Local Obits for Sun. Sep 25th, 2016
Forsyth
Myra L. Murry, age 90, of Cumming passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016. A native of New Orleans, she had lived in Georgia since 1961. She was a member of Good Shepherd Cath ...
Garvin Duane Elkhill, age 48, of Cumming, GA, passed away Sunday, September 25th, 2016 at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. Duane was born on August 23rd, 1968 to Garvin and Gwen Elkhill ...
Habersham
Peggy Maney Smelcer, age 74, of Cornelia, Georgia, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 following an extended illness.
Mrs. Smelcer was born on November 5, 1941 in Homer, ...
Sherrie Diana Barnes Tomlin, age 54 of Cornelia, passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016.
Born in College Park, Georgia on June 10, 1962, she was a daughter of the late Billy De ...
Hall
Mrs. Shirley Jean Lark, age 51 of Gainesville, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at Northeast Georgia Med ...
Funeral Services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Wednesday September 28, 2016 at St. Paul United Methodist Church for Mildred Lothridge, age 96 of Gainesville. The Rev. Geo ...
Mrs. Margaret Lois Poma, age 89, of Flowery Branch passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016 at her residence with family.
Graveside Services will be 2:00 p.m., Saturday, October 1 ...
Mr. Alan “Butch” Robinson, 69, reluctantly gave up his battle to cancer on September 25th, 2016 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA.
Funeral servi ...
Mr. Johnny “Jay” M. Sheridan, III, age 34 of Flowery Branch, passed away on Sunday Morning, September 25, 2016 at Emory University Hospital fol ...
Mrs. Carolyn Marie Warner, age 79 of Gainesville, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at her residence following an extended illness.
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Jackson
Thad Richey, age 83, a lifelong resident of Commerce, GA passed away Sunday September 25, 2016.
Mr. Richey was the son of the late J.W. and Lessie Martin Richey, a vet ...
Lumpkin
Van Arthur Ingram, age 72, of Dahlonega, GA passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016 at New Horizons at Limestone in Gainesville, GA.
Van was a Lumpkin County native and lived mos ...
Other
Sandra Lawrence Cochran, age 69, of Maumelle, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016, at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland after suffering a stroke whi ...
Stephens
Mr. William Harrison Pruitt, age 81 of 127 Valley Road, Toccoa, Georgia passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016 at Pruitt Health Toccoa.
A son of the late Woodrow W. and Ruth Smi ...
White
Charles Everett Fain, age 83 of Cleveland, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016.
Mr. Fain was born on August 13, 1933, in Cleveland, GA, to the late John Holland Fain ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member Gary Rossington dead at 71
Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped write the classic “Sweet Home Alabama,” died Sunday at the age of 71
Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81
The famed broadcaster and former St. Louis Cardinals star Tim McCarver has died
'Laverne & Shirley' actor Cindy Williams dies at 75
Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the popular sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died
Robbie Knievel, daredevil son of Evel Knievel, dies at 60
Robbie Knievel, an American stunt motorcycle performer and son of thrill-seeking father Evel Knievel, has died
Tatjana Patitz, supermodel of '80s and '90s, dies at 56
One of an elite group of glamorous supermodels who graced magazine covers in the ’80s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom
Nate Thayer, reporter who interviewed Pol Pot, dies
Nate Thayer, a fearless reporter who survived several brushes with death while covering conflict in Southeast Asia and was the last Western journalist to interview Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, has died
Bob Penny, bit actor in numerous Hollywood films, dies at 87
An Alabama actor who played small roles in movies including “Forrest Gump” and “Sweet Home Alabama” has died at age 87