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Mrs.
Ellen Brown Collins, age 77, of Blairsville, Georgia went peacefully
into the
arms of God on April 19, 2010.
She was
born Saturday, October 1, 1932, in the Choestoe
District of Union County, to Henry and Collesta Thomason Brown. In 1949 she married Gene Collins and resided
in Arkaquah for the entirety of their 60 year marriage.
She was a homemaker and worked for several
years in the garment industry. A
tireless worker in her church, she served many years as a Sunday School teacher and was the church pianist for
around 50
years. She was a wonderful cook and
requests for her chicken and dumplings was
usually at
the top of everyone’s list. Working
beside her husband they grew and preserved vegetables every summer,
teaching
their children how to be self-sufficient and the value of hard work.
Her
greatest passion was her family, creating in her
children a desire to love and serve God, to work hard and give back to
those in
need from the blessings God had bestowed on them. Her
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
were her life. She had cultivated and
developed a strong and loving bond with each of them that will keep her
spirit
alive in this world.
Mrs.
Collins was preceded in death by her parents, Henry
Franklin Brown and Collesta Thomason Brown; her loving husband, Eugene
“Gene” Collins;
brothers: Elbert, Lewis, Paul, Harmon, Emory, Clayton, Barney, and Home
Brown;
sister, Cleo Hooper.
She is
survived by her children: Jeanette and Herman King of Toccoa, GA; Karen
Collins
of Gainesville, GA; Calvin and Patricia Collins, of Blairsville, GA;
grandchildren: Monica and Rob Mauldin, Lori and Bryan Westmoreland and
Derrick
and Meghan King, all of Toccoa, GA; Corey and Tiffany Collins and Codey
Collins, all of Blairsville, GA; great-grandchildren: Hampton Mauldin,
Bre King
and Sadie Westmoreland, all of Toccoa; sisters: Connie Galloway, of
Gastonia,
NC; Frankie Dunaway, Rome, GA; Ruby Sexton, Blairsville, GA; and Ethel
Self, of
Columbia, SC; 52 nieces and nephews and numerous other relatives.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at 3 p.m., in the Chapel
of
Cochran Funeral Home in Blairsville with Rev. Jimmy Rogers, Rev. Jerry
Young,
and Rev. Harley Hunter officiating.
Special music was presented by Doug Green and Steve Brown. The following gentlemen served as
pallbearers: Rob Mauldin, Derrick King, Corey Collins, Codey Collins,
Bryan
Westmoreland, and Tommy Hooper. Burial
was in Old Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery.
The family met with friends on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, from 2
until 4
p.m., and 6 until 8 p.m.
The family
has suggested that memorial contributions be made to Regency Hospice,
P.O. Box
494, Hiawassee, GA 30546.
Arrangements entrusted to Cochran
Funeral Home of
Blairsville. Please send condolences to
the family at www.cochranfuneralhomes.com
ELLEN BROWN COLLINS
Courtesy of Cochran Funeral Home
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Mr.
Talmadge
James Hughes Jr., age 45 of Old Gumlog Rd., Blairsville passed away on
Tuesday,
April 27, 2010 at his home following an extended illness.
Mr. Hughes was born on Jan. 23, 1954 in Towns
County, the son of Lillian Dyer Hughes and the late Talmadge James
Hughes. He was a lifelong resident of
Union
County. He was a loving husband, father,
son, brother and grandfather. He was
preceded in death by a stepson, Nathan Clifford Silvers.
Mr. Hughes was a member of Ebenezer Baptist
Church.
Surviving
Mr. Hughes are his loving wife of nine years, Linda Sue Hughes of
Blairsville,
mother, Lillian Hughes of Blairsville, one daughter and son-in-law,
Krystal and
Calvin Kitchens of Blairsville, one step-son, George Eric Silvers of
Blairsville, two sisters and one brother-in-law, Mary Ann and Michael
Wright of
Blairsville, Joan Gillispie Hughes of Blairsville, seven grandchildren,
Katelyn, Josh, Austin, Becky, DeLayn, Nathan Chase and Christian, many
other
relatives and friends also survive.
