Local Obits for Mon. Sep 21st, 2015
Forsyth
June Rowland Flood 78, of Cumming passed away September 21, 2015. A memorial service will be held October 2nd at 12pm at McDonald and Son Funeral Home in the chapel with a receptio ...
Gwinnett
SPC Kyle E. Gilbert, age 24, of Buford, GA passed away Monday, September 21, 2015 while serving in the U. S. Army in Afghanistan. He was preceded in death by his grandparents ...
Hall
Mr. Homer Eugene Jones, 75, of Gainesville (Forsyth Co.) died Monday September 21, 2015 at his residence.
Funeral services are incomplete and will be announced later.
Little ...
Mrs. Linda Darlene Hizer Dempsey, age 66 of Oakwood, passed away on Monday, September 21, 2015 at the residence of her son fo ...
Mr. David Wesley King, born in Marietta, Georgia on May 16th, 1967 departed this life on September 21, 2015 in Gainesville, Georgia. He was preceded in death by his son Evan ...
Eloise Christine Weaver, 79, formerly of Gainesville passed away on Monday, September 21, 2015 ...
Other
George Wesley Waller, age 80, of Alpharetta, passed away Monday, September 21, 2015. He is preceded in death by his parents, Lonnie and Eddie Waller. George was a Chief P ...
Stephens
Mrs. Agnes Gibson White, age 80 of 335 Easy Street, Toccoa, Georgia passed away Monday, September 21, 2015 a New Horizons Lanier Park, Gainesville, Georgia.
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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
