Obituaries
Martin Hall Steckel
Feb 4, 2023
MARTIN H. STECKEL
1943 - 2023
Martin H. Steckel ("Marty"), of Decatur, Georgia, passed away Saturday, February 4, 2023, following a brief illness. Marty was a loving husband, father, brother, and friend. A lengthy storyteller and man of great humor, he was a sports enthusiast, loved his mother's home-grown tomatoes and strawberry rhubarb pie, and was a lifelong rock hound. He loved...
Betty Lucille Taylor
Feb 4, 2023
Betty Lucille Taylor, 81, of Norcross, GA passed away on February 4th, 2023. She was born in Glenwood, Georgia on May 13, 1941 to Wilbun and Earnesteen McDaniel. She spent her entire life loving her family, friends and her heavenly father Jesus Christ. She was a member of the Church in Atlanta for over 40 years.
Betty was known as an...
Barry Andrew Payne
Feb 1, 2023
Barry Andrew Payne, 58, passed away Wednesday February 1, 2023 of heart disease.
He was a 7th generation Georgian, born at South Fulton Hospital in 1964. He attended Lake City Elementary, G.P. Babb Junior High and graduated Forest Park High School Barry attended West Georgia College and established an insurance agency in Forest Park before enlisting in the Navy during Desert...
Dennis Oliver Hopf
Jan 31, 2023
On Tuesday, January 31, 2023, Denny Hopf, loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, passed away at age eighty-one. An avid sports fan and artist, Denny was born and raised in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from high school, he attended Clemson University and graduated in 1963 with a degree in Industrial Management. While he was finishing school he married...
Margaret Ann Williams
Jan 28, 2023
Margaret Ann (Maggie) Williams, 97, passed away on January 28, 2023 in Decatur, Georgia. She was born on January 27, 1926 in Nashville, TN to James Napier Graves Sr and Mary Sue (Hite) Richardson.
Margaret Ann attended Litton High School in Nashville where she met her future husband Dick Williams. Soon after he returned from World War II they were...
Conrad George Smith
Jan 26, 2023
Conrad Smith, 73, passed away on January 26, 2023, in Lithonia, GA.
Conrad Smith was born on May 14, 1949 in Savannah- La Mar, Westmorlean, to David Smith and Petronella Smith.
He will be foerever missed by his wife Fay Smith. The couple had 2 children, Kristen Smith, Sheahan Smith.
Conrad is survived by Fay Smith - wife, Kristen Smith - daughter, Sheahan...
William Dean Brook
Jan 25, 2023
Referred to affectionately by his neighbors as the Mayor of Ponce Manor, William Dean Brook departed this earth on January 25, 2023. The beloved second son and third child of Jane Speir Brook and Arthur Dean Brook, he was born on May 25, 1959, at Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta.
Dean was raised in Macon, Georgia, where he was a...
Timothy Fredric Tyson
Jan 23, 2023
Tim (Timothy Fredric) Tyson, 71, of DeKalb County, Atlanta, GA, died suddenly of a heart attack on January 23, 2023, at Emory St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta after a brief illness. Tim was born on December 1, 1951, in Lake Forrest, Ill, to Ann Rosenthal Tyson (deceased) of Sheboygan, WI and David Lawrence Tyson (deceased) of Lake Forrest, Ill.
He is...
Edna Christine Hooper
Jan 23, 2023
Edna Hooper of Decatur, Georgia passed away on Jan 23, 2023. Her loved ones are composing her obituary, which you will be able to read here.
Hazel Mae Howard
Jan 23, 2023
Hazel Holmes Loudermilk Howard passed away on Monday, January 23, 2023, in Marietta, Georgia. She would have been 103 this spring. She was born in Rayle, Georgia, to Walter and Ethel Holmes. Her father died when she was just four years old and her mother disposed of their farm and moved the family to a house across the street from...
Anna Katherine Mcdaniel
Jan 22, 2023
Anna Katherine McDaniel, 30, accepted a permanent role as lead singer and resident rock star of heaven on Sunday, January 22, 2023. Anna was a spectacular daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunt and friend to many. While her performance here on earth was cut far too short, we can believe confidently that her voice continues to be a perfect accompaniment to the...
Joyce Roylene Garmon
Jan 21, 2023
Joyce Garmon of Lithonia, Georgia passed away on Jan 21, 2023. Her loved ones are composing her obituary, which you will be able to read here.
Mary Lenora Bowen
Jan 21, 2023
Mary Lenora Almand Bowen
Mary (Nora) Bowen passed away Saturday January 21, 2023 at the age of 97. Mary was born January 2, 1926 in Roswell, Georgia to Joseph L. Almand and Victoria Martin Almand. She was preceded in death by her husband Jack W. Bowen. Mary is survived by her 4 children Mary Ann Trowell (Steve), Jack Bowen (Patti), Kenneth...
Robert Mark Mcleod
Jan 21, 2023
Robert "Mark" McLeod, 68, of Decatur, GA, died peacefully in his sleep on the morning of January 21, 2023. Mark was born on May 29, 1954 in Andalusia, AL to The Reverend L. Powers McLeod and Mrs. Annie Wilds McLeod. Mark and his fraternal twin brother, Mike, were the youngest children in the family which included three older siblings. Having...
Hollis William Pickett
Jan 20, 2023
Hollis William Pickett, Sr., of Tucker, died peacefully on January 20, 2023 at the age of 94. He was born in Atlanta on February 17, 1928 to Jay Windsor and Mary Catherine Donnelly Pickett, the third of four sons. He spent his elementary school days in East Lake where he loved to ride the streetcar to the end of the...
Patricia Aileen Walton
Jan 19, 2023
PATRICIA AILEEN WALTON was born and lived her entire 92 years in the Atlanta, Georgia area, where she attended elementary school, high school, and college. She received three degrees from Georgia State University (BA, MEd, and Education Specialist) and was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
She was employed by various companies in Atlanta until she found...
Robert Matthew Wann
Jan 19, 2023
Robert Matthew "Matt" Wann, 74, passed away on January 19, 2023 in Conyers, GA.
Robert was born on November 26, 1948 at Crawford W. Long Hospital in Atlanta, to Robert E. Wann and Mary Frances Wolfe.
He graduated from Avondale High School in 1968 and went on to attend Atlanta Baptist College (now Mercer Atlanta) majoring in Chemistry from 1968 to 1971....
Joshua Scott Lorig
Jan 18, 2023
Joshua Scott Lorig passed away on January 18, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Joshua was born in Michigan City, Indiana on July 29, 1974. He graduated from Marquette High School in Michigan City in 1992. He attended Purdue University and majored in Marketing. He worked in Marketing and Sales in the Tire Industry for 21 years. He worked in the Hospitality...
Frank Fitzgerald Rox
Jan 17, 2023
Frank Fitzgerald Rox, Jr., 68, of Decatur, Georgia, died peacefully on Wednesday night, January 17, 2023.
Frank was born on June 7, 1954, in Decatur, Georgia, to Katherine Ann Edelblut Rox and Frank F. Rox, Sr. He grew up in Decatur where he was a graduate of Druid Hills High School. He attended Southern Methodist University for two years transferring to...
Elizabeth Asbury
Jan 16, 2023
Elizabeth "Betty" Mackay Asbury died in her home at Clairmont Place Retirement Community on January 16, 2023, at the age of 94. Betty was born on March 21, 1928 in Athens, Alabama, the youngest of five children and the only daughter of Beulah Mason Mackay and the Reverend Edward George Mackay. She attended Druid Hills Elementary School and Druid Hills...
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