Morris William Elrod
Aug 21, 2012
Mr. Morris William Elrod, age 77, of McCaysville, GA passed away Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at his home. Mr. Elrod was born on January 2, 1935 to the late Luther Lonzo Elrod and Vernie Mae Witherow Elrod. He retired from the City of Smyrna Sanitation Department after 23 years of service. Mr. Elrod was of the Baptist faith and was...
Roger Dell Pulliam
Aug 19, 2012
Mr. Roger Dell Pulliam, age 65, of McCaysville, GA passed away Sunday, August 19, 2012 at his home. Mr. Pulliam was born on April 28, 1947 in Fannin County, GA to the late Paul Pulliam and Billie Jean Pulliam. He was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church and was a United States Army veteran. He is survived by his wife,...
Nella Ruth Johnson
Aug 18, 2012
Nella Ruth Johnson, age 77, of Copperhill, TN, passed away Saturday, August 18, 2012 in the Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, TN. Nella Ruth was born in Blue Ridge, GA to the late Luther and Ada Plemmons Weaver. She was also preceded in death by brothers, Arlon, Alon and Emon Weaver. She was a member of the First United Methodist...
Marion Douglas Waters
Aug 17, 2012
Marion Douglas Waters, age 40 of Copperhill passed away on Friday, August 17, 2012. He was born in Copperhill, TN on June 29, 1972 to the late Willard Jacob and Wanda Sue Locke Waters. Marion worked at M&M Mars. He served in the United States Air Force and was of the Baptist faith.He is survived by on daughter, Jenna Waters...
Wanda Sue Waters
Aug 17, 2012
Wanda Sue Waters, age 59 of Copperhill, TN passed away on Friday, August 17, 2012. She was born in Copperhill, TN on May 21, 1953. Wanda worked as a cook for Polk County BOE. She was a member of Grassy Creek Baptist Church.She is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Lora and Noel Kennedy; father and mother, Marion and Vivien...
Willard Jacob Waters
Aug 17, 2012
Willard Jacob Waters, age 61 of Copperhill, TN passed away on Friday, August 17, 2012. He was born in McCaysville, GA on January 27, 1951 to the late Luther and Zella Allen Waters. Willard worked at Tennessee Copper Company. He was a member of Grassy Creek Baptist Church. He is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Lora and Noel Kennedy;...
Joseph Elmer Hughes
Aug 11, 2012
Joseph Elmer Hughes, age 73, of Copperhill, TN, passed away Saturday, August 11, 2012. Mr. Hughes was a native of the Copper Basin area and was a son of the late Benjamin and Alice Mae Payne Hughes. He was a truck driver with Eastern Cartage Trucking Company.He is survived by his wife, Loucrecia Evans Hughes of the home; children, Bryan...
Patricia Chastain Warren
Aug 11, 2012
The Akins Funeral Home of Blue Ridge announces the death of Patricia Chastain Warren, age 66 of Milledgeville, GA who passed away on August 11, 2012. She was born on July 12, 1946 in Blue Ridge, GA to the late Glen and Bertha Miller Chastain. She is survived by sister and brother-in-law, Nancy and Merman Crulee of Temple, GA; a...
Floy Gertrude Curtis
Aug 11, 2012
Mrs. Floy Gertrude Curtis, age 76 of Epworth, GA passed away Saturday, August 11 in the Copper Basin Hospital. She was a native and lifelong resident of Fannin County, daughter of the late Andrew Napoleon Hughes and Lillie Gertrude Hughes. Mrs. Curtis, along with her late husband Wade, owned and operated a service station in McCaysville for a number of...
Iva Lee Britton
Aug 10, 2012
Iva Lee Britton, age 85, of Farner, TN, passed away Friday, August 10, 2012 in the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Mrs. Britton was born in Polk County, TN to the late Arthur and Clorinda Maude Postell Queen. She was a member of the Farner Church of God. She, along with her husband, Jesse Britton, who died in 1999, had...
