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Gregory Hardin Browder

Gregory Hardin Browder

Aug 29, 2013

Gregory Hardin Browder, age 63 of Calhoun, passed away on Thursday morning, August 29, 2013 in Gordon Hospital. Gregory was born on April 19, 1950 in Rome, GA to Robert Lee Browder and Runette Hardin Browder. He was a member of Bethel Baptist Church in Forney, Alabama, but has been a resident of Gordon County for the past 15 years....

Eleanor Juhl

Eleanor Juhl

Aug 28, 2013

Eleanor Juhl, age 72 of Calhoun, passed away on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 in Gordon Hospital. Eleanor was born on January 11, 1941 in Columbia, SC to the late Ervin C. Brazell and Emily Phillips Brazell. She was a member of the Georgia-Cumberland Academy Seventh-day Adventist Church and The American Collectors Association International. Survivors include her husband of 53 years,...

Mildred Greeson Mincey

Mildred Greeson Mincey

Aug 26, 2013

Mildred Greeson Mincey, age 85, of Calhoun, passed away Monday August 26th in the Gordon Health Care Center. Mildred was born August 16, 1928 in Gordon County, daughter of the late Harlan Greeson and Emma Mullins Greeson. She was a homemaker and lifelong member of the Blackwood Springs Baptist Church. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her...

Tommy Vinson Hightower

Tommy Vinson Hightower

Aug 25, 2013

Tommy Vinson Hightower, age 53 of Ranger, passed away on Sunday morning, August 25, 2013 at his residence. Tommy was born on September 4, 1959 in Whitfield County, GA to Lucille McGhee Hightower and the late Jim Tom Hightower. He was a member of the Boone Ford Baptist Church. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by...

Max Donald Sexton

Max Donald Sexton

Aug 24, 2013

Max Donald Sexton, age 75 of Calhoun died at 11:35 AM, Saturday, August 24 at Gordon Hospital. Max was born in Gordon County September 24, 1937, son of the late Everett Sexton and Ruby Allen Sexton. He was a lifetime resident of Gordon County, a graduate of Belwood High School and, was formerly employed at Harbison-Walker. He was of the...

Rena Cora Hebert

Rena Cora Hebert

Aug 24, 2013

Mrs. Rena Cora Hebert, age 80, of Calhoun, passed away Saturday August 24th at her residence. Rena was born March 8, 1933 in Madawaska, Maine, grew up in St. Agatha, Maine and spent most of her life in New Britain CT. before moving to Calhoun two years ago. She was the daughter of the late Donat Gervais and Catherine DuFour...

H. Barnes

H. Barnes

Aug 23, 2013

Mrs. Louise H. Barnes, age 85 of Calhoun, passed away Friday evening August 23rd at her residence. Louise was born February 19, 1928 in DeKalb County, Alabama, daughter of the late G.D. Haston and Dovie Rogers Haston. She has been a resident of Calhoun since 2001 and was a member of the Calhoun First Baptist Church and the Faith Seekers...

Dennis Wesley Neal

Dennis Wesley Neal

Aug 22, 2013

Dennis Wesley Neal, Sr., age 70 of Calhoun, passed away on Thursday, August 22, 2013 in Redmond Regional Medical Center. Dennis was born on January 5, 1943 in Akron, Ohio to Donald H. Neal and Frances Ellen Neal. He was a member of the St. Clements Catholic Church and has been a resident of Gordon county since 1978.Dennis was a...

Pamela Ann Bagley

Pamela Ann Bagley

Aug 21, 2013

Pamela Ann “Pam” Bagley, age 65 of Calhoun, passed away on Wednesday evening, August 21, 2013 in Redmond Regional Medical Center. Pam was born on May 25, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan to the late Edward James Moss and Ruan Eunice Pillette Moss. She was a member of the St. Clement’s Catholic Church and has been a resident of Gordon County...

Helen Greeson Mincey

Helen Greeson Mincey

Aug 19, 2013

Helen Mincey, age 80 of Calhoun, passed away Monday morning, August 19, 2013 at her residence. Helen was born on October 7, 1932 in Gordon County, daughter of the late Columbus Harlan Greeson and Emma Mullins Greeson. She was a lifelong member of the Blackwood Spring Baptist Church and was an accountant for more than 35 years. Besides her parents...

