Obituaries

Rachel Black

Rachel Black

Oct 28, 2013

Rachel Taylor Black passed away at the home of Dennis & Kathy Corbin on Monday, October 28, 2013. She was born June 9, 1923 in Spring Creek, GA, fifth child of Gilbert Pickens and Pattie Ayer Taylor. After graduating from Taylorsville High School in 1942, Rachel worked for the US Forest Service in Atlanta. She married James Harold Black August...

Weldon Touchstone

Weldon Touchstone

Oct 27, 2013

Weldon Touchstone, age 95, of #2451 Everett Springs Road, Armuchee, Georgia passed away Saturday night, October 26, 2013 at the residence of his son and daughter-in-law. A native of the Floyd Springs Community, Armuchee, Georgia, Mr. Touchstone was born on June 16, 1918, the son of the late Fay and Pearl Barton Touchstone. He had spent the greater part of...

Tyler John-Clark Bojo

Tyler John-Clark Bojo

Oct 24, 2013

Tyler JohnClark Bojo, age 20, of Lady Lou Ellis Road, Cave Springs, Georgia passed away on Thursday evening, October 24, 2013 at the residence. Tyler was born in Rome, Georgia on May 7, 1993, the son of Thomas "Tom" and Pam Montgomery Bojo. Tyler graduated from St. Mary's Catholic School. He was a 2011 graduate from Rome High School where...

Kenneth Eugene Ozier

Kenneth Eugene Ozier

Oct 13, 2013

Kenny Ozier, age 32, of the Everett Springs Road, Armuchee, passed away Sunday afternoon, October 13, 2013 in Cartersville, Georgia from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. A native of Ocala, Florida, Kenny was born on December 10, 1980 and attended Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia. Kenny had been a resident of Floyd County for 8 years and...

Christopher Austin Payne

Christopher Austin Payne

Oct 13, 2013

Christopher Austin Payne, age 18, of White Creek Loop, Rockmart, Georgia passed away on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at his residence. A native of Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, Austin was born on December 16, 1994 the son of Michael Christopher Payne and Laura Bradfield Davis. Austin was a 2013 graduate of Coosa High School and at the time of his death...

Marie Knight

Marie Knight

Oct 10, 2013

Marie Knight, age 94 of Rome, passed away on Thursday afternoon, October 10, 2013 at her residence. A native of Goldville, Alabama, Mrs. Knight was born on September 17, 1919, the daughter of the late James Travis Gaines and the late Alma Pearl Russell Gaines. She was a 1938 graduate of Etowah County Alabama High School. She had spent the...

Sherri Ann Nix

Sherri Ann Nix

Oct 1, 2013

Mrs. Sherri Ann Purdy Nix, age 43, of Armuchee, Georgia(the Everett Springs Community) passed away on Tuesday afternoon, October 1, 2013 at her residence after a long, courageous battle with Leukemia. Sherri was born on May 27, 1970 in Rome, GA., the daughter of Jerry and Martha Ann McKinney Purdy. She was a 1988 graduate of Armuchee High School and...

Franklin Eugene Higgins

Franklin Eugene Higgins

Sep 23, 2013

Franklin Higgins, age 79, of #24 Westwood Circle, West Rome, passed away early Monday morning, September 23, 2013 at his residence. A native of Rome, Franklin was born on December 8, 1933, the son of the late Henry Grady Higgins and the late Nettie Brewer Higgins. He attended Alto Park School and was of the Baptist Faith. Franklin was a...

Harold Robert Price

Harold Robert Price

Sep 13, 2013

Harold Robert Price, age 84, of 3126 Cedartown Highway, Rome, passed away on Friday evening, September 13, 2013 in a Rome hospital. A native of Trion, Georgia, Harold was born on October 4, 1928, the first of 3 children of the late Gordon Henry Price and the late Alice Mae Woods Price. He was a 1946 graduate of Trion High...

Mary Jane Kilgo

Mary Jane Kilgo

Aug 30, 2013

Mary Jane "Janie" Kilgo, age 65 of the Garden Lakes Community, Rome, passed away on Friday morning, August 30, 2013 at a Rome hospital following complications from surgery. Mrs. Kilgo was born on February 27, 1948, in Chattooga County, GA, a daughter of the late J.J. Milstead and Clara Pettyjohn Milstead. She was married to James A. Kilgo on October...

