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Mr.
George R.
Wrigley, age 94, of Blairsville, Georgia, passed away Thursday, June
16, 2011,
in Union General Hospital in Blairsville.
George
Robert
Wrigley was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on May 22, 1917. He
had eight siblings and suffered the loss of
both parents early in his life. After
finishing high school, he joined the United States Navy, which he
proudly
served for 24 years. The Navy had a
strong influence on him and he became one of a small number of enlisted
men to
become a Navy pilot, instilling in him a life-long love of flying. The Navy stationed George in many parts of the
US and Pacific Rim, including China in the late 1930s and Midway Island
in the
1950s, and served on several warships, including the USS Texas. He instructed new fliers during World War II
and among his numerous commendations and badges, received a Navy Unit
Citation
for his Korean War Service. He learned to fly fixed-wing aircraft and
helicopters. He eventually rose to the
rank of Lieutenant before retiring in 1960. After
his Navy service, George worked for the
Federal Aviation Administration in several capacities, including flight
inspector.
His
second career in
the FAA brought him to the Atlanta area, from where they discovered the
mountains of Union County. After 17
years, George and his wife Betty retired to Union County, where they
lived on
Buzzard's Roost Ridge for 26 delightful years. He
loved to laugh but even more loved to make
others laugh, even as his health declined during the last year. Friends recall his cheerfulness, sharp mind
and unfailing wit. He took great pride
in his Navy service, his marriage of 58 years, three children and four
grandchildren. He taught his sons to
fish. He delighted in sharing stories of
his Navy days, stories which revealed he knew his life was charmed and
blessed.
In his last year due to the kindness of
friends and strangers he was able to enjoy flying and fishing again,
two of his
great passions. Mr. Wrigley was a member
of First Baptist Church of Blairsville.
George had been preceded in death by his parents, and all eight
brothers
and sisters.
George
Wrigley was
greatly loved, and will be missed by everyone who knew him; but
especially his
family: Betty Wrigley, of Blairsville; son and daughter-in-law, Greg
and
Claudia Wrigley, of Frazier's Bottom, West Virginia; son and
daughter-in-law,
Kevin and Tammy Wrigley, of Pilot Point, Texas; and son and
daughter-in-law,
Steve and Lynne Wrigley, of Bogart, Georgia; four grandchildren: Sarah
Jett,
Stephanie Wrigley, Anna Wrigley, and Adam Wrigley.
Funeral
services were
held on Monday, June 20, 2011, at 1 p.m., in the Chapel of Cochran
Funeral Home
of Blairsville, with Dr. Fred Lodge, Rev. Danny Parris, and Rev. Bethel
Buchanan officiating. The family
specially selected music which was presented by Minister of Music R.
Terry
Hooper. Visitation was held at the
funeral home on Monday morning, starting at 11 a.m., before the funeral
started
at 1 p.m. If you wish to do so, memorial
contributions may be made to First Baptist Church of Blairsville, Youth
Missions Fund, P.O. Box 2058, Blairsville, GA 30514.
Arrangements
have
been entrusted to Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville. Please visit our
website
at www.cochranfuneralhomes.com, to send condolences to the family and
share
fond memories.
GEORGE R. WRIGLEY
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Mrs.
Marie Fisher,
Mame to her many friends, passed away at Union General Hospital in
Blairsville,
GA., on Sunday, June 12, 2011 after a long fight with Emphysema. She
was 74
years old. Mrs. Fisher was born on
August 15, 1936 in New York City, NY, the daughter of the late Andy De
Pienne
and the late Ann Brady. "Mame"
was a model, an artist, a great ballroom dancer and a great cook. She was also a super house keeper. She loved
to write poems, animals, gardening and card playing. Mrs.
Fisher was the loving wife of Bill Fisher
for fifty-seven great years. He loved
her so very much.
Surviving
Marie are
her loving husband, Bill Fisher of Blairsville, daughter and son-in-law
Terri
and Eric Vance of Ocoee, FL; son and future daughter-in-law Gregg
Fisher and
Lou Ann Johnson of Blairsville, GA; three grandchildren Alexander
Vance,
Jessica Anderson and Dustin Fisher; several nieces, nephews and many
other
friends survive.
A
memorial service
will be held at a later date. In lieu of
flowers if you wish, the family requests that donations may be made to
the
Regency Hospice of Hiawassee in memory of Mrs. Fisher.
