Obituaries

Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries

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

Logan Rogers

Logan Rogers

Aug 29, 2014

Logan Jeffery Rogers, 46, of Westminster, South Carolina., died Friday August 29, 2014 at his residence.Born in Greenville, South Carolina January 14, 1968 he was the son of Logan F. Rogers, and the late Glenna Wilson Rogers. He was a machine operator in the textile industry and was of the Baptist Faith. He was preceded in death by his mother,...

Conway Watkins

Conway Watkins

Aug 22, 2014

Conway Watkins, 50, of Clayton, Georgia., died Friday August 22, 2014 at his residence.Born October 26, 1963 in Forsythe County, Georgia., he was the son of the late Ellis and Josephine Rogers Watkins. He was a heavy equipment operator in the construction industry and was a member of the Cave Spring Baptist Church in Mayesville, Georgia.He is survived by his...

Jowen  Hipps

Jowen Hipps

Aug 17, 2014

Jowen Hayes Hipps, 77, of Sylva, North Carolina., formerly of Rabun County, died Sunday August 17, 2014 in Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, North Carolina.Born in Macon County, North Carolina., October 6, 1936 he was the son of the late Gordon Hayes Hipps and Mattie Marie Rogers Hipps. He was the widower of Evie Ann Butler Hipps. He was a...

Michael Thrasher

Michael Thrasher

Aug 13, 2014

Michael Allen Thrasher, 50, of Clayton died August 13, 2014 at Stephens County Hospital in Toccoa, Georgia. Born in Huntsville, Alabama., July 20, 1964 he was the son of Wilma Jean Thrasher. He was a heavy equipment operator and a U.S. Army Veteran and of the Baptist Faith.He is survived by his mother, Wilma Jean Thrasher, of Clayton, GA., one...

Charles Holt

Charles Holt

Aug 11, 2014

Charles L. (Dub-Chico) Holt, 66, of Mountain City, Georgia., died at his home Monday August 11, 2014.Born in Rabun County, November 6, 1947, he was the son of the late Albert and Oshie Taylor Holt. He was retired from Burlington and was a member of the Newman’s Chapel Baptist Church, Otto, North Carolina.Besides his parents, he was preceded in death...

Joseph  Preston

Joseph Preston

Aug 10, 2014

Joseph Hoffman “Joe” Preston, 91, of Clayton, Georgia., went home to live with his Lord forever, Sunday August 10, 2014.Born in Milan, Missouri, November 14, 1922, he was the son of the late Bernard and Myrtle Hoffman Preston. Mr. Joe and his wife Marjorie served on the mission field as missionaries in Brazil, South America for thirteen years and moved...

William Dotson

William Dotson

Aug 9, 2014

William Albert (Bill) Dotson, 72, of Electric Ave, Mountain City, Georgia., died Saturday August 9, 2014 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia. He was the husband of Geneva Ramey Dotson. He was born in Rabun County May 17, 1942 to the late Jesse H. and Cenna Belle Blair Dotson. He was a retired repairman from the Tugalo Gas Company...

Kenneth Grizzle

Kenneth Grizzle

Aug 9, 2014

Kenneth Melvin Grizzle, 60, of Baldwin, Georgia., died Saturday August 9, 2014 in Habersham County Medical Center.Born in Atlanta, Georgia., June 29, 1954, he was the son of the late J.T. and Mary Rylee Grizzle. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of Vietnam, a mason, a member of world association of benchers and dead lifters organization, a Gideon in the...

Allen Reece

Allen Reece

Aug 8, 2014

Allen Reece, 45, of Duggan Hill Drive, Clayton, Georgia., died Friday August 8, 2014 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton. Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, he was the son of Janie Shed Reece Dietz of Otto, NC., and the late Alfred Reece. Allen was a Landscaper by trade and was a member of the Persimmon Church of God.Besides...

Faith Henry

Faith Henry

Aug 5, 2014

Faith Carol Davies Henry, 97, of Clayton, Georgia., died Tuesday August 5, 2014 in Habersham Nursing Home in Demorest, Georgia.Born in Dayton, Ohio December 25, 1916 she was the daughter of the late Lester and Lenora Thompson Davies. She was the widow of William Henry. Mrs. Henry was a realtor and a homemaker. She was a member of the North...

