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Albert Arnold Parker
May 26, 2014
Albert Arnold Parker, age 69 of Resaca, passed away Monday, May 26, 2014 in Calhoun Health Care. Albert was born on June 1, 1944 in Randolph, AL to the late James William Parker and Bessie Maybell Nixon Parker. He was also preceded in death by his sister, Martha Ann Croy. He is survived by his son, Jacob Parker of AL;...

Pauline "Paula" Cleveland
May 24, 2014
Paula Cleveland, age 55 of Calhoun died Saturday, May 24 at Gordon Hospital following an extended illness. She was born July 27, 1958 in Bridgeton, New Jersey, a daughter of the late Jerry James Payne and Winnifred Venn Payne. She had lived in Calhoun since 1983; was a homemaker; and was a member of the New Echota United Methodist Church....

James "Blue" Richard Moore
May 24, 2014
James “Blue” Richard Moore, age 85, of Calhoun, passed away Saturday May 24th in Gordon Hospital. James was born September 20, 1928 in Gordon County, son of the late Ernest Moore and Kathleen Campbell Moore. He was a member of the West Union Baptist Church and was a graduate of Belwood High School class of “47”. He was a member...

Evelyn Lillian Mason
May 23, 2014
Evelyn Lillian Mason, age 95 of Oakman, passed away on Friday, May 23rd in Gordon Hospital. Evelyn was born on October 15, 1918 in Brooklyn, NY to the late Seymour Toole, Sr. and Hortense Heite Toole. She was a member of Faith United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Joseph...

Ann G. McEntyre
May 20, 2014
Ann G. McEntyre, age 85 of Calhoun, passed away on Monday, May 19th at Golden Living Center in Rome. Ann was born on January 14, 1929 to the late Clint Greeson and Dovie Hall Greeson. She was a member of the Belmont Baptist Church and the Reaper Sunday School Class. She was also an Alumna of Red Bud High School....

Spencer Whittington
May 20, 2014
Spencer Whittington, age 51, of Ranger, died Tuesday May 20th from injuries received in an accident. Spencer was born May 3, 1963 in Elmhurst, Illinois, son of Willodean Stockton Whittington and the late Larry Dean Whittington. He was a self employed carpenter. He is survived by his mother, Willodean Whittington of Red Bay, Alabama, and his sister, Janine of West...

Belma M. Davis
May 18, 2014
Belma M. Davis, age 94 of Kennesaw and formerly of Fairmount, passed away on Sunday, May 18, 2014 in Townsend Park Health & Rehabilitation. Belma was born on April 21, 1920 in Gordon County to the late Hurlie Marion Davis and Mamie Thompson Davis. She was formerly employed by Goodyear of Cartersville for over 24 ½ years. In addition to...

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...
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