Obituaries
Frances Needham
Jun 15, 2022
Frances Evelyn Williams Needham, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend, passed away on June 15. She was born on November 17, 1935 to her late parents,
King David and Helen Williams. Frances grew up with her four siblings in Charlotte, North Carolinaand attended the Salvation Army Corp growing up; leading to lifelong friendships and meeting the
love of...
Marguerite Lynn White Lowe
Jun 15, 2022
Marguerite Lynn White Lowe of Decatur, Georgia passed away June 15, 2022 at the age of 75. Marge, as she was known by her family and friends, was born in Washington D.C. at Walter Reed Hospital on November 23, 1946 to Colonel Hoyt Edward White of Hall County, Georgia and Josephine McCommons White of Greensboro, Georgia. Marge studied at University...
Elizabeth "Libby" Jackson
Jun 15, 2022
Janie Elizabeth “Libby” Hendrix was born in Manchester, GA September 26, 1927 and graduated from Manchester High School. She moved to Atlanta, GA, met and married the love of her life Richard T. Jackson, and they were married for 51 years. She worked for the Internal Revenue Service retiring in 1987. Later in life, Libby loved nothing more than vacationing...
Kathryn Blanche Niager
Jun 14, 2022
Kathryn Blanche Niager passed away on June 14, 2022. She reached the age of 90 on April 9th of this year, and had a birthday celebration with her family. She was born in Atlanta Georgia to parents Martha Aline and Hugh Oliver Brock. They lived on Carmel Ave near where the Carter Presidential Library stands today. She graduated from Bass...
Sue Ann Lawson
Jun 8, 2022
Sue Ann Lawson entered her Heavenly Home on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 from her home in Avondale Estates Georgia. She was 90 years old.
Sue Ann Lawson was preceded in death by her parents James Carl Alexander Sipes and Fannie Docky Girdner Sipes and her sister Mary Alice Sipes.
She leaves behind her husband of over 60 years Robert Henry “Bob” Lawson,...
Richard Goehring Smith
Jun 7, 2022
Richard “Rick” Smith passed away of natural causes at the age of 86 on June 7, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, and was predeceased by his wife, Jean Smith, in December, 2020. Until recently, Rick and Jean lived in Foley and Gulf Shores, Alabama. Due to his declining health, Rick moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in November 2021 to be closer to...
Wayne Thomas Baker
Jun 6, 2022
Wayne Thomas Baker, 92, formally of Charlotte, NC, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2022, in Atlanta, GA. Wayne was born August 28, 1929, in St. Joseph, Missouri, to the late Von Baker and Laura Mary Simpson Baker. He was a graduate of the University of Missouri and a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Force. Wayne lived and worked...
Peter Joseph Brennan
Jun 6, 2022
Peter Joseph Brennan died at home on June 6, 2022. He was the second of eight children born to William Patrick Brennan, Sr. and Geraldine Veronica Dunn Brennan on March 2, 1939, in Bronx, NY. Peter was educated at Archbishop Stepinac High School in While Plains, NY, and enlisted in the US Navy at 17 where he served for 10...
Dorothy Louise Gray
Jun 5, 2022
Dorothy Louise Gray, of Atlanta, passed away peacefully on Sunday June 5, 2022 at the age of 92. She was born April 21, 1930 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to parents Robert Mills Proctor and Mildred Louise White Proctor. Her father was a career U.S. Army Officer and taught ROTC for many years at Chattanooga High School.
Dorothy spent many summers visiting her...
Tara Laquita Jefferson
Jun 5, 2022
Tara Laquita Jefferson was born September 16, 1968, to Lynn Jefferson and the late Rosalind Wilma Hackworth in Birmingham, Alabama.
Tara graduated from Ensley Magnet High School, Birmingham, Alabama. She retired from Emory Decatur Hospital (formerly Dekalb Medical Center). Tara leaves to cherish her memories, daughter Tiffany Jefferson of Atlanta, Georgia, sons Christopher Jefferson and Erick Jefferson of Atlanta, Georgia. Four...
Virginia Crowe Bugg
Jun 3, 2022
Virginia C. Bugg passed away Thursday June 3, 2022 at the age of 95. She was born on August 29, 1926 in Gloster, Georgia. Virginia was the first born daughter of Belvie and Sadie Crowe. She grew up in Tucker Georgia with her sisters, Betty (Carman) and twins Mary (Burns) and Martha (Bennett). She married J.C. Bugg in September 1944....
Clifford Arthur Sandell
Jun 1, 2022
Clifford Arthur Sandell, (Cliff), 72, of Decatur, Georgia died peacefully on June 1, 2022 in hospice care after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Cliff was born on October 4, 1949 in Meridian, Mississippi, the son of the Reverend Walter G. Sandell and the late Margaret Nader Sandell.
Cliff loved being around people and delighted in his church family at...
William Hixson Breen, Iii
Jun 1, 2022
William (Uncle Tony) Hixson Breen lll passed away on Wednesday June 1, 2022. Bill was born in Atlanta in 1949 and was a lifetime Decatur resident. He attended Winnona Park Elementary School, and graduated from Decatur High School in 1967. He also attended Georgia Tech and Southern Tech. After college he joined the Marine Corps Reserves where he served in...
Derek Lee Francis
May 28, 2022
Derek Lee Francis, 31, of Tucker, Georgia passed away at home on Saturday May 28, 2022. He was born July 15, 1990 in Deltona, Florida. He was recovering from a fall in October that fractured his skull in three places. He was worried that he might have permanent brain damage.
Derek always had a joke and a way to make...
Stephen Andrew Green
May 28, 2022
Mr. Stephen Andrew Green of Stone Mountain, Georgia died at home on Saturday, May 28, 2022.
Mr. Green was a 1981 graduate of Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia. He joined the Navy immediately after graduation. He served for four years as an E3 Mess Management Specialist on the USS Guam as the ship transported Marines and Seals to Beirut, Lebanon...
Betty Jo Carruthers
May 27, 2022
Betty Jo Armstrong was born on January 7, 1929. She grew up in Winnsboro, South Carolina and the surrounding rural area. She was the first child and only daughter of Louise Coon Armstrong and Matthew Edwin Armstrong. Betty Jo had two younger brothers and spent most of her childhood around her mother’s eleven brothers and sisters. She attended a one-room...
Joanne Jacka
May 27, 2022
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Joanne French Jacka was born October 20, 1939 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She passed away May 27, 2022 with her daughter and son-in-law by her side. Ms. Jacka grew up in Wyoming and all over the world as her father worked for a US...
Wynelle Hodges Bone
May 27, 2022
Roger Bone said God brought them together. That was how he explained a young man from a farm in Indiana meeting and marrying a young woman from a small town in middle Georgia and forming a loving union that lasted over 67 years. Wynelle “Winnie” Hodges Bone was born in Oconee in Washington County, Georgia, on September 15, 1924. She...
Marlene C. Embry
May 26, 2022
Marlene Crowe Embry, 78, of Johns Creek, died May 26, 2022. Marlene was born August 28, 1943 in Chamblee, Georgia to Thomas Glover “Hank” Crowe and Mary Evelyn Crowe née Wingo.
Marlene graduated Cross Keys High School in 1961 and began work at Embry Realty Company as an executive secretary. In 1971, she married Jack Embry and continued to help...
Mary Carolyn Herter
May 22, 2022
Carolyn passed away May 22, 2022. She was a lifelong resident of the Atlanta Area. She was a 1960 graduate of Brown High School in Westend and attended Massey Business School. She worked at the downtown Western Union as a clerk and at East Cobb Middle School in the cafeteria. She never married or had children but loved the arrival...
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