Audie Watts
Aug 20, 2019
Audie Wayne Watts, 66, of the Middle River Community, passed away Thursday evening August 15, 2019, at his residence.Born March 11, 1953, in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the son of Evelyn Marie Chaney Watts Fincher, and the late Frankie Watts. He had retired as a horticulture supervisor with the City of Birmingham. He was the brother of the late Gary...
Johnny Duncan
Aug 16, 2019
Johnny Duncan 54, of Eastanollee, passed away Sunday morning, August 11, 2019.Born November 19, 1964, in Buford Georgia he was the son of Robert Verner and Peggy Sue Montgomery Duncan. He was a construction worker with Trimco Builders of Winder.Survivors include his children, Amanda Palmer, Gainesville, Dana Stoker, Carnesville, Jenny Davis, Eastanollee, and Joseph Crum, Cherryville, NC; 14 grandchildren; 2...
Johnny Hill
Aug 9, 2019
Johnny Lawrence Hill, 62, of Canon, passed away Friday morning, August 9, 2019, at his residence.Born May 30, 1957, in Royston, GA, he was the son of Dwain and Sue Corn Hill. He was a retired truck driver and was a veteran of the United States Navy.Survivors include his parents, Dwain and Sue of Carnesville; brother and sister-in-law Troy and...

Roy Brookshire
Aug 7, 2019
Roy Lee Brookshire, 82, of Carnesville, passed away Wednesday morning, August 7, 2019 at the Veranda of Carnesville.He was born September 5, 1936, in Ellijay Georgia. He was the son of the late Luther and Vinnie Stamey Brookshire and the brother of the late Ruby Boatwright, Roscoe Brookshire, and Jimmy Brookshire. He served in the National Guard and was retired...
Bob Harris
Aug 2, 2019
Robert Luree, "Bob" Harris, 91, of the Red Hill Community, passed away Friday morning, August 2, 2019, at the St Mary’s Hospital, Athens, Georgia.Born August 24, 1928 in East Point, Georgia, he was a son of the late Henry Olin and Bertha Carolina Jones Harris. He was the husband of the late Dorothy Isabelle “Dot” Little, grandfather of the late...

Gail Pitts
Jul 23, 2019
Deborah Gail Whitworth Pitts, 62, of Lavonia, passed away Tuesday afternoon at the Piedmont Athens Medical Center.Born January 21, 1957, she was the daughter of Ozzie Morgan Whitworth and the late Bennie Whitworth. She was the mother of the late Joseph Adam Pitts, and sister of the late Ricky Whitworth. She was member of the Franklin County High School class...
Buck Jordan
Jul 11, 2019
Larry Eugene "Buck" Jordan, 62, of Royston passed away Wednesday evening July 10, 2019.Born August 7, 1956, in Commerce, GA, he was the son of Alberta Eugen Roach Jordan and the late John Talmadge Jordan. He was the brother of the late Wayne Jordan, Lorene Jordan and Mattie Dean. He was a tree surgeon with Asplundh Tree Experts.Survivors include his...
Michael Hart
Jul 11, 2019
Michael Arlen Hart,age 82, of Brown Road, Carnesville, GA, passed away July 10, 2019 at his residence.Son of the late Mr. George Hart, Sr. and Mrs. Louise Hart , he was born October 31, 1936 in Franklin County, Georgia, and lived all his life in Carnesville. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter...
Dr. Robert F. Sullivan
Jul 10, 2019
Dr. Robert Franklin “Bob” Sullivan Sr, 91, of Carnesville, passed away Tuesday evening July 9, 2019 at the Veranda of Carnesville.Born September 21, 1927, in Carnesville, he was the son of the late Franklin Clyde and Minnie Valdivia “Dee” Gillespie Sullivan. He was the husband of the late June Wilson Sullivan; father of the late Robert F. “Bobby” Sullivan Jr.;...
Ed Bryant
Jul 10, 2019
Omer Edwin “Ed” Bryant, 89, of Carnesville, passed away Tuesday morning, July 10, 2019, at the Veranda of Carnesville.Born October 7, 1929, in Carnesville, he was the son of the late Omer Lee and Willie Payne Bryant. He was the brother of the late Eugene Bryant, Stella Louise Bryant, and Ida Mae “Maise” Beacham. He was the uncle of the...

