OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries - Atlanta, Georgia and the Surrounding Areas

Antoinette "Ann" Benson

Antoinette "Ann" Benson

Dec 15, 2017

Ann Benson passed away on Friday, December 15. She lived at Brooke Farm, Dunwoody, Georgia. Ann was born in Rockford, Illinois on December 20, 1930. She graduated from Muldoon High School in Rockford, obtained her undergraduate degree from Mercer University and her Masters in Psychological Services from Georgia State University. In 1979, Ann began her career at Georgia State University...

Carla Jean Sweetwood

Carla Jean Sweetwood

Dec 10, 2017

Carla Jean (Deck) Sweetwood, 65, of Atlanta died December 10, 2017. She was born in Wilmington, OH to Carl W. Deck and Nikola S. (Gall) Deck, and was the sister of Thomas E. Deck. She attended Wilmington High School and the University of Cincinnati.

Carla is survived by her husband of 45 years, John Thomas Sweetwood, her three children, Timothy...

Walda Stearns Abner

Walda Stearns Abner

Dec 9, 2017

Walda S. Abner (Maiden name Stearns) passed in comfort and complete peace at Hospice Atlanta on Saturday, 9 December 2017, after a brief serious illness which was complicated by Alzheimer’s Disease. She was 81 years old.

Walda was a native of Atlanta, daughter of Clifford Troupe Stearns (d. 1974) and Evelyn Sims Stearns (d. 1989). She was a nearly life...

Robert Lee Grimes

Robert Lee Grimes

Dec 9, 2017

Robert Lee Grimes, 61, passed away Friday the 9th at Northside Hospital following a brave month-long fight with cancer. He leaves behind his cousins: Joe Grimes, Mark Grimes, Tom Grimes, Terri Grimes, Debbie Montgomery, and Paul Reynolds. Rob now joins his father, Robert Arthur Grimes, and mother, Bernice Grimes, in the arms of the Lord. Rob worked hard at Family...

Sarah Anne Marble

Sarah Anne Marble

Dec 8, 2017

Sarah (Sally) Anne Marble, 78, of Smyrna GA, passed from this world peacefully on December 8th, 2017 after a long battle with Cancer. She was born May 17, 1939, in San Pedro, CA and was preceded in death by her parents Herbert L and Elizabeth Phillips, her brother John Phillips and sister Elizabeth Crawford, her oldest son Lawrence P. Brent,...

Nancy Early Kirk

Nancy Early Kirk

Dec 4, 2017

Nancy M. (Early) Kirk, of St. George Village in Roswell, Georgia, passed away peacefully on Monday, December 4, 2017. Nancy was born on June 14, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Boston Teacher’s College and was assigned as a Department of Defense School Teacher at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Nancy met the love of her life, William (Bill) L....

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