Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Homer Parker
Dec 29, 2013
Homer W. Parker, 91, of Highway 76 West, Clayton, Georgia., died Sunday December 29, 2013 at his residence.He was born in Rabun County August 16, 1922 to Connis Parker and Josie Hopper Parker. He was the husband of Janie Phillips Parker. They were married after WWII for 67 wonderful years. He was a U.S. Army Sergeant in WWII serving in...
Arlean Hopper
Dec 27, 2013
Arlean Parker Hopper, 88, of Clayton, Georgia., died Friday December 27, 2013 at the home of her grandson, Roger Carnes in Gray, Georgia. She was the widow of Keith L. Hopper.Born in Rabun County, she was the daughter of the late Vesta A. (Bob) Parker and Eula Coleman Parker. She was a member of the Clayton Baptist Church. She was...
Vera Hudson
Dec 23, 2013
Mrs. Vora Elaine Hudson, 57, of East Main Street, Kingston passed away Monday (December 23, 2013) at the residence. Mrs. Hudson was born in Kingston, Georgia, April 5, 1956, daughter of the late Howard Keeney and Vera Head Keeney. She was a member of Kingston Methodist Church. Mrs. Hudson enjoyed quilting, working in her yard and building things. She is...
Carrie Chastain
Dec 21, 2013
Carrie Melinda McClain Chastain, 64, of Paradise Lane, Dillard, Georgia died Saturday December 21, 2013 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia.She was born in Rabun County March 18, 1949 to J.R. McClain and Della Hopper and lived her life in Rabun County. She was a homemaker and was a member of Betty’s Creek Baptist Church.She is survived by three...
Mary Arthur
Dec 21, 2013
Mary Wilbanks Arthur, 59, of Lakemont, Georgia., died Saturday December 21, 2013 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center.She was born in Clayton April 2, 1954 to Marlor Wilbanks and Wilda Nations Wilbanks. She was retired from Lockheed-Martin Company in electronic engineering. And was of the Baptist Faith.She was preceded in death by four brothers; Norman, Hubert, Stanford and Andy Wilbanks and...
Margie Bleckley
Dec 19, 2013
Margie Page Bleckley, 91, of Tom Bleckley Lane, in the Warwoman Community, Clayton, Georgia., died Thursday December 19, 2013 at her home.Born in Rabun County, Georgia January 4, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Fannie Turpin Page. Margie was retired as a seamstress in the textile industry; she was a restaurant cook, she was a quilter...
Alfreda Alexander
Dec 17, 2013
Alfreda Ruth Alexander, 88, of Turpin Street Tiger, Georgia., died Tuesday December 17, 2013 at her residence.Born in Dunklin County, Missouri, December 13, 1925 she was the daughter of the late Will J. Rogers and Eunice Cooper Rogers. She was a homemaker and nurse (LPN). She was the wife of Meyers Alexander. She is survived by her husband Meyers Alexander...
Eileen Swanson
Dec 16, 2013
Eileen Swanson, 97, of Payne Hill Drive, Clayton, Georgia, died Monday December 16, 2013 at her residence.Born in Sioux City, Iowa February 12, 1916, she was the daughter of the late Raymond Durant Hilton and Susan Ruth Stanford Hilton. She was the widow of Ernest Allen Swanson, Sr. She attended Rabun Senior Center, loved to cook and loved bingo and...
Lenora Robinson
Dec 14, 2013
Lenora Welborn Robinson, 73, of Bill Robinson Lane, Tiger, Georgia., died Saturday December 14, 2013 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia.Born in Rabun County February 26, 1940, she was the daughter of the late Lex and Bertha Holcomb Welborn. She was a homemaker and attended the Baptist Church.She was preceded in death her husband Jack P. Robinson and by...
Jane Justus
Dec 12, 2013
Jane Queen Justus, 72, of Wayah Trail, Clayton, Georgia., died Thursday morning, December 12, 2013 at her residence.Born in Rabun County September 16, 1941, she was the daughter of the late Emory N. and Pearl Bottoms Queen. She was a member of AARP and a member of Mountain Grove Baptist Church. She was the widow of Harvey H. Justus.Besides her...
