Obituaries
Margie Frances Bass Bridges
December 30, 2021
Mrs. Margie Frances Bass Bridges passed away on December 30, 2021 at the Spring Valley-Pruitt Health Nursing Home. Mrs. Bridges is preceded by her husband, W.T. Bridges and her parents, Carlton and Alice Bass. Mrs. Bridges is survived by her sons, Roger Bridges and Wade Bridges; grandchildren, Makenslie Elieen Bridges, Joshua Reed Bridges, and Austin Blake Bridges; her great-grandchildren, Alona...
Marcel Renee Alexander Higgins
December 30, 2021
Marcel Renee Alexander Higgins, 56, of Sugar Run, PA, formerly of Bowman, passed away on Thursday, December 30, 2021, in Sayre, PA. Marcel was born in Atlanta on December 14, 1965, daughter of the late Earl Alexander and Ruth Hyatt Alexander. She was a merchandiser having worked with American Greeting Cards. She enjoyed photography and was a devoted mother and...
Judy Angela Lovell Mcgee
December 29, 2021
Mrs. Judy Angela Lovell McGee, 67, of River Road, Elberton, wife of 41 years to Dwayne Wesley McGee, passed away on Wednesday, December 29, 2021, at her residence following a lengthy battle with hereditary liver failure. Mrs. McGee was born in Wilkes County on March 29, 1954, daughter of the late James Crawford Lovell and Ethel Smith Lovell. She was...
Kenneth Louis Engel, Sr.
December 28, 2021
Mr. Kenneth Louis Engel, Sr., 92 of Griffin Rd. Martin, GA passed away Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at his home. Mr. Engel was born January 16, 1929 in Yonkers, NY to Earl Engel and Mildred Garthwaite Engel. He was a U.S. Army National Guard Veteran and a retired contractor. He is survived by his sons: Kenneth Louis Engel, Jr. of...
Pellie Jean O'Kelley Sanders
December 28, 2021
Mrs. Pellie ‘Jean’ O’Kelley Sanders, 83, of Collier Church Road, Comer, wife of 66 years to retired Oglethorpe County Sheriff William ‘Ray’ Sanders, passed away on Tuesday, December 28, 2021, at her residence. Mrs. Sanders, a lifelong resident of Comer, was a daughter of the late Dock O’Kelley and Ruby Bryant O’Kelley. She was a graduate of Oglethorpe County High...
Mary Frances Starnes Busby
December 27, 2021
Mrs. Mary Frances Starnes Busby, age 72, passed away peacefully Monday, December 27, 2021, at Augusta University Medical Center due to her complications from dementia. She was born January 7, 1949 in Lancaster, SC to the late Doris Lee and Quincy Starnes. Mrs. Busby is survived by her husband of 55 years, John W. Busby; her children, John Busby, and...
Louise Smith Raborn
December 27, 2021
Louise Smith Raborn, 87, of Orchard Drive, widow of Edwin Eugene Raborn, died Monday, December 27, 2021 at her home. Born in Elberton, GA, she was a daughter of the late DeWitt Talmadge Smith, Sr. and Velma Elizabeth Moore Smith Moon. She retired from Park Seed Co. after more than 30 years and was a faithful member of South Greenwood...
Bobby Ray Payton
December 27, 2021
Mr. Bobby Ray Payton, 70, of Lexington Highway, Elberton, husband of Laverne Worley Payton, passed away on Monday, December 27, 2021, at Landmark Hospital in Athens. Born in Elberton on October 4, 1951, Bobby was a son of the late J.B. Payton and Edna Sanders Payton. He was a graduate of Elbert County High School and a machine operator having...
Billy Ray Dye
December 25, 2021
Mr. Billy Ray “Bug Fuzz” Dye, 72, of Calhoun Falls Highway, Elberton, husband of 40 years to Kathy Young Dye, passed away on Saturday, December 25, 2021, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. Billy was born in Elberton on November 4, 1949, son of the late Floyd Seaborn “Punk” Dye, Jr. and Leila Celestia “Mickey” Sheridan Dye. He was of the...
Robbie Dale Ivester Wolfe
December 23, 2021
Ms. Robbie Dale Ivester Wolfe, 59, of Royston, passed away on Thursday, December 23, 2021, at her residence. Robbie was born in Hartwell on September 24, 1962, daughter of Barbara Ann Thomley Ivester and the late Claude Bromer Ivester. She worked a a phlebotomist. Survivors, in addition to her mother Barbara of Dewy Rose, include her son, James Howard “JJ”...