Funeral
services were held on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 2 p.m. from the
Mountain View
Chapel with the Rev. R.L. Martin, Rev. Tommy Jones and Rev. B.L.
Anderson
officiating. Special music was presented
by Ben, Libby and Angie Burrell and Jimmy Thompson.
The following gentlemen served as
pallbearers, Charles King, Michael Stroud, Lamar Dyer, Eric silvers,
Cody
Gibson, J.M. Grizzle, Michael Wright and David Dockery.
Serving as honorary pallbearers were Tony
Guy, Dustin Gillispie, Jim Buchanan and Paul Brown.
Interment followed in the Ebenezer Baptist
Church Cemetery. The family met with
friends at the funeral home on
Wednesday evening after 6 p.m.
Mountain
View Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com.
TALMADGE JAMES HUGHES, JR.
Courtesy of Mountain View Funeral Home
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Mr. Billy
ray Dease Sr. age 58 of Sleepy Hollow Lane, Blairsville passed away on
Thursday, April 29, 2010 in the Union General Hospital following a
brief
illness. Mr. Dease was born on Nov. 16,
1951 in Chester, SC, the son of Luke Deas (sic) and Thelma Catoe Deas
(sic). Billy loved fishing, horses and
his dogs. He was a loving husband, father,
son, brother and grandfather. Mr. Dease
was of the Baptist faith.
Surviving
Mr. Dease are his loving wife of thirty years, Judy Railey Dease of
Blairsville, four children, Billy Ray Dease Jr. of Concord, NC, Sonya
and Tomas
Perez of Concord, NC, Danny and Linda Melton of Blairsville, Scott and
Tali
Dease of Blairsville, seven brothers and sisters, Bobby and Diane Dease
of
Kannapolis, NC, Junior and Shirley Dease of Kershaw, SC, Don Dease of
Talking
Rock, GA, Pat and David Wright of Kershaw, SC, Pam and Tommy Plyer of
Jefferson, SC, Brenda and Ed Teems of Talking Rock, GA, Polly Pless of
Concord,
NC, five grandchildren, Danielle, Destyne, Jasper, Cooper and Hinsli,
many
other relatives and friends also survive.
Funeral
services were held on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 2 p.m. from the Mountain
View
Chapel with the Rev. Jerry Young officiating.
The following gentlemen served as pallbearers, Gerald Patterson,
Danny
Melton, Ronnie McDonald, Brandon Hughes, Justin Satterfield and Mickey
Whatley. Serving as honorary pallbearers
were, Cooper Lance and Jasper Dease. Interment
followed in the Meadow View Cemetery. The
family met with friends at the funeral home on Saturday evening after 6
p.m.
Mountain
View Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences online at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com.
BILLY RAY DEASE
Courtesy of Mountain View Funeral Home
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Sharon
Lynn Webb, 74, of
Blairsville, Ga., passed away on Thursday April 29. 2010,
following an extended illness. Sharon
was born in Tampa, Florida, on Leap year, 1936. Daughter
of William Wesley Talbott and Eunice
Tillman Talbott, she attended Florida Southern University and Miami
Dade Junior
College before starting her career as a Registered Nurse. After many years in nursing, she became a
published author, pursuing her love of words and writing. She was known for such works as the Earth Song
Trilogy, The Adventures of Terra Tarkington, Pestis 18, Half
- Life and R.N. Sharon also became an
award-winning computer fractal artist, and silver jeweler, and a member
of the
Mountain Regional Arts and Crafts Guild. Her
jewelry is still available at ArtWorks
Gallery in Hiawassee, Ga. She was
pursuing her degree in Gemology at the time of her illness.
