Obituaries

Catherine Talton

Catherine Talton

Feb 15, 2021

Catherine Welbron Talton, age 98, entered into the presence of her Savior on February 15, 2021. She gave her life to Jesus as a young girl at Rehoboth Baptist Church and was baptized in the creek on Frazier Road. Catherine was a life long resident of the Pea Ridge community, telling stories of her childhood picking cotton on their farm...

Charlotte Mary Collins

Charlotte Mary Collins

Feb 14, 2021

Charlotte Mary Thuman Collins died at the age of 70 on February 14, 2021. She was a graduate of College Park High School, class of 1968 and attended the University of Georgia. She was an active faithful member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Decatur, where she enjoyed serving in the theatre ministry. Charlotte was very witty, an avid...

Thomas Edwin Love

Thomas Edwin Love

Feb 13, 2021

Thomas Love, age 51, of Sandy Springs, GA, passed on February 13, 2021. A celebration of life ceremony will be held on February 21, 2021 for immediate family only at Decatur First UMC with interment in the memory garden there. Thomas is survived by his parents Anne and James Evans and Gordon and Sharon Love; brothers Joel(Rebecca) Evans, Erik Evans;...

Sybil Winifred Crawford

Sybil Winifred Crawford

Feb 13, 2021

Mrs. Sybil Winifred Biscombe Crawford was born in Georgetown Hospital, Georgetown Guyana on Thursday October 22 nd , 1931. She was the only daughter of William Biscombe and the third child of Eldica Connell. Sybil later attended and graduated from Carnegie School of Home Economics, which provided her with the skill sets to supervise and manage her home in later...

William Clark Driskell

William Clark Driskell

Feb 13, 2021

WILLIAM CLARK DRISKELL Bill has died. Everything just quit working. Friends and family have been unable to detect any disturbance in the cosmos as the result of his passing. Likewise, there seems to have been no ethereal disruption as a consequence of his birth on September 23, 1944, in Long Beach, California, the first child of the late Alice and...

Mary Wood

Mary Wood

Feb 12, 2021

Mary Erwin Wood died on February 12, 2021. She was born April 19, 1923 in Hendersonville, NC to Mary Erwin and Alexander Hamilton Wood. Mary was a proud graduate of Fassifern School for Girls and Furman University, where she majored in French and minored in Spanish, German, and political science. Ms. Wood's career was with the City of Atlanta, where...

Sarah Helen Killgore

Sarah Helen Killgore

Feb 11, 2021

Dr. Sarah Helen Killgore, 91, of Decatur died on Thursday, February 11, 2021. A graveside service will be held at 11:00 on Saturday, February 20, 2021 at Resthaven Cemetery. Dr. Killgore was predeceased by her husband, Don L. Killgore and her only child, David W. Killgore. Born in Edison, Dr. Killgore was a graduate of Piedmont Hospital School of Nursing...

Fabor Colette Vaughn Corbett

Fabor Colette Vaughn Corbett

Feb 11, 2021

Fabor Corbett, age 68, passed away Feb.11, 2021, from COVID, after a month of valiant care at Northside Hospital. An Atlanta native, she grew up in East Atlanta, then Chamblee and Norcross in her teenage years. She graduated from Norcross High, married young, and moved to Berlin, Germany. After returning to Atlanta, her dear daughter, Amy Donahue, was born. Fabor...

Tony Wayne Strickland

Tony Wayne Strickland

Feb 11, 2021

On Thursday, February 11, 2021, Tony Strickland, loving husband and father of four children passed away at the age of 67. Tony was born on January 15, 1954 in Atlanta, Ga. to Harvey, and Edwin Strickland. He was a graduate of Brown High School class of 1971. On December 3, 1980, he married his sweetheart, Mary Lynn Wells. They raised...

Charles Eugene Kirk

Charles Eugene Kirk

Feb 10, 2021

Charles was born on March 22, 1930 in Monroe, Georgia and passed away at his residence on Wednesday February 10th, 2021. He attended Monroe High School and there met the love of his life, Elizabeth, there. They were married on August 19, 1951 in the First United Methodist Church in Monroe, Georgia (the first marriage in the new building). He...

Roger Williams Moore

Roger Williams Moore

Feb 10, 2021

Roger Williams Moore, 90, of Decatur GA passed away peacefully at home in the loving care of his family on February 10, 2021. Born May 3, 1930, in Gwinnett County, son of Holdman and Gladys Moore. Roger is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 71 years, Jessie Ellis Moore. A successful 52-year career in the automotive service industry,...

Joseph  Alfred Weingartner, Jr.

Joseph Alfred Weingartner, Jr.

Feb 9, 2021

Joseph Alfred Weingartner, Jr., was born in Decatur, GA, at Emory University Hospital on February 9, 1930. He grew up attending Decatur Presbyterian Church. In high school, Joe enjoyed playing baseball and football. He followed up with football, playing at Presbyterian College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree. After College, he went into the Army at Fort Benning...

Christopher Paul Schneider

Christopher Paul Schneider

Feb 7, 2021

Christopher Paul Schneider of Flowery Branch went to sleep with the Lord February 7th, 2021 at the age of 15. He was the beloved son of Paul and Laura Schneider and caring big brother to Carlie. Christopher was born in Parma, OH and moved to Flowery Branch in 2018. He attended Flowery Branch High School. Christopher loved camping, traveling and...

Michael Donald Zeiler

Michael Donald Zeiler

Feb 7, 2021

Michael Donald Zeiler, 87, passed away on Sunday February 7, 2021. He was a distinguished professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where he was appointed as a Charles Howard Candler Chair in 1984. One of his favorite classes to teach was the History of Psychology, which he continued to teach at Senior University after his retirement. At...

Gloria Dawn Levert

Gloria Dawn Levert

Feb 6, 2021

Gloria Roland LeVert, age 88, died Saturday, February 6th, 2021 at her home in Dunwoody, GA surrounded by her husband and daughters. She is survived by her devoted husband of 70 years, James A. LeVert; daughters, Randalyn LeVert Smith (Tommy), Penny LeVert Gardner (Russell), and Cathy LeVert Paulen (Jeff); 10 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.Gloria was born July 27, 1932...

Marjorie Evelyn Froelich

Marjorie Evelyn Froelich

Feb 5, 2021

Marge Froelich, 94, of Decatur, peacefully left this life on February 5. She left many fond memories in the hearts of her four children Beth Denney (Terry), Skip Froelich (Sandy), Barbara Froelich, and Susan Mingle (Mike). She treasured her role as “Memaw” to her eight grandchildren Charlie, Lauren, Kristen, Natalie, Kelly, Jeffrey, Molly, and Abel. And she cherished being “Memaw”...

Colonel Edward James Johnson

Colonel Edward James Johnson

Feb 5, 2021

Colonel Edward James Johnson passed away peacefully on February 5th, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 92. Edward is survived his children Barbara Annette Glick (David), Steven Edward Johnson, Linda Marie Crickenberger (Charles), and Christine Beth Thurley (Richard), his granddaughters Lila Alani Glick and Caitlin Renée Thurley, and many cousins, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, and other extended family...

Mary Lois Waits

Mary Lois Waits

Feb 5, 2021

Mary Lois Waits, 93, of Suwanee, Georgia passed away on Friday, February 5, 2021. She is preceded in death by her husband, Richard Tillman Waits, Jr. She is survived by her two sons and daughters in law; Richard Alan Waits (Susan) and David Gregory Waits (Vicki). Her grandchildren David Alan Waits (Ashleigh), Brian Timothy Waits (Cassie), Russell Matthew Waits (Kelly),...