Obituaries
Josiah Blasingame
Jun 8, 2013
Brigadier General Josiah Blasingame Jr. Retired, of Jersey, GA passed away Saturday, June 8, 2013 at Emory Hospital. He was 80 years old. Josiah Josie was born in Walton County, Georgia, raised in Jersey and attended Monroe High School. At North Georgia College he majored in physics and graduated cum laude in 1954. In his senior year he was the...
Lloyd Joyce Dunavin
Jun 7, 2013
Lloyd Joyce Dunavin, age 82 of Clarkston, died Friday, June 7, 2013. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dan Dunavin and 2 great-grandchildren, Jacob and Joshua. She is survived by daughter, Paula and husband, Dave Burleson; son, Terry and wife, Anna Dunavin; daughter, Teresa Bass; 6 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. A graveside service will be held on...
Mary Anne Lyle
Jun 7, 2013
Mary Anne Lyle, 80, of Atlanta, died Friday, June 7, 2013 at Hospice Atlanta. Born Nov. 8, 1932 in Atlanta, Mary Anne was predeceased by her husband of 58 yrs. Drury L. Lyle. She was employed by the CDC in Atlanta for 43 years, working as an Epidemiologist for the center. She started her career working on eradicating Polio, Smallpox...
Moses Eugene Cox
Jun 7, 2013
Moses Eugene Cox, Jr, (Mose) 90, of Decatur, died Friday, June 7, 2013. He was born May 25, 1923, to the late Moses Eugene Cox and Gladys Watson Cox. Born in College Station, Texas, he lived most of his life in Decatur. Mr. Cox served his country during WWII in the U. S. Army, and afterwards remained in the reserves...
Brenda Durham
Jun 5, 2013
Brenda Sue Durham passed away on June 5, 2013. The daughter of the late Samuel and Mary Mckinney, Brenda is survived by her loving husband, John W. Durham; their son, John S. Durham and his wife, Sarah; daughters, Michelle Harelson and Suzanne Bray; sister, Barbara Bledsoe; eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be held Sunday June 9th at...
Lesley Jean Nunn
Jun 4, 2013
Lesley Jean West Nunn, 45, of Lilburn, passed away Tuesday June 4, 2013. Lesley worked several years at Wells Fargo in Sandy Springs and Lilburn and loved scrap booking. She was preceded in death by her parents, Calvin and Dorothy West and her sister, Emily West. Survivors include her husband, Kenneth W. Nunn Sr., daughter, Savannah Emily Atchley and her...
Stephen Henry Harrington
Jun 4, 2013
Stephen Henry Harrington was born on March 15, 1926 in Akron, Ohio. He moved to Decatur, GA as a young boy and resided in his childhood home until his death on June 4, 2013. He graduated from Druid Hills High School in 1943. He served in the Army during World War II and was wounded during the Battle of the...
John Joseph Arteaga
Jun 2, 2013
Mr. John Joseph Arteaga, 38, of Lithonia passed away on Sunday June 2, 2013. Mr. Arteaga graduated from Chamblee High School and later graduated from Bauder College in Computer Science. He is survived by his mother, Aida Arteaga and his father, Eliezer Arteaga (Chey). Other surviving family members live in Dominican Republic and Mexico. A visitation will be held from...
Livia Pardo Munoz
Jun 2, 2013
Livia Pardo Muñoz, beloved wife and mother, passed away Sunday morning at her home in Atlanta in the company of her loving husband, Maximo F. Muñoz. Livia was born Libia Milagros Pardo in the small town of Preston in the Santiago province of Cuba on November 27th. She was the daughter of Nallive and Remigio Pardo, and was one of...
Edward Etienne Carriere
Jun 2, 2013
Funeral Home: A.S. Turner 2773 N. Decatur Road Decatur, GA 30033
Katherine Watkins
Jun 2, 2013
Mrs. Katherine Jones Watkins, 90, retired business owner, died on June 2, 2013. Visitation will be Friday, June 7th, from 6:00-8:00pm, at A. S. Turner and Sons in Decatur, GA. A memorial service will be held at Clairmont Presbyterian Church in Decatur, GA, on Sat, June 8th, at 1:00pm, reception following. Born in MS, she worked at the War Dept...
Virginia Anita Wheeler
Jun 2, 2013
Virginia Pope Wheeler, 93, passed away Sunday, June 2, 2013. She was born in Marietta, GA, August 16, 1919, the daughter of Madge Johnson and Harry Singleton Pope. She attended Girl's High in Atlanta, graduated high school from Young Harris Boarding School, and attended Georgia State College for Women. Mrs. Wheeler was the owner of Stratton's Tea Room in Buckhead...
Hubert Wayne Eley, Jr.
Jun 2, 2013
H. Wayne Eley, Jr. died at home on June 2, 2013. He was born on February 27, 1945 in Blakely, Georgia to Allene Newberry Eley and Hubert Wayne Eley, Sr. He attended grammar school in Attapulgus, Georgia and Decatur, Georgia at Knollwood Elementary School before graduating from Avondale High School as the star student in 1963. While at Avondale, he...
James Ross Henderson
May 31, 2013
James R Henderson Sr. passed away on Friday May 31, 2013. Jimmy was born on September 20, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan. He was the son of the late Ross James and Irene Rohde Henderson. In 1922 Jimmy, his mother, dad, and brother, Tom, moved to Atlanta since his father was being transferred here by the Packard Motor Car Company to...
Patricia Louise Umphrey
May 30, 2013
Patricia "Patty" Louise Johnson Umphrey, age 86, of Covington, died May 30, 2013. A native of El Paso, Texas, Mrs. Umphrey lived most of her life in the greater Atlanta area. A homemaker, she was a lifelong Southern Baptist with membership, recently , at Zion Baptist Church in Covington and, formerly, at Rainbow Park Baptist in Decatur and White Oak...
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