Surviving Mrs. Webb is daughter and
son-in-law Wendy Lee Webb Nesheim and Dr. Steven R. Nesheim, Stone
Mountain,
GA, daughter Jerri Lynn Webb, Gainesville, GA, daughter Tracey Ann
Webb-Kolbinger, Freiburg, Germany, grandson Joshua Lee Thompson and
wife Dallas
Ann Thompson, Gainesville, GA, grandson Wesley Bryan Thompson and wife
Shelley
Marie Thompson, Gainesville, GA, grandsons Kevin Kolbinger and Tom
Kolbinger
both of Freiburg, Germany and great - grandson Ashton Crawford Willden,
Gainesville, GA. She is preceded in
death by her parents, her husband Wilson Bryan Webb, and her
granddaughter
Daniela Kolbinger.
The
family plans to honor Sharon's life with a private memorial ceremony.
Cochran
Funeral Home of Blairsville, Georgia is in charge of arrangements.
www.cochranfuneralhomes.com
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Mr.
George Grady Thompson, age 56, of Blairsville, GA, passed away
Thursday, April
29, 2010, in Blairsville.
Mr.
Thompson was born in Hiawassee, GA, on Saturday,
December 12, 1953, a son of the late Robert Thompson and the late
Nannie Lou
McClure Thompson. He lived in Canton, GA
for 18 years and moved to Blairsville in 1988.
Mr. Thompson was an employee of the Union County School system. Besides his parents, he was also preceded in
death by his sisters: Barbara Jean Sosebee and Ruth Miller; and
brothers,
Willard Thompson and Leroy Thompson.
Surviving
family members include his wife, Darlene Thompson, of Blairsville; sons
and
daughters-in-law, Kyle and Tabetha Thompson, of Canton; Grady and Joyce
Thompson of Blairsville; daughter and son-in-law, Cindy and Marty Dyer,
of
Blairsville; and son and daughter-in-law, Perry and Christy Thompson,
also of
Blairsville; sister and brother-in-law, Frances and Dwayne Taylor, of
New
Castle, PA; brothers and sisters-in-law:
Earnest and Linda Thompson, Fred and Joanne
Thompson, and Jimmy and Judy Thompson, all of Blairsville; sisters and
brothers-in-law, Becky and Kenneth Pickelsimer, and Lena and Billy
McCollum,
all of Blairsville; and sister-in-law, Llewellyn Thompson, of Canton,
GA;
Grandchildren: Trish, Nikki, Lynette, Christopher, Kamiya, Kalen and
Ashley
Thompson; Shauna and Josh Dyer; Kevin and Ashley Walker; many other
relatives
and friends also survive.
Funeral
services were held
Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., in the Chapel of Cochran Funeral
Home,
with Pastor Jerry Helton and Rev. Michael Anderson officiating. Special
music was
presented by The Burrell Family. The
following gentlemen served as pallbearers: Kyle Thompson, Grady
Thompson, Perry
Thompson, Marty Dyer, Kalen Thompson, and Josh Dyer. Burial
was in Union Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation
with the family was held at the
funeral home on Friday, April 30, 2010, after 3 pm.
Arrangements
entrusted to
Cochran Funeral Home Blairsville Chapel. Please send condolences to
www.cochranfuneralhomes.com
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Mr.
Pat Akins, age 91 of
Blairsville, Georgia, passed away Saturday evening, May 1, 2020 at the
Union
County Nursing Home in Blairsville.
Mr.
Akins was born on
Friday, July 26, 1918 in Blairsville, to Marvin and Mollie Coker Akins.
Pat
served his country in the army infantry during World War II in the
European
Theatre, but before he left for Europe he married Naomi “Bill” Ralston
of
Fannin County. After the war, Pat and
Bill moved to Blairsville. Pat worked
for a while at Twiggs Motors, and the Tennessee Copper Company. He and Bill also ran a small café next to
Blairsville’s only theatre, where Pat was the projectionist. He was also a former owner of Akins Drug
Store. Pat attended Jones Mortuary
College in Nashville, Tennessee, in order to become a funeral director. His father, Marvin, had the first funeral
home in Union County. Later on, Pat
became the owner of Akins Funeral Home, which for a while was located
in their
home. Pat became coroner of Union
County, and held that office for 30 years; Pat also twice served as
Sheriff of
Union County, and worked as court baliff (sic) for many years. Pat was always proud of Union County. He served on the first hospital board of
Union General Hospital when the first hospital was built, and was so
happy to
see what it had grown into. Pat was
preceded in death by his wife, Naomi “Bill” Ralston Akins; parents,
Marvin and
Mollie Coker Akins; brothers: Randolph, Ed, Bonnell, Fred, Joe, and
Raymond
Akins and sister, Sarah Scarborough. Pat
had many joys in his life. He came from
a large family and he married into a large family, so there were plenty
to love
and be loved by. Among his greatest joys
were his daughter and her family.
