Obituaries
Calhoun, GA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Calhoun, GA, Gordon County & Surrounding Areas
Thomas W. Phillips
Jan 17, 2007
Mr. Thomas W. Phillips, Sr., age 86, passed away Wednesday, January 17, 2007, at his residence. Mr. Phillips was born on the Kerr Ranch in Bexar County, Texas on March 23, 1920. He was one of ten children born to Hardy Amos Phillips and Ida May Darling Phillips. The family moved to Seguin, Texas where he attended school. He worked...
Gertrude Sexton Parsons
Jan 15, 2007
Mrs. Gertrude Sexton Parsons age 96, of Calhoun passed away Monday January 15, 2006 at Calhoun Health Care Center. She was born in Gordon County on December 26, 1910 daughter of the late Lee and Pearl Hammonds Gravitt. She was a retired Kinder Garden Teacher of the community and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. Mrs. Parsons was preceded...
Ruby Bowen
Jan 11, 2007
Mrs. Ruby Silvers Bowen, age 98 of Calhoun, GA, died Thursday January 11th, at Gordon Health Care. Mrs. Bowen was born in Gordon County, GA on October 12, 1908, daughter of the late John H. Silvers and Vista Carver Silvers. Before her retirement she was employed by King Textiles and was a member of New Zion Baptist Church. Mrs. Bowen...
John Randall Sisson
Jan 10, 2007
Mr. John Randall Sisson, age 54 of Nicklesville Road; Resaca, Georgia; died Wednesday morning, January 10, 2007 at his residence following eight months of illness. Mr. Sisson was born on January 07, 1953 in Gordon County; son of Richard Sisson and the late Maudie Clark Sisson. He was also preceded in death by his grandparents; Mr. & Mrs. Clay Sisson;...
Jerry Hyde
Jan 9, 2007
Mr. Jerry Hyde, age 61 of Calhoun died Tuesday morning January 9, 2007 at his residence following several months of declining health. Mr. Hyde was born May 3, 1945 and was the son of the late Candler and Lindie Jones Hyde. He was also preceded in death by a son Thomas Hyde JR. Mr. Hyde has been a resident of...
Mary Graham
Jan 7, 2007
Mrs. Mary Mahoney Graham age 55, of Hall Memorial Rd. Resaca, GA passed away Sunday January 7, 2007 at Gordon Hospital. Mrs. Graham was born September 13, 1951 daughter of the late Edman H. Mahoney and Frances Marnire of Sacramento, California. She was a member of the Renis Barrett Memorial VFW of Calhoun. Survivors include her husband James "Red" Arnold...
Emmett Dupree
Jan 7, 2007
Mr. Emmett Roberson Dupree, age 81 of Calhoun, passed away Sunday January 7, 2007 at Hamilton Medical Center. Mr. Dupree was born in Kennesaw, Georgia on March 2, 1925, son of the late Alvie and Effie Roberson Dupree. He was a textile mechanic, well known building contractor, and was owner and operater of the Men's Den Retail Stores in the...
Martha Dutton
Jan 3, 2007
Mrs. Martha Ann Dutton age 62 of Resaca, died Wednesday January 3rd, 2007 in Gordon Hospital following "four years as a Breast Cancer Survivor." Mrs. Dutton was born in Gordon County on March 26, 1944. She was the daughter of the late B.W. Johns and Cora Lee Goforth Johns. She had worked in the textile industry and was a lifelong...
Richard Stanley Mattiford
Jan 3, 2007
Mr. Richard Stanley Mattiford, age 68 of Calhoun, Georgia, died Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at Redmond Regional Medical Center following an extended illness. Mr. Mattiford was born on April 05, 1938 in Upland, PA,son of the late Ralph Bickling Mattiford and Julia Kaminski Mattiford. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Peggy Ann Hall Mattiford on February 24,...
Grace Irene Breeden
Jan 2, 2007
Mrs. Grace Irene Breeden, age 89, passed away Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007, at Fort Oglethorpe Nursing Center following several years of declining health. She was born in Maryville, Tennessee on April 17, 1917, daughter of the late Ewin and Bessie Mae Kelley Burns. Mrs. Breeden was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her...
