Local Obits for Mon. Jan 14th, 2013
Dawson
Yvonne Thurmond Sanders, 74, of Dawsonville passed away Monday January 14, 2013 at Northside Forsyth Hospital following a period of declining health.Born September 26, 1938 to the ...
Habersham
Funeral services for Betty Cook Ballew, age 83, of Clarkesville will be held at 11:00 AM Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from Bethlehem Baptist Church. Rev. Tommy Stowe, Rev. Furman L ...
Tim Perkins, age 60, of Mount Airy, Georgia, formerly of Ardmore, Oklahoma, passed away on Monday, January 14, 2013, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Mr. Perkins was born ...
Hall
Mrs. Dora "Elzaner" Smith Howington age 72 of Gainesville passed away on Monday January 14, 2013 at her residence following a brief illness. Funeral services are s ...
Funeral Services for Jamie Martin Hollis 71 of Gainesville are scheduled for 2:00p.m.Saturday in Strickland Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be from 6:00-9:00.pm., Friday, at t ...
William Joel Willis, age 80 of Gainesville, passed away Monday, January 14, 2013 at Bell Minor Home following an extended illness. Funeral services are scheduled for Thur ...
Jackson
Mrs. Marion Ferrol Urscheler, age 79, of Hoschton, GA passed away on Monday, January 14, 2013. She is survived by her daughter and son in law, Anne and Edward Robison, Hoschton, G ...
Mr. Richard Andrew Snyder age of 63 of Pendergrass passed away on Monday January 14, 2013 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness. Funeral ser ...
Lumpkin
Mrs. Jeanette Harris Voyles, age 72, of Murrayville, GA (Lumpkin County), passed away Monday, January 14, 2013 at her home following a period of declining health.Mrs. Voyles was a ...
Mrs. Myral Waters Frasure, age 87, of Dahlonega, GA died peacefully on Monday, January 14, 2013, at her home with her family at her bedside.Mrs. Frasure was a native and lifelong r ...
Other
Ann Canady Ward, age 62, of Carnesville, Georgia passed away January 14, 2013 at Heritage Healthcare Center of Toccoa, Georgia. Born July 12, 1950 in Carnesville, Georgia she was ...
Stephens
Karen E. Newman Huot, age 54, of Martin, Georgia passed away January 14, 2013 at her home.Born October 4, 1958, she was a daughter of Norma Tapley Newman and the late Raymond Newma ...
Union
Gail Callahan VanWart, age 74, of Sugar Hill, GA passed away Monday, January 14, 2013. She is survived by her children, Lisa and Leo Wiltgen, Sugar Hill, GA, Colleen Cook, Greenwo ...
White
Kami Montez Tench Cabe, age 37 of Cleveland, passed away on Monday, January 14, 2013, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Born in Stephens County on September 10, 1975, she was a ...
Vernon Jordan, activist, former Clinton adviser, has died
According to a statement from his daughter, Vernon Jordan, a civil rights activist and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, has died
Mincey Marble founder, marble innovator dies at 86
Kenneth Mincey, who founded Gainesville-based Mincey Marble cast marble company, passed away at the age of 86 Friday.
Jo Ann Adams, Gainesville's first female pharmacist, dies at 93
When Jo Ann Trapnell Adams graduated from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy, she was just 20 years old.
Mary Wilson, longest-reigning original Supreme, dies at 76
Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning original Supreme, has died at 76 years old
Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks Jr. dies at 67
Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks Jr. has died after battling prostate and other cancers
Oscar winner, ‘Sound of Music’ star Christopher Plummer dies
Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died
Hal Holbrook, prolific actor who played Twain, dies at 95
Award-winning character actor Hal Holbrook who toured the world as Mark Twain in a one-man show and uttered the immortal advice “Follow the money” in the political thriller “All the President’s Men,” has died