Obituaries

Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries

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

Icie Hamilton

Icie Hamilton

Nov 14, 2009

Icie Gragg Hamilton 66, Tiger, GaIcie Gragg Hamilton, 66, of Rocky Top Lane Tiger, Ga., died Saturday morning November 14, 2009 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center.Born in Habersham County, Georgia March 8, 1943. She was the daughter of the late Avery and Hallie Kennedy Gragg. She was elected to the Rabun County Tax Commissioners office as Tax Commissioner, and served...

Edward Giles

Edward Giles

Nov 14, 2009

Edward Giles, 89, Clayton, Ga.Edward Giles, 89, of Cross Street, Clayton, Georgia. Died Saturday November 14, 2009 in VA Medical Center, Asheville, NC.Born in Rabun County July 31, 1920, he was the son of the late Almon and Mary Burrell Giles. He was a heavy equipment operator in the construction industry. He was a US. Army Veteran of WW2, a...

Charles Page

Charles Page

Nov 13, 2009

Charles C. Page 68, Clayton, GaCharles C. Page, 68, of Woodward Lane, Clayton, Georgia, Died Friday November 13, 2009 in Habersham County Medical Center in Demorest, Georgia.Born in Wise County, Virginia, he was the son of the late Howard and Eleanor Teasley Page. He had lived most of his life in Georgia. He was employed at the Fruit of the...

Helen Page

Helen Page

Oct 29, 2009

Helen Page Page, 72, Deerfield Beach, Florida.Helen Page Page, 72, of Deerfield Beach, Fl., formerly of Lakemont, Ga. Died Thursday October 29, 2009 at her home.Born in Rabun County, she was the daughter of the late Horace and Mabel McKay Page.She was preceded in death by brothers, Glen Page and Ashley Page, and by sisters Beverly Wright and Catherine Carlton.,...

Kenneth Henry

Kenneth Henry

Oct 24, 2009

Kenneth Henry Jr, 38, Clayton, Ga.Roger Henry, 38, of Ritchie Road, Tiger Georgia of the Bridge Creek Community died Saturday October 24, 2009 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center.Born in Rabun County, Ga March 16, 1971, he was the son of Kenneth Roger Henry, Sr. and the late Anna Lee Chappell Henry. He was a heavy equipment operator in the Construction...

Dorothy Mason

Dorothy Mason

Oct 22, 2009

Dorothy Josephine Mason, 76, Oviedo, Florida.Dorothy Josephine Mason, 76 of Oviedo, Florida, died Thursday, October 22, 2009 at The Hospice of the Comforter.Born in Rabun County March 18, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Robert and Susie Smith Hopkins. She was a seamstress in the textile industry and caretaker of her son until March of 2005. She was...

Judy Payne

Judy Payne

Oct 10, 2009

Judy Sharon Patterson Payne, 64, Clayton, Ga.Judy Sharon Patterson Payne, 64, of Shadyside Drive, Clayton, Ga. Died Saturday October 10, 2009 in Lawrenceville, Ga.Born in Rabun County, Ga. August 21, 1945 she was the daughter of Burma Dickerson Patterson of Clayton and the late John Lee Patterson. She graduated from Rabun County High School in 1963 and was a homemaker...

Frances Hill

Frances Hill

Oct 9, 2009

Frances Scroggs Hill, 80, Clarkesville, GeorgiaFrances Scroggs Hill, 80, of Clarkesville, Georgia died Saturday October 9, 2010 in Habersham County Medical Center.She was the widow of Frank J. Hill. She was born in Rabun County,Georgia November 12, 1929, the daughter of the late Virgil and Genelia McCoy Scroggs. She was a retired cook and loved to cook, travel and do...

Neva Clower

Neva Clower

Oct 3, 2009

Neva Sterleen Clower, 95, Clayton, Ga.Neva Sterleen Clower, 95, of Warwoman Road, Clayton, died Saturday October 3, 2009 at her home.Born in Jasper County, Mo., she was the daughter of the late Francis M. Wright and Ethel Esther Owen Wright. She was for many years a clerk in the Family and Children’s Services in Los Angeles, California. She attended the...

Leon Eller

Leon Eller

Oct 2, 2009

Leon Vester Eller, 82, Clayton, Ga.Leon Vester Eller, 82, of West Wildcat Road, Clarkesville, Ga. (Rabun County) Died Friday October 2, 2009 in North East Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.Born in Rabun County July 16, 1927, he was the son of the late Leonard J. and Vassie Moreland Eller. He was the manager of the Marina at Laprades Camp on...

