James Lee Branyon
May 24, 2015
James Lee Branyon, age 76 of Turtletown, TN passed away on Sunday, May 24, 2015, at his home. He was born on Friday, August 5, 1938 in Anderson, SC, to the late Claude Lee and Olga Beatrice Tippins Branyon. Mr. Branyon was a member of Victory Temple Holiness Church. He had worked for Piggly Wiggly Supermarket in Ducktown, TN.Survivors are...
Katherine Ellis
May 23, 2015
Katherine Ellis, age 59, of Blue Ridge, GA passed away Saturday, May 23, 2015 in the Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, GA. Ms. Ellis was born in Fannin County, GA on February 9, 1956 to the late John Howard Jones and Mozelle Sain Jones. She was of the Baptist faith. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Mark and...
Robert 'Bobby' Lowell Bradley
May 22, 2015
Mr. Robert "Bobby" Lowell Bradley, age 79 of Eatonton, GA passed away on Friday, May 22, 2015, at Eatonton Health and Rehabilation Center in Eatonton, GA. He was born on Thursday, June 27, 1935 in McCaysville, GA to the late C.F. and Nellie Hays Bradley. Mr. Bradley was a member of Kingtown Baptist Church. He served his country in the...
Grady Cortez Patterson
May 20, 2015
Grady Cortez Patterson, Sr., age 71 of Blue Ridge, GA passed away on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at the Copper Basin Medical Center in Copperhill, TN. He was born in Fannin County, GA on Tuesday, August 10, 1943, to the late Dock Adam and Nancy Huddleston Patterson. Mr. Patterson had worked with Thompson and Sons as a foreman of commercial...
William 'Bill' Posey Henson
May 16, 2015
William "Bill" Posey Henson, age 90 of McCaysville, GA passed away on Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Life Care Center of Copper Basin in Ducktown, TN. He was born on Saturday, June 7, 1924, in Fannin County, GA to the late William Arthur and Mary Magaline Magnus Henson. Mr. Henson was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church on...
Larry Cox
May 16, 2015
Mr. William "Larry" Cox, age 66, of Hiawassee, GA passed away May 16, 2015 at his home. Larry was a gentle and caring man who loved his family as well as his church and masonic family. He was a member of the Macedonia Baptist Church in Hiwassee, GA. Larry was a member of Springville Lodge #153 F&AM and a Past...
Jazmine Kellie Harris
May 15, 2015
Jazmine Kellie Harris, age 13, of Copperhill,TN passed away Friday, May 15, 2015. Jazmine was born in Cleveland, TN and was a student at Copper Basin High School. She attended the New Hope Apostolic Holiness Church. She was a member of the Copper Basin High School Band and for her hobbies she enjoyed the social media, riding horses, music and...
Vickie Lynn Sarrell-Schlachter
May 15, 2015
Vickie Lynn (Morton) Sarrell-Schlachter of Copperhill, TN / Blue Ridge, GA peacefully passed away on Friday, May 15, 2015 following a four year courageous battle against breast cancer. She was lovingly surrounded by her husband, mother, sister and children. Vickie turned 62 years old on December 25, 2014. Originally from Atlanta, Vickie had lived in the Fannin County, GA area...
Jonathan Luther Runion
May 13, 2015
Jonathan Luther Runion, age 46, of Turtletown, TN passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Jonathan was a native of the Copper Basin area and was a member of the Turtletown Baptist Church. He was employed with Ingles Market in Blue Ridge, GA as a Clerk. He was a faithful Copper Basin Cougar serving on the Cougars Football Team as an...
Karen Peters Nunnally
May 13, 2015
KAREN PETERS NUNNALLYIt was not unusual to join Tom and Karen Nunnally for a mid-morning cup of coffee or a late afternoon glass of wine, to sit on their porch talking and have a huge rooster jump on the table and look around as if to say, "Hey guys, what's going on." You might walk in the driveway and run...
