Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
Hershel Grist
Nov 15, 2016
KHershel J. Grist Jr., ., 92, of Dillard, Georgia., died Tuesday November 15, 2016 at his home after a long bout with cancer. He was the widower of Runelle Dixon Grist.Hershel Jr., was born in Rabun County November 3, 1924 to Hershel Sr., and Belle Bleckley Grist and had lived in Rabun County most of his life. He attended Piedmont...
George Ledbetter
Nov 4, 2016
George Ledbetter, Jr., 65, of Toccoa, Georgia., died Friday November 4, 2016 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center.Born in Rabun County February 21, 1951, he was the son of Bessie Rogers Ledbetter Cragg and the late George Ledbetter. George had worked in the automotive industry for many years as a car painter and other duties in the automotive industry. He was...
William Flanigen
Nov 3, 2016
William Scofield Flanigen, 82, of Glassy Orchard Road, Tiger., Georgia., died Thursday November 3, 2016 at his home.He was born in Atlanta, Georgia., November 10, 1933 to the late John M. Flanigen and Hannah Scofield Flanigen. He lived in Rabun for several years. He was a writer for the U.S. Treasury Department. He was a Korean War Veteran in the...
Virginia Ivester
Nov 2, 2016
Virginia Iola Justus Jiles Sextro Ivester, age 84, of Cornelia, GA, passed away peacefully at Habersham Home East, Habersham Medical Center, Demorest, GA on November 2, 2016.Virginia was born March 17, 1932 in Rabun County GA, to the late Issac Benson Justus and Mary Ellen McDowell Justus. She was also preceded in death by her children’s father, Almon Jiles, her...
Patrick Parker
Nov 2, 2016
Patrick Newton Parker, III, age 80, of Demorest, GA passed away peacefully at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA with his wife, Deborah Jiles Parker by his side on November 2, 2016. Patrick was born October 25, 1936 in Charlotte, NC to the late Patrick Newton Parker, II and Madeline White Parker formally of Gainesville, GA. He was preceded in...
Elizabeth Erlitz
Oct 27, 2016
Elizabeth Sue Erlitz, 70, of Cove Crest Drive, Tiger, Georgia., died Thursday October 27, 2016 in North East Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Georgia. Born in Dallas Georgia., January 19, 1946, she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Mary Sue Parker Humbarger. She was a retired asst. manager of an apartment complex and was a member of the...
Lillie Alexander
Oct 17, 2016
Lillie Marie Patton Alexander, 78 of Clayton died Monday October 17, 2016 at Mountain View Health Care. She was the widow of James Robert Alexander.Born in Rabun County March 17, 1938, she was the daughter of the late Bill Patton and Laura Parker Patton. She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist Faith.Marie is survived by one son, George...
Thomas Green
Oct 14, 2016
Thomas “Jerry” Green, 70 of Carnes Road Tiger, Georgia., died Friday October 14, 2016 at his residence. He was the husband of Felicia Brigman Green.Born in Macon County, North Carolina., June 10, 1946 to the late Andy Franklin Green and Hattie May-Bell Brown Green. He worked for the Water Maintence Department for the City of Clayton and was a member...
Harold Ford
Oct 12, 2016
Harold Eugene (Buddy) Ford, 68, of Bethel Road, Tiger, Georgia., died Wednesday October 12, 2016 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center Clayton, Georgia. He was born June 17, 1948 in Duluth, Georgia., to the late Donald D. Ford and Ramesia West Ford. He was self-employed in the wood working industry, creating furniture plus works of art. He served in the U.S....
Barbara Brendle
Oct 5, 2016
Barbara Brendle, 76, peacefully passed away on October 5, 2016 at her home in Lakemont, Georgia. She is survived by her daughter, Dana Sanders, three sons, Darron Sanders, Bobby Sanders and Brandon Sanders, as well as 6 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Arts and fashion were one of the many things she enjoyed along with practicing a positive spiritual life....
