Obituaries

Norma Josephine Allen

Norma Josephine Allen

Jul 2, 2015

Mrs. Norma Josephine Petre Allen of Atlanta, GA died Thursday, July 2, 2015. She was 96 years old. Born in Nashville, TN on September 10, 1918, she graduated with honors from St. Cecilia Academy in 1937 and attended Vanderbilt University for two years. In 1940, she married Paul Mills Allen in Memphis, TN. (He pre-deceased her in 2004 after 64...

Juanita S. Dillard

Juanita S. Dillard

Jul 1, 2015

Mrs. Juanita Sargent Dillard, age 92, passed away July 1, 2015. She was predeceased by her parents, Roy Coleman Sargent and Elsie Florence McDonald Sargent. She is survived by her brother, Roy Don Sargent; sister-in-law, Daphne Sargent and nephews, Roy Geoffrey Sargent, Mark W. Sargent, Robin I. Sargent and Kevin W. Sargent. Also surviving are several great-nieces and great-nephews. A...

Robert Kent Smith

Robert Kent Smith

Jun 30, 2015

Robert Kent Smith, 56, passed away on June 30, 2015 while he was in the Atlanta Center Hospice. Kent is the son of William Harold and Carolyn Kirk Prickett (deceased). Survivors include his wife of 34 years, Cindy Smith; his son, Landon Smith and his husband Gordie Bouler; his sister, Kimberly Hargrove and her husband Andy Hargrove; his brother William...

Loretta Rowe Brown

Loretta Rowe Brown

Jun 29, 2015

Loretta Rowe Brown, 87, of Stone Mountain, Georgia (originally from Luthersville, Georgia), passed away on June 29, 2015. Loretta was predeceased by her parents, Robert Perry Rowe and Nancy Strickland Rowe, and her brothers, Robert Lee Rowe, Theo Rowe, and Jimmy Franklin Rowe. Loretta is survived by her husband of 67 years, Robert Lewis Brown, her sons, Ronald Douglas Brown...

Neil Spurgeon Cameron

Neil Spurgeon Cameron

Jun 28, 2015

Neil Spurgeon Cameron, Jr., age 82, of Decatur, GA passed away peacefully in hospice care on June 28, 2015. He was preceded in death by his parents, Neil Spurgeon Cameron, Sr. and Grace Walker Cameron. Neil is survived by his wife of more than 52 years, Vivian Orr Cameron originally of Dalton, GA, son Gerald Neil Cameron of Alexandria, VA,...

Essie Minor

Essie Minor

Jun 27, 2015

Essie Cain Minor, age 102 of Decatur, passed away Saturday June 27, 2015. Mrs. Minor was a retired legal secretary with Standard Federal Savings and Loan. Survivors include a stepdaughter; Pamela Reynolds of St. Louis, MO, stepson; William Minor of DeKalb, IL, Nieces; Shirley Connell of McDonough, GA and Betty Earnest of Ft. Mill, SC, Nephew; James Andrew Cain of...

Marshall C. Gresham

Marshall C. Gresham

Jun 27, 2015

Mr. Marshall Gresham of Loganville passed away Saturday June 27, 2015. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Wilna Gresham; daughter, Joyce Bryson, two grandchildren and six great grandchildren. The funeral service will be held Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of A. S. Turner Sons with Rev. Kent Crutcher officiating. Interment will follow...

Thomas Patrick Moran

Thomas Patrick Moran

Jun 27, 2015

Thomas Patrick Moran, 86, of Norcross, Georgia, died Saturday, June 27th, 2015. He was born to the late John and Cecilia Moran, January 15, 1929, in Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland. The 7th of 8 children, Tom was born into a rural Irish farming family. In his early twenties, after graduating from technical college in Ireland, he lived and worked in...

Joyce Selin

Joyce Selin

Jun 25, 2015

Our Angel Mother, Joyce Irintha Pugmire Selin, age 90, passed from this life on Thursday, June 25, 2015 in Atlanta, GA. Joyce was born on May 28, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Cecil Annie Gasser and Delbert Maurice Pugmire. On August 14, 1946 she married Merle John Selin in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus...

Nancy Bangs Clegg

Nancy Bangs Clegg

Jun 25, 2015

Nancy Bangs Clegg of Woodstock, Georgia died Thursday, June 25, 2015. She was born October 30, 1950 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was a 1968 graduate of Clarkston High School and worked for a number of years in the Mortgage Banking Department of Decatur Federal Savings and Loan. She was predeceased by her husband of 34 years, Frank G. Clegg; her...

Lamont Miller

Lamont Miller

Jun 25, 2015

Funeral Home: A.S. Turner 2773 N. Decatur Road Decatur, GA 30033

Elizabeth N Dobbs

Elizabeth N Dobbs

Jun 24, 2015

Elizabeth (Betty) North Dobbs of Lawrenceville, GA passed away on June 24, 2015 after many years of declining health. On July 10, 1926 she was born in Augusta, GA to William Eugene and Ethel Howell North. She grew up in Atlanta and graduated from Girls High. She was a member of First Methodist Church in Atlanta. Betty was predeceased by...

Linda Sheryl Taylor

Linda Sheryl Taylor

Jun 23, 2015

Lynda Sheryl Taylor, age 68 of Lilburn, GA passed away on June 23, 2015. She was born on August 27, 1946 to Noah M. Taylor Jr. and Clyde Elizabeth Krapp and they preceded her in death. She worked as an airline attendant with Eastern Airlines for 28 years and was also an x-ray technician. She loved her animals. Surviving are...

Sarah Lois Ellis

Sarah Lois Ellis

Jun 22, 2015

Sarah Lois Ozburn Ellis, 86, of Atlanta, died on Monday, June 22, 2015. Born in Monticello, GA to Florrie Lee Aaron Ozburn and Tom Watson Ozburn, she was the last survivor of six siblings. Lois was a graduate of Girls High School in Atlanta and a long-time tax examiner with the IRS. Lois was a lifelong Christian and an active...

Alice Marie Hall

Alice Marie Hall

Jun 21, 2015

Alice Coberly Hall died on June 21, 2015 at the age of 93, surrounded by all of her children who loved her dearly. She was born on August 21, 1921, the middle child of Vergil J. Coberly and Alice Dolan Coberly in Petersburg, Virginia, where she grew up with her sister Rosalie (Roe) and brother VJ. Alice followed her sister...

Joseph Aloysius Mitchell

Joseph Aloysius Mitchell

Jun 20, 2015

Joseph A. Mitchell (Joe) joined his wife Cathy and son Allan in Paradise in the evening of June 20, 2015, at the age of 93, in Avondale Estates. Joe was, in his own words, a son of a buck and lived his life until the end on his own terms. Joe was born and raised in Springfield, MA, the son...

Marley Natasha Duncan

Marley Natasha Duncan

Jun 18, 2015

Marley Natasha Duncan, devoted mother, beloved daughter and sister, sassy yet endlessly devoted friend, passed away on June 18, 2015 in Snellville, GA at the age of 21. Marley was born on June 15, 1994 in Decatur, GA to Nicole Roberts and Gregory Duncan. She spent equal parts of her childhood fighting with and perpetually bonded together with her adoring...

Betty Millard Gates

Betty Millard Gates

Jun 17, 2015

Betty Millard Gates, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia since 1960, died on June 17, 2015. She was born in Lufton, Arkansas on July 6, 1930. She grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee. Betty was valedictorian of the Class of 1948 at Marion County High School in Jasper, TN. She graduated from the University of Tennessee, where she met her future...