Local Obits for Sun. Feb 14th, 2016
Forsyth
Sheila Harper Martin, age 66, of Cumming, GA passed away Sunday, February 14, 2016. A funny person, Sheila loved her family and her dog and enjoyed traveling to the beach. &n ...
Tommy (Coot) Thompson, Jr., age 70, of Cumming passed away Sunday, February 14, 2016. Tommy was a U.S. Army veteran serving in Vietnam. He had a heart of gold and never ...
Hall
Barbara Watson Abernathy, 85, of Gainesville passed away February 14, 2016 following a brief illness.
Born in Hall County, on May 19, 1930, she was the daughter of the lat ...
Jimmy Dwayne Ballew, age 55, of Clermont, GA passed away Sunday, February 14, 2016.
He was a lifelong resident of Hall County and a graduate of Johnson High School Cla ...
Funeral Services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Wednesday February 17, 2016 at Ward's Funeral Home Chapel for Betty Maerelle Daniel age 79 of Gainesville. The Rev. Marshall Dale w ...
Funeral Services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February 18, 2016 at Skitts Mountain Baptist Church 9361 Skitts Mountain Drive Lula, GA 30554 for Ray Preston Garner age 74 o ...
Mrs. Hazel E. Patterson, 83, of Chicopee died Sunday February 14, 2016 at her residence.
A lifelong resident of Hall County, Mrs. Patterson was the daughter of the late Gro ...
Jackson
James Louis Stephens age 70 of Commerce passed away Sunday Feb. 14, 2016 at his residence.
Mr. Stephens was born Feb. 22, 1945 in Chicago, Illnois and worked as a ma ...
Other
Mr. Donald Spradlin Wise, 60, of Alpharetta, went home to be with his heavenly father Sunday, February 14, 2016. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Donald faithfully worked in the min ...
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
