Obituaries

James Tommy Fincher

James Tommy Fincher

Mar 16, 2013

James Tommy Fincher, Sr., age 75, of the Booger Hollow Road, Lindale, passed away Saturday morning, March 16, 2013, at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Georgia, Mr. Fincher was born on December 19, 1937, the son of the late Henry T. and Bertha Barton Fincher. Mr. Fincher was of the Baptist faith and was a graduate of...

Mary Elizabeth Nelson

Mary Elizabeth Nelson

Mar 14, 2013

Mary Nelson, age 66, of Blarney Way, Kingston, GA, passed away Thursday evening, March 14, 2013, in a local hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mrs. Nelson was born on December 12, 1946, the daughter of the late Kenneth Pilcher and the late Elizabeth Sizemore Pilcher. She had attended Model High School and was a housewife and homemaker....

Opal Ruth Edwards

Opal Ruth Edwards

Mar 12, 2013

Mrs. Opal Ruth Carver Free Edwards, age 80, of Bent Creek Drive, Rome, GA, the Gardens Lakes Community, died Tuesday afternoon, March 12, 2013, at her residence. Mrs. Edwards was born on October 27, 1932, in Cleburne County, AL, the daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Carver and the late Eula Mae Moore Carver. She had spent the greater part...

Bobby Joe Sikes

Bobby Joe Sikes

Mar 12, 2013

Bobby Joe Sikes, age 76, of 350 Addington Drive, Rome, GA, died early, Tuesday morning, March 12, 2013, at his residence. Mr. Sikes was born in Cherokee County, AL, on March 10, 1937, the son of the late Jimmy David Sikes and the late Jewell Sikes Land. He had lived the greater part of his life in Rome and Floyd...

Gladys Wheeler

Gladys Wheeler

Mar 6, 2013

Gladys Dew Wheeler, age 88, of Rome and a former long-time resident of the Everett Springs Community, passed away on Wednesday morning, March 6, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Wheeler was born on July 30, 1924, the daughter of the late Hammond and Mattie White Dew. Mrs. Wheeler had spent the greater part of...

Audrey A Earle

Audrey A Earle

Feb 27, 2013

Audrey Williams Earle, age 78, of 4092 Floyd Springs Road, Armuchee, GA. passed away Wednesday night, February 27, 2013 at the residence. A native of Cherokee County, Alabama, Mrs. Earle was born on December 26, 1934, the daughter of the late Merl Vasser Williams and the late Evie Wood Williams. Mrs. Earle was a 1955 graduate of Armuchee High School...

Hazel Lee Ingram

Hazel Lee Ingram

Feb 25, 2013

Hazel L. Ingram, age 88, of Rome passed away Monday afternoon, February 25, 2013 at Winthrop Court of Rome. A native of Cherokee County, Alabama, Mrs. Ingram was born on December 24, 1924, the daughter of the late James Loye Williams and the late Vergie Lee Comer Williams. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and...

Robert Lee Smith

Robert Lee Smith

Feb 25, 2013

Robert Lee "Bob" Smith, age 68, of the Sleepy Hollow Road, Cave Spring, GA. passed away early Monday morning, February 25, 2013 at the residence. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Bob was born on October 11, 1944, the son of the late Leonce Lee Trahan and the late Carrie Elizabeth Strosnider Trahan. Bob was a graduate of Damascus High School...

Ernest Chambers

Ernest Chambers

Feb 20, 2013

Ernest Chambers, age 91, of 1967 Old Summerville Road, NW, Rome, GA. passed away on Wednesday evening, February 20, 2013 at his residence. A native of Floyd County, Mr. Chambers was born on April 16, 1921, the son of the late Paul and Estelle Hice Chambers. He was a 1939 graduate of Model High School and was a veteran of...

Charlotte Ann Shepard

Charlotte Ann Shepard

Feb 15, 2013

Charlotte Weeks Shepard, age 70, of the Woods Road, Rome passed away on Friday morning, February 15, 2013 at the residence. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Shepard was born on June 20, 1942, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Gordon Weeks. Mrs. Shepard was a 1960 graduate of Coosa High School and was a member of...

