Obituaries
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Charles Edward Earle
Jul 20, 2013
Charles Edward Earle, Sr. of Rome, passed away July 20, 2013 in a Rome Hospital at the age of eighty three after a brief illness. Mr. Earle was born on August 2, 1929, in the Everett Springs community of Floyd County to the late Malcolm Landrum Earle and the late Pearl Davis Earle. He had spent the greater part of...
Linda Joyce Larch
Jul 18, 2013
Linda "Linnie" Larch, age 64, of Rome, Georgia passed away on Thursday night, July 18, 2013 at Cedar Hills Assisted Living in Cedartown, GA. Linda was born on August 25, 1948 in Houston, Texas, the daughter of the late Robert T. and Margaret Alma Reiger Larch. She was a graduate of Sam Houston High School in Houston, TX. And attended...
Tony Williams
Jul 16, 2013
Tony Williams, age 73, of Ocklawaha, Florida passed away on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in a Rome Georgia hospital. A native of New Cumberland, West Virginia, Mr. Williams was born on October 10, 1939 the son of the late William and Sarah Elizabeth Reese Williams. Mr. Williams was visiting his daughter and son-in-law, Toni and Randy Couey of Kingston at...
Stephen Mark Williams
Jul 15, 2013
Stephen Mark "Steve" Williams, age 55, of Rome passed away on Monday night, July 15, 2013 in Rome. A native of Floyd County, Steve was born on August 7, 1957, the son of J. Hugh and Mary Alice Toles Williams. He had spent the greater part of his life in Rome and Floyd County and was a 1975 graduate of...
Lelah Allen
Jul 15, 2013
Mrs. Lelah M. Allen, age 88, of Happy Valley, Oregon and a former resident of Rome passed away on Monday, July 15, 2013 in Oregon. Mrs. Allen was born in Darby, Montana, February 26, 1925, the daughter of the late William and Florence Paddock Tessler. Mrs. Allen, the widow of Robert M. Allen had been a resident of Oregon since...