Local Obits for Sat. Apr 9th, 2011
Banks
Eugene Free, age 74, of Alto, Georgia, passed away on Saturday, April 9, 2011, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Georgia, following an extended illness. Mr. Free ...
Forsyth
Alfred David Sisk, age 85, of Forsyth County, passed away Saturday, April 9, 2011. He was a member of Harmony Grove Baptist Church. Alfred is preceded in death by his loving wife o ...
Brian Scott Waring, 40, of Cumming, GA died on April 9, 2011 at Emory Hospital in Decatur. Born in New York, Brian was the son of Jerry and Nancy Waring of Cumming, GA.Brian was a ...
Maresa Graves Bowen, 46, of Canton, GA died on April 9, 2011. Born in Atlanta, she was the daughter of Freddie and Barbara Graves of Cumming, GA.A graduate of Forsyth County High ...
Ruth Mills Heard, age 88, of Cumming, passed away Saturday, April 9, 2011. Ruth was a member of Coal Mountain Baptist Church. She was active many church, school and community activ ...
Gwinnett
Mattie Rebecca Cheek Kilgore of Buford died Saturday, April 9, 2011, at the age of 95, after a brief illness. She was born in Buford, Georgia, June 5, 1915.She was predeceased by h ...
Hall
Edna Morrison Ray age 82 of Gainesville, Ga passed away on Saturday April 9, 2011 at her residence following an extended illness. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday April 11 ...
Marie Jones Bridges, Professor Emeritus, North Georgia College and State University, died on Saturday, April 9, 2011, from complications of Parkinson's Disease. She was prece ...
Funeral Tuesday for well-known Gainesville businessman, attorney Sonny Sykes
Funeral services for Gainesville attorney and businessman William I. "Sonny" Sykes, Jr. are scheduled for Tuesday, July 13 at Free Chapel Worship Center.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88
The family of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he has died
Local philanthropist and journalist Lessie Smithgall dies at 110
Lessie Smithgall, a longtime Gainesville philanthropist and journalist, died Friday, June 25 at the age of 110.
Frank Bonner, Herb on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' dies at 79
Frank Bonner, who played a brash salesman with a love of flashy plaid suits on the TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died
Ned Beatty, indelible in 'Deliverance,' 'Network' dies at 83
Ned Beatty, the indelible character actor whose first film role as a genial vacationer raped by a backwoodsman in 1972′s “Deliverance” launched him on a long, prolific and accomplished career, has died
'Hooked on a Feeling' singer B.J. Thomas dies at 78
One of the country’s most popular and versatile singers, B
Charles Grodin, 'Midnight Run,' 'Heartbreak Kid,' star, dies
Charles Grodin, the offbeat actor and writer who scored as a newlywed cad in “The Heartbreak Kid” and the father in the “Beethoven” comedies, has died
