Obituaries

Joan Eggers Elder

Joan Eggers Elder

Jul 31, 2021

Joan Eggers Elder age 91 of Alpharetta passed away Saturday July 31, 2021. She was born March 11, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio and was a daughter of the late Mildred Frazee Eggers and Albert Louis Eggers. Her family moved to Atlanta when she was two years old where she attended Highland Elementary School, Girls High and graduated from Bass High...

Robert Leslie Snee

Robert Leslie Snee

Jul 29, 2021

Robert Leslie Snee age 77 of Chamblee passed away Thursday, July 29, 2021 after a short illness. He was born January 16, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia and was the son of the late Edna Flowers Snee and Emmett Snee. Bob was a lifelong resident of Atlanta. He attended Grady High School and received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Human...

Herbert Lee Entrekin, Jr.

Herbert Lee Entrekin, Jr.

Jul 29, 2021

Herbert “Herb” Lee Entrekin, Jr., husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died after a brief illness on July 29, 2021 in Lawrenceville, GA. He was 84. Herb was born in Dublin, GA on February 21, 1937 to the late Herbert Lee Entrekin and Oleta Chancey Entrekin. At a young age, his family moved to Decatur, GA. He was active in Boy...

Shirlee Roberta Blum

Shirlee Roberta Blum

Jul 29, 2021

Shirlee Roberta Baker Blum Shirlee was born Shirlee Baker in Kansas City, Missouri. She always considered herself a Midwesterner in thought. She married Jack Blum in 1952 and started a family with the birth of a daughter Nancy and a son Jeffrey. Through Jack's work, they moved throughout the Midwest and the South, settling in Atlanta in 1983. She was...

Dr. Robert  Franklin Kibler

Dr. Robert Franklin Kibler

Jul 27, 2021

Dr. Robert Franklin Kibler Sr. passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at the age of 97. Bob was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1924 to Major General A. Franklin and Claire Kibler. Most of his early childhood was spent in Kansas where he was actively involved in the outdoors: birding, building lean-tos and becoming an Eagle Scout. This...

Monroe James Watkins

Monroe James Watkins

Jul 26, 2021

Monroe James Watkins was born on May 31st 1932 to John and Lena Watkins in Summit, Mississippi. He moved to Chicago, Illinois at the age of 19 were he worked as a mechanic for Yellow Cab. He was married to Bennett in 1953 and to this Union two sons were born, Michael and Lawrence. Monroe studied the Bible and liked...

Robert  Edwin Whittle

Robert Edwin Whittle

Jul 25, 2021

Robert Edwin Whittle (“Bob”) was born in Georgiana, Alabama to Grady and Voncile Burkett Whittle on January 7, 1936. His father died when he was two, and the family was split up. Bob’s siblings, Cecelia and Douglas, stayed with their mother, while Bob went to live with his grandparents on their farm in Industry, AL. Those years on the farm...

Helen Odom Ramsey

Helen Odom Ramsey

Jul 23, 2021

Helen Odom Ramsey, 91, passed peacefully July 23, 2021 in Monroe, Georgia. Helen was born to John and Annie (Nichols) Ramsey in Citronelle, Alabama. She was married to Calvin Ramsey until his passing in 1999. Helen is survived by her three children: David Ramsey, Matt Ramsey, and Connie Kenny; four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.A funeral service will be held at...

John Henry Rebhann

John Henry Rebhann

Jul 22, 2021

John Henry Rebhann, Jack to his friends and family, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather joined his heavenly father on July 22, 2021. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Fuhr Rebhann, 3 children: Christina Rebhann Marlow (James), John Wallace Rebhann and Laura Rebhann Reichwald (Norman), 9 grandchildren: Marion Marlow, James Marlow Jr, Bryan Marlow (Katrina), Grace Case (Jeremy), Heather...

Dorothy Davis Moye

Dorothy Davis Moye

Jul 22, 2021

Dorothy Lewellyn (“Dot”) Davis Moye passed away on Thursday, July 22, 2021. Born in 1941 to Rev. Thomas M. Davis Sr. and Mary Bailey Williams Davis, she was the oldest of four siblings. Her father ministered to a succession of Presbyterian congregations, so the family moved frequently during her childhood, from Montevallo, Ala.; to Rustin, La.; to New Orleans, which...