Mountain
View
Funeral Home of Blairsville is in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com
MARIE FISHER
Courtesy of Mountain View
Funeral Home
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Mr. Bobby
"Frog" Frank Green, age 69 of Blairsville, GA, passed away June 10,
2011 at the Union General Hospital in Blairsville, GA. Mr.
Green was born in Bunkerhill, GA to the
late Willie and Amanda Fleming Green. Baptist
in faith, he was preceded in death by one brother, Medford Green and
one
sister, JoAnn Arms.
Survivors
include
one son, Bobby "Chris" Green and wife Tammy of Blairsville, GA, one
daughter, Vickie Bugel of Kennesaw, GA, one sister, Jenelle Barnett and
husband
Clarence of Peachtree, NC, two grandchildren, Matthew and Kristen Bugel
and
many nieces and nephews.
Funeral
services for
Mr. Green were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 12, 2011 at the Cochran
Funeral Home
in Murphy with the Reverend Aud Brown officiating.
Interment will be in the Hickory Stand United
Methodist Church Cemetery. The gentlemen
serving as pallbearers were Joe Barnett, Glen Barnett, Michael Barnett,
Troy
Dockery, Coy Dockery and Danny Owens.
The
family received
friends from 6-8 p.m. Saturday night at the funeral home.
Arrangements
entrusted to the Cochran Funeral Home of Murphy, NC. You
may send condolences to the family and
sign the guest register at www.cochranfuneralhomes.com
BOBBY FRANK GREEN
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Mr.
Robert Lee
"Bob" Garrison, age 62, of Blairsville, GA passed away early Saturday
morning, June 18, 2011.
Bob was a
native of
Live Oak, FL. He was a Vietnam veteran
and was retired from the U.S. Navy, achieving the rank of Lt.
Commander. Bob was a pilot; a member House
of Prayer
Church, The (sic) Kiwanis Club, and Allegheny Masonic Lodge, #114. He had been preceded in death by his mother,
Sara Lou Childress Garrison.
Bob is
survived by
and will be greatly missed by his loving family: his wife of 40 years,
Sheila
Garrison; his father, Enoch Garrison, Jr.; three children: Josh
Garrison, Micah
Garrison, and Abbey and Ryan Glattli; a sister, Ann Garrison; four
brothers:
Enoch "Gary" Garrison, III and Myra; David Garrison, Paul Garrison,
and Don and Terri Garrison; six grandchildren: Lance Garrison, Emma
Garrison,
Morgan Garrison, Luke Garrison, Madison Glattli, and Ashlyn Glattli;
numerous
nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral
services are
scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, 2011 from the Chapel of the
Cochran
Funeral Home of Blairsville with Rev. Jerry Helton officiating.
Interment will
be in the House of Prayer Cemetery with the North Georgia Honor Guard
and the
U.S. Navy presenting Military Honors. The
family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday evening from 6
until 9
p.m..
Cochran
Funeral Home
of Blairsville in charge of arrangements.
ROBERT LEE GARRISON
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Dillard
Owenby of Otisville, age 79, died
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at Hurley Medical Center.
Funeral services were held at 1 PM
Friday, May 27, 2011, at Hudson Funeral Service, Otisville.
Visitation
was
Thursday from noon – 8 PM at the funeral home.
Burial was in Smith Hill Cemetery.
Dillard
was born June
2, 1931 in Blairsville, GA. Dillard
married Rosa Nix on December 26, 1951 in Georgia. He
retired from Buick Motor Division and
worked for the Flint Journal for 12 years.
Surviving
are his
wife Rosa, 13 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren, 2 great great
grandchildren, 3 brothers and 3 sisters, several nieces and nephews.
He was
preceded in
death by his children Larry, Carol, Rick and Debbie, four brothers and
two
sisters. Contributions may be made to
the family.
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Mrs.
Zillah Sue
Davis, age 71, of Pickelsimer Rd., Blairsville, and also Sunrise, FL,
passed
away peacefully of (sic) Thursday June 16, 2011 from her home in
Blairsville. Sue was born on March 19,
1940 in Winslow, IN,
the daughter of the late Daniel Steel DeJarnett and the late Letha
Florence
Craig DeJarnett. Sue and her husband
owned and operated Central Park Interior Shutters for over fifty years.
They played Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus for
the
Kiwanis in Ft. Lauderdale. She was a
loving wife, mother, sister and grandmother. She
was preceded in death by a daughter,
Debbie Kay Davis in 1963. Mrs.
