Obituaries

John William Britt

John William Britt

Oct 26, 2010

John William Britt, Jr. age 79 of #121 Maplecrest Lane, S.E. Rome, passed away Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Fitzgerald, Georgia, Mr. Britt was born on January 27th, 1931, the son of the late John William Britt, Sr. and the late Tassie Louise Rooks Britt. He had spent the greater part of his life...

Charles Sedley Ford

Charles Sedley Ford

Oct 25, 2010

Charles Sedley Ford, age 76, of Rome, GA. passed away on October 25th, 2010 at a local hospital after a short illness. A native of Durham, N.C., Mr. Ford was born on December 1st, 1933, the son of the late James D. and Retha Ford Fullam and the grandson of the late Arthur and Pearl Ford. He was a graduate...

John Wesley Corbin

John Wesley Corbin

Oct 21, 2010

John Wesley Corbin, Jr. age 89, of Rome, GA. passed away on Thursday afternoon, October 21st, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. A native of Chattooga County, Georgia, Mr. Corbin was born on August 9th, 1921, the son of the late John Wesley Corbin, Sr. and the late Mary Rebecca Kerce Corbin. Mr. Corbin had spent the greater part of his life...

Charles Jeffery Terry

Charles Jeffery Terry

Oct 19, 2010

Charles Jeffrey "Jeff" Terry, age 43 of #502 Turkey Mountain Road, Armuchee, GA. passed away on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 in Calhoun Georgia following an apparent heart attack. A native of Floyd County, Jeff was born on June 14th, 1967 the son of Charles Horace Terry, Jr. and Sara Ann Dunaway Terry. He had spent his entire life in Floyd...

Ernest Melvin Gresham

Ernest Melvin Gresham

Oct 18, 2010

Ernest M. Gresham, age 79, of #203 Laurel Creek Road, Calhoun, GA. and a former long time resident of Rome passed away on Monday morning, October 18th, 2010 at his residence in Calhoun after a long battle with cancer. A native of Floyd County, Mr. Gresham was born on January 17th, 1931 the son of the late Sidney J. and...

Jerry Bryson Maddox

Jerry Bryson Maddox

Oct 15, 2010

Jerry Bryson Maddox, age 53, of Rome passed away on Friday afternoon, October 15th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Mr. Maddox was born on November 29th, 1956 the son of the late Jesse C. Maddox, Jr. and the late Ruth B. Maddox. He has been a resident of Rome for the past 10 years and...

Mary Adelle Crider

Mary Adelle Crider

Oct 7, 2010

Mrs. Adelle Broome Crider, age 86, of Centre, AL, and the Little Texas Valley Community, Rome, died Thursday morning, October 7, 2010, in a local hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mrs. Crider was born on August 5, 1924, the daughter of the late Lester Mathis and Ruby Wilson Mathis. She was a resident of Rome and Floyd...

Mattie Mae Autry

Mattie Mae Autry

Oct 2, 2010

Devoted wife and mother Mattie Mae Davis Autry, 80, died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The life-long resident of Floyd County, Georgia, Mrs. Autry was born Feb. 18, 1930. She was an active member of Enon Baptist Church of Rome, Ga., since her childhood. A 1948 graduate of Model High School in Rome, Ga., Autry had been employed as a spinner...

Paula Gail Umberhandt

Paula Gail Umberhandt

Sep 28, 2010

Paula Loyd Umberhandt, age 65, of #162 Shadow Lane, SW, Rome passed away at her residence. A native of Rome, Paula was born on September 21st, 1945 the daughter of the late Rev. Paul E.Loyd and the late Evelyn Allen Loyd. She had spent her entire life in Rome and was a graduate of Model High School, a graduate of...

Sara Ruth Mitchell

Sara Ruth Mitchell

Sep 23, 2010

Sara Ruth Mitchell, age 76, of #4447 Martha Berry Highway, NW, Rome, GA. died Thursday afternoon, September 23rd, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Mitchell was born on June 19th, 1934, the daughter of the late Benjamin F. and Sara Marguerite Yarbrough Dunaway. She was a homemaker and was a member of the Emmanuel Baptist...

