On Wednesday, November 27th, 2019, surrounded by family, Martha Jane Davis Jones died peacefully at her home in Atlanta. Martha Jane was born in Dallas, Texas and spent her early life there, moving her senior year in high school to Charlotte, North Carolina, where she graduated from Central High School in 1945. She went on to Queens College before moving...
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Dr. Jane Tuggle King, age 92, of East Point, passed away October 31, 2019. Dr. King was born in Tucker, GA on September 25, 1927. She attended Stone Mountain High school and soon after was wed to James Walter King. The couple had one son and one daughter. Dr. King spent many years as a homemaker, caring for her husband...
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Ruth was born August 12, 1933 during the Great Depression, to sharecropper parents-Lonnie Lee and Tishie Martin. The Martin’s were a large, loving family consisting of six boys and two girls. Times were tough growing up and Ruth had to quit school at an early age to care for her mother, grandmother and help out on the farm while all...
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Ms. Kathryn “Katy” Brown Stevens, age 65, of Fayetteville, passed away November 16, 2019. The cause of death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, her family confirmed. Katy was born in Leavenworth, KS, on January 28, 1954, to the late Earl and Grace Brown. Dr. Brown’s career as a professor led the family to live in Kansas, Ohio, and Alabama for...
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Elizabeth “Libby” Poser, age 97, of Columbus, WI, passed away November 21, 2019. Libby was born on February 3, 1922, in Edgerton, WI to the late Dr. Floyd Eugene Shearer and Maybelle Elizabeth (Strasburg) Shearer. She grew up in the small town alongside her two brothers. Libby graduated from Edgerton High School and went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Terry Gene Beebe was born March 18, 1986 to Gale Andrews Willoughby and Tommy M. Beebe, Jr. He was always an avid outdoorsman, whether it was spending time on the lake fishing or hunting whatever game was in season. He was a die-hard University of Alabama football fan. He worked as a welder and also in the lawn care industry...
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Michael Ellis Hanson, age 69, passed away on November 17, 2019. He was the son of Donald Michael Hanson and Dorothy Ellis Hanson. He is survived by his daughter Katherine Michael Hanson and son Matthew Ellis Hanson both of Atlanta and his former wife Alice Thompson Hanson. Also surviving are siblings Marilyn Hanson Grant, Barbara Jean Hanson, Gregory Lewis Hanson;...
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“His sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.” – Richard Bach Mary Lou (Birdsong) Kenyon of Suwanee, GA passed into the Promised Land on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 92 years of age. A memorial service will be held for Mary...
Read MoreReverend Charles Edwin Turner entered into the Glory of our Lord on Saturday, November 16, 2019 at Columbus Hospice House in Columbus, Georgia following a brief illness. He was 97 years old and was the former pastor of the Church of God of Prophecy in Monterey, Virginia. Son of the late George and Eula Turner of Greenville, SC, he was...
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Kellie Marie Pilgrim, age 60, of McDonough, Georgia passed away on November 7, 2019. She was born on November 7, 1959, passing away on her 60th birthday. Kellie was known as Ke-Ke to her grandchildren, which were the light of her life. She loved to cook and to read. She was such a free spirit, so so silly and light...
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