OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries - Atlanta, Georgia and the Surrounding Areas

Melvin Warren Westley

Melvin Warren Westley

Feb 25, 2016

Melvin Warren Westley was born in Philadelphia, PA on Christmas Day, 1928 to Warren Leroy Westley and Beatrice Bailiff Westley. He had one sister, Doris Mae. His grandmother and an uncle lived with them above the family grocery store near Temple University.

Melvin had grown up in the shadow of the depression, playing stick ball in the streets, making deliveries...

Rachel Leslie Thorn

Rachel Leslie Thorn

Feb 21, 2016

Rachel Leslie Thorn, age 37, died Sunday, February 21st, succumbing to injuries sustained in a fire.

Miss Thorn was born in Fairfax, Virginia to Elizabeth Jackson Gill and Alan Thorn on December 7th, 1978. She moved to Atlanta with her family in 1980 and stayed within the city ever since.

Rachel had worked for many years as a recruiter...

Harvey Edward Minsk

Harvey Edward Minsk

Feb 19, 2016

Harvey Edward Minsk, 81, of Atlanta, Georgia passed away on February 19, 2016. Born to Annie and Louis Minsk in Atlanta on January 12, 1935, Harvey graduated Henry Grady High School and Southern College of Pharmacy. A self-taught engineer, Harvey founded his own communications business and worked on such projects as updating the radio systems in the U2 spy plane...

Maritta Blankenship

Maritta Blankenship

Feb 19, 2016

Mrs. Maritta Blankenship 76 of Pine Mtn. Valley, GA passed away on February 19, 2016. Maritta was originally from Berlin, Germany where she met her husband, Lawrence Blankenship Sr. She lived in Pine Mtn. Valley for 48 years. She was predeceased by Lawrence Sr. and her daughter, Marika. She is survived her son, Lawrence Jr., daughter in law, Bea and...

Melinda Jo Frank

Melinda Jo Frank

Feb 19, 2016

Melinda Leben Frank, age 54, of Gainesville, Georgia died on February 19, 2016 at NE Georgia Hospital, Gainesville, Georgia. Arrangements pending

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