Obituaries
Marjorie Hurst Priester
May 2, 2020
Marjorie Hurst Priester, age 79, of Decatur, GA passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 2nd, 2020. She was born on October 4th, 1940 in Macon, GA to Ellis and Mary Elizabeth Hurst. She is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Williams (Allen), and her granddaughters, Mary Elizabeth and Julia Sheley. She attended Mercer University and graduated in 1962. She was employed...
Edna Louise New
May 2, 2020
Edna Louise New, better known by her family and friends as “Honey”, went to be with the Lord on May 2, 2020. She was 95 years old, born on April 1, 1925 to Aaron Thomas Chewning and Edna Lucinda Leavell. Edna is predeceased by her husband of 57 years. Ray Harvey New. She is survived by her two daughters; Beverly...
Carol Green
May 1, 2020
Carol Rose Green, age 75, died Friday May 1, 2020, in Sacred Journey Hospice facility in McDonough, Georgia. Born March 1, 1945, in Bessemer, Alabama, she was the daughter of Arthur and Louise Green and later the stepdaughter of Horace (Zoot) Ashley. After completing her BS degree in Education at the University of Alabama, where she was a member of...
Colonel Annette White Johnson
Apr 30, 2020
Mrs. Colonel Annette Marie (White) Johnson passed away peacefully on April 30th, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 91. Annette is survived by her husband Colonel Edward James Johnson, her children Barbara Annette Glick (David), Steven Edward Johnson, Linda Marie Crickenberger (Charles), and Christine Beth Thurley (Richard), her granddaughters Lila Alani Glick and Caitlin Renée Thurley, her brother...
Dorothy Hauser
Apr 30, 2020
Dorothy Gilbert Moore Hauser (Dot), 101, of Atlanta, Georgia, passed away peacefully on April 30, 2020 at Addington Place in Alpharetta, Georgia. Dot was born, in Washington, Georgia on March 24, 1919. She married James Harold Moore, Sr and had two loving children James H. Moore, Jr and Barbara Moore Dorsett before becoming a widow in 1958. She married Edgar...
Nancy Tinkler
Apr 29, 2020
Nancy Wilder Tinkler, age 94 of Atlanta, passed away on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Born in St. Louis on October 12, 1925 to Wentworth and Susan Wilder, Nancy was a graduate of DePauw University and member of the Alpha Phi sorority. She married Delbert William Tinkler and raised four sons. She was an active member of Wieuca Road Baptist and...
Walter Herndon Morgan
Apr 29, 2020
Walter Herndon Morgan, Jr. was born October 16, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He died on 29th of April 2020. He graduated from Decatur Boys High School and attended The University of Georgia in Athens and the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia. He served two tours of duty in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He was employed...
Harold Victor Pryles
Apr 28, 2020
PRYLES, Harold V., “Hank” Pryles, age 92, of Atlanta, Georgia, peacefully passed away on April 28, 2020, surrounded by his loving family. Hank was born March 3, 1928, the fifth of seven children born to Greek immigrants, Mary and Victor Pryles.
Everyone who knew Hank, knows what a compassionate and caring person he was. His warm and loving heart, and...
Michael George Creety, Jr.
Apr 28, 2020
Michael George Creety, Jr. was born on April 8, 1964, and passed away on April 28, 2020. He is survived by his loving, devoted mother, Anastasia (Tassie) Poulos Truman, his sister, Ariadne Adriane Creety, his aunts Themis (Cissy) Poulos Lamas, and Sophia Poulos Staros, his uncle Stavros Andris, his maternal great aunt, Ida Janoulis Lingos, and several cousins. He is...
Sylvia Hunt
Apr 28, 2020
Sylvia Jordan Hunt, 89, passed away peacefully April 28, 2020 while trying to recover from a fall. Born at the former Georgia Baptist Hospital in downtown Atlanta, Sylvia inherited her strong independent streak from her parents, Robert and Lena Jordan. Growing up in Sylvan Hills as their only child, Sylvia attended Girls High and graduated from Brown High. She met...
Edith Miller
Apr 28, 2020
Edith Grimm Miller, age 100, died peacefully on April 28, 2020 in her retirement community in Decatur, Georgia. Edith was born to Rudolph and Edythe Grimm, January 14, 1920, in New York. She attended the Lincoln School of Columbia’s Teachers College and Middlebury College, graduating with a BA in sociology and physical education in 1941. While teaching in Utica, NY...
Mary Ellen Fountain
Apr 27, 2020
Mary Ellen Fountain, 85, previously of Clarkston, GA, passed away Monday, April 27, 2020. She was born in Atlanta, GA but grew up in Indiana where she attended Purdue University. She was a longtime member of First Christian Church of Decatur. Mary Ellen is survived by her children, Deborah Sutherland (Keith), Theresa Stenzel (Mark), David Fill; grandchildren, John Alan Sutherland...
Felicitas Burgos Gomez
Apr 27, 2020
Felicitas Burgos Gomez passed away peacefully on April 27, 2020 at the age of 84. Felicitas was born to loving parents that passed away at an early age and grew up under the care of her Godparents. She is survived by one daughter and three sons. Felicitas was always a proud and caring grandma “Abuela, Babushka or Ababa" and is...
Dennis Harlan Lacoss
Apr 26, 2020
Dennis Harlan Lacoss, 82, of Atlanta, passed away on Sunday April 26, 2020. He was born in Cumberland, MD, and grew up in Rock Hill, S.C. He went on to graduate from Dartmouth College as an undergraduate, and Columbia University as a postgraduate. He became an investment counselor, and worked in this field for over 35 years before retiring. During...
Evelyn Ann Mccabe
Apr 25, 2020
Evelyn Ann Bart McCabe, 93, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 25th at the home of her youngest daughter in Canton, Georgia. She is survived by her son John E. McCabe III of Peachtree Corners, daughter Teri and her husband Juan Citarella, Ponce Inlet, FL, daughter Lane and her husband Buzz Rhodes, Clarksville, GA, and her daughter Trish McCabe, Canton,...
John Thomas Bragg
Apr 23, 2020
John Thomas Bragg 88, of Hoschton GA passed away peacefully at home on April 23, 2020 surrounded by his family. He was born on May 9, 1931 in Greentop Missouri. He grew up in Decatur GA and remained in the Atlanta area for most of his life. He enlisted and served in the U.S. Navy on the destroyer the USS...
Annabelle Owen
Apr 22, 2020
Annabelle Gay Owen, age 71, of Decatur GA and Sarasota FL, passed away on April 22, 2020. She was born on April 28, 1948 in Augsburg Germany to John F Gay and Melitta Schaefer Gay. She traveled the world throughout her childhood due to Mr. Gay’s military career, living in places such as Berlin, Germany and Japan, before finally settling...
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