Obituaries

Ruth Agnes Clarke

Ruth Agnes Clarke

May 6, 2020

Ruth Jarrett Clarke, 97, of Martinsville, Virginia passed away on May 6, 2020 in Tucker, Georgia. She was born on March 23, 1923 in McDowell County, West Virginia to the late Everett L. Jarrett and Jennie Dillon Jarrett. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Champ Young Clarke as well as her sisters and...

Stanley Willis Manahan

Stanley Willis Manahan

May 6, 2020

Norma Ann (89) and Stanley Willis (94) Manahan went to be with the Lord this week. Norma died on Tuesday May 5 and Stanley on Wednesday May 6, 2020. Norma was born in Atlanta on May 30, 1930 and Stanley was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania on May 14, 1925. They were married over 72 years. They are survived by two...

Marjorie Ann Lawler

Marjorie Ann Lawler

May 6, 2020

Marjorie Ann Thompson was born in Atlanta May 17, 1926 to Lawson F Thompson and Mildred Dobson Thompson. She was the second of five children. They lived on Altoona Place in West End, then moved to a new house on Pasdena Ave. Margie attended Girls High and later Shorter College. She married the love of her life, Robert Ben Lawler,...

Norma Manahan

Norma Manahan

May 5, 2020

Norma Ann (89) and Stanley Willis (94) Manahan went to be with the Lord this week. Norma died on Tuesday May 5 and Stanley on Wednesday May 6, 2020. Norma was born in Atlanta on May 30, 1930 and Stanley was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania on May 14, 1925. They were married over 72 years. They are survived by two...

Cleo Frances Payne

Cleo Frances Payne

May 4, 2020

She was a Loving Wife and Mother. She loved her grandkids to death and gave everything she had to her Family whole heartedly. To be around her was like being in heaven cause she was always smiling and giving kisses to everybody an always smelled the best I've every smelled anyone. We all will Miss u Nan in our own...

Marjorie Hurst Priester

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...