Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Fred Shook
Apr 24, 2018
Fred Micky Shook, 70, of Grovetown, GA., died Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at University Hospital in Augusta, GA.Born January 2, 1948 he was the son of the late Claude Oliver Shook and Rosa Anna Gibson Shook. He worked in drywall construction with Gene Collins Drywall and was a baptist by faith. In addition to his parents he was preceded in...
Linda Page
Apr 21, 2018
Linda Gayle Page, 75, of Clarkesville, GA., formerly of New Hampshire, died Saturday April 21, 2018 at her home. Born June 6, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Carl Page and Grace Covey. She was a professional crafter and had her own business, Linda Page Crafts. She was a member of Raymond Baptist Church of New Hampshire. In...
Wesley Love
Apr 17, 2018
Wesley Dwight Love, 54, of Clayton, GA., passed away Tuesday April 17, 2018. Born March 17, 1964, he was the son of Elaine Carpenter of Clayton, GA., and the late William E. Love. He was a self-employed carpenter and was a baptist by faith. In addition to his father, William E. Love, he was preceded in death by a step-father,...
Robert Ramey
Apr 16, 2018
Robert W. Ramey, 78, of Clayton, GA., passed away at his home on Monday, April 16, 2018. Born February 13, 1940, he was the son of the late Edward Ramey and Bertha Phillips Ramey. He was an animal control officer with the Rabun County Humane Society and attended the Wolffork Christian Fellowship Church. In addition to his parents, he was...
Jesse Jenkins
Apr 13, 2018
Jesse (Bud) James Jenkins, age 92, of Wiley, GA., passed away on Friday, April 13, 2018. He was the son of the late James Condor and Elizabeth Pitts Jenkins. He was retired from the United States Navy, serving 22 years as a World War II and Korean veteran. Chief Jenkins was honored to be a participant of the October 28,...
Richard Jordan
Apr 9, 2018
Richard Wesley Jordan, 67, of Clayton, GA., died April 9, 2018 at his home in Clayton. Born December 18, 1950, he was the son of the late Austin Jordan and Pauline Harris Jordan. He was a custodian at Rabun Gap Nacoochee School and Rabun County Schools. He is survived by his wife, Willie Jean Marcus Jordan of the home. He...
Kenneth Crosby
Apr 8, 2018
Kenneth L. Crosby, 77, of Rabun Gap, GA., died April 8, 2018 at Mountain Lakes Medical Center. Born April 18, 1940, he was the son of the late Kenneth Leonard Crosby and Viola Agnes Bradley. He was a medical technologist at Rabun County Hospital, was a veteran in the US Air Force and was a Methodist by faith. He was...
David Mccoy
Apr 3, 2018
David Larry McCoy, 60, of Chicago, IL., formerly of Rabun County, GA., died Tuesday, April 3, 2018 in Chicago, IL.Born February 8, 1958, he was the son of the late John H. McCoy and Margie Futrelle McCoy. He was a truck driver and a US Army veteran and was a Baptist by Faith. David was preceded in death by his...
Robert Bramblett
Mar 29, 2018
Robert Lee Bramblett, 76 of Spring Dale Road Homer, Georgia., formally of Clayton died Thursday March 29, 2018 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, GA. Born in Tiger, Georgia., June 3, 1941 he was the son of the late Walter J. Bramblett and Ina Free Bramblett. He was self employed as a landscaper and was a member of Taylor’s Chapel...
Jim Williams
Mar 27, 2018
Jim Williams, 75, of Rabun Gap, GA., died at his home Tuesday March 27, 2018. He was the husband of Deborah Saxton Williams. He was born in Atlanta, GA., July 16, 1942, the son of George and Eleanor Sewell Williams. He was a self employed manufacturer of acrylics (retired) was was a member of the First United Methodist Church of...
