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Recent Rabun County, GA Obituaries

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

Ida Watts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Mary Emory

Mary Emory

Dec 27, 2009

Mary Frances Ledbetter Emory, 84, Clayton, Ga.Mary Frances Ledbetter Emory, 84, of Black Rock Road, Mountain City, Georgia died Sunday December 27, 2009 in Mountain Lakes Medical Center, Clayton, Ga.Born in Rabun County January 25, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Webb and Rosalee Alexander Ledbetter. She was a homemaker and was retired from the textile industry. She...

Genelia Cheek

Genelia Cheek

Dec 26, 2009

Genelia Welch Cheek, 71, Clayton, Ga.Genelia Welch Cheek, 71, of Canton, Ga., formerly of Rabun County, and affectionately known to her family and friends as “Neil”, died Saturday evening December 26, 2009 at her home.Born in Rabun County October 16, 1938 she was the daughter of the late John Welch, Sr and Nellie Webb Welch. She was the widow of...

Helen Hart

Helen Hart

Dec 20, 2009

Helen Beck Hart, 85, Clayton, Ga.Helen Beck Hart, 85 of Cartersville, Ga. died peacefully Sunday December 20, 2009 in Rome Ga.A native of Rabun County, she was the daughter of the late Noah and Delphia Smith Beck.Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Caren and Dwight Kelley of Cartersville, Ga. Three grandsons; Steve, Chris and Scott Spivey of Atlanta. A brother,...

Jeff Tyler

Jeff Tyler

Dec 19, 2009

Rev. Jeff Tyler 72, Tiger, Ga. Rev. James Jefferson Tyler, 72, of Tomahawk Lane, Tiger, Ga., better known to his family and friends as Jeff., died Saturday evening December 19, 2009 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Ga. Born in Rabun County, Ga. Jan.7, 1937, he was the son of the late Lloyd and Savannah Moore Tyler. He was a...

Mary Walp

Mary Walp

Dec 13, 2009

Mary E. Mitchell Walp, 70, Clayton, Ga.Mary E. Mitchell Walp born November 17, 1939 at age70 passed away Sunday night December 13, 2009 at the Wuestoff Hospital in Rockledge, Florida. Mary was born in Charleston, SC to parents Charles T. Mitchell and Cona R. Burrell Mitchell.She was preceded in death by her parents and two children Charles and Nickie.She is...

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