Randy Edge
Dec 5, 2017
Randy Spear Edge, age 70, of Lavonia passed away December 5, 2017.Born April 11, 1947 in Oconee County, South Carolina, he was a son of the late Emory Spear and Utez Taylor Edge. He was a veteran of the United States Army and served in the Vietnam War. He was of the Baptist faith.He is survived by two sisters: Emily...
Mary Payne
Nov 27, 2017
Mary Douglas Payne, age 93, of Carnesville, Georgia passed away Monday, November 27, 2017.Born April 2, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Eva Eloise Vickery Sears Hooper and Thomas Walter Sears. She was the wife of the late Herbert Winson Payne. She was the mother of the late Durell Payne. She was the sister of the late William...
Wayne Starrett
Nov 19, 2017
Wayne D. Starrett, 75, passed away at his home, November 19, 2017.Born March 28, 1942, in Hart County, he was the son of the late Obie B. and Emma Frances Hayes Starrett. He was the brother of the late Herbert Starrett, Elizabeth Skelton, Margie Veal, Virginia Taylor, Brenda Brooks, Hazel Bond, and Faye Meadows and Jo Ann Lattimore. He was...
Kenneth Cash
Nov 18, 2017
Lt. Col. William Kenneth Cash “Bill”, formerly of Savannah, GA, died after a brief illness in Shreveport, LA on November 18, 2017 at the age of 86. Bill was born on January 27, 1931 in Franklin County, GA where he lived until graduating from Franklin County High School. After graduating from Piedmont College in Demorest, GA he entered the United...
Barry Westbrook
Nov 9, 2017
Barry Keith Westbrook, 47, of Lavonia, passed away Thursday evening, November 9, 2017, at the Brown Health and Rehabilitation, in Royston, GA.Born November 8, 1970 in Royston, GA, he was the son of Hazel Turpin Westbrook Singleton and the late Roy Earl Westbrook, and the late Ronnie Singleton. He was a member of the Hart County Class of 1988. He...
Barbara Malloy
Nov 6, 2017
Barbara Malloy, 66, of Royston, passed away Monday evening November 6, 2017, at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Lavonia, GA.Born September 3, 1951, she was the daughter of the late Tommy Bellew and the late Edna Elise Nash Bellew Farmer. She was employed at the Royston Public Library. She attended the Word Of Life in Carnesville.She was survived by her daughter...
Mary Jo Roberts
Nov 3, 2017
Mary Jo Roberts, of the Red Hill community, passed away Friday, November 3, 2017, at the Scepter Health and Rehab of Snellville, GA.Born August 13, 1931, in Franklin County, she was the daughter of the late Manny Lee and Lollie Sue Taylor Bryant. She was the widow of the late James Ralph Roberts. She was the sister of the late...
Marilyn Walker
Nov 2, 2017
Marilyn Pruitt Walker, 74, of the Plainview community of Franklin County, passed away Thursday morning, November 2, 2017, at the Athens Regional Medical Center, Athens, GA.Born September 9, 1943, in Stephens County, she was the daughter of the late Dewey Dorsey and Juanita Mary Cash Pruitt. She was the mother of the late Dewey Olin Walker and sister of the...
Andrew Elliot “Fuzz” Harper
Nov 2, 2017
Andrew Elliot “Fuzz” Harper, 91, of the Sandy Cross Community, passed away early Thursday morning, November 2, 2017 at the Brown Health and Rehab Center in Royston.Born October 28, 1926, in Franklin County, he was the son of the late John T. and Tarella Karzan Carey Harper. He was the husband of the late Vera Belle Rice Harper and brother...
Patricia Simmons
Oct 26, 2017
Patricia Ann Daniel Simmons, age 75, of the Bold Spring Community of Carnesville, Ga passed away Thursday, October 26, 2017 at the Northridge Health and Rehabilitation in Commerce, Georgia.Born June 14, 1942 in Greenwood, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Oliver Osborn and Dorothy Lee Hill Daniel. She was the wife of the late James Henry Simmons. ...
