Obituaries
Sara Frances Pickens
Apr 4, 2011
Mrs. Sara Frances Pickens, age 92 of Loganville passed away Monday, April 4, 2011. She was born in Redan, GA to the late Cleola E. New and Herman M. Blalock. Sara worked for many years for the DeKalb county schools in the cafeteria. She was preceded in death by her husband, J.T. (Tom) Pickens; son Donald and daughter Juanita. She...
Leon Homer Mullins, Jr.
Apr 3, 2011
Leon Homer Mullins, Jr., of Decatur, died April 1, 2011. An Atlanta native, Mr. Mullins graduated from Tech High and attended Georgia Tech. He served his country in the U. S. Army Air Corps during WWII, where he flew combat missions all across Europe and northern Africa earning the Air Medal and the European-African-Middle Eastern Service Medal with Silver Star...
James Edward Brown
Apr 3, 2011
James Edward (Ed) Brown, age 82, died on Sunday, April 3rd in Atlanta, GA. Ed was born November 30, 1928 in East Orange, New Jersey. He was the youngest of three boys born to George F. and Margaret Mackay Brown. He served in the Korean Conflict from February 1951 to January 1953. He was assigned to the Army security agency....
Agnes Morgan Akin
Apr 3, 2011
Mrs. Agnes Morgan Akin, 85 of Tucker died on April 3, 2011. The family will receive friends on Wednesday April 6, 2011 from 5:00PM-8:00PM at A.S. Turner and Sons. Funeral services will be held on Thursday April 7, 2011 at 11:00AM at Rehoboth Baptist Church with interment to follow at Floral Hills Memory Garden. A.S. Turner and Sons is in...
Doris V. Hammond
Apr 2, 2011
Doris V. Hammond, 90, of Cordova, Tennessee passed away peacefully on April 2, 2011. Long time resident of Atlanta, GA and one of the oldest members of East Lake Baptist Church (Stone Mountain Baptist Church, Heritage Baptist Church) While living in Cordova, Tennessee, she was very active at Bellevue Baptist Church and was the Prayer Chairman of her Sunday School...
Wanda Rheuark Baker
Apr 1, 2011
Wanda Rheuark Baker knew the world. She lived in Africa, Taiwan and California in her childhood, as a member of a family that served the United States government, and she traveled as an adult to Europe and elsewhere. Friends valued her as a talented artist and performer with an enthusiastic passion for culture wherever she found it.Wanda was born January...
Barbara W. Shadix
Mar 31, 2011
Barbara W. Shadix, originally of Lawrenceville, Georgia, passed away on March 31, 2011 after a long illness. She came to Atlanta in 1943 where she worked at various clerical jobs for many years. Much of her early adulthood was so lovingly and kindly devoted to caring for her son and only remaining relative, John Williams Shadix. Her death cannot still...
Dorothy Louise Tuttle
Mar 30, 2011
Dorothy Louise Tuttle (84) of Decatur, GA, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. She was preceded in death by her husband of 51 years, Earl J. Tuttle, Jr. She is survived by her 3 children, Bill Tuttle (Kimberly) of Gainesville, GA, Jeanne Schumaker (Wally) of Decatur, GA and Steve Tuttle (Anita) of Jackson, MS; 7 grandchildren, Rhys, Rebecca, Kurt,...
Roland Joseph Albert Maclure
Mar 30, 2011
Funeral Home: A. S. Turner & Sons 2773 North Decatur Road Decatur, GA 30033
Joseph Daniel Ryder, Jr.
Mar 30, 2011
Funeral Home: A. S. Turner & Sons 2773 North Decatur Road Decatur, GA 30033
Robert Edwin Henneberg
Mar 29, 2011
Robert Edwin Henneberg, dear husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend passed away gently and peacefully on March 29, 2011, with family beside him. A long time resident of the Druid Hills area, he was living in the retirement complex of Wesley Woods Towers, near Emory. Born in 1925, during a lunar eclipse, to William and Helene Henneberg, of Astoria,...
Robert Hulon Hickman
Mar 29, 2011
Robert Hulon Hickman, age 89, of Eastman, GA died Tuesday, March 29, 2011. He was a retired Brigadier General in the U. S. Army with 35 years of service. Mr. Hickman is survived by his wife, Vera Keith; son, Robert Hulon Hickman, Jr.; daughter, Jadine Reese; sister, Patricia Hickman; two granddaughters; and brothers, Carl Hickman, and David Hickman. Funeral services...
Robert M. (Bob) Berry
Mar 29, 2011
Robert M. "Bob" Berry Sr. of Decatur passed away at Emory University Hospital in Decatur on Tuesday afternoon, March 29, 2011, after a brief illness at the age of 80. Bob was surrounded by much of his family when he passed peacefully. Bob and his wife, Honor Berry, had been married 60 years in August and together had 5 children,...
Fred H. Jackson, Jr.
Mar 29, 2011
Fred H. Jackson, Jr. died on March 29, 2011 , at the age of 88, due to a long battle with cancer. He was born February 4, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Boys High School in 1941. He worked numerous jobs throughout his childhood to provide for his family. He enlisted in the US Army in 1942 and...
Jackie Layne Barrett
Mar 29, 2011
Jackie Layne Barrett, of Stone Mountain, GA passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. She was a retired preschool teacher for 30 years at St. Timothy’s United Methodist Church. Mrs. Barrett was a devoted wife, mother, sister, aunt, and friend. She is survived by her husband, Bradley; son, Chadwick Barrett and wife Jennifer of Snellville; daughter, Kristy Barrett of Orlando,...
Larry E. Graham, Jr.
Mar 29, 2011
Mr. Larry E. Graham, Jr., age 42, of Atlanta passed away March 29, 2011. He graduated from Shamrock High School in Decatur in 1988 and served 5 years in the US Marine Corps as an A& P Mechanic. Mr. Graham is survived by his father, Larry E. Graham, Sr. of Suwanee; sister, Lori Hagan of Cumming; and daughter, Shelby Kreneck...
Eldon Brewster
Mar 29, 2011
Eldon Brewster of Atlanta, formerly of Sunnyside, Georgia passed away March 29. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen, step daughters Connie Poss and Linda Smith, and four step grandchildren; John Poss, Christian, Noah and Kennedy Smith, two sisters, Ruby Jagoe of Alabama and Dempsey King of Mableton, and sister-in-law Theo Taylor of Atlanta. He is also survived by his...
Johnnie Hope Woodward
Mar 26, 2011
Johnnie Hope Woodward , beloved wife, devoted mother, favorite mother-in-law, wonderful sister , terrific grandmother, special aunt and good friend- passed away at a young 81 years of age Saturday, March 26, 2011. She is survived by the love of her life and husband of 63 years, James E. Woodward. The two met and fell in love working for the...
Barbara Garland Martin
Mar 24, 2011
Barbara Garland Martin, 58, of Atlanta, Georgia passed away in the evening of Thursday, March 24, 2011. She is originally from Baton Rouge, La., and attended Pacelli Catholic High School in Columbus, Ga. She graduated from Georgia State University and went on to pursue a career in pediatric physical therapy. She was the co-owner of Associated Therapies, Inc. She has...
Annie Novella House Vigil
Mar 24, 2011
Annie Novella House Vigil, 93, of St. Augustine, Florida died suddenly on March 25 at Emory University Hospital. Annie was born March 5, 1918 in Martin, Tennessee and was one of nine children of Ernest Lynuel and Bertha Leora Jackson House. She contracted polio as a young child and was not strong enough to be part of the family's sharecropping...
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