James Henson
Mar 24, 2018
James L. Henson, Jr., 61, of Elberton, GA., formerly of Rabun County, died Saturday night March 24, 2018 in Athens Regional Hospital in Athens, GA.Born in Miami, Florida April 24, 1956, he was the son of the late James Lesley Henson, Sr. and Myra Caroline Sherman Henson. He was a contractor in the construction industry and was a member of...
Lula Carnes
Mar 24, 2018
Lula Zetta Whitworth Carnes, 83, of Carnes Road, Tiger, GA., died peacefully at home on Saturday morning March 24, 2018. Born March 26, 1934 in Rabun County, she was the daughter of the late Easburn Whitworth and Alice Robinson Whitworth. She was the widow of William Hubert Carnes. She was a domestic employee for a long time and was a...
Linda Speed
Mar 20, 2018
Linda Sue Slayton Speed, 68, of Clayton, GA., died Tuesday March 20, 2018 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA. She was the wife of Bobby Speed.Born October 6, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, she was the daughter of the late Herman Slayton and Mabel Norton Slayton. She was a nurse (nurse's aide) in doctor's offices and was a member of...
David Callenback
Mar 20, 2018
avid Allen Callenback, 60, of Clayton, GA., died Tuesday March 20, 2018 in Mountain View Medical Center in Clayton. He was born in Rabun County, February 5, 1958 to the late Ralph and Ruby Ramey Callenback. He worked in the construction industry for many yearsbuilding houses. He also worked for Cannon Furniture Co. for a period of time. He was...
Frances Allen
Mar 18, 2018
Frances Swafford Allen, 84, of Mtn. City, GA., widow of Emmett Bell Allen, died Sunday March 18, 2018 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center, Clayton, GA.Frances was born in Rabun County, August 24, 1933 to the late Howard T. Swafford and Rosie Beaty Swafford and had lived the greater part of her life in Monroe, GA. She was a homemaker and...
Mae Watts
Mar 13, 2018
Mae Marie Watts, 72, of Clayton, GA., died Tuesday March 13, 2018 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA. Born in Rabun County, GA., April 28, 1945, she was the daughter of the late Ben and Connie Gibson Chappell.She was employed by Claburne Manufacturing Company for a number of years, and was a baptist by faith. Marie was the...
Jimmie Watts
Mar 9, 2018
Jimmie B. “Bo-Bo” Watts, 64, of Clarkesville, GA., died Friday March 9, 2018 in Habersham Medical Center, Demorest, GA.Born in Durham, NC., March 17, 1953, he was the son of the late William Herbert Watts and Fannie Mae Tyler Watts. Jimmie was a logger and timber cutter and was a baptist. He was preceded in death, besides his parents, a...
Gladys Ramey
Feb 26, 2018
Hunter Funeral Home Licensed Embalmers and Funeral DirectorsP.O. Box 653 Clayton, GA. 30525 Phone (706- 782-4243) Fax (706-782-2546)www.info@hunterfuneralhomega.comGladys Talley Ramey, 74 of the Chechero Community in Clayton, GA., died Monday February 26, 2018 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA.Born in Macon County, NC., August 30, 1943, she was the daughter of the late John Riley Talley and Effie...
Clarris Elzey
Feb 24, 2018
www.info@hunterfuneralhomega.comClarris Ann Elzey, 81 of Tiger, GA., died Saturday February 24. 2018 at Mountain Lakes Medical Center, Clayton, GA.Born in Robbinsville, NC., January 11, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Roy Kent Sheffey and Lilly Lee “Tine” Collett Sheffey. She was the widow of James Driskill Elzey, Sr. She had lived most of her life in Rabun County,...
Lena Galloway
Feb 11, 2018
Lena Christine “Christy” Galloway, 55, of Ladybug Lane, Cornelia, GA., died Sunday, February 11, 2018 at her home. Born in Canton, GA., April 13, 1962, she was the daughter of the late Pete and Christine Ledbetter Morgan. She was the wife of Douglas J. Galloway, of Cornelia. She was a nurses aide in the nursing industry. She was a Baptist...