Charles Jones
San Antonio, Texas
Charles Andrews Jones, 37, of 2922 Lasses St. died Saturday,
Sept. 5, 1998.
A native of Greene County, Mr. Jones was a son of Louise
T. Jones, Siloam, and the late William "Bill" Eugene Jones. An Army veteran,
he was a truck driver for Frausto Trucking Co. and a member of Siloam United
Methodist Church.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today in Siloam Cemetery,
Siloam, with the Revs. Lee Almy and Gary Nicholas officiating.
The family will receive friends at the residence.
McCommons Funeral Home, Greensboro, is in charge of arrangements.
Corra Miller
Elberton
Corra Jane Tate Miller, 87, of 1029 Hartwell Highway died
Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998.
A native of Elbert County, Mrs. Miller was a daughter
of the late O.E. and Carrie Mae Hudson Tate. She was retired from the granite
manufacturing and quarry industry and a member of First Methodist Church,
Stephen Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and Pilot Club of
Elberton.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Elmhurst Cemetery
with the Rev. C.E. Jackson III officiating.
Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Jane Miller, Elberton;
a son, J. Cleve Miller, Elberton; two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends
7-9 p.m. today at Berry Funeral Home.
Collis Roach Sr.
Royston
Collis Roach, 85, of 1538 Georgia Highway 145 died Thursday,
Sept. 10, 1998.
A native of Madison County, Mr. Roach was a son of the
late William Roach and Myrtle Dean Roach Aaron. He was retired from Robins
Air Force Base, a 32nd degree Mason, a member of Marshall A. Weir Masonic
Lodge 448, Macon, and an Emeritus Scottish Rite Shriner. He was a member
of the Jones Chapel United Methodist Church, Men's Bible Class and Georgia
Sheriff's Association.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Jones Chapel UMC with
the Revs. Marvin Coffee and Vernon Dorminy officiating. The body will be
placed in the church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Helen Harris Roach;
two sons, C. Jimmy Roach Jr., Macon, and Michael L. Roach, Lavonia; four
grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, five stepgrandchildren and 10 stepgreat-grandchildren.
The family is at the home and will receive friends 1-2
p.m. today at Jones Chapel UMC.
Pruitte Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Weyman Toney
Atlanta
Weyman Lester Toney, 62, of 571 Linwood Ave. N.E. died
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1998.
A native of Watkinsville, Mr. Toney was a son of the late
Foster L. and Allene Bowden Toney.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Grey Hill Cemetery,
Commerce, with the Rev. J.B. McNeil officiating.
Survivors include his wife, Mary E. Toney; a son, Jeffrey
Keith Toney, Atlanta; a sister, Doris Gooch, Braselton; five brothers,
Alva Ray and Hollis Ray, both of Jefferson, Bernard Ray, Columbia, S.C.,
Earl Toney, Athens, and Louie Toney, Elberton; and two grandchildren.
The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at Ivie
Funeral Home, Commerce.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American
Heart Association.
Wardell Wheeler
Toccoa
Wardell Wheeler, 76, of 210 Kyte St. died Sunday, Sept.
6, 1998.
A native of Franklin County, Mr. Wheeler was a son of
the late William and Ludie Faye Wheeler and was the widower of Lillie Bell
Ruff Wheeler.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Friendship Baptist
Church with the Rev. Karl Moore officiating. Burial will be in Toccoa City
Cemetery.
Survivors include three daughters, Alicia Wheeler and
Rusena Anderson, both of Atlanta, and Annette Moss, Toccoa; four sons,
James M. Wheeler and Patrick Wheeler, both of Atlanta, and Gartrell Wheeler
and Wardell Wheeler, both of Toccoa; a brother, Hayes Mack, Toccoa; 17
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends
7-8 p.m. today at Moss-Stovall-Neal Funeral Home
McCarthy Crenshaw Sr.
Orange Park, Fla.
McCarthy "Mack" Crenshaw Sr., 87, died Wednesday, Sept.
9, 1998.
