Freddie Jason Martin
Jan 16, 2012
Freddie Jason Martin, 50, died Monday, January 16, 2012. A native of Athens he was the son of Raymie Martin of Athens and Veronica F. Wilson of Commerce. He worked in Food Service Maintenance Department for the University of Georgia. He was of the Baptist Faith and has gone home to be with his lord. Survivors include his wife of...
Anthony Darrell Epps
Jan 15, 2012
Anthony Darrell Epps, 55, of Ila passed away peacefully on January 15, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Epps was born in Commerce, GA on December 6, 1956 to Clarence and Shirley Epps of Pocataligo, GA. Mr. Epps was a lifelong resident of Madison County. He was Chairman of Deacons at Providence Baptist Church, Ila, where he was...
Marcus Thomas Baylor
Jan 15, 2012
Marcus T. Baylor, 57, formerly of Stockbridge, GA passed away on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Marcus was the son of the late Thomas Baylor and Mary Otting. Survivors include a daughter, Jennifer Baylor Bell; one granddaughter; one grandson; sister, Mary Jergins; a brother; several nieces and one nephew. The family will receive friends Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 2:00 until...
John Boyington McGehee Jr
Jan 13, 2012
John Boyington McGehee, Jr., 92, died January 13, 2012. A native of Harris County, GA, he was a son of the late Elizabeth Slaughter and John Boyington McGehee, Sr. and was preceded in death by his brother James McGehee in 1971. Mr. McGehee retired in 1981 as Operations Manager at West Lumber Company. He lived in the Athens area for...
Ruth Loughridge Nutt
Jan 12, 2012
Ruth Loughridge Nutt went to be with her Lord on January 12, 2012. Ruth was born in Bunnell, Florida, on April 22, 1917, to Edward Brainard Loughridge and Mabel Wylie Loughridge. She grew up in Georgia, graduated from Blackshear High School and in 1938 graduated from Georgia State Woman's College, now known as Valdosta State University. After teaching for a...
Dr. Billy Bedford Epps Jr
Jan 11, 2012
Dr. Billy Bedford Epps, Jr., son of Nelle Price Epps and Billy B. Epps, died January 11, 2012. His grandparents were Roy Bedford and Pauline Thompson Epps and Lee Olin and Nellie Gardner Price. He was preceded in death by his father and his grandparents. He is survived by his mother and brother, Dr. David R. Epps; niece, Jennifer Epps;...
Dale Yarbrough Dorman
Jan 10, 2012
Dale Yarbrough Dorman, 68, passed away January 9, 2012 at St. Mary's Hospice House in Athens, Georgia. Ms. Dorman, a native of Thomasville, Georgia, was born October 17, 1943 to her parents, Austin and Wilma Yarbrough. Ms. Dorman was Extension Housing Specialist Emeritus, having served with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service from 1982 until her retirement in 1997....
Lynne Patton
Jan 9, 2012
Marian Lynne Patton, 47, of Athens, passed away at her home on January 09, 2012. Mrs. Patton was born in Athens, GA to Marion and Ethelyn McCannon Patton on May 21, 1964. She was administrator with some of the area's nursing homes. Mrs. Patton is preceded in death by her parents; she is survived by her finance Jon Michael Crowell;...
Jack Clement Milsted
Jan 8, 2012
Jack Clement Milsted, age 86, died in Athens, GA on January 8, 2012. Born January 6, 1926 in Alexandria, LA, to Ernest Clement Milsted and Laura Bludworth. He graduated from Warren Eastern High School in New Orleans Louisiana in 1942. Jack served in the Merchant Marines through World War II as an Able Bodied Seaman. At the conclusion of the...
Charlene Nolen Ramsay
Jan 7, 2012
Charlene Nolen Ramsay, age 86, of Athens, died January 7, 2012 at home. Mrs. Ramsay was a native of Old Hickory, TN. and daughter of the late Charles A. and Nancy Wray Nolen. Funeral services will be Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 3:00 PM at First Baptist Church, Athens, with Dr. Paul Baxley officiating. Burial will be in Oconee Memorial...
