Local Obits for Mon. Jun 13th, 2011
Dawson
Mrs. Helen Katherine Nix, age 82 of Dawsonville, Georgia, and better known as "Granny" to her family, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, June 13, 2011 at her reside ...
Linda Davis Long, 67, of Dawsonville passed away Monday June 13, 2011 at her residence following a sudden illness.Born September 4, 1943 in Hueytown, Alabama to the late Bernard K. ...
Habersham
Harold Franklin Edwards, age 74, of Clarkesville, passed away on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness.Funeral services are schedu ...
Mr. John Kenneth Cope, age 54, of Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia, passed away Monday, June 13, 2011 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following a brief illness.Complete arrangements t ...
Alexander Funeral Home of Cleveland announces the death of Mya B. Lea, 55, of Clarkesville.Ms. Lea died Monday, June 13, 2011, at her residence.Born May 21, 1956, in Poughkeepsie, ...
Hall
Jose Uribe, age 55 of Gainesville, passed away on Monday, June 13, 2011 at his residence following an extended illness. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, June ...
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2011 in the chapel of Little & Davenport Funeral Home for Mrs. Mary Joyce Roberts, 90, of Gainesville. Mr. Greg P ...
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
