Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Helen Donaldson
Feb 21, 2010
Helen Marie Hopper Donaldson, 90, Clayton, Ga.Helen Marie Hopper Donaldson, 90, of Clayton, died Sunday February 21, 2010 in North East Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.Born in Rabun Gap, Georgia. November 5, 1919, she was the daughter of the late James Bascomb Hopper and Fronie Viola Jones Hopper. She was the widow of James Nesbon Donaldson.She was a retiree from...
Richard Rains
Feb 19, 2010
Richard Neil Rains, 62, Lakemont, Ga.Richard Neil Rains, 62 of Hawk Hill Lane, Lakemont, Ga., died Friday February 19, 2010 at his home. He was the husband of Lynn Thompson Rains.Born in Nashville, Tennessee. August 14, 1947 he was the son of the late William Jay Rains and Jean Hunt Rains. He was a Real estate appraiser with Rains Appraisel...
Martha Thomas
Feb 14, 2010
Martha Ann Carpenter thomas, 72, Canton, Ohio.Martha Ann Carpenter Thomas, 72, of Canton Ohio, died Sunday February 14, 2010 at her home.Born January 26, 1938 in Macon County, North Carolina., she was the daughter of the late John W. Carpenter and Elizabeth Guffey Carpenter.She was raised in Scaly Mountain, NC., where she was a member of Scaly MTN. Baptist Church...
Sylvia Griggs
Feb 5, 2010
Sylvia A. Ledford Griggs 91, Clayton, Ga,Sylvia Alexander Ledford Griggs, 91, of Cross Street, Mt City, Georgia, died Friday night February 5, 2010 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center.Born In Cornelia, Ga., August 8,1918, she was the daughter of the late Wyley and Alice Baker Alexander. She was twice married, first to the late Richard R. Ledford, Sr., and later to...
Stephen Blake
Feb 5, 2010
Stephen H. Blake, 85, Tiger, Ga.Stephen H. Blake, 85, of Bridge Creek Rd, Tiger, Georgia, died Friday February 5, 2010 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center.Born in New Britain, Connecticut, November 5, 1924, he was the son of the late Stephen Alexander and Helen Howard Blacek. He was the widower of Frances Murphy Blake. He was a retired Sales Executive in...
Ida Watts
Feb 3, 2010
Ida Gibson Watts 92, Clayton, GAIda Gibson Watts, 92, of the Five Points Community, affectionately known as “Maw” and widow of Kelton C. Watts died Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at her residence.Born in Towns County, GA. August 28, 1917, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Lizzie Ramey Gibson. She was a homemaker and a member of the...
James Marsengill
Feb 1, 2010
James A. Marsengill, 58, Mt. City, Ga.James A. Marsengill, 58, of Will Zoellner Rd. Mt. City, Ga., died Monday February 1, 2010 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Ga.Born in Rabun County August 17, 1951, he was the son of the late David Andrew and Alice Chastain Marsengill. He was a machine operator in the textile industry and attended the...
Joseph Woodall
Jan 29, 2010
Joseph Raymond Woodall, 82, Clayton, Ga.Joseph Raymond Woodall, 82, of Rose Circle, Clayton, left his earthly home January 29, 2010 at Mountain View Nursing Home, after several years of declining health.Raymond (“J.R.”) was born on April 28, 1927 in Thomaston, Georgia, but most of childhood was in Gainesville, Ga. He was one of nine children by Frederick Morgan Woodall and...
Lillian Watts
Jan 25, 2010
Lillian Jones Watts, 85, Clayton, Ga.Lillian Jones Watts, 85, of Wiley Church Lane, Wiley Ga., died Monday January 25, 2010 at her home.Born in Rabun County March 14, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Harvey P. Tyler and Martha Smith Tyler.She was retired after several years as a food service employee with Rabun County Hospital and with the...
Tracy Lumley
Jan 25, 2010
Tracy Rose Lumley 49, MT. CityTracy Rose Lumley, 49, of Theodore Street, Mountain City, GA., died Monday night January 25, 2010 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.Born in Rabun County December 8, 1960, she was a daughter of the late Howard J. and Rosalie Lester Hopkins. She was a teacher and administrator with the Ninth District Head Start and...
