Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Clayton, Rabun County, GA & Surrounding Areas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Alfreda Alexander
Dec 17, 2013
Alfreda Ruth Alexander, 88, of Turpin Street Tiger, Georgia., died Tuesday December 17, 2013 at her residence.Born in Dunklin County, Missouri, December 13, 1925 she was the daughter of the late Will J. Rogers and Eunice Cooper Rogers. She was a homemaker and nurse (LPN). She was the wife of Meyers Alexander. She is survived by her husband Meyers Alexander...
Eileen Swanson
Dec 16, 2013
Eileen Swanson, 97, of Payne Hill Drive, Clayton, Georgia, died Monday December 16, 2013 at her residence.Born in Sioux City, Iowa February 12, 1916, she was the daughter of the late Raymond Durant Hilton and Susan Ruth Stanford Hilton. She was the widow of Ernest Allen Swanson, Sr. She attended Rabun Senior Center, loved to cook and loved bingo and...
Lenora Robinson
Dec 14, 2013
Lenora Welborn Robinson, 73, of Bill Robinson Lane, Tiger, Georgia., died Saturday December 14, 2013 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia.Born in Rabun County February 26, 1940, she was the daughter of the late Lex and Bertha Holcomb Welborn. She was a homemaker and attended the Baptist Church.She was preceded in death her husband Jack P. Robinson and by...
Jane Justus
Dec 12, 2013
Jane Queen Justus, 72, of Wayah Trail, Clayton, Georgia., died Thursday morning, December 12, 2013 at her residence.Born in Rabun County September 16, 1941, she was the daughter of the late Emory N. and Pearl Bottoms Queen. She was a member of AARP and a member of Mountain Grove Baptist Church. She was the widow of Harvey H. Justus.Besides her...
Clyde Smith
Dec 11, 2013
Clyde W. “Moody” Smith, 84, of O.V. Justus Road, Rabun Gap, Georgia., died Wednesday December 11, 2013 at his residence.Born in Swain County, North Carolina., January 17, 1929, he was the son of the late Grover and Marjorie Gass Smith. He was the widower of Aderene Justus Smith. He retired from Burlington Industries and was a member of the Dillard...
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