Obituaries
Gary Tyler York
Dec 20, 2013
Gary Tyler "Ty" York, age 38 of 1267 East Hermitage Road, Rome, passed away on Friday afternoon, December 20, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Rome, Ty was born on September 5, 1975, the son of Gary and Teresa Hamilton York. Ty had spent most of his life in Rome and was a 1994 graduate of Model High...
Hazel Rebecca Keeney
Dec 16, 2013
Hazel R. Keeney, age 84, of Rome passed away on Monday afternoon, December 16, 2013 at Summit of Rome. Mrs. Keeney was born in Walker County, GA, on January 18, 1929, the daughter of the late James Edward Maner and Lucy Plunkett Maner. She had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County the greater part of her life and...
James Samuel Brock
Dec 3, 2013
James S. Brock, age 93, of McDonough, GA. and a former longtime resident of the Everett Springs Community, Armuchee passed away on Tuesday morning, December 3, 2013. A native of Chattooga County, Georgia, Mr. Brock was born on May 27, 1920, the son of the late Samuel Gordon Brock and the late Ruth Mae Price Brock. Mr. Brock was a...
Jerome Woodard Rose
Dec 2, 2013
Jerome Woodard "Jerry" Rose, age 78, of 312 Robinhood Road, Rome, passed away on Monday morning, December 2, 2013 in a Rome hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mr. Rose was born on December 17, 1934, the son of the late Juliaette Hollandand Otis Young Rose. He graduated from Southern Tech in 1963 with a degree in electronics...
Debra Yvonne Motes
Nov 23, 2013
Debra "Debbie" Yvonne Hinman Motes, age 58, of Rome, GA, died Saturday, November 23, 2013. Debbie was born in Moultrie, GA, on June 15, 1955, the daughter of the late John Andrew Hinman and the late Betty Jean Schubert Hinman. She had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County since 1971 and was a graduate of Floyd Junior College...
Dorothy Virginia Little
Nov 22, 2013
Mrs. Dorothy Virginia Little age 82 of Rome Ga., passed away on Friday, November 22, 2013 at a Rome hospital. Mrs. Little was born on August 22, 1931 in Cedartown, Ga. the daughter of the late Farris Van Horn and the late Elizabeth Ester Moore Horn. She spent most of her life in Rome. For many years along with her...
Annie Catherine Smith
Nov 21, 2013
Annie Catherine Smith, age 79, of the Woods Road, Rome passed away on Thursday morning, November 21, 2013, at her residence. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Smith was born on January 23, 1934, the daughter of the late William Brennon Whatley and the late Ethel Mae Gaither Whatley. She was a 1952 graduate of Coosa High School and was...
Dorothy Havlin
Nov 17, 2013
Dorothy Nowak Havlin, age 94, of 45 Woodland Bridge Road, Adairsville, GA, died Sunday, November 17, 2013, in a local hospital. Mrs. Havlin was born in Chicago, IL, on November 9, 1919, the daughter of the late Frank and Bertha Schmidt Nowak. She was one of Jehovah's Witnesses and had been a resident of Adairsville for the past 8 years,...
Edna Kathryn Freeman
Nov 16, 2013
Mrs. Kathryn "Memama" Brown Freeman, age 88, of #3126 Cedartown Highway, The Renaissance Marquis, Rome, Georgia passed away on Saturday morning, November 16, 2013 in Cartersville, GA. A native of Dames Ferry, Georgia, Mrs. Freeman was born on March 11, 1925, the daughter of the late Lewis H. and Mamie Ethel McCord Brown. She was a 1941 graduate of Mary...
Irene Evelyn Hughes
Nov 12, 2013
Irene Evelyn Minich Hughes, age 89, of Riverwood Senior Living, formerly of North Elm Street, Rome, Georgia passed away on Tuesday morning, November 12, 2013. Mrs. Hughes was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on February 2, 1924, the daughter of the late Edward Minich and the late Ida Grotrian Minich of Monroeville, IN. She was preceded in death by a...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...