Claudia Susan Higdon
Jan 21, 2020
Claudia Susan Higdon, age 69, of Ducktown, TN, passed away on January 21, 2020. She was the daughter of the late Claude and Phoebie Lowery Higdon. She was also preceded in death by sisters, Pauline Higdon, Johnny Mae Cearley, Thelma Lassiter, Geraldine Higdon, Della Nation, Myrtle Dunn and Katherine Cearley; infant brother Carl Russell Higdon. She is survived by her...
Lila Rose Deen
Jan 20, 2020
Lila Rose Deen, infant daughter of Bradley Christopher Deen and Tara Cheyanne Ledford passed away on Monday, January 20, 2020. She is survived by her parents, Tara Ledford and Bradley Deen; maternal grandparents, James Ray (Brandie) Ledford; maternal great-grandparents, Ray and Anna Ledford, Kathy Carter, and John Conner; Paternal grandparents, Timothy (Sarah) Keaton and Jennifer Head; paternal great-grandparents, Debbie (Tim)...
Norma Lee Fair
Jan 19, 2020
Norma Lee Parris Fair, age 84, passed away on Sunday, January 19, 2020. She was the beloved wife of Thomas Lee Fair, devoted mother of Deborah Ann Bradburn, Thomas Lee Fair II, Tracy Kay Pittman and Lauren Marie Searcy, loving grandmother of 11, great-grandmother of 7, daughter of the late Bunyon and Pauline Parris, dear sister of Charles Parris, Marjorie...
Mitchell Lee Patterson
Jan 18, 2020
Mitchell Lee Patterson, age 71 of Epworth passed away on Saturday, January 18, 2020 in the Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. He was born in Ducktown, TN on April 27, 1948 to the late, Rome Cleveland Patterson and Dora Carr Patterson. Mitchell has always been a sawmill operator and logger. Survivors are sons and daughters-in-law, Doyle and Judy Patterson of...
Douglas Steven Sutton
Jan 17, 2020
Mr. Douglas Steven Sutton, age 68, of Mineral Bluff, Georgia, passed away unexpectedly on January 17, 2020 at his residence. Born in Denver, Colorado, he was the son of the late Glenn Alvin Sutton of Madison, MS. and Diane Marilyn Wicoff of Colorado Springs, Co.Doug married his best friend, and the love of his life, Lisa Ogden on October 16,...
Carol Lea Baliles
Jan 16, 2020
Carol Lea Baliles, age 73, of Copperhill, TN, passed away on January 16, 2020. She was born in Blue Ridge, GA to the late Audlee and Ellen Marie Dilbeck Ritchie. She had worked for Levi Strauss for many years. She loved spending time with her family and friends and enjoyed gambling in her spare time. Besides her parents, she was...
Dixie Mae Davenport
Jan 16, 2020
Mrs. Dixie Mae Davenport, age 92, of Blue Ridge, GA, passed away on January 16, 2020 at her residence. Born in Fannin County, GA, she was the daughter of the late Homer and Ella Sluder Allen. She had worked for a number of years for the Fannin County Board of Education as a Lunch Room Attendant. Mrs. Davenport loved being...
Geneva Mae Kyle Huddleston Stage
Jan 15, 2020
Geneva Mae Kyle Huddleston Stage, 93, of Kokomo, formerly of Cherry Log, Georgia, passed away on Wednesday, January 15, 2020. She was born August 22, 1926, in Cherry Log, Georgia. She was the daughter of the late Otis Emery Kyle and Mae Lydora (Chancey) Kyle. Geneva grew up in McCaysville, Georgia, and married John Huddleston of Fonde, Kentucky, on September...
Don Edwin Kimsey
Jan 14, 2020
Don Edwin Kimsey, age 82, of Turtletown, TN, passed away on January 14, 2020. He was born on September 23, 1937, in Ducktown, Tennessee, to the late Letcher and Effie Rose Kimsey. Don worked for the Tennessee Chemical Company as a Steel Rigger. He was an avid outdoorsman, loving to hunt, fish and one of the greatest Tennessee Volunteer fans...
