Marie Joy Bryant
Dec 4, 2021
Marie Joy Bryant, age 92, of Mineral Bluff, GA passed away on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at the Union County Nursing Home in Blairsville, GA. She was born on December 25, 1928 in Copperhill, TN to the late Ellard Allen and Flora Watts Allen. Marie was a faithful member of Culberson Baptist Church. She worked many years with Copper Basin...
Evard Pohlman Best
Dec 3, 2021
Evard P. Best, Jr., Age 87, of Blue Ridge, GA, passed away suddenly on Dec 3, 2021. Evard was born June 21, 1934 in Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from Momouth College in 1956, and shortly after moved to Eagan, MN where he taught 5th and 6th grade in the Burnsville School District. He also earned a masters degree from Mankato...
Michael Anthony Collis
Dec 2, 2021
Rev. Michael A. Collis, age 52, of Blue Ridge, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, December 2, 2021 in Blairsville, GA. He was born on July 23, 1969 in Copperhill, TN to the late Cecil Homer Collis and Bertha Mae Petty Collis. Michael was saved when he was 8 years old and called to ministry in 2007....
Pauline Robinson
Dec 2, 2021
Mrs. Reathel "Pauline" Robinson, age 90, of Blue Ridge, GA, passed away on December 2, 2021 in Blue Ridge, GA surrounded by her family. She was a native of Fannin County, born on January 13, 1931 to the late Rev. Luther and Bertha Couch Davenport. She was a longtime member of the New Antioch Baptist Church and had worked for...
Mary Lay Marks
Nov 30, 2021
Mary Lay Marks, 73, died peacefully on Nov. 30, 2021 in her home in Murrayville, GA after undergoing four major operations and battling colon cancer the last four years. Mary was born April 11, 1948 in Blue Ridge, GA to KD and Jaynalee Lay, who owned and operated Lays Five & Dime stores in North Georgia and Tennessee. Mary was...
Cortney Loedicia Turner
Nov 24, 2021
Cortney Loedicia Turner, age 41, of Blue Ridge, passed away on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. She was born in Polk County on June 19, 1980. Cortney was of the Baptist faith and worked for The Swan Drive-In. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Robert Turner. Cortney is survived by her son, Steven Glenn Larkin Setser of Gainesville;...
Lorene Cole Rhodes
Nov 22, 2021
Lorene Cole Rhodes, age 78, of Blue Ridge passed away on Monday, November 22, 2021 at Fannin Regional Hospital. Lorene was born on June 20, 1943 in Blue Ridge to the late Joseph Burton Cole and Esther Nama Couch Cole. She was retired from Levi's after working for 27 years as a seamstress. Lorene enjoyed reading and puzzles of all...
Juanita Born Tammen
Nov 14, 2021
Juanita Born Tammen, age 72, of Morganton, GA passed away on Sunday, November 14, 2021 in Blue Ridge, GA. Juanita was born on January 11, 1949 in Atlanta, GA to the late Joel Hilliard Born and Amanda Berry Born. She was a 1967 Graduate of Druid Hills High School. She continued her education for a year at Young Harris College...
Aubrey Vanorsdal
Nov 11, 2021
Aubrey VanOrsdal, age 102, of Cherry Log, GA, passed away on Thursday, November 11, 2021 in Blairsville, GA. She was born on November 4, 1919, in Gadsden, AL. She was of the Catholic faith. Aubrey worked for many years as a Registered Nurse at Union General Hospital. She worked primarily in Maternity and Medical/Surgical Units and worked alongside generations of...
Amber Marie Parker Padgett
Nov 11, 2021
Amber Marie Parker Padgett, age 31, of Blue Ridge passed away on November 11, 2021. Amber was born in Carthage, New York on September 26, 1990. Amber was a well-known waitress in town that loved going to work and was loved by all who met her. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends and absolutely loved her beach...