Surviving
family members
include: daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and W.C. Nelson; a sister,
Mary Sue
Colwell; granddaughter and her husband, Courtney and Greg Waller;
grandson and
his wife, Will and Kathryn nelson; and great grandchildren: Grayson
Waller,
Andrew Nelson, Georgia Waller, Britt Waller, Jared Nelson and Naomi
Nelson, all
of Blairsville.
Funeral
services were
scheduled for 2 PM Tuesday, May 4th at the Chapel of the Cochran
Funeral Home
with Minister Terry Stuart and Rev. Jake Colwell officiating. The body
lay in
state at the funeral home Tuesday morning from 9 until 12 PM.
Flowers are appreciated, or in lieu of flowers, you may
donate to AGAPE, 3094 Mercer University Dr., Suite 200, Atlanta, GA
30341 or to
the Union County Nursing Home Activity Fund, 164 Nursing Home Circle,
Blairsville, GA 30512.
Arrangements
entrusted to Cochran Funeral Home
of Blairsville, Georgia, in charge of arrangements.
You may send condolences to the family and
sign the guest register at www.cochranfuneralhomes.com
PAT AKINS
Courtesy of Cochran Funeral Home
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Mrs. Ruby
Inez Stover Towe, age 77, of Gainesville. It is with heartfelt
sadness that we must announce the passing of our loved one, Ruby on
Sunday,
April 11, 2010, after an extended illness.
She passed away with dignity and peace.
Mrs. Towe
was originally from Suches in union
county and was the daughter of the late William Oscar Stover and
Nora
Gilreath Stover and was married to Melvin Homer Towe from 1950 till his
death
in 2002.
Mrs. Towe
attended Northside family worship center and is a Charter member there. Ruby was an excellent cook and loved
children. She retired from north east
Georgia medical daycare center were (sic) she daily cared for the
babies there
with love and tenderness. She was always
making gifts for the children to give to their parents on special
occasions and
never forgot birthdays. She also loved
gardening and took pride in making her home a welcome haven for all who
entered.
She is
survived by her daughter, Linda Towe Vines; son-in-law, Steve Vines of
Cumming;
son, Ricky Melvin Towe; daughter-in-law, Linda Owenby Towe of Oakwood;
three
grandchildren, Dawn Andrew Stephens and wife Bonnie Stephens, Chadrick
Melvin
Towe, and wife Sandy Towe and Amanda Nicole Towe. She
has two great grandchildren, Paige Hope
Towe and Kara Michelle Towe, all of Gainesville; one brother, Kenneth
Stover
and wife Wilma Stover of Blairsville; sisters, Irene Stover Towe and
brother-in-law Edward J. Towe of Gainesville, Hazel Stover Anderson and
brother-in-law,
Gary F. Anderson of Lula, Olene Stover Dyer and with a host of nieces,
nephews
and great nieces and nephews. She will
be greatly missed by her family, friends, and loved ones.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 2 PM at the Northside
Family
Worship Center on Cleveland Highway in Gainesville with Rev. Gary
Olsten, Rev.
Dennis Taylor and Rev. Tommy Towe officiating.
Interment followed in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Memorial
Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial Park Road, Gainesville, GA 30504 in
charge of
arrangements. Send online condolences to
www.Memorialparkfuneralhomes.com
Mountain
View Funeral Home of Blairsville brings this notice as a courtesy to
the
family.
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Mrs.
