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Mrs. Zura
Gooch Todd, age 92, of Blairsville, Georgia, passed away Sunday, April
6, 1997
in Union County Nursing Home in Blairsville.
Mrs. Todd
was born in Union County, Georgia on March 14,
1905, a daughter of the late George Washington Gooch and Julia Davis
Gooch. She was a homemaker and lived in
Suches, Georgia for most of her life.
Mrs. Todd was a member of Zion Baptist Church, and she owned and
operated Todd’s Dahlia farms in Suches for forty years.
Mrs. Todd was a former school teacher. She
was a valuable source of information to
the writer of “The Reach of Song:. The State of Georgia’s Official Play, which
depicts the life of mountain people, in the hills of north (sic)
Georgia. In the past few years, Mrs. Todd
was very
active in telling the history of the mountains and the people who
inhabited
them through demonstrations of lye soap making and many other pioneer
ways of
life. For the past year and a half, she
had been a resident of Branan Lodge.
Mrs. Todd was preceded in death by her husband, Alvin D. Todd,
in 1988,
and a daughter, Eddie Mae Burke in 1952.
Surviving
are daughter, Mara O’Nell Holliday, of Blairsville; daughter, Elsie
Irene
Daniels, of Macon; daughter, Thelma Ruth Sudderth, of Woodstock; son,
Marion D.
Todd of Blairsville; and son, George I Todd of Madison, Indiana;
brother,
Arthur Gooch, and sister, Mattie Pirkle, both of Suches; 22
grandchildren, 48
great grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren and several nieces,
nephews,
and other relatives also survive.
Funeral
services were held Tuesday, April 8, 1997 at 2 p.m. from the chapel of
Cochran Funeral
Home of Blairsville with Rev. Willis Garrett and Rev. James Harrison
officiating. Specially selected music was
presented by R.
Terry Hooper, Nelson Thomas, and Mary Anne Wicker.
Grandsons served as pallbearers with Ralph
Gilreath serving as an honorary escort to the family.
Interment was in Zion Baptist Church
Cemetery.
If you
wish, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, in lieu of
flowers.
Cochran
Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of arrangements.
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Dr.
William H. Clinchard, age 89, of Blairsville died on Thursday, April
10,
1997. He is survived by his loving wife
Dorothea; daughter Connie Tellex and her husband Michael and
grandchildren
Christopher and Brittany. Other
survivors include sister Connie Wright,
brother Gene
Clinchard and step-son Michael Cole and family.
Dr.
Clinchard was a retired dentist from the Panama Canal
Zone and resident of Blairsville for the last 19 years.
Dr. Clinchard was a Past Master of Chagres
Lodge, Past patron of Eastern Star Orchid
Chapter and
member of the Abou Saad Scottish Rite Temple, all of the Canal Zone.
Dr.
Clinchard leaves behind many family members and
wonderful friends who will all miss his never ending sense of humor.
Cochran
Funeral Home of Blairsville,
GA. in charge of arrangements.
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Mr.
Harold
Joseph Day, age 22, of Blairsville, Georgia, passed away Monday, April
7, 1997
in St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, GA.
Mr. Day
was born in Somerset, New Jersey on September 18,
1974. He was a graduate of Union County
High School in Blairsville, class of 1992, and he graduated Young
Harris
College in Young Harris, GA., with the class of 1994.
He was a student at the University of
Georgia, and was majoring in Journalism.
Mr. Day was a News Editor of “The Red and the Black”, a
newspaper in
Athens.
The
family of Mr. Day is as follows: Parents, Harold R. and
Joy Day, of Blairsville; a sister, Laura Day of Chapel Hill, N.C.; aunt
and
uncle, Gay and Bruce Abbott, of Fanwood, N.J.; aunt and uncle, Susan
and John
Drury of Huntersville, N.C.
Memorial
services were held Wednesday, April 9, 1997 at 3
p.m. from St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church with Father Stephen Pavignano officiating.
In lieu of
flowers, memorials may be made to the Catholic Center, C/O Father
Stephen
Pavignano, 1344 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA. 30605.
Cochran
Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of
arrangements.