Clyde Smith
Dec 11, 2013
Clyde W. “Moody” Smith, 84, of O.V. Justus Road, Rabun Gap, Georgia., died Wednesday December 11, 2013 at his residence.Born in Swain County, North Carolina., January 17, 1929, he was the son of the late Grover and Marjorie Gass Smith. He was the widower of Aderene Justus Smith. He retired from Burlington Industries and was a member of the Dillard...
Curtis Shirley
Dec 10, 2013
Curtis Rayburn Shirley, 66, of M.J. Shirley Drive went home peacefully to be with his Lord with his family by his bedside Tuesday morning December 10, 2013.Born in Rabun County March 24, 1947, he was the son of the late M.J. and Rose Holcomb Shirley. He was a carpenter and farmer and was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.Curtis was...
Harrison O'Shields
Dec 2, 2013
Harrison O’Shields,. Jr., 63, of Turpin Street, Tiger, Georgia., died Monday December 2, 2013 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton, Georgia.He was born in Rabun County March 27, 1950 to Mary Beasley and Harrison O’Shields, Sr. He worked in maintence at the Dillard House for a number of years and was of the Baptist Faith.Junior was preceded in death...
Douglas Wadzeck
Dec 1, 2013
Douglas Lee Wadzeck, 59, of Rivendell Road, Clarkesville, Georgia., died Sunday December 1, 2013 in Habersham Medical Center in Demorest, Georgia.Born in Walsenburg, Colorado, April 4, 1954 he was the son of Shirley Manke Griffin and the late Lee Griffin and his adoptive father Al Wadzeck. He was a carpenter by trade and worked for the railroad and was a...
Linda Wilkins
Nov 29, 2013
Linda Faye Wilkins, 63, of Fayetteville, Georgia., died Friday November 29, 2013 in Emory Hospital in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia.She was born in Clayton, Georgia., May 26, 1950 to Faye Fry McKay of Tallulah Falls, Georgia., and the late Charles C. McKay. She was retired from teaching special ed for the Clayton County Board of Education in Clayton County, Georgia. She...
Robert Anderson
Nov 22, 2013
Robert F. Anderson, Sr. 62, of Underwood Lane, Clayton, GA., died Friday November 22, 2013 at his home.He was born April 23, 1951 in Peru, Indiana to Johnny Douglas Anderson and the late Margaret Jane Fultz Anderson. He worked in a defense plant making warheads, in auto manufacturing and for several years worked for Eller and Owens, delivering furniture and...
Catherine Wall
Nov 21, 2013
CATHERINE VIRGINIA CRAWFORD WALL, age 76, of Clarkesville, Georgia passed away on Thursday, November 21, 2013. Mrs. Wall was born in Rabun County on May 19, 1937, to the late Prince and Roselee Holcomb Crawford. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde Wall, and sister, Thelma Crawford. She was a member of Antioch...
Octavia Holcomb
Nov 12, 2013
Octavia Moore (Tavia) Holcomb, 78, of Lake City, Georgia, died Tuesday, November 12, 2013 in Lake City.She was born in Rabun County, December 8, 1934 to John and Julia Watts Moore. She was the widow of George M. Holcomb. “Tavia” spent most of her life in Morrow, Georgia. She was a homemaker and a member of the Unity Baptist Church...
Edith Parker
Nov 9, 2013
Edith W. Parker, 89, of Wolffork Church Road Rabun Gap, Georgia., died Saturday November 9, 2013 at her home.She was born in Rabun County, February 12, 1924 to Raymond and Nova Moore Whitmire. She was twice married, first to Edward Burrell, who died in 1964 and later to Tom Parker who died in 1995. She had retired from Rabun Mills...
Evelyn Gragg
Nov 8, 2013
Evelyn A. Evans Gragg, age 102, of Wayah Trail, Clayton, Georgia., died Friday evening November 8, 2013 at her residence. She was the widow of Hubert V. Gragg.She was born in Clarkesville, Georgia., February 22, 1911 to William John and Nancy P. Gosnell Evans. She had lived most of her life in Rabun County. Mrs. Gragg was a member of...
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