Dover Henson
Oct 5, 2016
Dover W. Henson, Jr., 57, died Wednesday night October 5, 2016 at Mountain View Health Care, Clayton, Georgia.Born in Rabun County Georgia, September 27, 1959 he was the son of the Late Dover Wilburn Henson, Sr., and Peggy Sue Hunter Henson. He was a self-employed Plumber for many years and was of the Methodist Faith.He was preceded in death by...
James Stephens
Oct 4, 2016
James Andrew Stephens, 73, of Sidetrack Lane, Tiger, Georgia., died Tuesday October 4, 2016 at his home.Born in Rabun County March 13, 1943, he was the son of the late John Hines Stephens and Mary Catherine Watts Stephens. He was the husband of Lurlene Wilbanks Stephens of the home. Mr. Stephens was a retired Insulator with National Asbestos Works Company....
Martha Bingham
Oct 1, 2016
. Martha Berry Keener Bingham, 83, of Clayton, Georgia., died Saturday October 1, 2016 at the Hope House in Fayette County Georgia. She was the widow of Max Bingham.Named Martha Berry after Martha Berry who founded the Berry Schools where her father attended (later to become Berry College), she was the first born of Rufus Keener and Flora Kilby Keener....
Lorene Jones
Sep 26, 2016
Lorene McKay Jones 90, of Clayton, Georgia., died Monday September 26, 2016 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, GA. She was the widow of Ira Dean Jones. Born in Lakemont Georgia., June 11, 1926 she was the daughter of the late Charlie and Berlie Smith McKay. She was a Creel Leader for Burlington a former member of Mt. City Homemakers...
Rev. Reginald Gunn
Sep 24, 2016
The Rev. Reginald R. Gunn, 75, of Tiger, Georgia died peacefully on Saturday, September 24, 2016.He was born in Tifton, Georgia to Helen and John S. Gunn, both deceased.Reginald graduated from the University of Georgia., and Seabury Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.Reginald served in parishes in Cochran, Douglas, Albany, Savannah and Americus, Georgia., and in Baton Rouge, LA.He was...
Doris Bleckley
Sep 20, 2016
Doris Wilma Bleckley, devoted family member and friend, died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones on September 20, 2016, she was 91. Doris, third child of Thomas Cleon and Maude James Bleckley, was a native of Clayton, Georgia. She attended Rabun County High where she was very active in sports. She twice won the Rabun County Women’s Golf Championship. Miss Bleckley...
Peggy Henson
Sep 20, 2016
Peggy Hunter Henson, 79, of Clayton died Tuesday September 20, 2016 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia. She was the widow of Dover W. Henson, Sr.Peggy was born in Rabun County to the late Ferd A. Hunter and Amanda Baker Hunter on February 11, 1937. She had retired from the textile industry, having worked for Claburne and Haynes and...
Lewis Dills
Sep 15, 2016
Lewis Dills, 73, of Turnerville, GA., died Thursday night September 15, 2016 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, GA.He was born June 22, 1943 in Rabun County to the late Lyman and Maude Justus Dills. He was retired from the Fruit of the Loom in the textile industry in quality control. He was graduated from Rabun County High School and...
Susan Darnell
Sep 13, 2016
Susan Louise Darnell, 57, of Mountain City Georgia., died Tuesday September 13, 2016 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA.Born in Flagstaff, Arizona., September 10, 1959 to Albert Darnell and the late Pat Darnell. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist Faith.She was preceded in death by her mother, Pat Darnell by one brother, Lang Darnell, and is survived...
Joyce Wall
Sep 8, 2016
Joyce Wall, 74, of Antioch Church Road, Toccoa, Georgia., Habersham County, died Thursday September 8, 2016 at her home. She was the widow of Jerry M. Wall. Born in Franklin, North Carolina., March 25, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Harley and Merlie Willis Pendergrass. She was a line supervisor with Fieldale Corporation. She was a Baptist by...
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