Obituaries
Jennifer Michale Clark
May 10, 2014
Jennifer M. Clark, 48, of Stone Mountain passed away on Saturday May 10, 2014. Jennifer graduated from Berea College where she earned her Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration. A former employee of UNUM Insurance Co. she was currently co-owner of Clark Interiors. Jennifer was a member of Mountain Park United Methodist Church and served on the Administration Board...
William Franklin White
May 10, 2014
William Franklin White, 84, of Atlanta, died May 10, 2014. A native of Atlanta, Mr. White was a graduate of Georgia State University. He served his county in the U. S. Army during the war in Korea. An accountant in the credit department at General Electric, Mr. White retired after 38 years of dedicated and faithful service. His community activities...
Caroline Johnson Benefield
May 8, 2014
Caroline Johnson Benefield, age 86, of Decatur, died Thursday, May 8th, 2014. Caroline wasborn on May 7, 1928, in Atlanta. She graduated from Girls High in 1946, and married Judge Joseph Johnson in1951. They resided in Decatur with their children, Ellen and Susan. She was an active member of Decatur First Baptist Church since 1952 and was part of the...
James Edmund Carson
May 8, 2014
James Edmund Carson, Sr., 81, of Atlanta died peacefully Thursday morning, May 8, 2014 at Budd Terrace Nursing Home. For 20 years prior to retirement in 1999, Mr. Carson was vice-president of development, Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University. Born September 5, 1932 in Bristol, Tennessee, he was pursuing a career in sports journalism when he joined the staff of...
Evelyn Elizabeth Peters
May 6, 2014
Evelyn Elizabeth Reese Peters, 93, of Decatur, Georgia passed away on May 6, 2014 at Hospice Atlanta. Mrs. Peters was born in McCormick, South Carolina and was raised in Augusta Georgia but spent most of her adult life as the wife of a career Navy man making a home for her family far from her Southern roots but wherever Uncle...
John Robert Kubitz
May 5, 2014
John Robert Kubitz, Retired (Army), age 84, of Decatur died on Monday, May 5, 2014. John was a proud US Army veteran having served in the Korea and Vietnam Wars. He also retired for the US Penitentiary Atlanta and had been a hostage in the 1987 uprising at the USP Atlanta. He lived life to the fullest and enjoyed spending...
Frances Evelyn Griffin
May 4, 2014
Frances Evelyn Griffin was called home on May 4, 2014. Born on April 23, 1929, one of eleven children to Walter and Irene Dorsey of Cleveland, Georgia. Evelyn was a lifelong residence of Decatur, Georgia. She was a past member of Wesley Chapel UMC and long time member of Avondale Pattillo UMC. A devoted wife, mother and grandmother, she was...
Donna Pauline Nash
May 4, 2014
Donna Pauline Nash, 98, of Decatur passed away peacefully on Sunday May 4, 2014 following a brief illness. She was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Frederick Larkin Nash. Known by some as Donna, Pauline was born in Ball Ground, Georgia on October 22, 1915 to Arthur and Jessie Ray. She was baptized at Harmony Grove Primitive...
Constantine Leon Campbell
May 3, 2014
Constatine (Costa) L. Campbell fell asleep in the Lord on Saturday May 3, 2014. He was born in Atlanta, GA on September 12, 1917. He was the son of the Late Leonidas and Joana Campbell. He is survived by his many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. He was educated in Greece and the United States. He was a veteran of...
Martha Augusta Gay
May 1, 2014
Augusta Hixon Gay, 95, of Decatur passed away peacefully with her children at her side on Thursday, May 1. Born in Miller County, Georgia on October 27, 1918 while the pecans were falling from the trees, and raised in her beloved Cuthbert, Georgia. She was one of five children to H. Brooke Hixon and Cleo Swann Hixon. She had four...
Rebecca Chambers Lang
Apr 30, 2014
Rebecca Chambers Lang, 72, of Tucker passed away on Wednesday April 30, 2014. She was born in Augusta, GA on March 19, 1942. Rebecca was preceded in death by her parents, Jack and Mary Chambers, as well as her eldest sister, Jacqueline Broome. She is survived by her two sons, Mark and Jeffrey, three sisters, Evelyn Woodard, Frances Dillon, and...
Anita Shackelford Ross
Apr 29, 2014
Mrs. Anita Shackelford Ross, 71, of Atlanta, died Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Mrs. Ross graduated from Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida and attended Florida Southern University in Lakeland, Florida. Married in 1966 she worked to help her husband Glenn complete his graduation from Jacksonville University. After moving to Atlanta in 1969 she was an office manager several...
Sheila Ann Siffri
Apr 29, 2014
Mrs. Sheila Woody Siffri, 76, of Atlanta, passed away Tuesday, April 29, 2014. She was a native of Spruce Pine, NC and was the daughter of Paul and Nelle Woody. Mrs. Siffri was employed by DeKalb County School System from 1981-1997 and was a member of Peachtree Presbyterian Church. She is survived by her daughter, Alexandra Smith of Marietta, GA;...
Barbara Ann Steadman
Apr 28, 2014
Barbara Ann Caughman Steadman passed away Monday, April 28th after a wonderful life of 89 years. She was the widow of Henry Hane Steadman of Waynesboro, GA, a former executive of John H Harland Company. He preceded her in death on September 6, 1998. Barbara was born on October 27, 1924 in Rajahmundry, India of Lutheran missionary parents. Her family...
Ouida Francis Allison
Apr 28, 2014
Ouida Keating Allison, 94, died on April 28, 2014. Born July 28, 1919 in Batesville, Miss., to Boyce and Byrd Towles Keating, she was preceded in death by her sister Laverne, her brother Boyce, and her beloved husband of 41 years, Hugh Byron Allison. She is survived by her brother Ralph Keating of Batesville; her son Michael Allison and his...
Marion Carl Clement
Apr 27, 2014
Marion Carl Clement, age 79, of Decatur, Georgia passed away April 27, 2014 after struggling with Congestive Heart Failure and COPD and Diabetes for many years. Marion Clement was born on June 8, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia to the late Carl Marion Clement and Lois Lena Cornett Clement. He was preceded in death by his son Timothy Andrew Clement. Marion...
Lorena Schell Vaughn
Apr 25, 2014
Lorena Schell Vaughn passed away on Friday, April 25, 2014, at the age of 91. She lived her life in a way that exhibited the most wonderful and best qualities of a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. Lorena was a sweet, loving person and showed tremendous grace, dignity, charm and humor through all phases and transitions...
Joan Loranger Mcgibeny
Apr 25, 2014
Funeral Home: A.S. Turner 2773 N. Decatur Road Decatur, GA 30033
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