Obituaries
Virginia Marie Krawiec
Nov 28, 2022
Virginia (Ginny) Marie Krawiec was expected to share a birthday with Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth. Instead, always in a hurry, she was the first “preemie” born at the new Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey on February 16, 1926. Weighing only three pounds, she inspired the nuns to pray through the night on her behalf, and, ultimately, her...
Fern Pachter Hallman
Nov 28, 2022
Fern Pachter Hallman was born on December 6, 1956 in Scranton, PA to Cynthia and Saul Pachter. She passed away on November 28, 2022. She grew up in Allentown, PA. The weather in PA was not to her liking so she took her uncle Kenny’s advice and went to the University of Miami for college. There, she learned the joys...
Ian James Hagerty
Nov 27, 2022
Ian James Hagerty, born 1/12/2005 in Decatur, passed away suddenly on 11/27/2022.
He had a great love of sports as a swimmer and basketball player. He loved teamwork and competition. He will be remembered as a loving child, good friend with an impish grin and a wonderful sense of humor. His greatest joy came early this fall with the birth of...
Sara Riggs Houdyshell
Nov 27, 2022
Sara Riggs Houdyshell, age 82, passed away on November 27, 2022, after a brief illness. She was born December 17, 1939, in Washington D.C. to Ralph and Ethel Riggs.
After graduating from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, she moved to Tampa and was employed with the Internal Revenue Service as the first female revenue agent in Tampa. Thereafter, she moved...
Anthony Joseph Ippolito
Nov 27, 2022
Anthony (Tony) Joseph Ippolito, an Atlanta resident since 1959 - but lifelong New Yorker - died on November 27, 2022, at Emory St. Joseph’s hospital, after a short illness.
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Tony was born in Manhattan on March 12, 1937. He attended Xavier high school before heading south to attend Georgia Tech and ultimately graduating from the University...
Mary Beazley
Nov 27, 2022
Mary Wilson Beazley, age 93, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home Sunday, November 27th, 2022. Born November 8th, 1929 in Athens, Georgia, she was the daughter of Myrtice Bowers Wilson and James Hunter Wilson. Mary graduated from Alexander Stephens Institute in Crawfordville and after attending 4 quarters at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, she married the...
Rachel Arline Miller
Nov 24, 2022
Rachel Arline Loftin Miller, 90, of Loganville, GA formerly of Roopville, GA and Brunswick, OH passed away on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022. She was born August 21, 1932, in Roopville, GA to Sam & Lessie Boyd Loftin. She was a cafeteria worker in the Brunswick, OH and Heard Co; GA school systems. In addition to her parents, she was...
Ricardo Marcelino Gonzalez
Nov 22, 2022
Ricardo Gonzalez, age 99, passed on the morning of November 22, 2022. He was born June 2, 1923 in Havana, Cuba to his late parents Isabel and Ricardo Gonzalez .
In 1968 he immigrated to the United States with his wife and two daughters via the Freedom Flights. They lived in Atlanta for a time before setting down roots...
Melanie Melvin Williams
Nov 21, 2022
Melanie Melvin Williams was born on December 25th, 1954 to Matron Louise Melvin and Wilford Woofdruff Melvin Jr In Atlanta, GA. She passed on November 21st, 2022. She was a wonderful mother and wife. Kind hearted, bad temper, stubborn as a mule, and loved by most who have met her. She lived a very fascinating life. Dated a famous wrestler,...
Godwin Adindu Njoku
Nov 21, 2022
LATE CAPTAIN GODWIN ADINDU NJOKU.
Grandfather, Father, Husband, Brother, Uncle, Airline Captain, and War Veteran.
Capt. Godwin Adindu Njoku was the fifth of eight children of Late Anglican Church "Lay Reader" Felix Onyekwere and Matilda Ihuoma Njoku.
At baptism his father named him "GODWIN" meaning GOD's FRIEND while both his father and mother jointly named him ADINDU in the belief of God's bestowment...