Mary Alice Stone Booth
December 22, 2021
Mrs. Mary Alice Stone Booth, 94, of Spring Circle, Comer, wife of the late Ernest Gipson Booth, Jr., passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, at Comer Health and Rehab. Mrs. Booth was born in Comer on October 14, 1927, daughter of the late James Thomas Stone and Clara Sailors Stone. She was a member of Comer Baptist Church and...
Floy Clara Gilbert Fleming
December 21, 2021
Mrs. Floy Fleming, 93, passed away at St. Mary’s Health Care in Athens, GA on December 21, 2021. Born on June 16,1928 in Forsyth County Georgia, she was the 12th child of the late Elzie and Clara Blackstock Gilbert. Floy married Mr. FrankA. Fleming on February 23, 1946, with whom she celebrated 68 years of marriage. Mrs. Fleming is survived...
Ramona Gail Campbell Lyon
December 20, 2021
Mrs. Ramona ‘Gail’ Campbell Lyon, 78, of Melody Lane, Elberton, Georgia, wife of 55 years to Russell Thomas “Tommy” Lyon, Sr., passed away on Monday, December 20, 2021, at her residence. Gail was born in Greenwood, South Carolina on June 12, 1943, daughter of the late Parker Davis Campbell and Alma Nora Crocker Campbell. She was a 1961 graduate of...
Natalie Saxon Kendrick
December 19, 2021
Ms. Natalie Saxon Kendrick, 36, of Clayton, Georgia, passed away on December 19, 2021. Natalie was born in Elberton, daughter of Marty Thomas Saxon and Sherry Bray Saxon. She is survived by her mother, Sherry Saxon, of Comer; her father, Marty Saxon, of Elberton; and her three children.Natalie also leaves behind her grandmother, Joyce Grimes; siblings: Cory Childers, Canaan Saxon,...
Patricia English Turner
December 19, 2021
Mrs. Patricia June English Turner, 72, of Country Club Dr. Elberton, GA passed away Sunday, December 19, 2021 at St. Mary's Hospital. Mrs. Turner was born January 15, 1949 in Jackson, GA to John English and Kate Cornwall English. She is survived by her son: Jason Isbell, brothers: Willis English, Kenneth English and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death...
Rev. Oliver D. "Willie" Mccurry
December 19, 2021
Rev. Oliver D. ‘Willie’ McCurry, Sr., 67, of Calhoun Falls, SC, husband of Mary Allison McCurry, died Sunday, December 19, 2021, at the Lexington Medical Center. He was born in Abbeville, SC to the late Charles A. McCurry and Loretta Hartsell McCurry. A graduate of Abbeville County Schools, Pastor McCurry was an ordained minister in the Pentecostal Holiness and Congregational...
Norma Jane Williams
December 19, 2021
Ms. Norma Jane Williams, 81, of Brewers Bridge Road, Elberton, went to with be her Lord on Sunday, December 19, 2021, at her daughter’s residence. Ms. Williams was born in Atlanta on December 27, 1939, daughter of the late Norman Williams and Sylvia Ruth “Tommie” Black Smith. She was a homemaker and a seamstress having worked at Elberton Manufacturing Company....
Catherine Denise "Cathi" Smith Mcgarity
December 18, 2021
Mrs. Catherine Denise “Cathi” Smith McGarity, 57, of Stoney Creek Drive, Elberton, wife of 33 years to Thomas Glenn “Tommy” McGarity, III, passed away on Saturday, December 18, 2021, at her residence. Although extremely sudden and very unexpected, Cathi’s death was in the manner in which she would have wanted - peacefully and pain free. Born in Elberton on March...
Betty Margaret Bond Childs
December 18, 2021
Betty Margaret Bond Childs, a native of Elberton, Georgia, passed away on December 18, 2021. Betty was a Christian who served her Savior, Jesus Christ, faithfully her whole life and was a charter member of West End Baptist Church, where she was the Church Secretary for many years and sang in the choir. Betty was the baby of her family...
Marion Lee Almond Scales
December 16, 2021
Mrs. Marion Lee Almond Scales passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, December 16, 2021. She was 90 years young. She was the wife of the late Joseph William “Billy” Scales. John T. and Mattie Thornton were her parents, and after their deaths, she lived with her grandparents, Benjamin and Mollie Thornton. She was later adopted by Caron “Tip” and...
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