Athena Evangellia Anemogiannis

Athena Evangellia Anemogiannis

Jul 20, 2021

A gentle soul and free spirit, Athena Anemogiannis, 30, died Tuesday, July 20, at her home in Atlanta.Athena was born Feb. 1, 1991, in Atlanta. Her affinity for nature and experiential learning was very much nurtured at Academe of the Oaks, the high school from which she graduated in 2009.Athena's gentle presence was soothing to others. Through her years of...

James Edmund Carson, Jr.

James Edmund Carson, Jr.

Jul 17, 2021

James Edmund Carson, Jr. of Atlanta, age 63, suddenly passed away on July 17, 2021.Jim was born on June 4, 1958 in Atlanta to James Edmund Carson, Sr. and Gay Barr Carson. He loved the South and made Atlanta his home for his entire life. As a young boy, his lifelong love of fishing was encouraged by his “Uncle Charlie”...

Marion Patricia Chapman

Marion Patricia Chapman

Jul 16, 2021

Marion Patricia Chapman passed away on July 16, 2021 at the age of 101. Her life story is one of generosity and devotion to family and friends. She was loved greatly by many, and will be sorely missed. Marion was born and lived for 36 years in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. She was very close to her family throughout her life,...

George Callinicos

George Callinicos

Jul 15, 2021

George Callinicos died peacefully on July 15, 2021 of natural causes. George was an intelligent and peaceful man, a voracious reader and student of history. He dedicated his life and soul to his loving wife Lilian (Evangelia), living just shy of celebrating their 48th Wedding Anniversary this coming Thursday, July 29th. George and Lilian were always by each other’s side,...

Harriet Lorraine Schroeder, Md

Harriet Lorraine Schroeder, Md

Jul 14, 2021

Harriet Lorraine Schroeder, MD went home to heaven unexpectedly on July 13, 2021, at age 83. She was a beloved sister, aunt and great aunt, a well-respected radiologist, and most importantly a follower of Jesus. Harriet was born to George William and Lorraine Antoinette Wilson Schroeder on March 4, 1938, in Pinckneyville, Ill., moving to Memphis as a child when...

Alan Randall Clark

Alan Randall Clark

Jul 13, 2021

Clark, Randy, Ph.D, of Decatur, died July 13 of natural causes. A published scholar whose expertise encompassed the whole of American media, Randy shared that knowledge for more than thirty years as a beloved and admired college professor, most recently at Clayton State University. He is survived by his sisters Cindy, Cathy, and Christy; his brother-in-law Mike Bayne; and hundreds...

Joyce Fraser

Joyce Fraser

Jul 11, 2021

Joyce loved people. She leaves behind a large circle of family and friends who will miss her terribly. Joyce was born in Wahoo, Florida on March 3, 1929. Her father, James Albert Bennett, died when she was just 18 months old. Joyce had seven siblings. Ailene, R.J. and Adrian passed away as children, but her sisters Eunice (Hamilton) and Kathrine...

Dorothy Mae Branscomb

Dorothy Mae Branscomb

Jul 10, 2021

Dorothy (Dot) Eiselstein Branscomb, 87, of Stone Mountain, GA, passed away peacefully on July 10, 2021. Dot was born in Orlando, FL on October 26, 1933 to Dana and Louise Eiselstein. Growing up in Orlando, she met and fell in love with John Branscomb, son of a local preacher. Following college, the two married and settled in Decatur, GA, where,...

Anais Francis Stewart

Anais Francis Stewart

Jul 8, 2021

Anais Francis Stewart, beloved daughter of Malcolm LenCharles Stewart and Brenda Wardrett Stewart, was born January 11, 1993 in Decatur, Georgia. She gave her body back to the dust and her soul to the Lord on Thursday, July 8, 2021. She leaves to cherish her memory: her parents; grandfather, Lenchow Stewart of Columbus, OH; grandmother, Bessie M. Wardrett of Newport...