Obituaries

Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas

Katherine  Kilby

Katherine Kilby

Jul 25, 2017

Katherine Queen Kilby, 71 of Mountain City, Georgia., died Tuesday July 25, 2017 in Athens Regional Hospital in Athens, Georgia. She was the wife of Johnny Q. Kilby.She was born in Rabun County October 16 1945 and lived her entire life here. She was the daughter of the late Paul Queen, Sr., and Leona Redden Queen. Katherine was a homemaker...

Joseph Houck

Joseph Houck

Jul 23, 2017

Joseph Dean Houck, Infant son of Joseph R. Houck and Casey Henslee Houck of Clayton, GA., died Sunday July 23, 2017 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA. Born Sunday July 23, 2017 –died Sunday July 23, 2017.Besides his parents he is survived by a sister, Annabell Coleman of Clayton, by paternal grandparents, Norman and Rita Houck of Clayton,...

Helen Garland

Helen Garland

Jul 13, 2017

Helen Garland, 74, went to be with the Lord on Friday, July 13, 2018. Helen was born on May 18, 1944 in Clayton, Ga. to Fred and Ruth Childers. She married Rick Garland in September 1964 and they had four children. From those four children she gained 15 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. She was a very talented florist, interior decorator,...

Ardrice  Franks

Ardrice Franks

Jul 8, 2017

Ardrice Fay Joyce “Joyce” Jones Franks, age 78, of Johns Creek, Georgia passed on July 8, 2017, after a brief illness. Joyce was a 55-year resident of Wilmington, DE, and had recently returned to reside in her native Georgia with her beloved husband of 42 years, Roger Franks, whom she married on February 14, 1975.Born in Tucker, GA, on December...

Bo  Corn

Bo Corn

Jul 3, 2017

Bo Corn , 73 , of Rabun Gap , Georgia. Husband of Gwinda Justus Corn , died at his home in Rabun Gap Monday night July 3 , 2017. Born in Macon County , North Carolina , August of 1943 , He was the son of the late Bonnie Corn Dean . He was a Baptist by faith , a...

Douglas Franklin

Douglas Franklin

Jun 21, 2017

Douglas Harold “Doug” Franklin, age 69 of Clarkesville, Georgia went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 following an extended illness.Born in Clarkesville, Georgia on December 28, 1947, he was a son of the late Arlin John Franklin & Cleo Jameson Franklin. Doug was a co-owner of Franklin Brother’s Plumbing & Electric and was a very...

Shirley Allred

Shirley Allred

Jun 16, 2017

Shirley Scruggs Allred, 81, of Dillard, GA., died at her home in Dillard Friday night June 16, 2017. She was the widow of Charles H. Allred.She was born February 11, 1936 in Rabun County to William Lafayette Scruggs and Ola Belle Burrell, Scruggs, and had lived her whole life in Rabun County. Shirley was a member of the Clayton Baptist...

Jesse Wall

Jesse Wall

Jun 15, 2017

Jesse Andrew Wall, 97, of Tiger, GA., died Thursday night June 15, 2017 at his home. He was the husband of Florine Wilbanks Wall.Jesse was born in Rabun County November 7, 1919 the son of the late Virgil Andrew Wall and Lula Hollifield Wall and he had lived all of his life in Rabun County. He was a U.S. Army...

Karen A.  Brown

Karen A. Brown

Jun 2, 2017

Karen A. Brown, 50, of Bradford Rd. Clayton, Ga. died Friday June 2, 2017 at her home. She was born in Clayton , Ga. to Betty Jo Brown of Clayton and the late Jimmy L. Brown. She was an employee in Child Caring and was a Baptist. Karen was preceded in death by her Father, Jimmy L. Brown and a...

Rose O'Neal

Rose O'Neal

May 31, 2017

Rose O’Neal, 97, of Tiger, Georgia., died Wednesday May 31, 2017., at Mountain View Health Care in Clayton, GA.Born Ethel Rose Elliott in Tiger, GA. February 25, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Elisha S. Elliott and Hattie Hollifield Elliott Rose was a lifelong homemaker, Gardener, Seamstress and a loving wife and mother. She was born and lived...