Lillian  Hunter

Lillian Hunter

Aug 4, 2014

Lillian Garland Hunter, 92, of Clayton, Georgia., died Monday August 4, 2014 in Cannonwood Village, Tiger, Georgia.Born in Rabun County October 12, 1921, she was the daughter of the late R.L. Garland and Nora Taylor Garland. She was the widow of Wade Ronia Hunter. Mrs. Hunter was a sales person in the insurance industry and a homemaker. She was mother,...

Barbara Binnie

Barbara Binnie

Jul 30, 2014

Barbara “Jeanne” BinnieBarbara “Jeanne” Binnie, 84, of Clayton, died on Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at her home after an eleven month battle with pancreatic cancer.She was born in Los Angeles, California on April 30, 1930 and lived in California and Oregon before moving to Clayton, Georgia in 1995.She was the daughter of the late Edwin and Ruby Garheart and was...

Phillip  Davidson

Phillip Davidson

Jul 30, 2014

Phillip Lee Davidson, 63, of Lakemont, GA., died Wednesday July 30 2014 at his residence.Born in Milledgeville, GA., January 3, 1951, he was the son of the late J.T. Davidson and Phyllis Chadwick Davidson. He was owner- operator of pawn shops (Anentrepeneur) a mason and a Shriner and a member of the New Hope Methodist Church in Lawrenceville, GA.He is...

Claude Lovell

Claude Lovell

Jul 24, 2014

Claude Lovell, 85, of Clayton, Georgia., died Friday night July 24, 2014 in Northside Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.Born in Habersham County, June 29, 1929 he was the son of the late John and Belle Martin Lovell. He was the husband of Gertrude Gragg Lovell. He was a carpenter by trade and was associated with the Flat Creek Baptist Church.Mr. Lovell was...

Ralph Dickerson

Ralph Dickerson

Jul 22, 2014

Ralph Jenkins Dickerson, 97, of Clayton, Georgia., died Tuesday, July 22, 2014 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton.Born in Hartwell, Georgia., May 6, 1917, he was the son of the late V.C. Dickerson, Sr., and Minnie Hendrix Dickerson, and he had lived most of his life in Clayton. He was a merchant in food stuffs and feed store and...

James Osborne

James Osborne

Jul 20, 2014

James W. “Jimmy” Osborne, Sr. 96, of Persimmon Road, Clayton, Georgia., died Sunday July 20, 2014 at his home in the Persimmon Community.He was born July 1, 1918 in Fitzgerald, Georgia to Olen Effie Osborne and Bessie Frances Farnell Osborne, and had spent most of his life in Jacksonville, Florida and had been in Rabun County for past 32 years....

Thomas  Fountain

Thomas Fountain

Jul 20, 2014

Thomas Fountain, Jr., 78, of Clayton, Georgia., died Sunday July 20, 2014 at his residence.Born in Rabun Gap, Georgia., October 1, 1935 he was the son of the late Thomas Fountain, Sr., and Vassie Garland Fountain. He was a self-employed carpenter and a U.S. Army Veteran of the Korean conflict. He was a member of the Wolffork Baptist Church.Besides his...

Robert Massee

Robert Massee

Jul 18, 2014

Robert Dewitt “Bob” Massee, 83, of Tiger, GA., died Friday July 18, 2014 at Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton. He was born in Atlanta, GA., October 2, 1930, the son of the late Richard Drew Massee, Sr., and Mary Dickson Massee. He had lived in Tiger, where he nurtured for a lifetime, the apple orchard he loved, “Tiger Mountain...

Louise Farmer

Louise Farmer

Jul 5, 2014

Louise Queen Farmer, 82, of Mountain City, Georgia., died Saturday night, July 5, 2014 in Habersham Medical Center, Demorest, Georgia.Born in Mountain City, Georgia., May 21, 1932 she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Belle Watts Queen. She was the widow of Young H. Farmer. She was a cook for the Rabun County School System and her last...

Bernice  Banschbach

Bernice Banschbach

Jul 1, 2014

Bernice Mollan Banschbach, 97, of Clayton, GA died Tuesday, July 1,2014 at the Mountain View Health Care Center. She was born September 21,1916 in Chicago Illinois to Mark A. and Anna Wolfe Mollan. She was married to the late George W. Banschbach, Sr. for 37 years. She was a successful career woman who started out as a secretary, became an...