Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Deborah Rogers
Feb 22, 2013
Deborah Ann Payne Rogers, 54 of Clayton, Georgia., died Friday February 22, 2013 at her residence on Mitchell Street Clayton, Georgia. She was the wife of Harold H. Rogers.Born in Franklin, North Carolina. March 12, 1958 she was the daughter of Martha Payne of Clayton. She was employed for a time with Empire MFG. Company in the textile industry and...
Brian Carter
Feb 19, 2013
Brian Keith Carter, 46, of North Johnson Avenue, Mountain City, Georgia., died Tuesday February 19, 2013in Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. He was the widower of Tasha Sorrows Carter.Brian was born in Demorest, Georgia, October 23, 1966 to Bobby Wayne Carter and Lorene Ellenburg Carter. Before becoming disabled he worked as an orderly in nursing homes. He was...
Judy Carter
Feb 10, 2013
Judy Lee Carter 64, of Taylor Valley Road Clayton, Georgia., died Sunday night, February 10, 2013 at her residence.Born in Tiger Georgia., April 23, 1948, she was the daughter of the late Bill and Ethel Bradshaw Gibson. She was employed by Claburne MFG. Company for many years and was a homemaker. She was a member of the Church of God....
Marlene James
Feb 7, 2013
Marlene Underwood James, 81, of Bald Mountain RD, Dillard, GA, Died Thursday February 7, 2013 at Mountain Lakes Medical Center, Clayton, Ga. She was the widow of Horace James.Born in Rabun County, August 10, 1931 she was the daughter of the late Willie and Grace Wall Underwood. She was a secretary in the Business world and was a member of...
Ruth Speed
Feb 7, 2013
Ruth Murray Speed, 86, of Warwoman road, Clayton, Georgia., died Thursday February 7, 2013 at her residence.She was born November 26, 1926 in Habersham County, Georgia., to John Harvey Murray and Connice Ramey Murray. She was twice married, first to the late Hilton James and later to Marlor Speed, Jr., who survives. Mrs. Was retired from Empire MFG. Company in...
Dever Lee
Feb 3, 2013
Dever Strickland Lee, 80, of the Chechero Community Clayton, Georgia., died Sunday February 3, 2013 in the North East Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia. He was the widower of Hazel Dixon Lee.Born in Long Creek South Carolina May 22, 1932, he was the son of the late Dowis and Ollie Rholetter Lee. He was the owner and operator of an...
Paulette Ritchie
Jan 28, 2013
Paulette Keener Ritchie, 92, of Mountain City, Georgia., widow of Willis E. Ritchie, died Monday January 28, 2013 at her residence, Born in Macon County, NC. March14, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Nell Jacobs. Paulette was an inspector with Claburne MFG. Company and a homemaker. She was a Baptist and faithfully attended Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in...
Roy Conner
Jan 26, 2013
Roy Martin Conner, 50, of Rabun Gap, Georgia, affectionaly known as “Marty” died Saturday January 26, 2013 at his residence.He was born in Franklin, North Carolina May 24, 1962 to Clifford E. Conner and Carolyn Darnell Conner. He was a Chef and a member of Newman Chapel Baptist Church.He was preceded in death by his mother, Carolyn Darnell Conner Hicks...
Robert Weaver
Jan 23, 2013
Robert B. Weaver, 54, of Dillard, Georgia, known to his friends as Bruce, died Wednesday January 23, 2013 in North East Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia,Born October 20, 1958 in Valpariso, Florida, he was the son of Willie Mae McDonald Weaver of Dillard and the late Bob Weaver. He was a cook at the Dillard House in Dillard, Georgia., and...
Edgar Teague
Jan 19, 2013
Edgar Houston Teague, 85, of Lavonia, Georgia, Formerly of Rabun County Georgia, and affectionately known as “Ed” died Saturday January 19, 2013 at his residence.Born May 28, 1927 in Mountain City, Georgia, he was the son of the late Louie and Lula Gibson Teague. He was a retired truck driver and a great musician. He was a WW II Army...
