Obituaries

Felicitas Burgos Gomez

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

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

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

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

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...

Dilipkumar Dahyabhai Patel

Dilipkumar Dahyabhai Patel

Apr 21, 2020

Obituary information pending.

Carol Sue Temple

Carol Sue Temple

Apr 20, 2020

Carol Sue Temple, 82, of Decatur GA passed away Monday April 20, 2020 after a 3 year battle with cancer. Carol was born on December 16, 1937 in Stotesbury, WV, the daughter of Arthur McKinley Hylton and Grace Maude Snuffer Hylton. Carol was a former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. and the Navy Department in...

Doris Hester

Doris Hester

Apr 20, 2020

Doris Lang Hester passed away peacefully on Monday, April 20, 2020 to be at home with the Lord. Mrs. Hester was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on October 7, 1921. She grew up in Crystal Springs, Mississippi with 3 siblings. She attended Blue Mountain College, not far from Tupelo and graduated with a BA. On August 16, 1945, she married Wilfred...

Frieda Lee Rivers

Frieda Lee Rivers

Apr 18, 2020

Rivers, Frieda Bonds of Atlanta passed away April 18, 2020. Arrangements made by A S Turner & Sons, Decatur, GA; burial at Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL.

Dr. Roy Wesley Vandiver

Dr. Roy Wesley Vandiver

Apr 15, 2020

Roy Wesley Vandiver, 84, of Decatur, GA lost his battle with cancer on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Roy was born in Edison, GA as the younger of two sons raised by a single, strong and loving mother Mildred Rogers Vandiver. Roy played basketball and baseball at Edison High School where he developed a lifelong passion for team sports. His love...

Aglaia  Maria Moraitakis

Aglaia Maria Moraitakis

Apr 14, 2020

Aglaia Moraitakis passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, two days before the 70th anniversary of her wedding to her beloved husband, Costa Moraitakis, of blessed memory. Her loss at this time is warmly overshadowed by the joy she brought and kindness she shared with her family and all who knew her. She was the personification of the power...

Ralph Claude Clark, Jr.

Ralph Claude Clark, Jr.

Apr 14, 2020

Mr. Ralph C. Clark, Jr., owner of Clark Plumbing Co., Inc., passed away on April 14, 2020. The family will hold a private memorial service at a later date.

Mary Rutledge

Mary Rutledge

Apr 13, 2020

Mary was blinded at an early age and attended the Illinois School for the Blind. She completed her academic work, also learning how to succeed at all the tasks necessary to live independently. She married David Rutledge, a student at the School for the Blind. Together they owned and operated a Schwinn bicycle shop, selling and repairing bicycles. She moved...

Sara Louise Ripy

Sara Louise Ripy

Apr 10, 2020

Dr. Sara Louise Ripy died of natural causes on April 10, 2020, at Arbor Terrace in Decatur, Georgia. She was born on July 22, 1924, to Robert and Flora Witherspoon Ripy in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Her parents and two brothers, Howard Ripy and Ben Ripy, predeceased her. Her nieces Sara Harvey, who was named for her, and Margaret Daley and a...

Richard  Clayton  Morgan

Richard Clayton Morgan

Apr 10, 2020

Richard C Morgan was born October 12, 1932 in Decatur, Georgia, the youngest of the six children of Harry H. Morgan and Louise Geer Morgan. He grew up in Decatur and in Nashville, Tennessee. He was still a boy when his siblings married and started families, Richard first became an Uncle at the age of 9 and watched the family...

Dorothy D.  Purcell

Dorothy D. Purcell

Apr 9, 2020

Dorothy Purcell, 95, of Decatur, Georgia passed away on April 9, 2020. Survivors include a daughter Cheryl Adams of Alpharetta, Georgia and a son, Mel Purcell of Nashville, Tennessee. She is also survived by her daughter in law, Jane H. Purcell, and three grandchildren, Chris Adams, Kent Purcell (his wife Rebecca Purcell), and Blair P. Saale (her husband Mike Saale)....