Richard Allen Hudson
Nov 20, 2022
Dr. Richard A. Hudson
(April 14, 1960 - - November 20, 2022)
After a long and complicated struggle with multiple health issues; Dr. Richard A. Hudson (Doc Rick / Rick), age 62, passed away from Covid complications on Sunday, November 20, 2022, at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. With him at the time of his death were: his trusted Doberman rescue, Scooby;...
Mark William Jeffrey, Sr.
Nov 19, 2022
Mark William Jeffrey, Sr. age 80 of Atlanta passed away November 19, 2022. Je is survived by his wife, Kathi Jeffrey; son and daughter in law, Mark and Kimberly Jeffrey; son, Scott Jeffrey; granddaughter, Kyra Jeffrey; grandsons, Brendan and Ryan Jeffrey.
A funeral mass will be said Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 1:00 pm at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church...
Katie Mae Hudgins
Nov 19, 2022
Katie Mae Hudgins(Brock), 87, passed away on November 19, 2022. Born in Gillsville Georgia, she was the daughter of William and Annie Brock. She enjoyed long walks, gardening and cooking. She will be remembered for her kind heart and quirky sense of humor. She always wanted to make others smile. She is survived by her children, Kenneth Anderson, John Anderson,...
Charles O. Arledge
Nov 18, 2022
Charles Olin Arledge, better known as Charlie to his family and many friends, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours on Friday, November 18, 2022, after a long illness. He was 84 years old. Charlie grew up in midtown Atlanta and graduated from Grady High School in 1956. He attended Georgia Tech and received a degree from Southern Tech...
Claude Ray Tanner
Nov 17, 2022
Ray Tanner, age 97, of Atlanta, GA, passed away on November 17, 2022. He was the son of the late Luck Leroy Tanner and Myrtie Olivia Gravitt Tanner.
He attended Tech High School. At age 18, he volunteered for the U.S. Navy and served aboard a small escort ship in the Pacific. Participated in the invasion of Okinawa. Upon Japan’s surrender,...
Teresa Ellen Speck
Nov 14, 2022
Teresa Ellen Speck age 56 of Marietta passed peacefully after a long illness on Monday, November 14, 2022 at Piedmont Hospice. A 1984 graduate of Briarcliff High School and longtime resident of Marietta, Teri is survived by her loving mother, Judith Ellen Hart, and devoted son, James B. Speck, a recent graduate of Walton High School and student at Arizona...
Mary "Penny" Thompson
Nov 13, 2022
Mary “Penny” Johns Thompson passed away peacefully in her sleep at home Sunday, November 13th, 2022. Born on the 28th of November 1939 in Miami, Florida, she was the daughter of William Bryant Johns and Myrtle Holbrook Johns of Tifton, Georgia. She was the youngest of four sisters: Virginia, Dorothy, and Betty. Penny graduated from the University of Georgia in...
Roger Eugene Kline
Nov 12, 2022
Roger Eugene Kline, age 85, of Atlanta, Georgia, passed away Sunday, November 12th, 2022. He is survived by his wife, Holly, his children, Tim (Magda), Chris (Heather), Greg (Mary), and Chelsea (Kevin), his grandchildren, Christopher, Aleks, Nicholas, Mae, Lindsay, Nina, Hank, and Coco, his great niece, Kaylie (Tim), as well as several other nieces and nephews. He is also survived...
June Sparks
Nov 12, 2022
June Elizabeth Rosselle Sparks died peacefully on November 12, 2022 of complications of Alzheimer’s disease, after a long and well-lived life.
She was born June 18, 1926, to William Porter and Elizabeth Grace Rosselle in Cincinnati, OH. In the early 1930s, the family moved first to Louisville, KY and then to Decatur, GA. June attended Winona Park Elementary School in Decatur,...
Sandra Pilgrim Wages
Nov 12, 2022
Our beloved wife and mother, Sandra Pilgrim Wages, age 79 of Stone Mountain entered into eternal rest on Saturday, November 12, 2022 after a twenty-one month long battle with brain cancer.
Born to Roy and Dot Pilgrim, Sandra grew up in Atlanta with her sisters, Fay and Dee. Sandra was a nurturer at her core. Second to her love and...
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