Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Senia Southards
Dec 24, 2017
Senia P. Southards, ( Pronounced) Seenee, 88, of Mountain City. Died Sunday December 24, 2017in Mountain View health Care Clayton, GA., Funeral Services will be 3:00 P.M. Wednesday December 27, 2017at the Chapel of Hunter Funeral Home with Rev. Jeff Houston officiating. Burial will follow in the Taylor’s Chapel Cemetery- Visitation will be at Hunter Funeral Home Wednesday from 1:00...
Fairy Smith
Dec 16, 2017
Fairy Mae Eller Smith, 88, of Flint Mountain Lane, Tiger, Georgia., died Saturday December 16, 2017 in Pruitt Health Care, Toccoa, Georgia. Born April 30, 1929in Towns County, Georgia., she was the daughter of the late Harvey and Margaret Maney Eller. She was the widow of Elton Drew Smith. Fairy Mae was retired as a inspector in quality control with...
J.T. Moses
Dec 7, 2017
J.T. Moses, Jr., 73, of Mt. City, GA., died Thursday December 7, 2017 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, GA.Born in Anniston, Alabama he was the son of J.T. Moses, Sr. and Flora Mae Horn Moses. He had spent the greater part of his life in Rabun County, GA. He was retired from Fruit of the Loom as a dye...
Vassie York
Nov 30, 2017
Vassie Mae York, 86, of Clayton, GA., died Thursday November 30, 2017 at her home. She was the widow of Thomas F. York.She was born in Rabun County July 29, 1931 to Melvin English and Edith Parker English. She was a homemaker and a member of the Persimmon Baptist Church. Vassie was preceded in death by her parents, Melvin and...
Billy Swafford
Nov 30, 2017
Billy Joe Swafford, 66 of Clayton, Georgia died Thursday night November, 30, 2017 in Mountain View Health Care. Born March 6, 1951 in Walhalla. He was the son of Bert and Janie Mcdonald Swafford. He was an installer for the pipeline industry. He was a member of the Long Creek Baptist church. Where he had spent the greater part of...
Craig Alexander
Nov 29, 2017
Craig Alexander, 74, of Demorest, GA., died Wednesday night November 29, 2017 at his home. Born in Medino County, Texas he was the son of the late Alvin and Imogene Craig Alexander. He had lived the greater time of his life in Clarkesville, GA. He was the husband of Anna Free Alexander. Craig was a retired Electrician with Chrysler Corporation...
Sarah Lovell
Nov 15, 2017
Sarah Crump Lovell , 80 , of Homer , Georgia formerly of Tiger ,Georgia, died Wednesday in Pruitt Health Toccoa in Toccoa , Ga. Born in Godfrey , Ga. June 20 , 1937 , she was the daughter of the late Harrison and Lizzie Blair Crump. She was the wife of Doyce H. Lovell. Sarah was retired from Scovil MFG....
Robert Dickerson
Nov 9, 2017
Robert William Dickerson, 81, of Clayton, Ga., passed away peacefully at his home Thursday Nov. 9, 2017 Robert was born May 18, 1936 in Rabun County the son of the late William Gordon Dickerson and Eula Taylor Dickerson. ,Robert is survived by his loving Wife , Blanche Thomas Dickerson of 61 years of marriage his children , daughter Pamela Dickerson...
Carl Moore
Nov 6, 2017
Carl Moore, 70, Eastwolf Creek Road, Tiger, Georgia., died at his home Monday November 6, 2017. Born in Tiger , Georgia., February 7, 1947he was the son of the late Lindsey Carl Moore and Della Louise Blair Moore. He was retired from the textile industry and was a charter member of the rescue squad. He attended the Baptist Church.Carl was...
Margaret Queen
Nov 1, 2017
Margaret Emma Queen, age 68, of Mountain City Georgia passed away peacefully on November 1, 2017 with her husband by her side. She was born in Union County, South Carolina on January 25, 1949.She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Sara McCutcheon, a brother, Wallace McCutcheon, and a sister, Betsy Ellis. She is survived by her loving...
