Obituaries
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...
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...
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
To view the service for Joanne, please copy and paste the following link into your web browser. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/715766961
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...
Nancy Macpherson Buss
May 18, 2022
Nancy Jane Macpherson Buss died May 18, 2022, at the age of 91.
Born and raised in the Southern California desert, Nancy graduated from the University of Redlands majoring in music. She worked as a clerk and a teacher before heading to Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, where she met her husband Martin Buss. They married in 1954...
William "Bill" Milton Carpenter
May 16, 2022
William "Bill" M Carpenter, age 90, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 16, 2022, at his home in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Bill was born on May 27, 1931, in Clear Spring, MD where he was the 2nd of 13 children. He was the son of the late Frank Milton and Ruth Naomi (Gruber) Carpenter. In...
James Franklin Dennerline , Jr.
May 15, 2022
To view the memorial Service for JD, please copy the following link to your web browser. https://vimeo.com/live/710433962/stream
James F. Dennerline, known affectionately as JD, was born in Chicago, and raised in Dallas before moving to the southeast. He found his passion and lifelong friendships working for Houlihan’s here in Atlanta. From Atlanta to North Royalton to West Palm Beach to Atlanta...
Jean Myers Hawkins
May 15, 2022
Jean Myers Hawkins, age 82 of Scottdale, GA passed away on Sunday, May 15, 2022.
Myra Jean’s children are:Donna McConnell of Winder, GaDoreen Whitaker of Loganville, GaDanny Covington of Sebastian, FlDarlene Childers of Conyers, GaTammy Cannon of Zephyrhills, FlShe has grandchildren and great grandchildren. She also has a brother and sisters who will meet her again someday in heaven.We are...
James Howard Massey
May 14, 2022
James “Doc” Massey was born June 17, 1926, in Webster County, Georgia and died May 14, 2022. He was 95 years old.
Doc came from very humble beginnings. He grew up on a farm during the Depression years and never forgot the struggles his family endured then. He promised himself that his future family would never experience those hardships.
Doc...
Daniel Aristide
May 14, 2022
In loving memory of our Daniel Aristide. Born February 11, 1976 to Father Belfong Aristide and Mother Paulette Mondestin. Daniel was raised in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. He was the eldest of 4 siblings; Regine, Bedforg, Cassandre and Dwight.
When Daniel came of age, he decided to join the Police Academy and was inducted into the Police Force in Haiti, Classe 7 Section...
Earl Wimberly Burnette, Jr.
May 13, 2022
Earl W. Burnette, Jr., age 96 of Stone Mountain, passed away peacefully on May 13, 2022. He was preceded in death by his parents Earl W. Burnette, Sr. and Evelyn Schenck, his wives Madge and Carolyn, and his sister Evelyn.
He is survived by his children Terri Burnette, Barry (Reida) Burnette, Gregory (Jennifer) Burnette, Patrick Burnette, and a grandson Chandler...
Marty Ray Hutcheson
May 13, 2022
Gone Fishin’
Marty Ray Hutcheson, Sr , a Georgia native, was born on June 04, 1962.
Marty, also known as Tree Man, loved to fish, be on the lake, show off his hot-rods and play slot machines. Winning was his passion in every aspect, and giving up is something he refused to do, no matter the situations. Not only could he make...
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