Daphne Beason
Jan 1, 2007
Mrs. Daphne Dutton Beason, age 88, of Calhoun, passed away Monday January 1, 2007 at Gordon Health Care Center. She was born in Gordon County on June 28, 1918, daughter of the late Robert and Laura Dobson Dutton. Mrs. Beason was a homemaker, and a member of the Sonora Eastern Star and Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church. She was preceded...
Cloma Collum Welchel
Jan 1, 2007
Mrs. Cloma Collum Welchel age 74 of Calhoun, Georgia passed away Monday January 1, 2007 at Erlanger Medical Center. Mrs. Welchel was born in Bartow County on May 5, 1932 daughter of the late James W. and Myrtle Estelle Collum. She was a member of Oak Hill Baptist Church in White, Georgia. Mrs. Welchel was preceded in death by her...
Ollie Mae Shope
Dec 30, 2006
Mrs. Ollie Mae Shope, age 90, of Adairsville, passed away Saturday, December 30, 2006 at Maple Ridge Health Care Center in Cartersville. She was born in Gordon County on December 5, 1916, daughter of the late W.C. and Susan Hollingsworth Hice. Mrs. Shope was preceded in death by her husband, Millard S. Shope in 2001, brothers; Grady Hice, J.C. Hice,...
David Wayne Simerly
Dec 29, 2006
Mr. David Wayne Simerly, age 43, of Menlo, Georgia, passed away Friday, December 29, 2006. He was born in Blount County, Tennessee, on April 1, 1963, son of Max and Dorothy Slaughter Simerly. Mr. Simerly had been employed by Brock Candy Company. Survivors include his wife, Vickie Simerly; mother and stepfather, Billy and Dorothy Holt of Calhoun; a son, Blake...
Nathan Silvers
Dec 28, 2006
Mr. Clifford Nathan Silvers age 24 of Fairmount died Thursday December 28th from injuries received in an automobile accident. Mr. Silvers was born in Gordon County on March 3rd, 1982, son of Roscoe Silvers and Linda Hughes. He attended the Gordon County Public Schools and was of the Church of God Faith. Survivors include his wife Page Parker Silvers, two...
Melonese Rogers
Dec 27, 2006
Mrs. Melonese Medlin Rogers age 88 of Chatsworth, GA; formerly of Calhoun died Wednesday evening in Hamilton Medical Center at Dalton. Mrs. Rogers was born in Pickens County, Georgia on November 11, 1918, daughter of the late Perry and Ola Childers Medlin. Mrs. Rogers lived the greater part of her life in Gordon and Murray Counties. She was a Master...
Roy Darnell Hollingsworth
Dec 26, 2006
Mr. Roy Darnell Hollingsworth, age 67 of Calhoun, Georgia; died Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at Gordon Hospital following ten months of illness. Mr. Hollingsworth was born on September 03, 1939 in Gordon County; son of the late Dewitt and Mary Frances Harris Hollingsworth. During his lifetime; Mr. Hollingsworth was employed as a truck driver where he retired with the Dixie...
Rosa Lee Pack
Dec 25, 2006
Mrs. Rosa Lee Pack, age 85, of Ranger, Georgia, passed away on December 25, 2006, at Calhoun Health Care, following several months of declining health. She was born in Gordon County on May 6, 1921, daughter of the late Luster and Lydia King Silvers. Mrs. Pack was a housewife and a member of Mount Carmel Church of Jesus Christ. She...
Bobby Lee Patterson
Dec 22, 2006
Mr. Bobby Lee Patterson, age 75, of Calhoun, passed away Friday, December 22, 2006, in North Carolina. He was born in Floyd County on November 21, 1931, son of the late John McNeil and Bessie Mae Long Patterson. Mr. Patterson retired from the Gordon County Sheriff's Department in 1992, and was a member of Newtown Baptist Church. He was a...
Martin Hopkins
Dec 21, 2006
Mr. Martin "Andy" Hopkins age 33, of Cartersville, Georgia passed away Thursday December 21, 2006 following several months of declining health. He was born in Muncie, Indiana on April 26, 1973 son of John W. Hopkins and Cherie R. Hopkins. He was a member of the Calhoun Seventh Day Adventist Church. He was preceded in death by his grandparents Johnnie...
