Obituaries
Mary Ruth Patterson
Mar 5, 2011
Mary L. Patterson, age 86, of Flora Avenue, Rome, passed away on Saturday evening, March 5th, 2011 at Summit HealthCare of Rome. A native of Cherokee County, Alabama, Mrs. Patterson was born on October 31st, 1924, the daughter of the late E.J. and Catherine Barkley Lawless. Mrs. Patterson was a resident of Summerville for several years prior to moving to...
Irene Walters
Feb 26, 2011
Mrs. Irene Young Walters, age 90, of #4 Robinson Avenue, Rome, passed away on Saturday morning, February 26th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. Mrs. Walters was born on February 15, 1921, the daughter of the late Edgar Young and Arrie Millican Young. She had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County for the greater part of her life and...
Carolyn Grace Gregory
Feb 22, 2011
Carolyn Grace Crowe Gregory, age 67, of Rome, passed away on Tuesday afternoon, February 21st, 2011 at the residence. A native of Chattooga County, Georgia, Carolyn was born on September 20th, 1943, the daughter of the late Rev. John Norton Crowe, Sr. and the late Mamie Lou Mosley Crowe. She had spent the greater part of her life in Floyd...
Jewell Gaynell Williams
Feb 21, 2011
Jewell Gayenell "Gaye" Williams, age 72 of Shannon, passed away Monday morning, February 21st, 2011 at Morning Point Assisted Living in Calhoun, Georgia. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Williams was born on August 18th, 1938, the daughter of the late Marion Carroll O'Neal and the late Eula Eva James O'Neal. She was a graduate of Model High School and...
Sara Ann Greer
Feb 13, 2011
Sara Ann Phillips Greer, age 75, of #6 West 10th Street, Rome passed away on Sunday morning, February 13th, 2011 at the residence. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Greer was born on November 24th, 1935, the eldest daughter of the late Ralph and Sara Vivian Slaughter Phillips. Mrs. Greer grew up in old Fourth Ward, where she was known...
Doyal Thomas Lewis
Feb 12, 2011
Tom Lewis, age 63, of North Kenora Drive, Rome, Georgia having completed his allotted time on this earth passed on to be with his Lord on Saturday afternoon, February 12th, 2011, after a valiant struggle with a difficult and long illness. Tom was born on August 19th, 1947 in Floyd County and was the son of the late Elbert (E.W.)...
Sherri Leigh Collier
Feb 12, 2011
Sherri Leigh Collier, age 47, of Leander, Texas, passed away on February 12th, 2011 at Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Rome survivors include her parents, Sanford "Sam" and Glenda Collier and a step-sister, Christina Rayburn. Funeral services for Sherri will be held on Sunday afternoon, February 20th, 2011 at 2 o'clock at the Macedonia Baptist Church in Manchester GA....
Roy Herbert Powell
Feb 11, 2011
A Celebration of the life of Roy Herbert Powell, a long time resident of the Shannon Community, will be held on Saturday, February 26th, 2011 from 12:00 noon until 4:00 o'clock at the Boys Scout Cabin at Shannon with eulogies given by any and everyone who is present at the celebration. The lives of Roy, his late wife, Mildred and...
Emma Lou Griffith
Feb 6, 2011
Emma Lou Griffith, age 90, of the Riverside Community, Rome, passed away on Sunday evening, February 6th, 2011 at Summit Health Care. A native of Paulding County, Georgia, Mrs. Griffith was born on July 30th, 1920, the daughter of the late Eli and Nannie Hite Lewis. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was a...
Yvonne Virginia Rickett
Feb 5, 2011
Yvonne Rickett, age 81, of #621 Warren Road, NE, Rome, GA, passed away early Saturday morning, February 5th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Centre, Alabama, Mrs. Rickett was born on April 25th, 1929, the daughter of the late Braxton and Hazel Stone Bobo. She was a graduate of McHenry High School and was a member of the...
Harold Whitield Quinton
Feb 4, 2011
Harold W. Quinton, age 85, of 1 Nest Drive, Rome, GA, passed away Friday, February 4, 2011, at a Fifth Avenue Health Care. Mr. Quinton was born in Lindale, GA, on September 23, 1925, the son of the late Hollie Clifford and Magnolia Whitfield Quinton. He had been a resident of Floyd County for the greater part of his life...
Michael Klaus Mikelat
Feb 4, 2011
Michael Klaus Mikelat, age 68, of Shannon, Georgia passed away on Friday night, February 4th, 2001 at the residence. A native of Lauenburg, Germany, Mr. Mikelat was born on June 25th, 1942, the son of the late John and Elizabeth Werning Mikelaitis. he was a Vietnam Veteran having served in the Unites States Army. Mr. Mikelat was of the Lutheran...
Travis Reynolds Green
Jan 31, 2011
Travis Reynolds Green, age 71, of #15 Westdale Avenue, SW, West Rome passed away Monday afternoon, January 31, 2011, at the residence. A native of Rome and Floyd County Mr. Green was born on November 10, 1939, the son of the late Ernest T. and Mary Lou Brock Green. His two heroes in life were Sis. Thelma Sharp, who brought...
Mattie Mae Canada
Jan 31, 2011
Mattie Mae Canada, age 77, of the New Calhoun Highway, Adairsville, passed away early Monday morning, January 31st, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mattie was born on February 9th, 1933 the daughter of the late Frank and Bessie Barton Morrison. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was a member...
Mabel Kasonawich Spencer
Jan 28, 2011
Fred Talley's Parkview Chapel Funeral Home of Rome announces the death of Mabel Kasonawich Spencer, age 89, of Rome. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Fred Talley's Parkview Chapel.
Mabel Spencer
Jan 28, 2011
Mabel Kasonawich Spencer, age 89, a life-long resident of Rome, and daughter of Austrian immigrants, Alex and Annie Kasonawich (original old world spelling), passed away peacefully on January 28th, 2011. Mabel was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school for over 35 years. She was generous, loving, and kind-spirited living out her Christian faith and...
Ellis Heath Vaughn
Jan 26, 2011
Heath Ellis Vaughn, age 60, of Rome, passed away on Wednesday afternoon, January 26th, 2011 at a Rome hospital after suffering a heart attack at his residence. A native of Floyd County, Heath was born on November 3rd, 1950, the son of the late Joe Vaughn and the late Amy Heath Vaughn. Heath had been a resident of Floyd County...
James Whitley Dillard
Jan 19, 2011
James Whitley Dillard, age 64, of #37 Whispering Pines Road, NE, Rome, passed away on Wednesday evening, January 19th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Whitfield County, Georgia, Mr. Dillard was born on March 5th, 1946, the son of the late Earl and Pauline Dillard. He attended school in the Whitfield County School System and had been a...
Buna Ester Evans
Jan 13, 2011
Mrs. Buna Crowder Evans, age 93, of Shannon, passed away early Thursday morning, January 13th, 2011 in Rome. A native of Bartow County, Georgia, Mrs. Evans was born on September 8th, 1917, the daughter of the late Lewis Elbert Crowder and the late Mary Dillard Chatman Crowder. She was a homemaker and a member of the Shannon United Methodist Church...
Luther Newell Overby
Jan 11, 2011
Luther Newell Overby, age 97, of Lindale, Georgia died on Tuesday morning, January 11th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Gordon County, Georgia, Mr. Overby was born on August 26th, 1913, the son of the late James A. and Margaret D. Overby. He had spent the great part of his life in Floyd County and was of the...