Betty Annette Graham Shaw

Betty Annette Graham Shaw

Aug 17, 2013

Mrs. Betty Annette Shaw, age 79 of Calhoun, stepped out into eternity with her lord and savior on August 17, 2013 in Morning Pointe Assisted Living. Betty was born March 29, 1934 in Calhoun, GA. daughter to Cliff Graham and Ruby Duvall Graham. She was of the Baptist faith and was a member of Newtown Baptist Church. She worked and...

Malcolm Richard Henderson

Malcolm Richard Henderson

Aug 16, 2013

Dr. Malcolm Richard Henderson, 88, a resident of 2102 Summit Parkway, Prattville, Al., and formerly a resident of Columbus, Ga. for 38 years, was called home by the Lord on Friday, August 16 from complications of dementia. Born August 26, 1924, in Sweetwater, TN, to the late Rev. G.B. and Mabel Henderson, he grew up in Tennessee, and later in...

Charles Wayne Davidson

Charles Wayne Davidson

Aug 16, 2013

Charles Wayne Davidson, age 79 of Calhoun, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at his residence. Charles was born on October 28, 1933 in Kansas City, Kansas. He was the son of the late Charles Melford Davidson and Elsie Josephine Bauer. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a Sergeant. Survivors include his wife Dorothy A. Davidson...

Hilda Lenora Wyrick

Hilda Lenora Wyrick

Aug 16, 2013

Hilda L. Wyrick, age 81 of Calhoun, passed away on Friday afternoon, August 16, 2013 at her residence. Hilda was born in Montrose, Mississippi on January 17, 1932 to John Willis Smith and Mary Thelma Fincher. She had formerly had a career as a merchandiser at Butler Shoes. She was married to Sanford Stanley Wyrick and they have lived in...

Betty Louise Bunch Dyer

Betty Louise Bunch Dyer

Aug 15, 2013

Betty Bunch Dyer, age 77 of Marietta and formerly Gordon County died August 15 at her residence. Betty was born in Gordon County, June 17, 1936, daughter of the late Grady Bunch and Mildred Allen Bunch, and also was preceded in death by her husband, Wilson Dyer, a brother, Lamar Bunch, and a sister Frances Echols. She was a lifelong...

Thomas Bertram Lance,

Thomas Bertram Lance,

Aug 15, 2013

Thomas Bertram Lance, Sr., age 82 passed away on Thursday evening, August 15, 2013 in Calhoun. Bert was born on June 3, 1931 in Gainesville, GA. He was the son of the late Thomas Jackson Lance and Annie Rose Erwin Lance. Bert was a graduate of Calhoun High School, graduate of The LSU School of Banking, Rutgers University School of...

Paul T. Witt

Paul T. Witt

Aug 14, 2013

Paul T. Witt, age 48 of Calhoun, passed away on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 in Gordon Hospital. Paul was born on January 25, 1965 in Dayton, Ohio. He was the son of the late Harry G. Witt and Muriel Ann Stauffer. He attended the Mount Calvary Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a...

Richard Andrew Fantom

Richard Andrew Fantom

Aug 13, 2013

Richard A. Fantom, age 85 of Calhoun, passed away on August 13, 2013 in Gordon Hospital. Richard was born on October 19, 1927 in Baltimore, MD to the late Richard B. Fantom and Dorothy Billmeyer Fantom. Memorial Services will be conducted on Tuesday, September 3rd at 7pm from the Calhoun First Presbyterian Church. You may leave the Fantom family online...

Randall David "Randy" Childress

Randall David "Randy" Childress

Aug 11, 2013

Randall David “Randy” Childress, age 55 of Calhoun died at 1:48 AM, Sunday, August 11, 2013 at his residence. Randy was born in Chattanooga, January 5, 1958, a son of Carolyn H. Reese Childress and the late Gerald L. Childress. Also, he was preceded in death by his grandparents, Inez and Ralph Reese, Lillian and Robert Childress and an uncle,...

Martha Ann Murphree

Martha Ann Murphree

Aug 10, 2013

Martha “Marti” Murphree, age 64 of Calhoun died Saturday, August 10 in Floyd Medical Center. Marti was born, September 25, 1948 in Bacon County, a daughter of the late Wallie A. Strickland and Janie V. Henderson Strickland. She also was preceded in death by a son, David Murphree, July 1, 2013 in Nixa Missouri. She had made her home in...