Ashley Watkins
Jul 8, 2019
Ashley Michelle Young Watkins, 32, of Carnesville passed away Thursday, July 4, 2019.Born April 1, 1987, in Stephens County, she was the daughter of Rev. James Leonard and Lillie Faye Maye Young. She was a homemaker.She is survived by her husband Wyman K. Watkins; her parents of Carnesville; five step-children, Wyatt Watkins, Ryan Watkins, Lindsay Watkins, April Kesler, and Amber...

Annette Carey
Jul 1, 2019
Annette McGill Carey, 79, of the Sandy Cross Community, passed away Sunday afternoon at Piedmont Athens Hospital.Born December 7, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Tyrus and Winnie Belle Blackburn McGill. She was the widow of the late Ernest Fermon Carey, and sister of the late Mary Nell Martin and Charles Edward McGill. She was a retired sales...
Joe Parker
Jun 30, 2019
Marshall Joe Parker, 62, of the Hunter’s Creek Community passed away June 30, 2019 at the Piedmont Athens Hospital.Born August 10, 1956, in Stephens County, he was the son of the late John Henry Sr and Dorothy Evelelar Turpin Parker. He was the brother of the late John H. Parker Jr, Leon Parker, and Becky Woody. He had worked for...
Joyce Henderson
Jun 29, 2019
Linda Joyce Sheriff Henderson, 72, of the Double Churches Community, passed away Saturday afternoon, June 29, 2019 at her home.Born September 13, 1946, she was the daughter of the late Robert Hayden and Mildred Inez Higginbotham Sheriff. The last member of her immediate family, she was the sister of the late Rudene Burdette, Bobby Sheriff, Johnny Sheriff, Mae Blakely, Paul...
Doris Hopkins
Jun 21, 2019
Doris Fowler Hopkins, 82, of Martin, Ga passed away Friday Morning June 21 2019, at the home of her son.Born January 25, 1937, she was the daughter of the late John Fowler and Lucille Thurmond Fowler . She had retired from Coats America and was of the Holiness Faith. She is survived by her two sons and daughter in law,...

Linda Elrod
Jun 16, 2019
Linda Sewell ElrodMrs. Linda Sewell Elrod age 64 of Richardson Street passed away Saturday June 15, 2019 at Stephens County Hospital.A daughter of the late Guy and Marie Ferris Sewell, she was born February 12, 1955 in Washington, D.C. having lived most of her life in Toccoa. She was a member of Calvary Temple of Deliverance.Survivors include her husband Aaron...

Michael Gibson
Jun 10, 2019
Michael William Gibson, 32, of the Red Hill Community, passed Friday, June 7, 2019.Born August 11, 1986, in Winder, GA, he was the son of Mark David Gibson and the late Gloria Ann McIntyre. He was the step-son of the late Trina Ayers Gibson. He was a welder with Wright’s Manufacturing.Survivors include two sons, Devin and Tyler Gibson, Toccoa; father,...
Brenda Banks
Jun 2, 2019
Brenda Faye Williamson Banks, 75, of Royston, passed away June 1, 2019, at the Piedmont Athens Medical Center, Athens, GA.Born March 19, 1944, in Covington, GA, she was the daughter of the late Rev. Voil McGarity and Dellie Lee Powell Williamson. She was the sister of the late Pat Burdette and Barbara Norman. She was a homemaker and had been...
Barbara Smith Andrews
Jun 2, 2019
Barbara Milford Smith Andrews, 77, of the Red Hill Community, passed away Sunday morning, June 2, 2019 at the Piedmont Athens Medical Center.Born February 3, 1942, in Toccoa, she was the daughter of the late Clarence A. and Gladys South Milford. She was the wife of the late Doyle Benjamin “Butch” Smith and the late Thomas William “Tommy” Andrews. She...

Travis Malone
May 29, 2019
Infant Travis Noah Malone, of Carnesville, passed away Sunday evening May 25, 2019 at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Lavonia.Born April 4, 2019, in Stephens County, he was the son of Brandon Noah and Holly Ann McGee Malone. He was the grandson of Danny and Kinberly Travis Malone, Mayesville, GA and Johnny and Lisa McGee, Carnesville; great-grandparents, Felton and Vivian Gray,...