Obituaries
Vivian Loy Poole
Nov 8, 2010
Vivian Pruitt Davis Poole, age 78, of Conasauga Place, NW, Rome, (Garden Lakes) passed away Monday, November 8th, 2010 at a local hospital. Mrs. Poole was born on May 12th, 1932 in Athens, Tennessee, the daughter of the late, Hoke and Mae Tate Pruitt. Mrs. Poole attended Rome Girls High and The Detroit Business Institute. She was a member of...
William Guthrie Hurt
Nov 4, 2010
William G. "Bill" Hurt, age 64, of Royal Oaks Drive, N.E., Rome, GA. passed away early Thursday morning, November 4th, 2010 at a Rome hospital. A native of Glasgow, Kentucky, Bill was born on April 23rd, 1946, the son of the late Clarence Ernest Hurt and the late Clara Mae Maloney Hurt. He was a Vietnam veteran having served in...
Charles Harden Moore
Nov 1, 2010
Charles Harden Moore, age 88 of #223 Fred Kelly Road, NE, Rome, passed away on Monday morning at the residence. Mr. Moore was born on August 20th, 1922 in Polk County, the son of the late Rena Horace Moore and Cordie Gossett Moore. Mr. Moore was a veteran of World War II Having served in the United States Navy, was...
Lillian Watkins
Oct 31, 2010
Lillian McEver Mayfield Watkins, age 86, of Clarksville, Georgia, formerly of the Rome, Georgia, passed away on Sunday, October 31st, 2010 following a brief illness. Mrs. Watkins was born in Polk County, Georgia on July 2nd, 1924 to the late Robert and Gertrude Bolinger McEver. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Ralph S. Mayfield in 1967...
Donald Adron Gillespie
Oct 31, 2010
Donald Adron Gillespie, age 81, of #223 Culpepper Road, NE, Calhoun, (the Rosedale Community) passed away on Sunday morning, October 31st, 2010 at a Rome, GA. hospital. A native of Gordon County, Georgia, Mr. Gillespie was born on January 15th, 1929, the son of the late William Edward Gillespie and the late Mattie Mae Gulledge Gillespie. He had spent the...
Michael Gilbert
Oct 27, 2010
Michael Gilbert, age 58, of Cartersville, GA. and a long time resident of Armuchee, passed away Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mr. Gilbert was born on March 26th, 1952, the son of the late William Oren and Bernice Estelle Sparks Gilbert. He had spent the greater part of his life in Rome...
John William Britt
Oct 26, 2010
John William Britt, Jr. age 79 of #121 Maplecrest Lane, S.E. Rome, passed away Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Fitzgerald, Georgia, Mr. Britt was born on January 27th, 1931, the son of the late John William Britt, Sr. and the late Tassie Louise Rooks Britt. He had spent the greater part of his life...
Charles Sedley Ford
Oct 25, 2010
Charles Sedley Ford, age 76, of Rome, GA. passed away on October 25th, 2010 at a local hospital after a short illness. A native of Durham, N.C., Mr. Ford was born on December 1st, 1933, the son of the late James D. and Retha Ford Fullam and the grandson of the late Arthur and Pearl Ford. He was a graduate...
John Wesley Corbin
Oct 21, 2010
John Wesley Corbin, Jr. age 89, of Rome, GA. passed away on Thursday afternoon, October 21st, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Chattooga County, Georgia, Mr. Corbin was born on August 9th, 1921, the son of the late John Wesley Corbin, Sr. and the late Mary Rebecca Kerce Corbin. Mr. Corbin had spent the greater part of his life...
Charles Jeffery Terry
Oct 19, 2010
Charles Jeffrey "Jeff" Terry, age 43 of #502 Turkey Mountain Road, Armuchee, GA. passed away on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 in Calhoun Georgia following an apparent heart attack. A native of Floyd County, Jeff was born on June 14th, 1967 the son of Charles Horace Terry, Jr. and Sara Ann Dunaway Terry. He had spent his entire life in Floyd...
