Obituaries
Rosalind Beckham Newman
Jan 11, 2018
Rosalind Beckham Newman, 81 of Atlanta, GA. passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 11, 2018. Funeral Service will be at the chapel of A.S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home with Dr. Frank Crumpler officiating. Interment will follow in the College Park Cemetery, College Park, GA 30337. Visitation will be Saturday, January 13, 2018, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at A.S....
Betty Ann (Coryell) Williams
Jan 10, 2018
Betty Ann (Coryell) Williams, age 82 of Snellville, GA passed away Wednesday January 10, 2018. She is survived by her beloved husband, Claude A. Williams of Snellville, GA; and by her children, Debbie and Mike Malone of Monroe, GA, Michael and Kim Williams of Loganville, GA, and Angie and Jesse Johnson of Monroe, GA; by her grandchildren, Lori and Adam...
Marjorie Lynne Bryan
Jan 9, 2018
Marjorie Lynne Bryan (Lynne) was born in 1950 and lived most of her life in the Atlanta area. After a courageous battle against ALS, Lynne died on January 9, 2018. She is survived by her loving husband, Mike Hammett, best friend Vicki Strickland, brother Wright and a host of family and friends. Lynne earned both undergraduate and Masters degrees at...
June Gatlin Reddick
Jan 9, 2018
June Gatlin Reddick of Tucker, GA went to be with her Savior, Tuesday, January 9th at the age of 88. June lived all of her life in Tucker and graduated from Tucker High School. She also graduated from the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority and remained active for over fifty years. There...
Jean C. Chen
Jan 8, 2018
In 1931 our mother was born Jean Cho-Yu Huang in Wuhan, China, where her father was CEO of Hanyung Iron Works. She was the youngest of seven children. She went to the Jingling Girls High School and then moved to America in 1950 to attend the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, MN. There she picked up her passion for...
Dr. James Stephen Buckler
Jan 8, 2018
Dr. James Stephen Buckler, 68, of Johns Creek, beloved son, husband, father, and grandfather, passed away Monday, January 8, 2018. Born August 3, 1949, in Atlanta, GA, he was the son of Rosamond Harmon Buckler and the late Alonzo Magruder Buckler, Jr. Steve was proud to have grown up in Avondale Estates and was a 1967 graduate of Avondale High...
Jerry Buck Andrews
Jan 6, 2018
Jerry Buck Andrews, age 82, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, passed away on Saturday, January 6 at Sunrise Assistant Living in Lilburn, Georgia. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar (Jessie Casey) Buck and two sisters, Mrs. Jean Buck Russell and Mrs. Patsy Buck Robertson. She is survived by her husband of sixty years, Mr. Robert J....
Herbert Albert Petty, Jr.
Jan 5, 2018
Herbert Albert Petty, Jr., age 86, of Atlanta, passed away January 5, 2018. He is survived by Herbert A. Petty III, Mary Catherine Petty, and Stephen L. Petty. Services will be private. A.S. Turner & Sons, Decatur Ga.
James Franklin Panter, Jr.
Jan 5, 2018
James Franklin (Jim) Panter, Jr., passed away January 5, 2018, at his home in Lawrenceville, GA, after a battle with cancer. He was born October 23, 1962 in Atlanta, GA to Margaret S. and James F. Panter, Sr. A lifelong Baptist, he graduated from Lakeside High School, Class of 1980. Jim attended Mercer University, Atlanta, for 2 years and transferred...
Dovie Estelle Aschbacker
Jan 4, 2018
Dovie Estelle (Burnham) Aschbacker, 106, of Decatur, Georgia passed away at her home on January 4, 2018 with family by her side. Born March 1, 1911, in Sumrall, Mississippi, she was the fourth of nine children born to the late Thomas Sumpter Burnham and Zona Ellen (Clark) Burnham. Just 17 when her mother passed away, Dovie spent nearly a decade...