Hazel Louise Holbrooks, age 78, of Holbrooks Road, Blairsville, passed
away on
Saturday, May 1, 2010 in the Union General Hospital following an
extended illness. Mrs. Holbrooks was born
on Oct. 20, 1931 in
Union County, the daughter of the late Ben Thomas and the late Maude
Brown
Thomas. Hazel loved to work with her
flowers, gardening and canning. She was
a loving mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was preceeded (sic) in death by her
husband, Arvie Holbrooks, a son, Jerry Holbrooks, a daughter, Joan
Elaine
Holbrooks, a granddaughter, Jennifer Lynn Holbrooks and a son-in-law,
Jerry R.
Seabolt. Mrs. Holbrooks was of the
Baptist faith.
Surviving Mrs.
Holbrooks are seven children, Frankie Mae Seabolt of Blairsville, mark
and
Annie Holbrooks of Blairsville, Lynn and Pam Holbrooks of Blairsville,
Janet
and Danny Stephens of Blairsville, Susie King of Blairsville, Johnny
and Sarah
Holbrooks of Blairsville, Tommy and Tracy Holbrooks of Blarisville
(sic) two
sisters, Maggie Nelson of Blairsville land Lula Payne of Blairsville,
twenty-two grandchildren, Roger, Steven, Evelyn, Tina, Arlis, Wesley,
Amanda,
Mendy, Nathan, Joni, Margaret, Amy, Becky, Carrie, Alicia, Brittany,
Robin,
Curtis, Mike, Kayla, Josh and Hannah, eighteen great-grandchildren,
many other
children and grandchildren not born of blood but of love, as well as
many other
relatives and friends also survive.
Funeral
services were held on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 2 p.m. from the Mountain
View
Chapel with the Rev. Waymon Lovell, Rev. Jimmy Tanner and Rev. Kevin
(Keith)
Collins. The following gentlemen served
as pallbearers, Wesley, Nathan and Josh Holbrooks, Curtis Stephens,
Mike King,
Steve, Arlis and Roger Seabolt. All
grandsons-in-law served as honorary pallbearers. Special
music was presented by New Liberty Baptist
Church and Brittany Holbrooks. Interment
followed in the Hamony (sic) Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family met with friends at the funeral
home on Monday evening after 6 p.m.
Mountain
View Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com.
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Mrs.
Mona Elizabeth Tritt, age 84, of Suches, GA died May 1, 2010 at Gold
City
Convalescent Center.
Mrs.
Tritt was born in Dawson County, GA June 30, 1925.
She had lived in Suches for the past 50 years
and was a former resident of Lumpkin County.
She was a homemaker and was a member of Pleasant Valley Baptist
Church
in Union County.
She was the
daughter of the late William and Flora Anderson Ralston and was also
preceded
in death by her husband, Grady Tritt, and a great-great-grandchild,
Caleb
Duchaine.
Mrs.
Tritt is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Bobby
Tritt, Dahlonega, GA, Tony Tritt, Dahlonega, GA, Dean Tritt,
Gainesville, GA,
Marvin and Susie Tritt, Dahlonega, GA, Tommy and Kim Tritt, Dahlonega,
GA;
daughter, Teresa Tritt, Dawsonville, GA; sisters, Mary Johnston,
Austell, GA,
Elsie DenDekker, Lavonia, Michigan; brothers, Clarence Ralston,
Boulder, Colorado,
and William Ralston, Smyrna, GA; 17 grandchildren, 29
great-grandchildren, 2
great-great-grandchildren, and a large number of other relatives also
survive.
Funeral
services for Mrs. Tritt scheduled for 2 PM Tuesday, may
4, 2010 at the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Dahlonega.
Rev. Michael Rodgers and
Rev. William Phillips officiating.
Interment in the Concord Baptist Church
Cemetery in Dahlonega.
The
family received friends at the funeral home on Monday
from 2 PM until 4 PM and from 6 PM until 9 PM.
Banister
Funeral Home of Dahlonega is in charge of the arrangements.