Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
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...
Virgil Watts
Sep 12, 2017
Virgil J. “Buster” Watts, 85, of Tiger, GA., died Tuesday September 12, 2017 in Friendship Nursing Home in Cleveland, GA. He was the widower-of Hedy Cantrell Watts. Born in Rabun County July 9, 1932, the son of the late Rosa Watts and spent all of his life in Rabun County. Buster was a carpenter by trade and was a U.S....
Catherine Irene Lamb
Sep 11, 2017
Catherine Irene Fountain Lamb, 78, of Wolffork Road Rabun Gap, GA., died Tuesday September 11, 2017 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton, GA. Born in Rabun County May 18, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Fountain, Sr., and Vassie Garland Fountain. She was the widow of Jack E. Lamb, Sr., She was a retired shipping clerk...
Willie Weaver
Sep 10, 2017
Willie Mae McDonald Weaver 85, of Lakemont, GA., died Sunday September 10, 2017 at her home She was the widow of Robert (Bob) Weaver. And had been employed at the Rabun County Hospital for a number of years She was a member of the Blue Heights Baptist Church. Born In Murphy North Carolina., she was the daughter of the late...
Willie Teffeteller
Aug 28, 2017
Willie Blondell Teffeteller, 85, of Dillard, GA., affectionately known as “Connie” died Monday August 28, 2017 at Mountain View Health Care in Clayton. Born in Sugar Tree, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Noah Coney and Sadie Mae Hatfield Coney. She was the widow of Jack Teffeteller. She had retired as a human resource officer with the federal...
Andrew Mclucas
Aug 23, 2017
Andrew (Andy) McLucas, 67, of Fayetteville, GA., died Wednesday August 23, 2017 at his home. He was born April 9, 1950 in Fulton County, Georgia to Willie Bryan McLucas and Della Grace Minter McLucas. He graduated from the University of Georgia and retired as a cargo handler in the trucking industry and was a member of the Inman United Methodist...
Catherine Weaver
Aug 21, 2017
Catherine Phillips Weaver, 78, of Lakemont, GA., widow of Jessie Joe Weaver died Monday August 21, 2017 at her home. Catherine was born in Rabun County January 7, 1939, the daughter of the late Charlie and Essie Dodgins Phillips. She was a homemaker and a member of the Black Rock Baptist Church. She was the last member of her immediate...
Patricia Cleaveland
Aug 15, 2017
Patricia Ann (Patsy) Cleaveland, 87, of Clayton, GA. died Tuesday August 15, 2017in Ce-Eckerd Living Center in Highlands NC.Patsy was born in Rabun County October 12,1929. The daughter of late Vaughn T. Stonecypher & Maude Cannon Stonecypher. She was the widow of Henry A. Cleaveland and had retired as a community worker with the family and children’s service (DFACS), State...
Jennifer Owens
Aug 5, 2017
Jennifer Calafiore Owens, 41, of Clayton, GA., died Saturday August 5, 2017Jennifer was born November 25, 1975 in Miami Florida and had spent most of her life in Florida with the last ten years in Rabun County. She was the wife of Andy Owens and the daughter of Paul Calafiore and the late Connie McDaniel Calafiore. She was a homemaker...
Joseph Watts
Aug 2, 2017
Joseph Lawrence (J.L.) Watts, 93, of Bridge Creek Road Tiger, GA., died Thursday August 2, 2017 at his daughter and son-in-law residence on Deerfield Drive, Clayton, GA. He was the husband of Gretchen Cathey Watts.Born in Clayton Georgia., July 10, 1924 he was the son, of the late Willie S. Watts and Bertha Elliott Watts. He was a retired textile...