Obituaries
Richard Goehring Smith
Jun 7, 2022
Richard “Rick” Smith passed away of natural causes at the age of 86 on June 7, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, and was predeceased by his wife, Jean Smith, in December, 2020. Until recently, Rick and Jean lived in Foley and Gulf Shores, Alabama. Due to his declining health, Rick moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in November 2021 to be closer to...
Peter Joseph Brennan
Jun 6, 2022
Peter Joseph Brennan died at home on June 6, 2022. He was the second of eight children born to William Patrick Brennan, Sr. and Geraldine Veronica Dunn Brennan on March 2, 1939, in Bronx, NY. Peter was educated at Archbishop Stepinac High School in While Plains, NY, and enlisted in the US Navy at 17 where he served for 10...
Wayne Thomas Baker
Jun 6, 2022
Wayne Thomas Baker, 92, formally of Charlotte, NC, passed away peacefully on June 6, 2022, in Atlanta, GA. Wayne was born August 28, 1929, in St. Joseph, Missouri, to the late Von Baker and Laura Mary Simpson Baker. He was a graduate of the University of Missouri and a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Force. Wayne lived and worked...
Dorothy Louise Gray
Jun 5, 2022
Dorothy Louise Gray, of Atlanta, passed away peacefully on Sunday June 5, 2022 at the age of 92. She was born April 21, 1930 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to parents Robert Mills Proctor and Mildred Louise White Proctor. Her father was a career U.S. Army Officer and taught ROTC for many years at Chattanooga High School.
Dorothy spent many summers visiting her...
Tara Laquita Jefferson
Jun 5, 2022
Tara Laquita Jefferson was born September 16, 1968, to Lynn Jefferson and the late Rosalind Wilma Hackworth in Birmingham, Alabama.
Tara graduated from Ensley Magnet High School, Birmingham, Alabama. She retired from Emory Decatur Hospital (formerly Dekalb Medical Center). Tara leaves to cherish her memories, daughter Tiffany Jefferson of Atlanta, Georgia, sons Christopher Jefferson and Erick Jefferson of Atlanta, Georgia. Four...
Virginia Crowe Bugg
Jun 3, 2022
Virginia C. Bugg passed away Thursday June 3, 2022 at the age of 95. She was born on August 29, 1926 in Gloster, Georgia. Virginia was the first born daughter of Belvie and Sadie Crowe. She grew up in Tucker Georgia with her sisters, Betty (Carman) and twins Mary (Burns) and Martha (Bennett). She married J.C. Bugg in September 1944....
Clifford Arthur Sandell
Jun 1, 2022
Clifford Arthur Sandell, (Cliff), 72, of Decatur, Georgia died peacefully on June 1, 2022 in hospice care after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Cliff was born on October 4, 1949 in Meridian, Mississippi, the son of the Reverend Walter G. Sandell and the late Margaret Nader Sandell.
Cliff loved being around people and delighted in his church family at...
William Hixson Breen, Iii
Jun 1, 2022
William (Uncle Tony) Hixson Breen lll passed away on Wednesday June 1, 2022. Bill was born in Atlanta in 1949 and was a lifetime Decatur resident. He attended Winnona Park Elementary School, and graduated from Decatur High School in 1967. He also attended Georgia Tech and Southern Tech. After college he joined the Marine Corps Reserves where he served in...
Stephen Andrew Green
May 28, 2022
Mr. Stephen Andrew Green of Stone Mountain, Georgia died at home on Saturday, May 28, 2022.
Mr. Green was a 1981 graduate of Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia. He joined the Navy immediately after graduation. He served for four years as an E3 Mess Management Specialist on the USS Guam as the ship transported Marines and Seals to Beirut, Lebanon...
Derek Lee Francis
May 28, 2022
Derek Lee Francis, 31, of Tucker, Georgia passed away at home on Saturday May 28, 2022. He was born July 15, 1990 in Deltona, Florida. He was recovering from a fall in October that fractured his skull in three places. He was worried that he might have permanent brain damage.
Derek always had a joke and a way to make...
Betty Jo Carruthers
May 27, 2022
Betty Jo Armstrong was born on January 7, 1929. She grew up in Winnsboro, South Carolina and the surrounding rural area. She was the first child and only daughter of Louise Coon Armstrong and Matthew Edwin Armstrong. Betty Jo had two younger brothers and spent most of her childhood around her mother’s eleven brothers and sisters. She attended a one-room...
Joanne Jacka
May 27, 2022
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Joanne French Jacka was born October 20, 1939 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She passed away May 27, 2022 with her daughter and son-in-law by her side. Ms. Jacka grew up in Wyoming and all over the world as her father worked for a US...
Wynelle Hodges Bone
May 27, 2022
Roger Bone said God brought them together. That was how he explained a young man from a farm in Indiana meeting and marrying a young woman from a small town in middle Georgia and forming a loving union that lasted over 67 years. Wynelle “Winnie” Hodges Bone was born in Oconee in Washington County, Georgia, on September 15, 1924. She...
Marlene C. Embry
May 26, 2022
Marlene Crowe Embry, 78, of Johns Creek, died May 26, 2022. Marlene was born August 28, 1943 in Chamblee, Georgia to Thomas Glover “Hank” Crowe and Mary Evelyn Crowe née Wingo.
Marlene graduated Cross Keys High School in 1961 and began work at Embry Realty Company as an executive secretary. In 1971, she married Jack Embry and continued to help...
Mary Carolyn Herter
May 22, 2022
Carolyn passed away May 22, 2022. She was a lifelong resident of the Atlanta Area. She was a 1960 graduate of Brown High School in Westend and attended Massey Business School. She worked at the downtown Western Union as a clerk and at East Cobb Middle School in the cafeteria. She never married or had children but loved the arrival...
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boone
May 21, 2022
Gwendolyn Boone departed for her heavenly home on Saturday May 21, 2022, in Tucker, Georgia. She was 92 years old.
Gwendolyn met and married the love of her life, Irving Boone and to this union were born two daughters, Karen, Debra (Ngandu) and one son Michael (Bernadette).
A native of Illinois, Gwendolyn was a homemaker for many years prior becoming a teacher’s...
Kenneth E. Martin
May 20, 2022
Kenneth Eugene Martin (“Gene”) died on Friday, May 20, in McLean, Virginia.
Gene was born on February 13, 1930, and grew up in Corydon, Kentucky. He was the Minister and Director of Music at several churches in the Atlanta area and a piano teacher since 1951. He devoted his life to building community through music and to teaching, and he...
David Rosenzweig
May 19, 2022
David Rosenzweig died peacefully in his home in Decatur, GA on May 19th, 2022 at the age of 82. David was born in Brooklyn, NY and spent his early childhood living near Ebbets Field. His first memories as a sports fan were made watching the Brooklyn Dodgers. Around age 5, he moved to White Plains, NY, where in junior high...
James D. Hicks
May 19, 2022
James D. Hicks, age 88, of Stone Mountain passed away May 19, 2022. James was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather who will be greatly missed. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mose M. (Mancy) Hicks and was a proud Navy veteran serving during the Korean Conflict. James was a member of the Forrest...
Abbie Harlin
May 18, 2022
Abbie Harlin
On May 18th 2022 we lost a trailblazer in Atlanta’s art, fashion, culinary, and decorating community. Abbie (neé Mary Alice) Harlin was born on April 14th 1933 to Thomas Jefferson and Mary (Bramblett) Long. She shared her birthday with a brother, three of her seven uncles and two grandchildren. She remained beautiful till the end even while managing...
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