Obituaries

Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries

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

Robert Marsengill

Robert Marsengill

Feb 10, 2014

Robert M. Marsengill, 79, of Clayton, Georgia., died Monday February 10, 2014 at his residence.He was born February 10, 1935 in Rabun County to Raymond and Florence Taylor Marsengill.Robert was graduated from Rabun County High School and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He worked with his father in his father’s Radio and TV Shop in Atlanta...

Daniel Lamberth

Daniel Lamberth

Feb 8, 2014

Daniel Lanier Lamberth was born on May 12th, 1949, in Dooly County, Georgia. He departed this life for a better one on Saturday, February 8th, 2014. Daniel, we always called him Danny, was the son of Grady Lamberth and Pearl (Kitchens) Lamberth, and they both preceded him in death. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Jerry Lamberth...

Bernice Chappell

Bernice Chappell

Feb 6, 2014

Bernice Miller Zoellner Chappell, 82, of Zoellner Lane, Dillard, Georgia., died Thursday night February 6, 2014 in North East Georgia Medical Center.Born in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina., she was the daughter of the late Montgomery and Ellen Rogers Miller. She was twice married; first to the late Charlie Zoellner and then to the late Brown Chappell. She was a retired...

Robert Buchanan

Robert Buchanan

Feb 2, 2014

Robert Buchanan, 45, of Seed Tick Road, Clayton, Georgia., died Sunday February 2, 2014 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center.Born December 22, 1968, he was the son of Rick and Liz McCrackin Buchanan. He was a carpenter in the building industry and was a member of the Boggs Mountain Baptist Church.Surviving are his parents; Rick and Liz McCrackin Buchanan of Clayton;...

Lester Rickles

Lester Rickles

Jan 27, 2014

Lester Ray Rickles, 80, of Tampa, Florida., died Monday January 27, 2014 in Clayton, Georgia. His body had been taken to Tampa, Florida., where entombment will be on Monday February 3, 2014.Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.An on-line obituary and guest register is available at www.hunterfuneralhomega.com

Chrichelle  Holcomb

Chrichelle Holcomb

Jan 27, 2014

Chrichelle (Shelly) Holcomb, 32, of Homer, Georgia., formerly of Rabun County, died Monday January 27, 2014 in Emory University Hospital.She was born April 9, 1981 in Stephens County, Georgia., and had lived most of her life in Rabun County. She was a Rabun County High School graduate and worked at Suds and Bubbles- but had been disabled- she was a...

D.L. Whitmire

D.L. Whitmire

Jan 23, 2014

D.L. (Slim) Whitmire, 92, of North Valley Street, Clayton, Georgia., died Thursday January 23, 2014 at his residence.He was born in Rabun County July 27, 1921 to the late Andy and Ethel Speed Whitmire. He was a rancher, worked seed and feed stores and was a farmer. Slim could do most anything. He was a member of Taylor’s Chapel Baptist...

Russell Hunnicutt

Russell Hunnicutt

Jan 17, 2014

Russell C. Hunnicutt, 68, of Mountain City, Georgia., died Friday January 17, 2014 at his residence. He was born in Rabun County August 9, 1945 to Jable and Corrie Eller Hunnicutt. Russell was a heavy equipment operator and was a U.S. Army Veteran of Vietnam. He was of the Baptist Faith.Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers;...

Robert Conner

Robert Conner

Jan 11, 2014

Robert Jackson Conner, 47, of Cecil Cannon Road, Rabun Gap, GA., affectionately known as “Robbie”,, died Saturday January 11, 2014 at his residence.He was born in Franklin, North Carolina July 14, 1966 to Clifford E. Conner and Carolyn Elizabeth Darnell. He was a heavy equipment operator and trucker, long haul and was a member of the Newman’s Chapel Baptist Church.Robbie...

Robbin Carnes

Robbin Carnes

Jan 9, 2014

On January 09, 2014, Robbin Kay Carnes peacefully left this world of suffering for her heavenly home. Born April 20, 1956 to the late Robert Dickerson and Barbara Foote Carnes, Robbin lived all but her last six years in Rabun County. Moving to long creek, South Carolina in 2007, she found a little farm with a view of the Rabun...

Karl Struck

Karl Struck

Jan 8, 2014

Karl W. Struck 05/29/1928 – 01/08/2014On January 8th, 2014 God called Karl Struck, 85, of Clayton Georgia to his Heavenly home. Born in Springfield Illinois, he married his High School sweetheart Shirley Struck and celebrated their 64th Anniversary in June. Karl began his career as an apprentice under his father as a model maker at Sangamo Electric Company. Through the...

Steve Justus

Steve Justus

Jan 2, 2014

Steve Norris Justus, 59, of the Germany Community, Clayton, Georgia., and affectionately known as “Corn Bread” died Thursday January 2, 2014 in Emory at Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia.He was born in Rabun County November 14, 1954 to Norris O. Justus and Elizabeth Gragg. He was retired from the textile industry. He was a U.S. Army Veteran from the Vietnam era and...

Edmond Alexander

Edmond Alexander

Jan 1, 2014

Edmond Paul Alexander, 51, of Mountain City, Georgia, died Wednesday January 1, 2014 in VA. Hospital, Asheville, North Carolina. He was the husband of Tina Farmer Alexander.He was born in Fairbanks, Alaska June 7, 1962 to Frank J. Alexander and Sigurdur Jona Magusdottur. He was an automobile mechanic in the U.S. Army and in civilian life. He was a U.S....

Teresa Mcentire

Teresa Mcentire

Dec 31, 2013

Teresa Scroggs McEntire, 54, of MaryeEllen Drive, Cleveland, Georgia., died Tuesday December 31, 2013 in Habersham County Medical Center, Demorest, Georgia., while recovering from recent surgery. She was born May 7, 1959 in Gastonia, NC, to Lewis Scroggs and Ruth Davis. She was a newspaper carrier for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was a member of Old Nacoochee Missionary Baptist Church...

Homer Parker

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

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

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

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

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

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...