Robert Joseph Strickland
Jan 2, 2018
Robert Joseph Strickland, 72 of Pine Lake, GA. Robert Joseph Strickland was born in Atlanta, GA, son of Harvey B Strickland and Edwin L Strickland . He worked as a Prep Cook for the Commerce Club . Surviving are sisters, Eugenia Strickland, and Anita Y Waldorf, brothers, Tony W Strickland, and Michael H Strickland. "Bobby" was preceded in death by...
Charles Robert Gillespie
Jan 2, 2018
Charles Robert Gillespie, age 92, a resident of the Park Springs Retirement Community in Stone Mountain, GA went to be with the Lord on January 2, 2018. He was born February 1, 1925, in Williamston, SC. His family relocated to Commerce, GA when he was a child. He graduated from Commerce High School and moved to Atlanta in 1942. During...
Frank E. Price
Jan 2, 2018
Frank E. Price, 89, passed away Tuesday, January 2, 2018. Frank was born on April 2, 1928 in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Georgia Tech, graduating second in his class, and was a Navy Commander, flying jets while in the Navy. Frank had a lifelong love of flying, and worked as a Mechanical Engineer. He is survived by...
Helen Ruth Mumford Scherer
Jan 2, 2018
Helen Ruth Mumford Scherer died at her home in Atlanta on January 2, 2018, two months shy of her 100th birthday. A native of Macon, Ga., Helen lost her own mother at the age of 11, a fact that had a great impact on her life and led her to value family above all else. She is survived by three...
Gordon Wayne Redfern
Jan 1, 2018
Gordon Wayne Redfern, 83, of Stone Mountain, passed away Monday, January 1, 2018. He is now at peace in Heaven. Born October 16, 1934 in Moultrie, GA, raised in Jacksonville, FL and Atlanta, he was the late son of Gordon Fletcher Redfern and Alma Perkins Redfern. He attended Murphy High School and Southern Tech Institute. Wayne was a Naval Reserve...
Dr. Horace Kimbrell Sawyer, Jr.
Jan 1, 2018
Dr. Horace Kimbrell “Buzz” Sawyer Jr., age 87, of Atlanta, Georgia passed away on January 1, 2018. He was born September 4, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was one of three children, and the loving son of Horace Kimbrell Sawyer Sr. and Jewell Christine Smith Sawyer. Horace was married to the love of his life, Mary Frances Garrison, from Morganton,...
Randall (Randy) Taylor
Jan 1, 2018
Randall Wade (Randy) Taylor passed away on January 1, 2018 at age 45. Randy was born at ECM Hospital in Florence, AL. on September 24, 1972 and lived his younger years in Russellville, AL. The family moved from Russellville to New Orleans, then to Crown Point, IN, and later to Decatur, GA. Randy is survived by his mother, Lois Taylor,...
Evelyn Kathleen Mcelroy
Dec 31, 2017
Evelyn Kathleen Hendon McElroy January 8, 1921-December 31, 2017 Early on the morning of December 31st, Evelyn Kathleen Hendon McElroy, of Avondale Estates, GA, passed from this life a week before her 97th birthday; a result of complications from both a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease and a broken hip. Evelyn was the widow of Walter G. McElroy, Jr., formerly...
Myrtle P. Thomas
Dec 29, 2017
Myrtle (Pearce) Thomas, age 105, of Lawrenceville, GA passed away December 29, 2017. She was a member of Lawrenceville First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Logan Edward Thomas. Survivors include: daughter, Delaney Thomas Griggs and husband John, of Lilburn, GA; daughter, Millie Thomas Huff, of Griffin, GA; grandsons, Logan Huff of Covington, GA, and Clif...
Kenneth Eugene Hall
Dec 28, 2017
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, sibling and friend, Kenneth Eugene Hall, who died on December 28th, 2017 after a nine-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Kenneth Eugene Hall was born in Annapolis, Maryland on December 5th, 1949. He moved to Sarasota, Florida with his family in 1966. In Sarasota, as...
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