A native of Jacksonville, Fla., Mr. Crenshaw in 1929 attended
the University of Georgia on a football scholarship and lettered in football,
basketball and track, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi,
and was president of S.A.E. Fraternity. In 1933 he graduated with an A.B.
degree, attended UGA Law School and received an LL.B. degree in 1935. He
was nominated in 1933 for the Rhodes Scholarship and returned to Jacksonville
to work with the law firm Knigh, Adair, Cooper and Osborne, later forming
Kent and Crenshaw with the late Fred H. Kent and then a partnership with
Joseph M. Glickstein. He practice general civil law for 50 years and was
active in many professional, civic and social organizations up until the
time of his death. He served 27 years in the Army, retiring as Lt. Colonel,
and received a Bronze Star Medal. He was an active alumni of UGA and in
1962 established a fund to make interest-free emergency loans to UGA law
school students. He was a trustee of the Georgia Student Educational Fund,
trustee-emeritus of the UGA Foundation and served as the first out-of-state
president of the UGA Alumni Society.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Riverside Avenue
Christian Church with the Rev. Richard J. Hull II officiating. Burial will
be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia B. Crenshaw; a daughter,
Virginia C. Elliott; a son, McCarthy Crenshaw Jr.; a sister, Elizabeth
C. Poole; a brother, Lawrence A. Crenshaw; eight grandchildren, two nieces,
a nephew, and great-nieces and great-nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a favorite
charity, the Riverside Avenue Christian Church Building Fund or Hospice
Northeast Florida Inc.
Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Theresia P. Dragojlovich
Buford
Theresia P. Dragojlovich, 69, of 3510 Montana Road died
Friday, Sept. 11, 1998.
A native of Austria, Mrs. Dragojlovich was a daughter
of the late Karl and Mary Plattner. She was a retired furniture retail
sales person.
Private memorial services will be later.
Survivors include her husband, John Dragoljlovich; a daughter
and son-in-law, Sonia and Steve Steffes, Athens; a son and daughter-in-law,
Karl and Susan Dragoljlovich, Atlanta; a grandson, Andy Steffes, Athens;
and a brother and other family members in Austria.
Bernstein Funeral Home, Athens, is in charge of arrangements.
Timothy Fitzgerald
Royston
Timothy James Fitzgerald, 40, of 1834 Old Elbert Road
died Sunday, Sept. 6, 1998.
A native of Chicago, Mr. Fitzgerald was a son of Josephine
Fitzgerald, Chicago, and the late John Fitzgerald. He was on active duty
in the Navy and stationed in Maryland.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Rose Hill Cemetery
with full military rites.
Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his wife,
Pam Fisher Fitzgerald; a daughter, Carrie Lynn Fitzgerald, Royston; two
sons, James O'Neal, Lavonia, and Toby Jay Fitzgerald, Royston; a stepdaughter,
Tina Brown, Boulder Creek, Calif.; three brothers, Lewis Purna, Libertyville,
Ill., Allen Fitzgerald, Alabama, and Jolin Fitzgerald, Hawaii; and four
grandchildren.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends
7-9 p.m. Sunday at Pruitte Funeral Home.
Annie Harris
Toccoa
Annie Belle Bonham Harris, 88, of Oak Cliff Drive died
Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998.
A native of Blackshear, Mrs. Harris was a daughter of
the late Riley and Arbelle Hiers Bonham and was the widow of Joseph Elbert
Harris. She was preceded in death by a son, Charles Ted Harris. She was
a homemaker, a member of First Alliance Church of Toccoa and a lifelong
member of the First Assembly Church of God, Savannah.
Services were Friday at Whitlock Mortuary with the Rev.
Ferrell Towns officiating. Burial will be today in Patterson Cemetery,
Patterson.
Survivors include three daughters, Ruth Clayton and Bonnie
Akins, both of Toccoa, and Roxie Brunson, Brunswick; nine grandchildren,
nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
The family is at the homes of Bonnie Akins and Ruth Clayton,
both in Toccoa.
Carlton Hicks
Watkinsville
Elbert Carlton Hicks, 75, of 1580 Tappan Spur Road died
Friday, Sept. 11, 1998.
A native of Atlanta, Mr. Hicks was born Oct. 23, 1922.
He was a U.S. Navy veteran and was a retired electrical engineer with AT&T.
He was a generous and loving father and grandfather. Throughout his life
he lived with honor, principle and respect for all.
A private memorial service will be held Tuesday, Sept.