Homer Billingsley

Homer Billingsley

May 30, 2017

Homer Lee Billingsley, 78, of Scaly Mountain North Carolina., died Tuesday May 30, 2017 at his home.Born in Macon County, North Carolina., he was the son of the late James (Jim) Newton Billingsley and Lillie Hazel Brown Billingsley. He was a farmer in the Macon County Community.Homer was preceded in death by his parents, Jim and Lillie Brown Billingsley, by...

Ron Marshall

Ron Marshall

May 29, 2017

RON MARSHALL, 65, passed away on April 13, 2017 at Piedmont Hospital after a brief illness with Strep Pneumonia.He grew up in Pelham, GA; he has had a home in Wolffork Valley for 25 years.He is survived by Ruthanna Schofield, sisters, Julie (Robert) Gordon and Beth (John) McGivney, Brent and Susan Schofield, Garvin Aycock, Patrick and Sandy Aycock, Mitchell, Matthew,...

Jacqueline Houck

Jacqueline Houck

May 22, 2017

Jacqueline Cannon (Jackie) Houck, 77 of the Warwoman Community Clayton, GA., died Monday May 22, 2017., in Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, GA., She was the wife of Roy Houck Clayton, GA.Born in Rabun County May 26, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Irvin and Bessie Swafford Cannon. She was a secretary for the probate judge office, the...

Bertha Ramey

Bertha Ramey

May 20, 2017

Bertha Phillips Ramey, 96, of Clayton, GA., died Saturday May 20, 2017 at her home.Born in Cookville, Tennessee January 27, 1921, she was the daughter of the late John Wesley Phillips and Vera Rae Phillips. She was a homemaker and a restaurant cook and a Baptist by Faith. She was the widow of William Edward Ramey. She was preceded in...

Carolyn Martin

Carolyn Martin

May 19, 2017

Dr. Carolyn Anne Martin of Gainesville and Tiger, GA Carolyn Anne Martin was born in Gainesville Ga. on Feb. 25, 1933. Shepassed from this life May 19, 2017. She is preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Percy Martin Sr. & AgnesCain Martin & brother Joseph Martin Jr. She is survived by daughters CarolSue Watson (Cammie), Claire Ellen Kilpatrick, &...

Margaret Henderson

Margaret Henderson

May 18, 2017

Margaret Lynn Henderson, 65, of Tiger, GA., died Thursday May 18, 2017 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA.Born in Franklin, North Carolina August 17 1951, she was the daughter of the late J.R Lunsford and Christine Schultz. She was a nurse, R.N. she worked in the Bacon County Hospital.,and taught in the Okeefenokee Technical College, Alma and Waycross campus....

Thomas Talley

Thomas Talley

May 17, 2017

Thomas Keith (Tommy) Talley, 62, of Otto, North Carolina., died Wednesday May 17, 2017 at his home.Born in Rabun County, Georgia.,. August 27, 1954, he was the son of the late Rev. Leonard Talley and Dorothy Darnell T alley. He was the husband of Barbara Jean Rogers Talley. Tommy was a supervisor with Caterpillar Company and was a member of...

Mary  Robinette

Mary Robinette

May 11, 2017

Mary Cody Robinette , 96, of the Warwoman Community Clayton, Georgia., died Thursday May 11, 2017 in Habersham Medical Center.Born in Marshall, North Carolina., November 24, 1920. She was the daughter of the late Lloyd Cody and Grace Lewis Cody. She was the widow of Asher Robinette. She had lived the greater part of her life in West Virginia and...

Max  Southards

Max Southards

May 10, 2017

Max Southard, 76, of Mtn. City , Ga. died Wednesday May 10 , 2017 at his home . He was the husband of Shirley Hoffman Southards. Born in Otto , NC. , January 6, 1941, He was the son of the late Bill and Margaret Justice Southards . He was a Heavy Equipment Operator and was a member of the...

Lexie  Scruggs

Lexie Scruggs

May 9, 2017

Lexie Justus Scruggs, 80, of Clayton , Georgia. wife of Bill Scruggs, died Tuesday May 9, 2017 at her home. Born May 16, 1936 in Rabun County, she was the daughter of the late O.V. Justus and Laura Maude Ledford Justus. Lexie was a homemaker and was a member of the Clayton Baptist Church and the Ideal Sunday School Class....