Shirley Colynn Hardin

Shirley Colynn Hardin

Aug 26, 2013

Shirley Chapman Hardin, age 78, of # 3 Gregory Drive, West Rome, passed away on Monday morning, August 26, 2013 at her residence. A native of Floyd County, Shirley was born on July 29, 1935 the daughter the late Leonard and Annie Busby Chapman. Shirley was a life long resident of Rome and was a graduate of Coosa High School....

Jay Donald Easterling

Jay Donald Easterling

Aug 16, 2013

Jay Donald Easterling, II, age 38, of Jacksonville, Florida passed away August 16, 2013 in Jacksonville. Jay was born in Rome, Georgia on June 20, 1975, the son of Jay Donald Easterling and Johnnie Johnson Easterling. Survivors include his wife, Angelina J. Easterling of Jacksonville; his father, J. Donald Easterling of Statesville North Carolina, his mother, Johnnie Johnson Easterling of...

Delorres Dean Hightower

Delorres Dean Hightower

Aug 13, 2013

Delorres Dean "Dee" Hightower, age 72, of the Moran Lake Road, Rome passed away on Tuesday afternoon, August 13, 2013 in a Rome hospital. A native of Ryan, Oklahoma, Dee was born on November 10, 1940, the daughter of the late Daris and Orhelen Adams Coats. Dee attended Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, Texas and had been a...

Guyton Dial Selman

Guyton Dial Selman

Aug 7, 2013

Guyton Dial "Guy" Selman, age 91, of Rome passed away early Wednesday morning, August 7, 2013 in a Rome hospital. A native of Anderson, South Carolina, Mr. Selman was born on July 31, 1922, the son of the late John D. and Ollie Chapman Selman. He had spent the greater part of his life in Rome and was of the...

Marilyn Margaret Davis

Marilyn Margaret Davis

Aug 6, 2013

Marilyn M. Davis, age 90 of #21 Albion Drive, SW, Rome passed away early Tuesday morning, August 6, 2013 at Winthrop of Rome. A native of Englewood, Tennessee, Mrs. Davis was born on August 5, 1923, the daughter of the late Eonley and Sara Jane Bledsoe Miller. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was...

Fannie Dorris Chambers

Fannie Dorris Chambers

Aug 4, 2013

Dorris Wade Dobbs Chambers, age 93, of the Old Summerville Road, Rome, passed away on Sunday afternoon, August 4, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Georgia, Mrs. Chambers was born on May 8, 1920 the daughter of the late Arthur Shamblin Wade and the late Annis Rudd Wade. She had spent the greater part of her...

Ruby Sullins

Ruby Sullins

Aug 1, 2013

Ruby Arnold Sullins, Age 91, of Rome passed away on Thursday morning, August 1, 2013 at Fifth Avenue HeathCare. A native of Whitfield County, Georgia, Mrs. Sullins was born on December 9, 1921, the daughter of the late John Wesley Arnold and the late Cordelia Long Arnold. Mrs. Sullins spent the greater part of her life in Rome and Floyd...

Nancy Carol Easterling

Nancy Carol Easterling

Jul 29, 2013

Nancy Carol Oaks Easterling, age 67, of Romulus, Michigan and a former Roman, passed away early Monday morning, July 29, 2013 in a Rome hospital. Mrs. Easterling was born on May 3, 1946 in Paris, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Chester Lee Oaks and the late Catherine McMinn Oaks. Mrs. Easterling attended Armuchee High School and was a homemaker....

Barbara Janice Fowler

Barbara Janice Fowler

Jul 21, 2013

Barbara Janice Barton Fowler, age 74, of the Rosedale Community, passed away Sunday night, July 21, 2013 in a Rome Hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Fowler was born on September 8, 1938, the daughter of the late Thomas Leonard Barton and the late Idell Miller Barton. Mrs. Fowler was a 1957 graduate of Armuchee High School and was...

Evelyn Jeanette Maynor

Evelyn Jeanette Maynor

Jul 21, 2013

Evelyn Jeanette Maynor, age 71, of Kingston GA. passed away Sunday afternoon, July 21, 2013 in a Rome hospital. A native of Bartow County, GA. Mrs. Maynor was born on December 15, 1941, the daughter of the late Charles Raymond Jenkins and the late Mary Francis Kell. She had spent the greater part of her life in Floyd County and...

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