OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries - Atlanta, Georgia and the Surrounding Areas

Noah Edgar Byrd

Noah Edgar Byrd

Sep 9, 2021

Noah Byrd, a true “Renaissance man”, joined his Father in Heaven on Sep 9, 2021. He was born to Mamie Ruth Carver Byrd and Berry H. Byrd in 1938, Wray, Georgia in his grandmother Abbie’s farmhouse. He is survived by the love of his life, his wife of 42 years, Lynne Barfield Patrick Byrd, a daughter, Deborah Ann Butler, two...

Mary Elizabeth Kidd Hudgins

Mary Elizabeth Kidd Hudgins

Sep 5, 2021

Mary Kidd Hudgins passed away peacefully at her younger son’s home in Cartersville on Sunday morning, September 5, 2021. She was 83 years old.

A native Atlantan, she grew up in the Grove Park area and attended West Fulton High School, where she met her husband, Kent Hudgins (1935-1999). After she married, she went to work for her family’s...

Bryan Edington Wakefield

Bryan Edington Wakefield

Aug 30, 2021

On August 30, 2021, after a brave four-year fight with cancer, Bryan Edington Wakefield, age 59, of Atlanta, died peacefully in the company of family while in hospice care. His friends and family will remember him for his wit, authenticity, genuineness, and compassion, as well as for his wicked talent at ultimate frisbee, golf, and guitar.

Bryan, the son of...

Angela York Herndon

Angela York Herndon

Aug 29, 2021

Following a courageous battle with breast cancer, Angela York Bell Herndon passed away peacefully in her husbands arms on the 29th day of August 2021. Angela was born to Mary Lou Felts York Dillon and John Robert York on April 22, 1961 in Springfield Tennessee. Angela leaves behind her loving husband Jeffrey, her son Andrew Bell, his wife Katie, her...

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