Mabel Baxter

Mabel Baxter

Sep 21, 2010

Mabel Bagley Baxter, age 86 of Swainsboro Georgia and a former long-time resident of the Floyd Springs community, Armuchee, GA.died Tuesday evening, September 21st, 2010 in Swainsboro, GA. Mrs. Baxter was born on May 29, 1924 in Gordon County, GA. the daughter of the late Clarence L. and Mary Louise Porch Bagley. She was a member of the Evergreen Baptist...

Novella Rush Shiflett

Novella Rush Shiflett

Sep 16, 2010

Novella Rush Shiflett, age 84, of #12 Sandy Beach Terrace, Rome, (Garden Lakes) died Thursday evening, September 16, 2010, at a local hospital. A native of Rome and Floyd County, Mrs. Shiflett was born on March 5, 1926, the daughter of the late William Nathanel Rush and Ruth Helton Rush. For many years she was associated with Celanese Corporation. Mrs....

Dorothy Faye Corbin

Dorothy Faye Corbin

Sep 16, 2010

Dorothy Faye Fisher Corbin, age 81, of Rome and a long time resident of the Celanese Community, Rome, died on Thursday afternoon, September 16th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Lincoln County, Tennessee, Mrs. Corbin was born on March 17th, 1929, the daughter of the late Arnold and Virginia Ozaline Rhoden Fisher. She had spent the greater part...

Evelyn Louise Cockrill

Evelyn Louise Cockrill

Sep 8, 2010

Evelyn Simmons Cockrill, age 90, of Rome and a former long time resident of the Glenwood Community, died Wednesday morning, September 8th, 2010 in a Rome hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Cockrill was born on April 3rd, 1920, the daughter of the late Henry P. and Mattie Bell Lovell Simmons. She had spent her entire life in Floyd...

Selina Marcell Shedd

Selina Marcell Shedd

Aug 29, 2010

Selina Gilbert Brownlow, age 45, of #1373 Livingston Road, Rome, died on Sunday morning, August 29th, 2010 at Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta. A native of Floyd County, Selina was born on July 23rd, 1965, the daughter of Rosemary F. Haney and the late Robert Lee Brownlow. She had spent the greater part of her life in Floyd County, was...

Amy Sue Barnett

Amy Sue Barnett

Aug 29, 2010

Amy Sue Meers Barnett, age 69, of #3212 Blacks Bluff Road, Rome, died Saturday evening, August 28th, 2010, at the residence. A native of Decatur, Alabama, Mrs. Barnett was born on December 13th, 1940, the daughter of the late J.C. and Louise Williams Rogers. She had spent the greater part of her life in Floyd County and was a member...

James Paul Howell

James Paul Howell

Aug 28, 2010

James Paul Howell, Jr., age 78, of the Cave Spring Road, Rome, died Saturday morning, August 28th, 201 in a Rome hospital. A native of Rome, Mr. Howell was born on June 10th, 1932, the son of the late James Paul Howell, Sr. and the later Annie Mae Massengill. Mr. Howell had spent his entire life in Floyd County and...

Brenda Johnston

Brenda Johnston

Aug 20, 2010

Brenda Johnston, age 69, of Rome died on Friday morning, August 20th, 2010 at Winthrop Manor of Rome. A native of Dade County, Georgia, Mrs. Johnston was born on July 18th, 1941, the daughter of the late Willis G. and Amy Ragland Kinsey. She had spent most of her life in Floyd County and was a homemaker. Mrs. Johnston was...

Frances Carpenter

Frances Carpenter

Aug 17, 2010

Frances McNew Carpenter, age 75, of the Alabama Highway, Rome, died Tuesday morning, August 17th, 2010 at a local hospital. A native of Floyd County, Mrs. Carpenter was born on January 1st, 1935, the daughter of the late J.M. and Ester Gilreath McNew. She had spent her entire life in Floyd County and was a homemaker. Mrs. Carpenter was a...

Margie Elizabeth Payne

Margie Elizabeth Payne

Aug 11, 2010

Margie Elizabeth Payne, age 87 of Rome died Wednesday morning, August 11th, 2010 at Summit Health Care of Rome. A native of Cherokee County, Alabama, Mrs. Payne was born on June 10th, 1923, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mason. She had spent the great part of her life in Rome and was of the Baptist Faith....