Obituaries

Mar 14, 2020

Mr. Lee Kennington Brewton, age 88, of Carrollton, passed away Saturday, March 14, 2020. Mr. Brewton was born July 28, 1931, in Cochran, GA, to the late Francis Asbury Brewton and Ruth Finney Brewton.  After serving as a Staff Sergeant in the Korean War, Lee attended and graduated Georgia Tech with a degree in Industrial Management. ...

Mar 9, 2020

Ms. Sheila Wingo Summerville, age 59 of Bremen, GA, passed away Monday, March 9, 2020 at her residence.She was born Monday, July 25, 1960 and was the daughter of the late Willie A. Wingo and the late Sylvia Jean Morris Wingo. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her daughter Tarah Summerville. She was Baptist by...

Mar 7, 2020

Mr. James Thomas "Tommy" Williams, devoted husband, father and grandfather, age 62, of Tallapoosa, passed away Saturday, March 7, 2020, after an extended illness. Mr. Williams was born in Flint, MI, on July 27, 1957, to the late Howard Williams and Sharon Smith Williams.  Tommy joined the Navy as a teenager, and after serving 4 years was honorably...

Mar 6, 2020

Mr. Bobby Eugene Schwind, age 75, of Bremen passed away Friday, March 6, 2020, in a local hospital. Mr. Schwind was born in Sheffield, AL, on September 17, 1944, to the late Hubert Schwind and Lucille Bruton Schwind.  Bobby lived most of his life in Alexander City, AL, working and raising a family.  He and his wife, Faye,...

Mar 3, 2020

Kristopher Ryan Oxenreider, age 35, of Cedartown, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. He was born on October 23, 1984 in Springfield, MO to Samuel Cleo Oxenreider and Doris Nan Brannon Oxenreider.  He is preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Al and Nora Brannon and paternal grandparents, Sam A. and Marjorie Oxenreider.

Mar 2, 2020

Mr. James Martin Eidson, age 70, of Buchanan passed away on Monday, March 2, 2020. He was born in Austell on Sunday, March 13, 1949. Mr. Eidson was the son of the late, James Robert Eidson and the late, Virginia (Cash) Eidson.

Mr. Eidson served in the United States Navy. Later in life he made a...

Feb 25, 2020

Mr. Jimmy Dean Clayton of Tallapoosa passed way on Tuesday, February 25, 2020.  He was born in Cleburne County, Alabama on February 10, 1932 to the late Dewey Clayton and the late Willie Albright Clayton.  Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Lila Clayton; two sisters, Barbara Bell and Margie Benefield; three brothers, Billie...

Feb 25, 2020

Mr. Bennie Lee Weaver, age 79, of Buchanan, passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. He was born on June 8, 1940 in Buchanan to the late Milfred Weaver and the late Irene Everedge Weaver.  Mr. Weaver worked 26 years at Arrow in Bremen until the plant closed.   His last employment was with Haralson County as...

Feb 25, 2020

Ms. Patricia Ann Church Bishop, age 65, of Rockmart, passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2020.  She was born on September 17, 1954 in Jacksonville, Florida to the late Arthur Edward "Ed" Church and the late Ruth L. Wathington Church.

Patricia was a member of Mountain View Baptist Church and a beloved...

Feb 16, 2020

Ms. Maria Diane Cox, age 60, of Tallapoosa, passed away on Sunday, February 16, 2020. She was born on September 4, 1959, in Macon to Sidney Roy Cox and the late Peggie Ann Pender Cox.

Survivors include her father, Sidney Roy Cox of Tallapoosa; one daughter, April Ammons of Tallapoosa; three grandchildren,...

Feb 16, 2020

Mrs. Jimmie Sue Herndon, age 80, of Bremen, passed away on Sunday, February 16, 2020. She was born on October 21, 1939 to the late James Scoggins and the late Evelyn L. Jacobs Scoggins. Besides her parents she is preceded in death by one sister, Nell Fuller and two brothers, Joseph Scoggins and John Scoggins.

Feb 15, 2020

Legacy of Life

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born and a time to die;

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

Barbara Ann Dove, affectionately known as "Nana Boo" was born...

Feb 15, 2020

Mrs. Rosie Lee Burns Mason, age 86, of Buchanan, passed away on Saturday, February 15, 2020. She was born on September 3, 1933 in Buchanan to the late Lena Burns Shoemake. Besides her mother she is preceded in death by her husband Luther Eugene Mason.

Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Lisa...

Feb 12, 2020

Monica Jean Benefield Bradley, age 68 of Carrollton, passed away on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. She was born on November 18, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA to the late Dack Benefield and the late Eila McGuire Benefield. Besides her parents she is preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Ollie Herbert Bradley and one brother, Darwin...

Feb 11, 2020

Mrs. Brenda Judy Robinson of Bremen passed away Wednesday, January 12, 2020. She was born Friday, August 4, 1944 to the late Harold Jasper Stacey and Mildred Mattie Shelton Stacey in Carrollton, GA. She was preceded in death by her first husband, children`s father Thomas Wayne Keeton Sr. and her late husband Charles Edker "Pete" Robinson, sister Barbara...

Feb 10, 2020

Mr. Samuel Theodore Stevenson III, of Villa Rica, GA passed away Monday, February 10, 2020 at Tranquility Hospice in Austell, GA. He was born Tuesday, January 5, 1954 to the late Samuel Theodore Stevenson Jr. and Helen Spivey Stevenson in Asheboro, NC. Besides his parents he was preceded in death by his wives Reba Beal Stevenson and Cathy...

Feb 10, 2020

Mrs. Margaret Lynn Folds Evans, age 54, of Waco, passed away peacefully at her residence on Monday, February 10, 2020. She was born on Monday, January 13, 1966 to the late Glen Watson Folds and the late Flossie Mae Strickland Folds. Besides her parents she is preceded in death by one sister, Mavis J. Skipper and two brothers,...

Feb 9, 2020

Sorrel Hays, American pianist, composer and artist died on Sunday, February 9, 2020 at her bucolic home in rural Buchanan, Georgia, after battling cancer for two years. She was born on August 6, 1941 and was 78 years of age. For her friends, family and colleagues, a light has gone out. The world is a greyer, more somber...

Feb 1, 2020

Mrs. Ellen Jane Allen Priest, age 69, of Bremen, passed away on Saturday, February 1, 2020. She was born on November 16, 1950 to the late James Calvin Allen and the late Reba Louise Potridge Allen. Beside her parents she is preceded in death by her husband, Charles Raymond Priest and son, Mitchell Lee Jackson.

Jan 30, 2020

Ms. Patricia Irene Weems Whitten, age 70, of Bowdon, passed away on Thursday, January 30, 2020. She was born on January 11, 1950 in Borden Springs, AL to the late Douglas Weems and the late Mary Ellen Dyer Weems. Beside her parents she is preceded in death by a brother, Edwin Weems.

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