Jerry S. Melton
May 12, 2015
Mr. Jerry S. Melton, age 52, of Zion, IL, passed away Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Born in Lake Co., IL, he was the son of the late Jim and Wilma Willie Jones Melton and was also preceded in death by sister, Peggy Giovannoni, half-brother, Donnie Melton and nephew Eric Brown. Survivors include siblings, Gayle Melton of Zion, IL, Terry (Merilee)Melton...
Shirley Juanita Mckinney
May 9, 2015
Shirley Juanita McKinney, age 75, of Eastpoint, FL passed away Saturday, May 9, 2015 in the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Tallahassee, FL. She was born in Blue Ridge, GA on November 17, 1939 to the late Grady Farmer and Esther Long Farmer. She worked as a seamstress for Levi Strauss and was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in...
Robert David Hyde
May 9, 2015
Robert David Hyde, age 70 of Benton, passed away Saturday, May 9, 2015 at his home with his wife, children and best friend by his side. He was born June 16, 1944 in Copperhill to the late Odas and Audrey Hyde. Mr. Hyde was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Tumbling Creek in Copperhill. He retired from Hydro...
Kathy Lynn Nari
May 5, 2015
Mrs. Kathy Lynn Nari, age 56, of the Lifecare Center of Copper Basin, passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Kathy was a native of the Copper Basin and was a daughter of the late Clarence and Frances Ray Nicholson, Jr. She was a lifelong member of the McGeetown House of Prayer and was a homemaker. She enjoyed fishing, traveling and...
Shawn Glendean Stringfellow
May 5, 2015
Shawn Glendean Stringfellow, age 45, of Jacksonville, FL passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2015 in Jacksonville. Ms. Stringfellow was born on March 18, 1970 in Mansfield, OH to the late Glenn Earl Stringfellow and Betty Lou Sturgon Stringfellow. She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Debra R. and Roy Shade of Morganton, GA; brothers and sisters-in-law, Howard and Paulette...
Frances Weaver
May 4, 2015
Mary Frances Weaver, age 78, of McCaysville, GA passed away Monday, May 4, 2015 at her home. Mrs. Weaver was born on July 7, 1936 in McCaysville, GA to the late Frank Taylor and Parlee Jones Taylor. She owned and operated Weaver Auto Sales for many years. She had the distinction of being the first lady commissioner in Fannin County...
Bruce Richard Wiggleston
May 3, 2015
Mr. Bruce Richard Wiggleston, age 75, of Copperhill, TN passed away Sunday, May 3, 2015 at Emory University Hospital. Mr. Wiggleston was born on January 8, 1940 in Knoxville, TN to the late Bruce Wiggleston and Barbara Faye Pedigo Wiggleston. Mr. Wiggleston worked as a heavy equipment operator, was of the Baptist faith, a member of the Ducktown Masonic Lodge...
Ruth Ann Queen
May 2, 2015
Mrs. Ruth Ann Queen, age 90, of Epworth, GA passed away Saturday, May 2, 2015 at Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, GA. Mrs. Queen was born on March 6, 1925 to the late Joseph Walter Galloway and Ollie Avery Ora Fisher Galloway. She spent her life as a housewife and a loving mother. She was a member of Lebanon...
Rev. Glen Taylor
Apr 29, 2015
Rev. Glen Taylor, age 71, of Farner, TN passed away Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Glen was born in Farner and was a son of the late Homer and Lena Ledford Taylor. He was a Carpenter and a member of Community Baptist Church.He was a minister in the area for thirty seven years pastoring several churches. He was a loving husband,...
Evelyn Prince Dockery-Abercrombie
Apr 29, 2015
Mrs. Evelyn Louise Prince Dockery Abercrombie, age 85, of Blue Ridge, GA, passed away April 29, 2015. Born in Polk County, TN, she was the daughter of the late Fred Taft and Ila Lear Hembree Prince. She had worked at Levi Strauss for a number of years and was a member of the Sunrise Tabernacle Church. Mrs. Abercrombie was also...