Dorothy Maybell Burns
Jan 12, 2020
Mrs. Dorothy Maybell Jones Burns, age 92, of McCaysville, passed away on Sunday, January 12, 2020. She was born on September 8, 1927 in Mineral Bluff, to the late Richard Jones and Della Garren Jones. She was a member of New Liberty Baptist Church. She is also preceded in death by her husband, Rev. J.B. Burns, daughter and son-in-law, Margie...
Betty Jean White
Jan 10, 2020
Betty Jean Bennie White, age 92 of McCaysville, GA passed away on Friday, January 10, 2020 at the Pruitt Health Care in Blue Ridge, GA. She was born on March 5, 1927 in Ducktown, TN to the late William C. Bennie and Jewel Morgan Bennie. Mrs. White retired after twenty-five years with the Fannin County Board of Education as a...
Homer Edwin Johnson
Jan 8, 2020
Mr. Homer Edwin Johnson, Jr., age 80, of Epworth, GA, passed away on January 8, 2020 in the Pruitt Health Care in Blue Ridge, GA. He was born in Benton, TN, to the late Homer E. Johnson, Sr. and Stella Talley Johnson. Homer was a Registered Nurse for many years. He had served as the Director of Nursing at the...
Janet Gentle Moore
Jan 7, 2020
Mrs. Janet Gentle Moore, age 84, of Ellijay, GA, passed away on January 7, 2020 in the Pruitt Health Care in Blue Ridge, GA. Born in Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of the late Richard Edward and Mary Louise Tew Gentle. She was also preceded in death by two husbands, Howard "Pat" Kichline and Vance Moore; and one son,...
Patsy Venesa Goble
Jan 6, 2020
Patsy Venesa Goble, age 46, of Blue Ridge, passed away on Monday, January 6, 2020. She was born on December 10, 1973 in Ellijay, GA. She worked as a cook and a waitress at Waffle House. She is preceded in death by her father, Jarvis Lynn. She is survived by her children, Sophia Dale, Vanessa McCollum, and Luke Longwell; mother,...
Sue Lewis Russell
Jan 2, 2020
Sue Lewis Russell, age 78, of Ducktown, TN, passed away on January 2nd, 2020.Sue was born on February 4, 1941, in Ducktown, Tennessee, to the late Edward and Maggie Lee Addington Lewis. She was preceded in death by her son, Shelley Lamar Russell, brothers Gordon Lewis, Bill Lewis, Jerry Lewis, and sisters Judy Lewis and Anita Davis. She was a...
Ruth Barnes Yarbrough
Jan 1, 2020
Mrs. Ruth Barnes Yarbrough, age 78, of Epworth, passed away on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, at her home surrounded by her family. She was born on December 26, 1941 in Cohasset, MA to the late Israel Merritt "Barney" Barnes and Lanelle Atwood Barnes. She was raised in Scituate, MA and later moved to Orlando, FL and attended Boone High School....
Mary Sue Mann
Dec 30, 2019
Mrs. Mary Sue Mann, age 77, of Blue Ridge, GA, passed away on December 30, 2019 in the Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, GA. Born in Ellijay, GA, she was the daughter of the late Robert and Helen Wilson Starks. She had worked for a number of years for Sky City in Blue Ridge, GA as a sales associate and...
Charles 'C.D.' Busbin
Dec 27, 2019
Mr. Charles Dean "C.D." Busbin, age 83, passed away on Friday, December 27, 2019. He was born on March 8, 1936 in Tifton, GA, to the late Johnson Wiley Busbin and Omega Head Busbin. He was a Deacon at Wilscot Baptist Church. Mr. Busbin served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corp during the Korean War. He...
Johnny Gray
Dec 25, 2019
Mr. Johnny Gray, age 77, of Blue Ridge, GA, passed away on December 25, 2019. Born in Blue Ridge, GA, he was the son of the late Edgar Graham Gray and Stella Gray. Johnny had retired from June Walker Chevrolet in 2008. He was a loving husband of 52 years, father and grandfather. He enjoyed spending time with his family...
Clair Wofford Frazier
Dec 23, 2019
Mrs. Clair Wofford Frazier, age 58, of Mineral Bluff, GA, passed away on December 23, 2019 at her home. She was born in Gainesville, GA on May 3, 1961, to the late Edgar Lawton and Anne Gibson Wofford. Clair was a beautiful person both inside and out. She always lit up the room with her smiling face and radiating personality....
