Obituaries
Rebecca Wilson
Jul 28, 2012
Rebecca W. Wilson, 90, of Rome, GA. passed away July 28, 2012 at Roman Court of Rome. Mrs. Wilson, affectionately known as "Beck Beck" was born in Cherokee County, Alabama on November 21, 1921, the daughter of the late Jessie Moore Wilson and the late Narvin Johnson Wilson. She was a graduate of Cedar Bluff Alabama High School. She married...
Edgar Wayne Silver
Jul 27, 2012
Edgar Wayne Silver, age 74, of Rome, passed away Thursday night, July 26th, 2012, at a Rome Health Care Center. Mr. Silver was born in Rome on January 14th, 1938, the son of the late Harvey E. and Susie Moss Silver. He attended 4th Ward School and was a member of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. For a period of...
Scarlet Renee Shaw
Jul 26, 2012
Scarlet Renee "Tiny" Shaw, age 32 of #8 Windrush Drive, Rome, passed away on Thursday morning, July 26th, 2012 at a Rome Hospital. A native of Floyd County, Renee was born on April 23rd, 1980. Renee spent her entire life in Floyd County and attended Model High School and Coosa Valley Technical College. Renee was a member of the New...
George Eugene Russell
Jul 21, 2012
George E. Russell, age 71, of the Horseleg Creek Road, Rome, passed away Saturday night, July 21, 2012 at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mr. Russell was born on July 20, 1941, the son of the late George N. and Lillian R. Griffin Russell. He had spent the greater part of his life in Floyd County and...
Robert H Ross
Jul 20, 2012
Mr. Robert H. "Bob" Ross, age 51, of 395 Jones Bend Road, Rome, GA, died Friday, July 20, 2012, in a Rome hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Bob was born on June 1, 1961, the son of Robert Dudley Ross and Carolyn Johnson Ross. He had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County for the greater...
Marianne Mccain
Jul 19, 2012
Marianne Brock McCain, "Macie" age 69, of Cave Spring, Georgia passed away Thursday morning, July 19th, 2012 at her residence. A native of Floyd County, Macie was born on October 15th, 1942, the daughter of the late Joe Brock and the late Geneva Pruitt Brock Casey. Macie had spent the greater part of her life in Floyd County and was...
Jane Allen Harbour
Jul 16, 2012
Jane Arnold Harbour, age 75, of Grayson, Georgia and a former Roman, passed away on July 16th, 2012 at her residence in Grayson, Georgia. A native of Rome and Lindale, Mrs. Harbour was born on November 29th, 1936, the daughter of the late Altas Allen Arnold and the late Ruby Jane Wilkins Arnold. Mrs. Harbour was a graduate of Pepperell...
Leuomon Stewart
Jul 5, 2012
Mr. Leuomon Stewart, age 94, of Portsmouth, OH, died Thursday, July 5, 2012, at Hill View Health Care Center in Ohio. Mr. Stewart was born on April 5, 1918, in Eden, AL, the son of the late B.P. and Lucy Kilgrove Stewart. He was a retired minister and member of the Church of God. Along with his parents, Leuomon was...
Bobbie Kenneth Mckenzie
Jul 3, 2012
Bobbie Kenneth McKenzie, age 71, retired Rome and Floyd County Fire Chief, of #15 Ridge Drive, Rome passed away Tuesday night, July 3rd, 2012 at a Rome hospital. A native of Jackson County, Alabama, Chief McKenzie was born on March 7th, 1941, the son of the late Bluford McKenzie and the late Geneva Muphree McKenzie Ollis. He attended Hardin Elementary...
Leslie Blake Rutland
Jul 3, 2012
Leslie Blake Rutland, Jr., age 74, of the Old Dalton Road, Rome, passed away Tuesday morning, July 3, 2012 at a Rome hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mr. Rutland was born on January 7, 1938, the son of the late Leslie Blake Rutland, Sr., and the late Mary Lee Melton Rutland. He was a 1957 graduate of...
Sharon Nadine Andrews
Jun 29, 2012
Sharon Holcomb Andrews, age 63, of Armuchee, GA, passed away on Friday afternoon, June 29, 2012, at a Rome hospital. A native of Rome, Sharon was born on May 26th, 1949, the daughter of late Perry M. and Clara Mae Treglown Holcomb. She had spent her entire life in Rome and was a graduate of Pepperell High School. Sharon was...
Billy Bryce Campbell
Jun 29, 2012
Billy Bryce Campbell, age 79, of Rome passed away early Friday morning, June 29, 2012, at a Rome hospital following a brief illness. Billy was born in Walker County, AL, on December 9, 1932, the son of the late Will Alexander Campbell and the late Ella Fowler Campbell. He was a graduate of Carbon Hill, Alabama, High School and had...
Edwin Macnorton Gilbreath
Jun 22, 2012
Edwin Mac Gilbreath, age 73, of the Floyd Springs Road, Armuchee, GA, died Friday evening, June 22, 2012, in a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, GA, Mac was born on May 1, 1939, the son of the late Ernest Walter Gilbreath and the late Dealva Fuller Gilbreath. He was a 1958 graduate of Armuchee High School and was...
Charles Martin Ball
Jun 20, 2012
Charles Martin'Charlie' Ball, age 87, of Rome, passed away on Wednesday evening, June 20th, 2012 at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mr. Ball was born on June 6th, 1925, the son of the late Fennin Y. and Emma Firestone Ball. He was a life long resident of Rome, served in the United States Navy and was a...
Harold Clayton Mathis
Jun 6, 2012
Harold Clayton "Clay" Mathis, age 72, of the Youngs Mill Road, Kingston, passed away on Wednesday morning, June 6th, 2012 at his residence Mr. Mathis was born in Floyd County on December 4th, 1939, the son of the late William Harold Mathis and the late Fannie Lou Byars Mathis. He has spent the greater part of his life in Floyd...
Delma Gean Shelton
Jun 3, 2012
Delma Gean Brown Shelton, age 78, of the Bells Ferry Road, Rome, passed away on Sunday afternoon, June 3rd, 2012 at a Rome hospital. A native of North Carolina, Mrs. Shelton was born on December 30th, 1933, the daughter of the late Thad and Fannie Mae Brown. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was...
Barbara Ann Johnson
Jun 1, 2012
Barbara Ann Towe Johnson of New Albany, Indiana and a native of Armuchee Georgia died on June 1st, 2012 in Indiana. Mrs. Johnson was born on September 11th, 1937 in Floyd County. She was preceded in death by her Father, Frank C. Towe and her Mother, Gertrude Watkins Towe Walters and a sister, Betty Jo Towe Kerrick. She was a...
Richard Dodd
May 31, 2012
Richard "Bird Dog" Dodd, Jr., age 77, of Rome, GA, died Thursday, May 31, 2012, in a Rome hospital. Mr. Dodd was born in Leesburg, AL, on March 9, 1935, the son of the late Richard Dodd, Sr. and the late Bessie Herrin Dodd. He had been a resident of Rome and Floyd County for the past 70 years and...
Richard Martin Prater
May 27, 2012
Richard M. Prater, age 81, of Rome, Georgia passed away earlier at this residence. Mr. Prater was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan on October 13th, 1930 the son of the late Arthur M. and Margaret Moore Prater. He had spent the greater part of his life in Rome and was a graduate of McHenry High School. Mr. Prater was a...