Obituaries

Sherri Leigh Collier

Sherri Leigh Collier

Feb 12, 2011

Sherri Leigh Collier, age 47, of Leander, Texas, passed away on February 12th, 2011 at Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Rome survivors include her parents, Sanford "Sam" and Glenda Collier and a step-sister, Christina Rayburn. Funeral services for Sherri will be held on Sunday afternoon, February 20th, 2011 at 2 o'clock at the Macedonia Baptist Church in Manchester GA....

Roy Herbert Powell

Roy Herbert Powell

Feb 11, 2011

A Celebration of the life of Roy Herbert Powell, a long time resident of the Shannon Community, will be held on Saturday, February 26th, 2011 from 12:00 noon until 4:00 o'clock at the Boys Scout Cabin at Shannon with eulogies given by any and everyone who is present at the celebration. The lives of Roy, his late wife, Mildred and...

Emma Lou Griffith

Emma Lou Griffith

Feb 6, 2011

Emma Lou Griffith, age 90, of the Riverside Community, Rome, passed away on Sunday evening, February 6th, 2011 at Summit Health Care. A native of Paulding County, Georgia, Mrs. Griffith was born on July 30th, 1920, the daughter of the late Eli and Nannie Hite Lewis. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was a...

Yvonne Virginia Rickett

Yvonne Virginia Rickett

Feb 5, 2011

Yvonne Rickett, age 81, of #621 Warren Road, NE, Rome, GA, passed away early Saturday morning, February 5th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Centre, Alabama, Mrs. Rickett was born on April 25th, 1929, the daughter of the late Braxton and Hazel Stone Bobo. She was a graduate of McHenry High School and was a member of the...

Harold Whitield Quinton

Harold Whitield Quinton

Feb 4, 2011

Harold W. Quinton, age 85, of 1 Nest Drive, Rome, GA, passed away Friday, February 4, 2011, at a Fifth Avenue Health Care. Mr. Quinton was born in Lindale, GA, on September 23, 1925, the son of the late Hollie Clifford and Magnolia Whitfield Quinton. He had been a resident of Floyd County for the greater part of his life...

Michael Klaus Mikelat

Michael Klaus Mikelat

Feb 4, 2011

Michael Klaus Mikelat, age 68, of Shannon, Georgia passed away on Friday night, February 4th, 2001 at the residence. A native of Lauenburg, Germany, Mr. Mikelat was born on June 25th, 1942, the son of the late John and Elizabeth Werning Mikelaitis. he was a Vietnam Veteran having served in the Unites States Army. Mr. Mikelat was of the Lutheran...

Travis Reynolds Green

Travis Reynolds Green

Jan 31, 2011

Travis Reynolds Green, age 71, of #15 Westdale Avenue, SW, West Rome passed away Monday afternoon, January 31, 2011, at the residence. A native of Rome and Floyd County Mr. Green was born on November 10, 1939, the son of the late Ernest T. and Mary Lou Brock Green. His two heroes in life were Sis. Thelma Sharp, who brought...

Mattie Mae Canada

Mattie Mae Canada

Jan 31, 2011

Mattie Mae Canada, age 77, of the New Calhoun Highway, Adairsville, passed away early Monday morning, January 31st, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mattie was born on February 9th, 1933 the daughter of the late Frank and Bessie Barton Morrison. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was a member...

Mabel Kasonawich Spencer

Mabel Kasonawich Spencer

Jan 28, 2011

Fred Talley's Parkview Chapel Funeral Home of Rome announces the death of Mabel Kasonawich Spencer, age 89, of Rome. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Fred Talley's Parkview Chapel.

Mabel Spencer

Mabel Spencer

Jan 28, 2011

Mabel Kasonawich Spencer, age 89, a life-long resident of Rome, and daughter of Austrian immigrants, Alex and Annie Kasonawich (original old world spelling), passed away peacefully on January 28th, 2011. Mabel was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school for over 35 years. She was generous, loving, and kind-spirited living out her Christian faith and...