15, on Goshen Mountain, where his spirit will be set free to flow along
the banks of the Soque River.
Survivors include a daughter, Lisa, and son-in-law, Jeff
Geeter, of Watkinsville; a brother, Albert Byron Hicks of Satellite Beach,
Fla.; a granddaughter, Amberly Grace Geeter of Watkinsville; and two nieces
and one nephew.
Lord & Stephens Funeral Home East, Athens, is in charge
of arrangements.
Earl Howard
Crawford
Earl Howard, 71, of 40 Railroad St. died Thursday, Sept.
10, 1998.
A native of Oglethorpe County, Mr. Howard was a son of
the late John Morrison and Flossie Christine McGaha Howard. A Navy veteran,
he was retired from Central Sawyer, currently Seaboard Farms.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lord & Stephens
Funeral Home East, Athens, with the Rev. Curtis Hammond officiating. Burial
will be in Winterville Cemetery, Winterville.
Survivors include five daughters, Pat Shedd and Pam Barrentime,
both of Crawford, Gloria Cole, Stockbridge, Shelly Streetman, Winterville,
and Ellen Myers, Comer; six sons, Cecil Mauldin, Guy Mauldin and Shane
Erwin, all of Crawford, J.B. Howard, Comer, Sam Erwin, Rayle, and Alan
Erwin, Lexington; three sisters, Martha Jane Reynolds, Sparta, Mozell Maxeys,
Greensboro, and Clyde Price, Maxeys; a brother, J.M. Howard, Hull; and
many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be James Matthews, Curtis Arthur, Jim
Wall, Bobby Shedd, Jimmy Wall and Michael McCannon.
The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at the
funeral home.
Ann McConnell
Clarkesville
Ann "Annmac" Waterston McConnell died Wednesday, Sept.
2, 1998.
Mrs. McConnell was a daughter of John Waters and Bertha
Lackman Waterston, Augusta, and was the widow of John Campbell McConnell.
She was a graduate of GSCW and received her master's of education from
George Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. She earned a specialist degree
in early childhood education at the University of Georgia and taught kindergarten
and first grade until the early 1970s. She was instrumental in launching
the public kindergarten program in the Ninth District, which lead to a
statewide kindergarten program. She concluded her professional career as
the early childhood specialist with Pioneer CESA. She was a volunteer in
the Habersham County Soup Kitchen and Habersham County Homework Center
and spearheaded the literacy program at North Georgia Technical Institute.
She was an active member of the Retired Teachers Association and Alpha
Delta Kappa. She and her husband founded and operated Camp Cherokee for
Girls on Lake Burton 1972-1996. She helped establish Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Toccoa, and Faith Lutheran Church, Clarkesville.
Memorial services were Sept. 5 at Camp Cherokee for Girls.
Survivors include a daughter, Ann Alexander, Batesville;
a son, William Ross McConnell, Athens; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Announcement courtesy of Hillside Memorial Chapel.
Eugene Patrick
Gainesville
Eugene Patrick, 68, died Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998.
A native of Jackson, Mr. Patrick was a son of the late
Jim and Mamie Lee White Patrick. An Army veteran, he was a self-employed
welder and of the Baptist faith.
Services will be at 11 a.m today at McGahee-Griffin Funeral
Home, Cornelia. Burial will be in Level Grove Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Sandra Turner and Deborah
Rice, both of Alto; a son, Greg Patrick, Alto; two sisters, Louise Yoder,
Demorest, and Mary Geraci, New Jersey; three brothers, Horace Patrick,
Athens, Terrell Patrick, Flowery Branch, and Joe Patrick, Jefferson; four
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Bobby Watkins
Athens
Bobby "Pee Wee" Watkins, 56, of 335 N. Pope St. died Thursday,
Sept. 10, 1998.
A native of Clarke County, Mr. Watkins was a son of Mamie
Watkins, Athens, and the late Ollie Watkins.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Jackson-McWhorter
Funeral Home with the Revs. B.S. Jackson and Charles Mack officiating.
Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery.
Survivors, in addition to his mother, include a daughter,
Patricia Ann Bolton, Athens; a brother, Ray Watkins, Athens; two sisters,
Janie Darden and Lillian Williams, both of Athens; two grandchildren and
nieces and nephews.
The family is at the residence.
Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. |
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