Ralph Lamar Prather

Ralph Lamar Prather

Feb 15, 2013

Ralph Lamar "PeeWee" Prather, Sr. age 72, of Reynolds Street, Rome passed away on Friday afternoon, February 15, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Rome, Georgia, Mr. Prather was born on January 12, 1941, the son of the late Ralph and Lois Turner Prather. Mr. Prather attended Model High School and was a veteran having served in the...

Dora White

Dora White

Feb 14, 2013

Dora Turner White, a retired Floyd County Educator, age 94, of the Culpepper Road, (The Rosedale Community) passed away on Thursday morning, February 14, 2013 at a A.G. Rhodes HealthCare of Atlanta. A native of Austell Georgia, Mrs. White was born on December 8, 1918 the daughter of the late Roland and Fannie Victoria Johnson Turner. Mrs. White was a...

Steve Frank Dixon

Steve Frank Dixon

Feb 9, 2013

Steve Frank Dixon, age 57, of Rome passed away on Saturday afternoon, February 9th, 2013 at a Rome hospital following a brief illness. A native of Floyd County, Georgia, Mr. Dixon was born on December 20th, 1955 the son of Evelyn Louise Hollingsworth Dixon of Rome and the late Jack Dixon, who preceded him in death in 1990. Mr. Dixon...

Michael Blake Selman

Michael Blake Selman

Feb 8, 2013

Michael Blake Selman, age 26, of 698 Texas Valley, Rome, passed away on February 8, 2013 after a lifetime battle with Neurofibromatosis. Michael was born in Floyd County, Ga. on November 24, 1986, son of Neal Selman and Doris King Selman. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Richard Selman, grandmother Ann King, and cousin Jeremy Selman. Michael was...

Clarence Lewis Johnston

Clarence Lewis Johnston

Feb 6, 2013

Clarence Lewis Johnston, age 71, of Rome, passed away Wednesday morning, February 6, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Gordon County, Lewis was born on May 24, 1941, the son of the late William Louis "W.L." Johnston who preceded him in death on October 13, 2012 and the late Rilla Mae Ellis Johnston who preceded him in death...

Sarah Lee Owen

Sarah Lee Owen

Feb 4, 2013

Sarah Lee Wooten Owen, age 85, of Rome passed away on Monday, February 4th, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Fort Payne, Alabama, Mrs. Owen was born on November 27th, 1927, the daughter of the late William J. and Azalee Evans Wooten. Mrs. Owen had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and Floyd County and...

Sara Lee Ritchey

Sara Lee Ritchey

Jan 21, 2013

Mrs. Sara Lee Oswalt Ritchey, age 88, of #8 Stonegable Drive, NW, Rome passed away on Monday morning, January 21, 2013, in a Rome hospital. A native of Rome, Georgia, Mrs. Oswalt-Ritchey was born on August 23rd, 1924, the daughter of the late Herbert Alexander McClain and the late Sarah Rachel Irvine McClain. Mrs. Oswalt-Ritchey was a member of the...

Miranda Leigh Turner

Miranda Leigh Turner

Jan 12, 2013

Miranda Leigh Rust Turner, age 30, of Cedar Bluff, Ala. and a former resident of Armuchee passed away on January 12th, 2013 at her residence in Cedar Bluff. A native of Longview, Texas Miranda was born on September 2nd, 1982, the daughter of James Anthony "Tony" Rust of Rome and Rhonda Joyce Key of Rome. Miranda had been a resident...

Samuel Milton Broome

Samuel Milton Broome

Jan 9, 2013

Samuel Milton "Sam" Broome, age 65, of Summerville, Georgia passed away on Wednesday morning, January 9th, 2013 at a Rome hospital. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. Broome was born on May 4th, 1947, the son of the late Samuel Waldo Broome and the late Helen Louise McGee Broome. He had spent the greater part of his life in...

Lillian Estelle Burton

Lillian Estelle Burton

Dec 26, 2012

Lillian Estelle Burton, of Rome, passed away Wednesday afternoon, December 26, 2012, at the Summit of Rome. Mrs. Burton was born in Cherokee County, AL, the daughter of the late Robert Downey and Nobie Downey Williams. She had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County for the greater part of her life. Mrs. Burton was a member of the...