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Jessie Bailey Nichelson
May 18, 2014
Jessie Bailey Nichelson, age 93 of Calhoun, passed away on May 18, 2014 at Signature Health Care in Marietta, GA. Jessie was born on May 31, 1920 in Blueridge, TN to the late Burt Bailey and Ida Lou Patton Bailey. She was a member of East Calhoun Church of God. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Clark of Calhoun;...
Edward Worley
May 16, 2014
Edward Worley, age 81 of Calhoun, passed away on Friday morning, May 16, 2014 at his residence. Edward was born on January 1, 1933 in Bartow County to the late Lloyd Pirkle Worley and Kathryn Crowe Worley. He has been a resident of Gordon County since 1961, and was a member of the Calhoun First Baptist Church. He was a...
George C. Hudgens, Jr.
May 15, 2014
George C. Hudgens, Jr., age 87 of Calhoun, passed away on Thursday, May 15, 2014 in Calhoun Health Care. George was born on August 1, 1926 in Hamilton County, TN to the late George C. Hudgens, Sr. and Ila B. Godfrey Hudgens. George served in the United States Navy on the U.S.S. Yorktown CV10. He was proud of his naval...
Melissa Anne Shugart
May 8, 2014
Missy Wood Shugart, age 47 of Adairsville, passed away on Thursday, May 8, 2014 in Redmond Regional Medical Center. Missy was born on August 20, 1966 in Floyd County to Joe Martin Wood, Jr. and Patricia Ann Stephens Wood. She was of the Baptist faith and was employed by Mohawk for 27 years. She was a fabulous mother to her...
Nancy Ruth Steward
May 8, 2014
Nancy Ruth Steward, age 81 of Calhoun, passed away on Thursday, May 8, 2014 at her residence. Nancy was born on October 28, 1932 in Cartersville, GA to the late Claude Wilson Luke and Ruth Casey Luke. She was a founding board member of the Calhoun Arts Center, and a retired Para Professional at both Swain Elementary and Red Bud...
Joe Don Griffith
May 7, 2014
Joe Don Griffith, Sr., age 77 of Resaca, passed away on Wednesday morning, May 7, 2014 in Kindred Hospital of Rome. Joe Don was born on June 27, 1936 in Gordon County to the late Kenneth Griffith and Martha Corine Chitwood Griffith Brock. He was formerly the Mayor of Resaca, a professional Santa Claus, and a founding organizer of the...
Mary Virginia Shirley
May 3, 2014
Mary Virginia Shirley, age 77 of Sugar Valley, passed away on May 3, 2014 at her residence. Virginia was born in Gordon County, August 20, 1936, daughter of the late Walter Howard Shirley and Lois Shirley. She was a lifetime resident of Gordon County and was a graduate of the Old Sugar Valley High School. She was formerly employed by...
Marlene Coats
May 1, 2014
Marlene Rigsby Coats, age 51 of Sugar Valley, passed away on Thursday evening, May 1, 2014 in Gordon Hospital. Marlene was born on December 31, 1962 in Whitfield County. She was the daughter of Larry Rigsby and Dovie Jean King Rigsby. She attended both Dogwood Valley Baptist Church and The Way of the Cross Church. Marlene was a loving mother...
Jean Evans
May 1, 2014
Jean Evans, age 88 of Fairmount, passed away on Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Gordon Health Care. Jean was born on October 26, 1925 in Crittenden, Kentucky to the late Ben Hardin and Edith Stalions Hardin. She was a member of the Concord Baptist Church for more than 35 years. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in...
Mitchell Keith Akins
Apr 26, 2014
Mitchell Keith Akins, age 43, of the Ranger community passed away at his residence Saturday morning April 26th, 2014. Mitchell was formerly employed by Mohawk Industries and was a member of Victory Fellowship Full Gospel Church. Survivors include his father Bob Akins of Dalton; mother, Joann Pass and her husband Estes of Calhoun; grandmother, Linnie Mae Tate of Ranger; daughter,...