Shirley Waldroop
Jan 23, 2010
Shirley Mae Bingham Waldroop, 60, Mountain City, Ga.Shirley Mae Bingham Waldroop, 60, of Alexander Lane, Mt, City, Ga., died Saturday January 23, 2010.Born October 20, 1949 in Habersham County, she was the daughter of Lola Mae Bingham Coleman of Mt.City and the late James Lee Bingham.She was a manager in the restaurant industry and attended the Church of God.Surviving Shirley...
Robert Jacobs
Jan 22, 2010
Robert Harold Jacobs, 62, Clayton, Ga.Robert Harold Jacobs, 62, of Seed Tick Road, Clayton, died Friday January 22, 2010 at his residence.Born in Sylva, NC; June 1, 1947 he was the son of Mary Helen Jacobs of Clayton and the late Robert Lyle Jacobs, Jr. He was a real estate agent and was of the Baptist Faith. He was a...
Aderene Smith
Jan 21, 2010
Aderene Carolyn Justus Smith, 71, Rabun Gap, Ga.Aderene Carolyn Justus Smith, 71, of O.V. Justus Road, Rabun Gap, wife of Clyde W. ”Moody” Smith died Thursday, January 21, 2010 at her residence.Born October 25. 1938 in Rabun County Georgia she was a daughter of the late Odelee V. and Maude Ledford Justus. She was a textile worker for many years...
Kenneth Mcclain
Jan 19, 2010
Kenneth S. McClain, 65, Rabun Gap, Ga.Kenneth S. “Big Mac” McClain, 65, of the Betty’s Creek Community died Tuesday, January 19, 2010.Born in Rabun County, May 16, 1944, he was a son of the late Gay and Ida Williams McClain. He was a retired textile worker having worked for Burlington Industries and Fruit of The Loom for a number of...
Paul Crowder
Jan 13, 2010
Paul Stuart Crowder, 83, Houston, Texas.Paul Stuart Crowder, 83, longtime resident of Clayton, Georgia, passed away in Houston, Texas on January 13, 2010. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Pamela Elizabeth Crowder, and his daughters, Jane Schmitt and Kathryn Crowder, both of Houston, Texas; son, Matthew Crowder of Naples, Florida; stepson, David Teschendorf, of New York, New...
James Owens
Jan 13, 2010
James Alan Owens, 70, Clayton, Ga.James Alan Owens, 70 of Hwy 28, N. in the Satolah Community, Rt. 1, Clayton died January 13, 2010 in Gainesville, Ga.Born in Rabun County, October 14, 1939, he was the son of Louise Nix Owens of Clayton and the late Doyle H. Owens. He was a landscaper and was a member of the Macedonia...
Alfred Reece
Jan 8, 2010
Alfred (Dumpy) Reece, 70, Walhalla, SC.Alfred Reece better known as (Dumpy) age 70, of Walhalla, SC, went to be with the Lord on January 8, 2010.He was born to the late Fred and Verlie Moore Reece on August 29, 1939 in Walhalla, SC he was a Heavy equipment operator for the Rabun County Road Department and Oconee County Road Department...
Jack Watts
Jan 2, 2010
Jack A. Watts, 71, Clayton, Ga.Jack A. Watts, 71, of Clayton, Georgia., died Saturday January 2, 2010 at his residence.Born in Rabun County September 12, 1938 he was the son of the late William Herbert (Hub) Watts and Fannie Mae Tyler Watts. He had spent more then half of his life in California. He was a retired school bus driver...
Richard Ledford
Jan 1, 2010
Richard R.(Pierre) Ledford, Jr 71, Mountain City, Ga.Richard R. (Pierre) Ledford, Jr., 71, of Mountain City, Georgia., died Friday January 1, 2010 in North East Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville.Born in Clark County, Washington, October 24, 1938 he was the son of Sylvia Alexander Ledford of Mountain City, Ga., and the late Richard Roscoe Ledford, Sr. He was a retired switchman...
Mildred Ensley
Dec 29, 2009
Mildred Eller Tyler Ensley, 73, Clayton, Ga.Mildred Eller Tyler Ensley, 73, of Mountain City, Georgia., died Tuesday December 29, 2009 in Mountain View Health Care Center, Clayton, GeorgiaBorn In Rabun County, November 2, 1936 she was the daughter of the late Leonard (Shorty) Eller and Lula Day Trusty Eller.She was twice married, first to the late Larue Tyler and later...