Winfred Powell
Aug 6, 2012
Mr. Winfred Powell,better known as Bill age 92, of Dalton, GA passed away Monday, August 6, 2012 in the Morningside Assisted Living Facility in Dalton, GA. Mr. Powell was born in Gordon County, GA on September 21, 1919 to the late Firman L. Powell and Jessie Padgett Powell He was Office Manager for the State of Georgia Labor Office, was...
Korynn C. Arp
Aug 6, 2012
Mrs. Korynn C. Arp, age 71, of Blue Ridge, GA passed away Monday, August 6, 2012 in the Heritage Hospice Care in Marietta, GA. Mrs. Arp was born in Ducktown, TN on August 7, 1940 to the late Ed Cheatham and Edith Hall Cheatham. She was retired from the Fannin County Department of Family & Children's Service where she worked...
Effie Louise Gibson
Aug 2, 2012
Effie Louise Gibson, age 69, of Turtletown, TN passed away Thursday, August 2, 2012. Effie was a native of the Copper Basin area and was a daughter of the late Taft and Lucy Loudermilk Gibson. She retired as a sewing machine operator in textiles and had also worked at the Chrysler Auto Manufacturing in Detroit, MI. She was of the...
Lester Arp
Aug 1, 2012
Mr. Lester Arp, age 88, of Mineral Bluff, GA passed away Wednesday, August 1, 2012 in the Copper Basin Medical Center in Ducktown, TN. Mr. Arp was born in Fannin County, GA on February 16, 1924 to the late Harrison Arp or Ada Bell Arp. He retired from the Fannin County Road Department after 35 years of service. He was...
Shirley Vondell Phillips Bruschi
Jul 31, 2012
Mrs. Shirley Vondell Phillips Bruschi, age 78, of Morganton, GA passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2012 in the Floyd Medical Center in Rome, GA. Mrs. Bruschi was born in Polk County, TN on June 15, 1934 to the late James Addison and Evelyn Deal Addison. She graduated from Cleveland State College with an associate degree as a registered nurse, and...
Albert Gene Yates
Jul 30, 2012
Mr. Albert Gene Yates, age 85, of McCaysville, GA passed away Monday, July 30, 2012 in the Hospice of Chattanooga in Chattanooga, TN. He worked as a bus driver for Bensalem Township and was an Air Force veteran. He was preceded in death by a brother, Jimmy Yates. He is survived by two daughter, Denise Yates Hyatt of McCaysville, GA...
Harold Thomas Nalley
Jul 26, 2012
Mr. Harold Thomas Nalley, age 69, of Blue Ridge, GA passed away Thursday, July 26, 2012 in the Fannin Regional Hospital in Blue Ridge, GA. Mr. Nalley was born on June 22, 1943 in Toccoa, GA to the late Major Thomas Nalley and Daisy Catherine Broom Nalley. He worked as a truck driver and was a member of Higher Ground...
Carah Rose Kimsey
Jul 25, 2012
Little Miss Carah Rose Kimsey, age 2 days old, passed away July 25, 2012 in Nashville, TN.Survivors include her parents, Darren and Rebekah Kimsey; brother, Carder Darren Kimsey all of Farner, TN; maternal grandparents, Keith and Carolyn Kilpatrick of Turtletown, Ruth Young of Morristown, TN and Jack Kilpatrick of Turtletown; paternal grandparent, Rose Kimsey of Turtletown; aunts and uncles, Will...
Chelsia Norton
Jul 22, 2012
Mr. Chelsia Norton, age 76 of Blue Ridge, Georgia died on Sunday, July 22, 2012, at his residence. Mr. Norton was born on Wednesday, September 25, 1935 in Clayhole, Kentucky and was the son of the late Jack Norton and the late Sally Davis Dillard. He and his late wife Shirley owned and operated the Blue Ridge Tastee Freeze for...
Mark Anthony Mashburn
Jul 21, 2012
Mark Anthony Mashburn, age 51, of Crandall, GA, passed away Saturday, July 21, 2012. Mr. Mashburn was born in Polk County to the late Jack Alton and Arlene Dixon Mashburn. He was self-employed as a Rock Mason and was a member of the House of Prayer Church.He is survived by a brother, Glenn Mashburn of Blue Ridge, GA; Niece, Teresa...