Harold Owens
Oct 26, 2017
Harold Don (Donnie) Owens, 72 of the Chechero Community Clayton,Ga. died Thursday Oct. 26, 2017 at his home. Donnie was born in Dayton, Tenn. Sept. 30, 1945 to the late Marion J. Owens Sr. and Stella Hipps Owens. He was the husband of Ona Stancil Owens.He was retired from Mr.B’s Oil Company as manager of Conveince Store inventory. He was...
Gary Sarkinen
Oct 22, 2017
Gary Oscar Sarkinen, 34, of Clayton, GA died Sunday, October 22, 2017 in Mountain View Health Care in Clayton, Georgia.Gary was born in Ft. Myers, FL, September 19, 1983. He is the son of the late Althea Sarkinen and the nephew of Barbara Douglas of Austell, GA.Gary's surviving family is his grandmother, Althea Shynk and stepfather, Doug Quarry, aunt and...
Wayne Kinsey
Oct 10, 2017
Wayne Douglas Kinsey, 72, of Clayton, GA., died Tuesday October 10, 2017 at the home of his daughter, Krista Neely on Louisiana Circle Clayton, GA. Born in Cashiers, North Carolina, February 2, 1945, he was the son of the late Harry Verdell Kinsey and Johngy Dale Shook Kinsey. He had retired from Duke Power Company as a maintenance technician. He...
Kimberly Mccullough
Oct 9, 2017
Kimberly Speed McCullough, 47 of Eastanollee, GA., died Monday October 9, 2017 in Stephens County Hospital Toccoa, GA.Born July 27, 1970, she was daughter of Calvin L. Speed of Clarkesville, GA. And the late Brenda Tyler Speed She was a homemaker and attended the baptist church.Kimberly was preceded in death her mother Brenda Tyler Speed a daughter, Christina Rose and...
William Burrell
Oct 6, 2017
William Harold Burrell, 65, of Rabun Gap,Ga. Died Friday October 6,2017 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center Clayton Ga. Born in Rabun County May 26,1952. He was the son of the late Joe and Thelma Chastain Burrell. He was the husband of Barbara Jean Snyder Burrell. Harold was a carpenter in the construction industry and restored antique cars. He was a...
Martha Gibson
Oct 2, 2017
Martha Payne Gibson, 80 of Clayton, Georgia., died Monday October 2, 2017 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA.Born in Commerce, Georgia., September 3, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Verner R. Payne and Linda Stockton Payne. She was the widow of Frank Gibson. She was a seamstress at Empire MFG. Company and was a member of Clayton...
Debra Bryan
Sep 25, 2017
Debra Sue Bryan, 55, , of Mt. City, Ga. Died Monday, Sept.25, 2017 at the home of her mother,Susie Bonnell Smith Holt in Otto, NC. Debra was born in Gainesville,Fla. January 4, 1962,the daughter of Susie Bonnell Smith Holt of Otto,NC and the late Willie J. Smith.She has lived in Rabun County for many years and retired from Walmart after...
Charles Gibson
Sep 22, 2017
Charles R. “Charlie” Gipson, 70, of Cornsilk Lane, Tiger, Ga.died Friday, Sept.22,2017 in Northeast Ga Medical Center, Gainesville, Ga. Charlie was born in Rabun County,January 16,1947,the son of the late Jesse Carlton Gipson and Sarah Shirley Gipson. He was a lifelong resident of Rabun County and was the widower of Linda Wilkerson Gipson. He was a carpenter in the construction...
Nancy Mcguinness
Sep 18, 2017
Nancy Haley McGuinness, 77, of Dry Pond Drive, Clayton, Georgia., died Monday September 18, 2017 in the Oaks at Scenic View Assisted Living Baldwin, GA., `She was born September 5, 1940 in Fumas County, Nebraska to the late Leo and Elizabeth Riley Haley. She was an airline stewardess with T.W.A. Airline and was a member of St. Helena Catholic Church...
George Reed
Sep 15, 2017
George (Clinton) Reed, 69, of the Satola Community Clayton, Georgia., died Friday September 15, 2017 in Augusta University Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia. Born August 22, 1948 in Rabun County he was the son of the late Lester and Wilma Bryson Reed. He was a life long resident of the Satolah Community. He was a loving husband and father. He...