JoAnn Hopkins Kirk
Oct 20, 2017
JoAnn Hopkins Kirk, 80, of Carnesville, passed away Friday morning, October 20, 2017 at the St Mary's Hospital in Athens Georgia.Born April 30, 1937, in Carnesville, GA, she was the daughter of the late John Thomas and Lillian W. Morgan Hopkins. She was widow of the late Rufus Kirk; grandmother of the late Amanda Abbs; and sister of the late...
Thomas Brantley Westbrook
Oct 8, 2017
Thomas Brantley Westbrook, 67, of the Ashland community, passed away Sunday morning, October 8, 2017, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville.Born July 12, 1950, in Commerce, GA, he was the son of the late Thurston and Mary Lou Parker Westbrook. He was the husband of the late Ethel Letitia Westbrook, the brother of the late Betty McKern, and father-in-law...
Patti Payne
Oct 4, 2017
“Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not”
Patti Ann Kennedy Payne, 61, of the New Franklin Community, passed away Wednesday morning, October 4, 2017, at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Lavonia, GA.Born June 24, 1956, in Buford, GA, she was the daughter of the late Idus Harold and Kathryn Eloise Morgan Kennedy. An executive secretary, she had worked...
James Parrish
Sep 30, 2017
James Everett Parrish, 85, of Carnesville, passed away Saturday morning, September 30, 2017, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville.Born April 11, 1932, in Princeton , North Carolina, he was the son of the late James Eddie and Effie Daughtry Parrish. He was the brother of the late Elton Parrish, Estelle, Rains, and Ruth Powell. He was a pressman and...
Alton Ray
Sep 27, 2017
Rev. Alton Kenneth Ray, 84, of Canon, Georgia, passed away Wednesday morning, September 27, 2017, at the Piedmont Athens Medical Center, Athens, Georgia.Born July 28, 1933, in Hart County, he was the son of the late William Jasper and Allie Brown Ray. He was the father of the late, Susan Marie Ray Detter. The last member of his immediate family...
Virginia Whitworth
Sep 18, 2017
Virginia Ruth Whitworth, 72 of Red Hill passed away Monday afternoon at her home.Born March 15, 1945, in Franklin County, she was the daughter of the late Jessie and Rosie Hembree Chastain. She was the last surviving member of sixteen brothers and sisters. She was a homemaker, and a member of The Pointe Church of God. She was also very...
Pruitt McClain
Sep 12, 2017
Alton Pruitt McClain, 85, of the Red Hill Community passed away Tuesday morning, September 12, 2017, at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia, GA.Born March 30, 1932, in Red Hill, he was the son of the late Hoyt and Lily Mullinax McClain. He was the brother of the late Ellen Smith, Hoke McClain, Solon McClain, Jim McClain, Pete McClain, and...
Jerri Duffell
Sep 7, 2017
Retha Geraldine “Jerri” Bond Duffell, 79, of Carnesville, passed away Thursday morning, September 7, 2017 at the Northridge Health Center in Commerce.Born May 31, 1938, in Carnesville, GA, she was the daughter of the late John Leon and Azilee Martin Bond. She was the widow of the late Allen Duffell. She was a member of the FCHS class of 1956....
Peggy Beppler
Sep 3, 2017
Peggy Jo Hunter Beppler, 58, of Canon, Georgia passed away Sunday morning September 3, 2017, at her home.Born March 22, 1959, in Royston, GA, she was the daughter of the late Bert Lee and Rosa Lee Dove Hunter. She had been employed at Habersham Plantation and Hehr International. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church.She is survived by her...
J N Hopkins
Aug 21, 2017
J N Hopkins, 84, of Martin, Ga, passed away Monday morning, August 21, 2017, at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia, Ga.Born April 12, 1933, he was the son of the late John Thomas and Lillian W. Morgan Hopkins. He had retired from the J P Stevens/West Point Pepperell textile plant. He was of the Holiness faith.He is survived by...


