, 2013 at the Finch-Cochran...

Jul 3, 2013

Mr. Wayne Charles Cornwell, age 78 of Murphy, passed away July 3, 2013 at Murphy Medical Center. Mr. Cornwell was born July 21, 1934 in Clay Co., NC to the late Sam Cornwell and the late Julia Green Cornwell. A member & Deacon at Little Glade Baptist Church and the River Valley Baptist Church, he was preceded in death by...

Jul 2, 2013

Jerome (Jerry) Merrill Crockett, 63, Newnan, Georgia, passed away on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. He was the fourth child of Durwood and Mary Crockett. Jerry was born in Atlanta and attended East Atlanta High School. He is a resident of Newnan, frequenting his cabin in Blue Ridge, Ga. Jerry retired from the State of Georgia after serving 34 years, working...

Jul 2, 2013

Mrs. Lois Mongold Barr, age 107, of Blairsville passed away Tuesday, July 2, 2013. The daughter of William Bry Mongold and Mary Bynum Mongold was born at Mountain Rest, SC on June 29, 1906. She was educated in Georgia Public Schools and graduated from Piedmont College in the Class of 1926. After teaching for several years, she was married to...

Jul 2, 2013

Shelby Joyce Prince was born in Blairsville, GA on March 1, 1941 to Reba Tanner Prince of Union County, GA and James Earl Prince of Fannin County, GA. After the death of her father in WWII, she and her mother moved to Birmingham, AL, where her mother married Charles Burch. She has two sisters, Patricia Musso and Sheryl Linnert. She...

Jul 1, 2013

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville announces funeral services for Mr. John Ervin Jones, age 82, of Blairsville who passed away Monday, July 1, 2013 at his home surrounded by the love of his family.Ervin was born in Blairsville on November 3, 1930 to the late Dewey & Carrie Ballard Jones. He married the love of his life, Joyce Gwendolyn Nichols...

Jul 1, 2013

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville announces funeral services for Mr. Elmer C. Thompson, age 84, of Blairsville who passed away Monday, July 1, 2013, at his home.Elmer was born on December 16, 1928 in Culberson, North Carolina. He spent his childhood there with his parents, Charlie and Dollie Anderson Thompson and four siblings: Blanche, Lois, Fred and James. At the...

Jul 1, 2013

Jun 30, 2013

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Jun 29, 2013

Mr. Thomas Ernest Daves, age 82 of Alpharetta, passed away Saturday, June 29, 2013. Mr. Daves was born June 28, 1931 in Morganton, GA to the late Ernest and Evah Turner Daves. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Alpharetta.Survivors include: wife, Joanne Daves, son, John Daves, daughter, Eugenia Cawley, daughter, Laura (Phong) Truong, daughter, Vanessa (Rhett)...

Jun 29, 2013

Alma E. Little, age 78, of Union County, Georgia, passed away on Saturday, June 29, 2013. Alma was born in the Suches community of Union County, on April 7, 1935 to the late Charlie Abercrombie and the late Callie Harkins Abercrombie. Alma died suddenly on Saturday, June 29, 2013, at Union General Hospital. Alma lived the majority of her life...

Jun 29, 2013

Mrs. Reba Botts, age 70 of Epworth, passed away June 29, 2013 at her home. Mrs. Botts was born January 16, 1943 in Cherokee Co., NC to the late Wade Ware and the late Ollie Wright Ware. A member of Old Jerusalem Baptist Church, she was preceded in death by Father, Wade Ware, Mother, Ollie Wright Ware..Survivors include: Spouse, Robert...

Jun 27, 2013

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville announces funeral services for Daisy Mae Patterson, age 87, of Blairsville who passed away Thursday, June 27, 2013 at her home.You were always welcome in Miss Daisy's home, if you came by she would prepare you a home cooked meal, a cold sweet tea and sit with you in the kitchen to talk. Having grown...

Jun 24, 2013

The Cochran Funeral Home of Hiawassee announces funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta Mangus Brumbaugh, age 72 of Hiawassee who passed away surrounded by the love of her family at her home on Monday, June 24, 2013.Henrietta Mangus Brumbaugh born November 26, 1940 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia to Willliam M. and Thelma Jenkins Mangus.Henrietta was preceded in death by...

Jun 22, 2013

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville announces funeral services for Mrs. Sharon Kay Sackett, age 68, of Blairsville who passed away on Saturday, June 22, 2013.Mrs. Sackett was born in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma on December 19, 1944 to the late James "Jim" Bambeck & Eileen Huffman Bambeck. She was raised in Dover, Ohio in a turn of the century school house.After...

Jun 21, 2013

Jun 20, 2013

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville announces memorial services for Mrs. JoAnne England Weber, age 74, of Doraville, Georgia, formerly of Blairsville who passed away Thursday, June 20, 2013.Mrs. Weber was born in Athens, Georgia on March 27, 1939 to the late Robert & Alma Elkins England. She was the "baby" of all her siblings. Her family moved to Blairsville where...

Jun 19, 2013

Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville funeral services for Helen Marie Rogers, of Blairsville, who passed away on Wednesday evening, June 19, 2013, in St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta.Mrs. Rogers was born September 26, 1924 in Mineral Bluff, Georgia to the late Press Ballew and Jemima (Mima) Magness Ballew. Helen grew up with a large family, but lost her mother at...

Jun 19, 2013

Frazier H. "Steve" Newell, age 80 of Mineral Bluff, passed away June 19, 2013. Mr. Newell was born March 13, 1933 in Rochester, New York, to Robert Newell and Ethel Horton Newell. He graduated from Edison Tech High School in Rochester in 1950 and then enlisted in the US Air Force. He served his country for twenty years, including overseas...