Barbara Parsons Dobbs
Apr 21, 2014
Barbara Parsons Dobbs passed away on April 21, 2014 in her home in Calhoun, Georgia. She was born in Gordon County on May 19, 1930, the daughter of the late Sarah Robbins Parsons and DC Parsons. Barbara is survived by her loving husband of 64 years, Merrill Dobbs, and her son, Ron Dobbs, both of Calhoun; her daughter and son-in-law,...
Readith Pruitt West
Apr 18, 2014
Readith Pruitt West, age 75, of Tucker, Georgia and formerly of Calhoun, passed away Friday April 18th in Atlanta. Readith was born September 23, 1938, daughter of the late Doyle and Jewell West Pruitt. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her son, Pruitt West. Survivors include her husband, Ralph West, three children, Heinz West, Andy West and...
Teresa Ann Ensley
Apr 16, 2014
Teresa Ann Ensley, age 45 of Calhoun, passed away on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at her residence. Teresa was born on May 27, 1968 in Bartow County daughter of Marvin Frank Greene and the late Barbara Ann Smith Greene. She was preceded in death by her husband Lynn. Beside her father she is survived by her son, Brandon Ensley and...
Gene A. Paul
Apr 12, 2014
Mr. Gene A. Paul, age 76 of the Adairsville Community, passed away on Saturday evening, April 12th at his residence. Gene was born, June 1, 1937 in Dayton, Tennessee, son of the late William Autra Paul and Pauline McCoy Paul. He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Steve Paul and Ernie Paul; three sisters, Brenda Paul, Ruth Haddock,...
Mack D. Serritt
Apr 11, 2014
Mack D. Serritt, age 85 of Calhoun died at 2:05 PM, Friday, April 11 in Erlanger Hospital of Chattanooga. Mack D. was born, April 16, 1928 in Gordon County, son of the late Ollie M. Taylor Serritt and George Maxwell Serritt. He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Mamie Wilson Serritt and a brother Duane Serritt. He...
Betty Jane Kirby
Apr 8, 2014
Betty Jane DeFreese Kirby, age 79 of Calhoun, passed away on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at her residence. Betty was born on July 4, 1934 in Gilmer County, GA to the late William Earl DeFreese and Elsie Elizabeth Hamby. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, William Talmadge “Woot” Kirby, and a sister, Mary...
Lynn Black
Apr 7, 2014
Lynn Black, age 52 of Calhoun, passed away on Monday, April 7, 2014 at his residence. Lynn was born on June 21, 1961 in Gordon County to the late Ford Black and Nannie Thomas Black. He lived most of his life in Scottsville, and was a loving husband, father, and brother. He is survived by his wife, Teresa Black of...
Thelma Cox
Apr 5, 2014
Thelma Cox, age 84, of Calhoun and formerly of Cobb County, passed away Saturday afternoon April 5th at her residence. Thelma was born March 12, 1930 in Cobb County, daughter of the late Robert E. Ragsdale and Pauline Brown Ragsdale. She was employed by North Cobb Drugs prior to her retirement and was a member of the Shady Grove Baptist...
Robert "Bob" Paul
Apr 5, 2014
Robert (Bob) Paul, age 86 of Calhoun died at 9:15 P.M., Saturday, April 5 in Gordon Health Care of Calhoun. Bob was born, March 4, 1928 in Glasgow, Scotland son of the late Anne Smith Paul and Robert Paul. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, John Paul and three sisters, Mary Friend, Isabel...
Janice Powell Graham
Apr 3, 2014
Janice Powell Graham, age 67 of Calhoun, passed away on Thursday, April 3, 2014 in Gordon Hospital. Janice was born on October11, 1946 in Gordon County to the late Willie B. Powell and Janette Meadows Powell. She was a member of the Belmont Baptist Church and has been a resident of Gordon County all her life. She was a devoted...
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