Thomas Parker
Jan 13, 2013
Thomas Andrew Parker, 55, of Red Fox Lane, Clayton, Georgia, affectionately known as “Tommy” died, suddenly and unexpectedly Sunday afternoon January 13, 2013.Born in Rabun County December 30, 1957, he was the son of James Andrew Parker of Franklin, North Carolina., and the late Peggy Ann Martin Parker. He was employed for several years in the Textile Industry with Fruit...
Fred Mccoy
Jan 8, 2013
Fred Lee McCoy 85, of Carnes road in the Liberty Community, Tiger, Georgia died Tuesday January 8, 2013 at his residence.Born in Rabun County, January 14, 1927, he was the son of the late Ulyses and Alice Deal McCoy. He was a carpenter by trade and was a member of the Taylor’s Chapel Baptist Church. He was a U.S. Army...
Robert Plott
Jan 5, 2013
Robert Quinn Plott, 89, of Clayton, Georgia. died Saturday January 5, 2013 in Mountain. View Health Care in Clayton.Born in Cohutto, GA. July 25, 1923, he was the son of Arthur and Evie Watts Plott. He had lived the greater part of his life in Rabun County. He was a farmer and was of the Baptist Faith.He was preceded in...
Frances Norton
Jan 1, 2013
Frances Rose Burrell Norton… Born April 23, 1914. Died January 1, 2013. She grew up in Rabun County on the family farm near Dillard. She married Jay Norton in 1934 and in 1937 moved to Wyoming with her husband and toddler child. After 40 years in Wyoming, she and her husband moved back to the Betty’s Creek where they spent...
Guy Fisher
Dec 26, 2012
Guy Oliver Fisher, 88 of Clayton, and Oceanside, California, passed away Wednesday December 26, 2012He is survived by: his daughter, Jennifer Fisher Chinn of Atlanta; son, Robin Guy Fisher and wife Anne Taylor Fisher of Atlanta; daughter, Holly Fisher Cantrell and husband James C. Cantrell III of Snellville; son, Perry Scott Fisher and wife Julie Fisher of Dallas, GA.; grandchildren,...
Charles Thomas
Dec 25, 2012
Charles Lindbergh Thomas 84, of Mountain City, Georgia., died Tuesday December 25 2012 in Cannonwood Village, Tiger, Georgia.Mr. Thomas was born on August 5, 1928 in Chambers County Alabama and was a resident of Tampa, Florida and Rabun County Georgia., for most of his life.He served his country honorably in the US Navy and the US Army being discharged in...
Karron Carpenter
Dec 18, 2012
Karron Clarene Marcus Carpenter, 72, of Chatham, Lane Clayton, Georgia., died Tuesday December 18, 2012 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. She was the widow of Robert Lee Carpenter.Born in Tiger, Georgia., March 31, 1940, she was the daughter of the late Numerous and Grace Lovell Marcus. She was a homemaker and was a member of the Liberty...
Bobby Conner
Dec 16, 2012
Bobby Edwin Conner, 54, Dillard, Georgia.Bobby Edwin Conner, 54, of Dillard, Georgia, affectionaly known as “Bird” died Sunday December 16, 2012 at his residence. He was born in Liberty County, Georgia, October 26, 1958 to Clifford E. Conner and Carolyn Darnell Conner. He was a chef and a member of Newman Chapel Baptist Church.He was preceded in death by his...
Paul Ward
Dec 15, 2012
Paul Henry Ward 84, Rabun Gap, GeorgiaPaul Henry Ward, 84, of Ward Lane, Rabun Gap, Georgia, died Saturday December 15, 2012 at his residence. He was the husband of Darlene Burke Ward.Born in Linwood, Pennsylvania. April 11, 1928, he was the son of the late Ervin Norman Ward and Margaret White Ward. He was a hospital engineer and served in...
Jason Speed
Dec 14, 2012
Jason Dee Speed 29, Clayton, Georgia.Jason Dee Speed, 29, of Germany Road, Clayton, Georgia. died Friday December 14, 2012.Born in Stephens County, November 13, 1983, he was the son of John D. Speed, Jr., and Billie Ann Harmon. Jason was a shipping clerk at AID Corporation and owned and operated PWR Wrestling at the Georgia Mountain Flea Market. He was...



