Local Obits for Fri. Jun 4th, 2010
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Betty Anne McCoy, 75, of Pensacola, FL died on June 3, 2010 at Embracing Hospice House in Cumming, GA. Born in Youngstown, OH she was the daughter of the late Edward and Marion El ...
Mr. Dustin Lamar Blackburn, age 18, of Cumming, passed away Friday, June 4, 2010. Graveside services were held, Monday, June 7, 2010 4:30 pm at Sawnee View Memorial Gardens. Ing ...
Mark B. Watson, age 30 of Atlanta, Georgia passed away Friday, June 4, 2010. Memorial Services are pending at this time and will be announced at a later date. Online condolences m ...
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Martha Vera Keith passed away May 13, 2010 in Lake Havasu City, AZ following an extended illness. Mrs. Keith was a former resident of Clermont, GA and a member of County Line Bapti ...
Mary A. Conner Strickland, age 76 of Gainesville, passed away on Friday, June 4, 2010 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following a sudden illness.Funeral services are scheduled ...
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Mr. William Howard Strickland, age 98 of Gainesville, formerly of Alpharetta, died June 3, 2010. Mr. Strickland was born in Alpharetta to the late Luke Hardy Strickland and Mary Ga ...
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
