Obituaries
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...
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....