Marvin Deleon Savage
Jan 7, 2012
Watkinsville, GA - Marvin Deleon Savage, 85, died January 7, 2012. Born in Oglethorpe County, he was a son of the late Tallie and Ruby Varnum Savage. Mr. Savage was preceded in death by his son, Wyman Savage; sisters, Jo Ann Savage, Hazel Forrester and Geraldine Welborne, and brothers, Artie Savage and Lamar Savage. Mr. Savage was a U.S. Army...
Anthony Nelson "Tony" Smith
Jan 6, 2012
Danielsville, GA - Anthony "Tony" Nelson Smith, 38, passed away January 6, 2012. Born May 8, 1973, he is the son of Emory and Syble Phillips Smith. He was employed for several years as a sales associate for Home Depot. Graveside services will be Monday, January 9, 2012 at 3:00 PM at Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive...
Samuel Green "Sambo" Paradise Sr
Jan 6, 2012
Samuel "Sambo" Green Paradise, Sr., 71, of Lexington, GA passed away Friday, January 6, 2012. A native of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, Mr. Paradise was the son of the late Howard H. Paradise and Lady Ethel Gassaway Paradise. He was in the Logging Business most of his life, retired from ABB and was a member of Salem Baptist Church. He is...
Martha Garland Brodrick
Jan 5, 2012
Watkinsville - Martha Garland Brodrick, 65, passed away on January 5, 2012 after a 14-week battle with cancer. Mrs. Brodrick taught, influenced, mentored, and impacted thousands of students and adults during more than 33 years as an educator and leader in communities from Massachusetts to Georgia. Martha was the second of eight children born to Ray and Phoebe Garland in...
David Joseph Boyd
Jan 4, 2012
David Joseph Boyd, 37, died January 4, 2012. A native of Conyers, GA, he was the oldest son of Keith Boyd of Cumming and Sheila Harris Boyd of Conyers. David was a 1992 graduate of Rockdale County High School where he was an outstanding student athlete and championship wrestler. He attended Lambuth University in Jackson, TN where he was a...
Joseph Alex Memory III
Jan 4, 2012
Joseph Alex Memory III, age 70, passed away on Wednesday, January 4 2012 at St. Mary's Hospice House with Jean, his beloved wife of forty-six years, by his side. He was born in Whiteville, NC on May 29, 1941 to the late Wynette and Joseph Alex Memory, Jr. but lived most of his life in Athens.He attended East Carolina University.Joe...
Brenda Maxey Bales
Jan 1, 2012
Brenda Maxey Bales, 64 of Athens, passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer, Sunday January 1, 2012. Mrs. Bales was born in Watkinsville, Georgia on September 5, 1947; she was the daughter of the late Marshall S. Maxey and Mildred H. Maxey of Watkinsville, Georgia. She was also preceded in death by two sisters. She was a retired...
Carolyn Parsons Nichols
Jan 1, 2012
Carolyn Parsons Nichols, 89, died January 1, 2012. A native of Watkinsville, GA, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Lola Langford Parsons and the widow of Roy Nichols. She was a homemaker and a longtime member of Union Christian Church. Funeral services will be Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM at Union Christian Church with Rev....
William David "Dave" Hunt
Dec 31, 2011
William David "Dave" Hunt, 73, of Watkinsville, Georgia died peacefully Saturday, December 31, 2011. Dave, born in Detroit, Michigan on February 13, 1938, was the ninth child of the late Clyde and Mary Hunt. Born in an impoverished post-Depression era Detroit, Dave's early life, one bereft of material goods and yet filled with a mother's hope in God's faithfulness would...
Nazzareno Joseph Paloni Jr
Dec 28, 2011
Nazzareno Joseph Paloni, Jr. Athens, GA Nazzareno J. Paloni, 65, died Wednesday, December 28, 2011. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he was the son of the late Nazzareno J. Paloni, Sr. and Dominica Paoletti Paloni. He was a parishioner of St. Josephs Catholic Church, Athens, GA as well as a small business owner in Athens, GA. Nazz was a past...