Dorothy Duncan

Dorothy Duncan

Sep 29, 2009

Dorothy Ann Gaskins Duncan, 66, Clayton, Ga.Dorothy Ann Gaskins Duncan, 66, of Dillard, Georgia passed away on September 29, 2009 in Gainesville, Georgia.Mrs. Duncan was born October 20, 1942 in Charleston, South Carolina to parents, John B. and Jamima Ferguson Gaskins. Mrs. Duncan was a retiree of the Georgia Teachers Retirement System as a Special Education Teacher. She received her...

Fannie Teague

Fannie Teague

Sep 25, 2009

Fannie Teague, 86, Clayton, Ga.Fannie Katharine Queen Teague, 86, of Hiawassee and Clayton, Died Friday morning September 25, 2009 in Chatuge Regional Nursing Home in Hiawassee, Ga. She was the widow of Louie Teague.Born in Rabun County September 11, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Addie Welborn Queen. She was a homemaker and a member of...

Lucy Chastain

Lucy Chastain

Sep 22, 2009

Lucy M. Chastain, 88, Clayton, Ga.Lucy Thomas Chastain, 88 of Dillard, Ga. Died Tuesday September 22, 2009 at her home. She was the widow of Luke Chastain.She was born October 7, 1920 in Rabun County, to the late Julius and Ellen Kell Thomas. She had lived most of her life in Rabun County. She was a homemaker and was a...

John Bush

John Bush

Sep 15, 2009

John W Bush, 46, Clayton, Ga.John W, “Bushmonkey” Bush, 46 of Mountain City, Ga. Died Tuesday September 15, 2009 in Cumming, Ga.Born in Rabun County, Ga. September 17, 1962, he was the son of the late W.C. Bush and Dorothy Smith Bush. He was a Truck Driver and Baptist by Faith.Surviving are two sons; Jonathon and Joshua Bush of Cumming,...

Steven Ostas

Steven Ostas

Sep 14, 2009

Steven Orville Ostas 65, Clayton, Ga.Steven Orville Ostas, 65, of Boggs Mountain Road, Tiger, GA, died Monday, September 14, 2009, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, GA.Born November 7, 1943 in Rockland County, New York he was a son of the late Mike and Agnes Spicer Ostas Skinner. He was a Lineman in the Electrical industry, a U.S....

Guy Keener

Guy Keener

Sep 7, 2009

Guy A, Keener 81, Clayton, Ga.Guy A, Keener, 81, of Hwy 76 West, Clayton, Ga. , died Monday September 7, 2009 at his home.Born May 24, 1928 in Rabun County. He was the son of the late Abraham and Azalee Holms Keener. He was the husband of the late Betty Key Keener.He was retired from Burlington Industries after many years...

Rebekah Rheault

Rebekah Rheault

Sep 3, 2009

Rebekah V, Rheault 56, Clayton, Ga.Rebekah V. Rheault, 56, of 407 Warwoman RD, Clayton, Ga. Died Thursday September 3, 2009 in her home; after an 18-month battle with Lou Gerhig’s Disease.Becky was born Feb 4, 1953 in Germany and spent 34 years in Fitchburg, Mass. After living in W.P.B. Florida for 6 years she moved to Georgia where she spent...

Jesse Shirley

Jesse Shirley

Sep 3, 2009

Jesse F, Shirley, 81, Clayton, Ga.Jesse F. Shirley, 81, of Wiley, Ga. Died Thursday September 3, 2009 at his home.Born in Rabun County, Georgia. June 2, 1928, he was the son of the late Ralph and Amanda Jane Taylor Shirley. He was the husband of the late Jean Hipps Shirley. He was employed at Rabun Mills and Burlington Industries for...

Harry Milt

Harry Milt

Aug 31, 2009

Harry Milt, 99, Clayton, Ga.Harry Milt of Mountain City, died August 31, 2009 at his home. He was 99 years of age. Mr. Milt was born in the Ukraine to Philip and Rebecca Milt and came to the U.S. with his family in 1914. He was of the Hebrew faith.He is survived by his wife, Jannie Warlick Milt, son Dr....

Doris Crane

Doris Crane

Aug 29, 2009

Doris Christine White Crane, 78, Clayton, Ga.Doris Christine White Crane December 15, 1930- August 29, 2009 Doris Christine White Crane, 78, of Clayton, Georgia passed away Saturday August 29, 2009. Doris was born in Tifton Georgia, and then later moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. Doris was a member of the Salvation Army in West Palm Beach, Florida, where she...