Ellis Heath Vaughn

Ellis Heath Vaughn

Jan 26, 2011

Heath Ellis Vaughn, age 60, of Rome, passed away on Wednesday afternoon, January 26th, 2011 at a Rome hospital after suffering a heart attack at his residence. A native of Floyd County, Heath was born on November 3rd, 1950, the son of the late Joe Vaughn and the late Amy Heath Vaughn. Heath had been a resident of Floyd County...

James Whitley Dillard

James Whitley Dillard

Jan 19, 2011

James Whitley Dillard, age 64, of #37 Whispering Pines Road, NE, Rome, passed away on Wednesday evening, January 19th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Whitfield County, Georgia, Mr. Dillard was born on March 5th, 1946, the son of the late Earl and Pauline Dillard. He attended school in the Whitfield County School System and had been a...

Buna Ester Evans

Buna Ester Evans

Jan 13, 2011

Mrs. Buna Crowder Evans, age 93, of Shannon, passed away early Thursday morning, January 13th, 2011 in Rome. A native of Bartow County, Georgia, Mrs. Evans was born on September 8th, 1917, the daughter of the late Lewis Elbert Crowder and the late Mary Dillard Chatman Crowder. She was a homemaker and a member of the Shannon United Methodist Church...

Luther Newell Overby

Luther Newell Overby

Jan 11, 2011

Luther Newell Overby, age 97, of Lindale, Georgia died on Tuesday morning, January 11th, 2011 at a Rome hospital. A native of Gordon County, Georgia, Mr. Overby was born on August 26th, 1913, the son of the late James A. and Margaret D. Overby. He had spent the great part of his life in Floyd County and was of the...

Lillian Sue Wilson

Lillian Sue Wilson

Jan 9, 2011

Lillian Wilson, age 89 of Watson Street, West Rome died Sunday evening, January 9th, 2011 at the residence. A native of Chattooga County, Georgia, Mrs. Wilson was born on September 10th, 1921 the daughter of the late William Belton Brown and the late Irene Pinion Brown. She had spent the greater part of her life in Rome and was a...

Fannie Mae Casey

Fannie Mae Casey

Jan 2, 2011

Mrs. Fannie Mae Casey, age 87, of #21 London Lane, SE, Rome passed away on Sunday morning, January 2nd, 2011 at a local hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Casey was born on February 5th, 1923 the daughter of the late George Washington Touchstone and the late Willie Lorena Smith Touchstone. Mrs. Casey was a member of the Cedar...

Kenneth Wilson

Kenneth Wilson

Dec 30, 2010

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Kenneth W. Wilson

Kenneth W. Wilson

Dec 30, 2010

Mr. Kenneth W. "Pete" Wilson, age 66, of 475 County Road 585, Cedar Bluff, AL died Thursday evening, December 30, 2010, in Cherokee Medical Center. A native of Rome, Mr. Wilson was born on May 10, 1944, the son of the late William Marcus and Clara Carden Wilson. He has been a resident of Cedar Bluff since 1989, moving there...

Eva Christine Smith

Eva Christine Smith

Dec 19, 2010

Mrs. Eva Christine Smith, age 71 of #20 Collier Road, Rome, died Sunday morning, December 19th, 2010 at a Rome hospital. She was the wife of Jerry R. Smith Mrs. Smith was born December 24th, 1938 in Cherokee County, Alabama. She was the daughter of the late C. J. and Mary Elizabeth Brumbelow. Mrs. Smith retired from West Point Pepperell....

Elston Lee Gentry

Elston Lee Gentry

Dec 19, 2010

Elston Lee "Chuck" Gentry, Jr. age 56, of #22 Beverly Drive, SW, Rome, passed away on Sunday morning, December 19th, 2010 at the residence. A native of Floyd County, Georgia, Chuck was born on December 14th, 1954 the son of Elston Lee Gentry, Sr. and Patsy Jo Abney Gentry. Chuck was a 1973 graduate of West Rome High School and...