Ernest Melvin Gresham
Oct 18, 2010
Ernest M. Gresham, age 79, of #203 Laurel Creek Road, Calhoun, GA. and a former long time resident of Rome passed away on Monday morning, October 18th, 2010 at his residence in Calhoun after a long battle with cancer. A native of Floyd County, Mr. Gresham was born on January 17th, 1931 the son of the late Sidney J. and...
Jerry Bryson Maddox
Oct 15, 2010
Jerry Bryson Maddox, age 53, of Rome passed away on Friday afternoon, October 15th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Mr. Maddox was born on November 29th, 1956 the son of the late Jesse C. Maddox, Jr. and the late Ruth B. Maddox. He has been a resident of Rome for the past 10 years and...
Mary Adelle Crider
Oct 7, 2010
Mrs. Adelle Broome Crider, age 86, of Centre, AL, and the Little Texas Valley Community, Rome, died Thursday morning, October 7, 2010, in a local hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mrs. Crider was born on August 5, 1924, the daughter of the late Lester Mathis and Ruby Wilson Mathis. She was a resident of Rome and Floyd...
Mattie Mae Autry
Oct 2, 2010
Devoted wife and mother Mattie Mae Davis Autry, 80, died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The life-long resident of Floyd County, Georgia, Mrs. Autry was born Feb. 18, 1930. She was an active member of Enon Baptist Church of Rome, Ga., since her childhood. A 1948 graduate of Model High School in Rome, Ga., Autry had been employed as a spinner...
Paula Gail Umberhandt
Sep 28, 2010
Paula Loyd Umberhandt, age 65, of #162 Shadow Lane, SW, Rome passed away at her residence. A native of Rome, Paula was born on September 21st, 1945 the daughter of the late Rev. Paul E.Loyd and the late Evelyn Allen Loyd. She had spent her entire life in Rome and was a graduate of Model High School, a graduate of...
Sara Ruth Mitchell
Sep 23, 2010
Sara Ruth Mitchell, age 76, of #4447 Martha Berry Highway, NW, Rome, GA. died Thursday afternoon, September 23rd, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Mitchell was born on June 19th, 1934, the daughter of the late Benjamin F. and Sara Marguerite Yarbrough Dunaway. She was a homemaker and was a member of the Emmanuel Baptist...
Mabel Baxter
Sep 21, 2010
Mabel Bagley Baxter, age 86 of Swainsboro Georgia and a former long-time resident of the Floyd Springs community, Armuchee, GA.died Tuesday evening, September 21st, 2010 in Swainsboro, GA. Mrs. Baxter was born on May 29, 1924 in Gordon County, GA. the daughter of the late Clarence L. and Mary Louise Porch Bagley. She was a member of the Evergreen Baptist...
Novella Rush Shiflett
Sep 16, 2010
Novella Rush Shiflett, age 84, of #12 Sandy Beach Terrace, Rome, (Garden Lakes) died Thursday evening, September 16, 2010, at a local hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mrs. Shiflett was born on March 5, 1926, the daughter of the late William Nathanel Rush and Ruth Helton Rush. For many years she was associated with Celanese Corporation. Mrs....
Dorothy Faye Corbin
Sep 16, 2010
Dorothy Faye Fisher Corbin, age 81, of Rome and a long time resident of the Celanese Community, Rome, died on Thursday afternoon, September 16th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Lincoln County, Tennessee, Mrs. Corbin was born on March 17th, 1929, the daughter of the late Arnold and Virginia Ozaline Rhoden Fisher. She had spent the greater part...
Evelyn Louise Cockrill
Sep 8, 2010
Evelyn Simmons Cockrill, age 90, of Rome and a former long time resident of the Glenwood Community, died Wednesday morning, September 8th, 2010 in a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Cockrill was born on April 3rd, 1920, the daughter of the late Henry P. and Mattie Bell Lovell Simmons. She had spent her entire life in Floyd...