Local Obits for Sun. Apr 19th, 2009
Forsyth
Helen Carroll Byler, 72, of Cumming, GA passed away on April 19, 2009 at Northside Hospital Forsyth. A native of Atlanta, she was the daughter of the late Paul T. and Nellie Bush ...
Mr. William H. von Meyer, age 83, of Cumming passed away Sunday, April 19, 2009. He was V.P. of Operations of Coca Cola International and Plant Manager of Hamm's Brewery in t ...
Gwinnett
Colonel Wallace Evans Jarboe, age 88 of Suwanee passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009. A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. at First Redeemer Church ...
Habersham
Phil Brock, age 52, of Mt. Airy, GA, died Sunday, April 19, 2009 at Lanier Park Hospital.Mr. Brock was born on April 28, 1956 in Banks County, Georgia to the late Alvin and Ila Mae ...
Hall
Alexander Funeral Home of Cleveland, GA announces the death of Mr. Joseph Neal Timms, 88 of Clermont. Services will be Thursday, April 23, 2009 in the Chapel of Lord & Stephen ...
Funeral services will be held 2:00 pm Wednesday April 22, 2009 at Montgomery Memorial Baptist Church for Rev. Fulton Boswell, 89, of Gainesville. Rev. Jeff Thompson, Rev. Billy E ...
White
Mr. Calvin Garrett age 70 of Cleveland passed away Sunday April 19, 2009 at Northeast Ga Medical Center following an extended illness. Mr. Garrett was born in Towns County the son ...
Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty, has died
1st black Georgia senator elected post-Reconstruction dies
A former Georgia state senator who was the first black lawmaker elected to the upper chamber after Reconstruction has died
'Maude' co-star, character actor Bill Macy dies at 97
Bill Macy, foil to Bea Arthur's feminist wife in '70s sitcom 'Maude,' dies at 97
Retired, longtime Gainesville school official dies
A retired, longtime Gainesville school official, former Asst. Supt. Otis Ellenberg, has died.
Rep. Elijah Cummings was a sharecropper's son, took on Trump
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings has died to complications from longstanding health challenges, his office said. He was 68.
Ginger Baker, Cream's volatile drummer, dies at 80
Ginger Baker, Cream's volatile and propulsive drummer, dies at 80
Diahann Carroll, Oscar-nominated, pioneering actress, dies
Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as "Julia," has died at 84.
Ex-French President Chirac, who stood up to US, dies at 86
Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France's role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at age 86