Don Thomas
Nov 8, 2021
Don Thomas, 80, of McCaysville, GA, passed away in Raleigh, NC on Monday, November 8th, 2021 surrounded by his family. Don was born on July 12th, 1941 to Clyde Lewis Thomas and Dorothy Gilliam Thomas in McCaysville. In 1960, Don met Barbara Mosley at the Canteen in Blue Ridge, GA. They fell in love, got married and started raising a...
Sheila Mae Smith
Nov 6, 2021
It is with our utmost sorrow and deepest grief that we announce that our beloved momma and wife, Sheila Mae Smith, has went to her heavenly home to be with Jesus. Sheila departed from this earth on Saturday, November 6, 2021 with her loved ones by her side at 58 years old. Sheila was born on September 6, 1963 in...
Armanda 'Dottie' Jane King
Nov 6, 2021
Armanda Jane King, better known as "Dottie", age 40 of Morganton, GA, passed away on November 6, 2021 in the Life Care Center in Ducktown, TN. Born in Copperhill, TN, she was the daughter of the late Charles Leon and Claudine Tigg King. Survivors include her brothers and sisters-in-law, Allen and Tina King, Herbert and Joyce Keller; sister, Missy King...
Caroline Croft Carroll
Nov 6, 2021
Caroline Regina Croft Carroll, age 75, of Murphy, NC, passed away on November 6, 2021 in Andrews, NC. Caroline Carroll was a native of Murphy, NC and was the daughter of the late Paul Eugene Croft and Hazel Bernice Peak. She plied her hand at several careers including driving trucks. She enjoyed a quiet life and took great pleasure in...
Randall Lee Strickland
Nov 5, 2021
Randall Lee Strickland, age 64, of Blue Ridge passed away Friday, November 5, 2021. Mr. Strickland was born on December 25, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio to the late Eugene Strickland and Frances Juanita Young Strickland. He was a man of many trades, but worked most of his life welding and operating a CNC machine. He was most recently employed at...
Jo Ann Harper
Nov 5, 2021
Jo Ann Harper, age 82, of Copperhill, TN passed away on Friday, November 5, 2021 at Sonshine Manor Personal Care Home in Blairsville, GA. Mrs. Harper was born on July 2, 1939 in Ducktown, TN to the late Ray Nicholson and Lana Payne Nicholson. She was of Christian faith, and a member of Coletown Baptist Church. Mrs. Harper worked as...
Claude 'Buck' William Queen
Nov 3, 2021
Claude William Queen, affectionately known as "Buck," age 85, of Blue Ridge, passed away on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 in Chattanooga, TN. He was born on April 26, 1936, in Fannin County, GA to the late Hayden Howard Queen and Myrtle Green Queen. Buck was a member of New Antioch Baptist Church. He worked for many years for Whitehead Die...
Carol Rexanna Green
Nov 2, 2021
Carol Rexanna Green, age 68, passed away at her home on November 2, 2021. Rexann, as she was known to family and friends, was born and lived her whole life in Blue Ridge, Georgia. She was the daughter of Rex Green and Bonnie Haddock Green and grew up on Snake Nation Road on the family farm of her grandparents, Noah...
Lauren A. Dietrich
Nov 2, 2021
Lauren Alice "Laurie" Dietrich, age 67, of Morganton, passed away quietly at home, in the presence of her family and friends on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, after being diagnosed with brain cancer nine weeks earlier. She was born on November 15, 1953 to the late David C. Crummel and Anita Totten Crummel in Niles, OH. Laurie was a graduate of...
Ola Freiddie Saunders
Nov 2, 2021
Ola Freiddie Saunders, age 86, of Mineral Bluff, passed away on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at her home. She was born in Orlando, FL, on August 2, 1935, to the late James Daniel Smith and Ethel Irene Singleton Smith. Ola was a longtime member of McCaysville Church of God. She worked for many years at Life Care Center of Copper...
