Obituaries

Eula Mab Ginsburg

Eula Mab Ginsburg

Apr 8, 2022

Eula Mab Rodgers Ginsburg

5/27/1939 – 4/08/2022



Eula Mab Rodgers Ginsburg passed away peacefully surrounded by family Friday April 8, 2022. Eula was born in in Honolulu, HI, the daughter of Robert Henry Rodgers and Mabel VonKokeritz Rodgers. She married Alvin Ginsburg and had two children: Gil Ginsburg, and David Ginsburg (Sarah Wilcox). Her three grandchildren (Jamison Ginsburg, Samuel Ginsburg, and Owen...

Dessie  Clayton Allen

Dessie Clayton Allen

Apr 7, 2022

Dessie Clayton Allen passed away peacefully on April 7, 2022, surrounded by her family. She is preceded in death by her parents, sister, a niece and 2 great grandchildren.

 

Dessie, lovingly referred to as Meme, is survived by her loving husband of 67 years, Thomas (Tom) C Allen, Jr., 4 children Thomas Allen III (Debbie), Kim Allen Shirkness (Richard), Mark...

Mary Rogers Lee

Mary Rogers Lee

Apr 7, 2022

Mary Rogers Lee, age 79, died Thursday morning, April 7, 2022 in Tucker, Georgia after a long battle with kidney failure. Mary, daughter of John Wesley Rogers and Mary Burton Hines, was born August 28, 1942 in Thomasville, Georgia. Her family moved to Miami, Florida when Mary was a child. Mary loved children and in junior high school began volunteer...

Peter R. Dennis

Peter R. Dennis

Apr 6, 2022

Our family has lost its oldest generation today. Pete Dennis "Pop-Pop" to many was so many things to so many people. He was born in Binghamton, New York in 1927. At 17 he joined the US Navy and served aboard the USS Chanticleer during WWII. Upon coming home, he found two of his lifelong passions: his wife, Doris, and the...

Barbara Ann Green

Barbara Ann Green

Mar 31, 2022

Barbara Ann Kelley Green (91) was born March 15, 1931 to Marion Caleb Kelley and Ethleleen Ermine Rowan Kelley in Atlanta, GA. She was the fourth child of eleven children.

 

She died peacefully at Emory Decatur Hospital in Decatur, GA on March 31, 2022.  

 

She was preceded in death by her father and mother as well as two grandchildren,...

Betty H. Hansard

Betty H. Hansard

Mar 29, 2022

Betty H. Hansard age 88 of Tucker Georgia went home to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on March 29, 2022.  She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother who will be greatly missed.  She was a retired real estate agent in the Atlanta area.

She is preceded in death by Lafayette “Fate” Heath (father, died July 1957 in...

Betty Jean Housman

Betty Jean Housman

Mar 27, 2022

Betty Jean Willis Housman passed away on March 27, 2022, at her home in Tucker, following a 3-month battle with cancer. She was born in Atlanta on September 18, 1974 to Mary and Robert Willis, Jr. She spent much of her childhood with her grandparents June and Robert Sr. at their home in Avondale Estates, graduating from Clarkston High School...

Frederick John Hartley, Iii

Frederick John Hartley, Iii

Mar 27, 2022

Frederick John Hartley III, of Decatur, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on March 27, 2022, at the age of 75 years, beloved husband of Martie Hartley.

 

 

Fred grew up in Avondale Estates where he forged friendships that would last his whole life.  After cheering on the Avondale Blue Devils to multiple State Football Championships, he...

Themis Mackas

Themis Mackas

Mar 25, 2022

Themis Loizidou Mackas, 95, died Friday, March 25, 2022, after a 19-year battle with Alzheimer’s. Themis excelled in everything she did, including living longer than experts predicted with this cruel disease. Her family, who loves her endlessly, chooses to remember her like she was before Alzheimer’s stole her from us: fierce, strong, passionate, funny, hot-tempered, energetic, opinionated, brilliant. Born in...

Robert James Engel

Robert James Engel

Mar 24, 2022

Robert James Engel age 63, of Stone Mountain, GA, passed away on March 24, 2022. Robert was born on January 31, 1959, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the son of Lawrence C. Engel and Alice Joan DeChant Engel. Robert is survived by his parents, his daughters Ava Bonner Engel, Ella Engel and their mother - his wife of 21 years...

Lois A. Miller

Lois A. Miller

Mar 24, 2022

Lois Yvonne Adams Stipick Miller, age 95, went to be with her Lord on March 24, 2022. Born on September 17, 1926, in Deland, Florida, she was the eldest child of Eural Eugene E. Adams and Emma Eugenia Stallings Adams.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands: Stanley Frank Stipick and John Smith Miller, her sister Elizabeth Sue...

Wayne Langley Tanner

Wayne Langley Tanner

Mar 22, 2022

Wayne Langley Tanner was born April 22, 1939 in Gainesville, Georgia to Mose and Ruth Tanner. He passed away peacefully March 22, 2022 at home in Stone Mountain, Georgia. He was named for two of his great grandmothers, Rosanna Josephine Wayne Smith and Alsey Langley Tanner.

Wayne attended City of Atlanta schools and graduated from Murphy High School in 1957. At...

William  James  Maron

William James Maron

Mar 22, 2022

William James “Bill” Maron passed away peacefully at his home in Decatur, Georgia, on March 22, 2022. He was 67 years old.

Bill was born Sept. 13, 1954, in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Gerry and Marge Maron. The family moved to Montezuma, Georgia, in 1970. In 1976, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Georgia, and he...

Paul Robert Gouin

Paul Robert Gouin

Mar 22, 2022

Paul Robert Gouin, M.D., died March 22, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia, after a courageous battle with Alzheimer's Disease.  He was 82.

Born March 29, 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, he was the son of Paul Emile Gouin and Lily Helma Biggs, the eldest of three children. He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he attended Viscount Alexander Collegiate Institute. After...

David Ned Lucas

David Ned Lucas

Mar 21, 2022

David Ned Lucas, 81, passed away on March 21, 2022 at Emory University Hospital. He was born February 14, 1941, in Roswell, New Mexico, the son of Ned Laverne and Rita Pearl (Bay) Lucas.



David graduated from Wheatridge High School, class of 1959. Following his graduation from high school, David joined the United States Navy with a Navy Scholarship, where he...

Bennie Neal Simons

Bennie Neal Simons

Mar 20, 2022

Graveside Services for Bennie Simons, age 87 of Decatur, GA will be held on Friday, March 25, 2022 at 11:00 AM at Evergreen Memorial Park - 4500 St. Marys Road, Columbus, GA 31907.Arrangements entrusted to A. S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home & Crematory 2773 N. Decatur Rd, Decatur, GA 30033 404-292-1551.

Thomas Lilburn Eads, Sr.

Thomas Lilburn Eads, Sr.

Mar 20, 2022

Thomas L Eads Sr., 79 years of age, passed peacefully at his home in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, March 20, 2022. He was born on March 31, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia to Walter and Tommie Estelle Eads. Thomas worked for the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company for over 40 years and retired from Kroger in 2005. He attended Atlanta Area...

Kathleen Mary Bingaman

Kathleen Mary Bingaman

Mar 18, 2022

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Thomas Carl Banyai

Thomas Carl Banyai

Mar 17, 2022

Tom Banyai was born in Cleveland, Ohio to June and Carl Banyai. He spent his early years in Avon Lake, Ohio and after working in several states, eventually moved to Atlanta in 1996.  His death came after a long and difficult struggle with congenital heart disease.   



Tom had a lifelong love of computers and became a mainframe programmer after graduating...