Local Obits for Sat. Apr 21st, 2012
Forsyth
Betty Mauldin, age 79, of Cumming, GA, passed away peacefully at Embracing Hospice after an extended illness, Saturday, April 21, 2012. Betty was a member of Bethelview United Me ...
Robert C. Mallion Jr., age 51, of Cumming, GA, passed away Friday, April 20, 2012. Robert is preceded in death by his brother-in-law, Jason Bagley.Survivors include his loving wife ...
Ruth Ella Reid, 87 of Cumming, GA passed away Friday, April 20, 2012 . She was member of Cumming First United Methodist Church. She loved to play bingo with her friends, and was a ...
Habersham
Mrs. Thelma Walker Webb, age 85, passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Demorest, Georgia. Thelma was born in Wilkes County, Georgia on September 18, 1926, to the late Ernest ...
Hall
Ms. Elaine Denise Morrow, age 43 of Gainesville, passed away April 21, 2012 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following a sudden illness. The family will rece ...
Mr. Elijah Julian (E.J.) Tapp Jr. Age 85 of Lakeland, Florida passed away on Saturday April 14, 2012 following an extended illness. Funeral services are scheduled for Sunday April ...
Memorial services for, Faye Edythe Farmer, of Clermont will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday April 22, 2012 in Strickland Funeral Home Chapel.Mrs. Farmer died April 21, 2012. Strickl ...
Gladys Mae Mulkey, age 80, of Lula, Georgia passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at a local area hospital following an extended illness. Mrs. Mulkey was born in Gilmer County, G ...
Mr. Harold Winford Elrod, age 88, of Gainesville, Georgia, passed away Friday, April 20, 2012 at The Oaks at Limestone.Funeral services are scheduled for 2:00 pm Monday, April 23, ...
Ms. Lillian Samantha Reid Greenway Roberts age 84 of Gainesville, Ga passed away on Friday April 20, 2012 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness. Funeral ...
Jackson
Evans Funeral Home announces the death of Mrs. Linda Ann Jones Bowles, age 53, of Pendergrass, who passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Mrs. Bowles was born in Chamblee, GA, a ...
Lumpkin
NOTICEDUE TO A SERIOUS MOTOR VEHICLE, ACCIDENT INVOLVING IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS, FUNERAL SERVICES FOR HERMAN BYERS ARE POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ...
Stephens
Mrs. Betty Smith Collins, age 65, of Toccoa, passed away Saturday, April 21, 2012 at her home.Born June 24, 1946 in Stephens County, she was a daughter of the late Cicero Buren &qu ...
Speedway Motorsports founder Bruton Smith dies at 95
O. Bruton Smith, who emerged from North Carolina farm country and parlayed his love of motorsports into a Hall of Fame career as one of the biggest track owners...
Gainesville businessman James Simpson dies at 77, truck parade to be held in his honor
Gainesville businessman James Simpson, the force behind Simpson Trucking & Grading, Inc. in Gainesville, will be remembered in a funeral service Friday, Dec. 17 at Hopewell Baptist Church.
Georgia Racing Hall of Famer Bud Lunsford passes away
Legendary Georgia racer and hall of famer Bud Lunsford of Gainesville passed away on Monday at the age of 86. Lunsford, a member of both the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame...
Frank Williams, founder of Formula One team, dies at 79
Sir Frank Williams, the founder and former team principal of Williams Racing, has died. He was 79. Williams took his motor racing team from an empty carpet warehouse to the summit of Formula One, overseeing 114 victories, a combined 16 drivers’ and constructors’ world championships, while becoming the longest-serving team boss in the sport’s history.
Prince, poultry pioneer, dies at 93
Jack Prince of Gainesville, the man who invented the chicken deboning machine, has died at the age of 93.
Former NASCAR driver Townley killed in shooting in Athens
A former NASCAR driver was killed Saturday in a shooting in Georgia that also wounded a woman, investigators said. John Wes Townley, 31, died in the shooting in a neighborhood...
Former Hall County School Superintendent Doug Winters dies at 82
Dr. Douglas Harry Winters, a former superintendent for the Hall County School District, died Wednesday, Aug. 11 at the age of 82.
Former CDC official from Gainesville dies at age 69
Gainesville native Dr. Thomas Weston Hodge III, the former Director of Immunogenetics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died July 31 in St. Simon's Island, Ga.