Davis was a member and former Sunday
School Teacher at St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Ft.
Lauderdale.
Surviving
Mrs. Davis
are her loving husband fifty-three years, Larry Keith Davis of
Blairsville and
Sunrise, FL, two sons and one daughter-in-law, Raymond and Debbie Davis
of
Blairsville, Russell Lee Davis of Blairsville, one brother, Larry Lee
Powers of
Boonville, IN, eleven grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, many
other
relatives and friends also survive.
Funeral
services were
held on Monday, June 20, 2011 at 11 a.m. from the Mountain View Chapel
with the
Rev. Jan Deveraux officiating. Special
music was presented by Dorothy Pickelsimer. The
following gentleman served as pallbearers:
Hank Liebman, Jimmy, Kenneth and Jason Pickelsimer, Grant Pendley and
Anthony
Bohannon. Interment followed in the Old Bethel Methodist Cemetery. The family met with friends at the funeral
home on Sunday evening from 6-8 p.m.
Mountain
View
Funeral Home of Blairsville is in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuenralhome.com
ZILLAH SUE DAVIS
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Mrs.
Plott died on Tuesday, June 14, 2011,
at her home. She was born July 14, 1945,
in Blairsville, Georgia, to Joe and Myrtle Johnson.
Survivors include a son, Jeff Plott
and his fiancé, (sic) Jody, Ada; a special friend of 25 years, Eric
Wiesener;
and 2 brothers, Joe Johnson Jr., Keithsville, Louisiana; and Bo Johnson
and
wife Debbie, Blairsville, Georgia.
In lieu
of flowers,
memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, Team West, c/o West
Sales,
827 Lonnie Abbott Blvd., Ada, OK 74820. Criswell
Funeral Home
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View
Funeral Home of Blairsville presents this obituary as a courtesy to the
family
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Mr. Merle
Darwin
White, age 74, of Greer, South Carolina, formerly of Blairsville,
Georgia,
passed away Monday, June 13, 2011 in South Carolina.
Mr. White
was born
in Ohio, on September 8, 1936, a son of the late Darwin White and
Esther
Waggoner White. Merle moved to
Blairsville from Fort Myers, Florida, had lived in Blairsville for
approximately 10 years before moving to Greer.
He attended House of Prayer Church in Blairsville, and had been
preceded
in death by his first wife, Judy.
He is
survived by
and is lovingly remembered by his wife, Jolyn White; children, Ted
White, of
Greer; Tim and Lory Ann White of Bryson City, North Carolina; and
Teresa White
Hollingsworth, of Clayton, Georgia; step-daughter, Minnissa Ryberg;
brother and
sister-in-law, Harold and Carlene White; sister and brother-in-law,
Ethel and
Duane Brown; brother and sister-in-law, nelson and Billy Ruth White;
grandson
and wife, Ted and Stephanie White, Jr.; granddaughter, Tristan White;
grandson,
Tafton White, grandson and wife, Nathaniel and Amanda Hollingsworth;
granddaughter, Tiphany White; grandson, Jonathan White; great
granddaughters:
Shari White, Izabella White, Bailey White, Melonia White, Natalie
Hollingsworth, and Evangelina White; great grandsons: Blake White, Gage
White,
and Gabriel White.
Funeral
services for
Mr. White were held on Saturday, June 18, 2011, at 11 a.m., in the
House of
Prayer Interdenominational Church, with Rev. Jerry Helton and Rev.
Bobby Jones
officiating. Visitation was held on
Friday, June 17, 2011, at the funeral home, with the family especially
meeting
with friends from the hours of 5 until 7 p.m.
The body was instate at the church starting at 10 a.m. on
Saturday. Burial was in the House of
Prayer Church
Cemetery.
Arrangements
entrusted to Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville. Please
join us in remembering Mr. White by
going to our website at www.cochranfuneralhomes.com and sending
condolences.
MERLE DARWIN WHITE
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dorothy “Dotty” gaylor chilton
Mrs.
Dorothy
"Dotty" Gaylord Chilton, age 74, of Akins Rd., Blairsville formerly
of Gainesville, FL, passed away on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 in the
Union
General Hospital following an extended illness. Mrs.
Chilton was born on March 13, 1937 in Ft.
Myers, FL, the daughter of the late Robert Chilton and the late Dorothy
Leavitt
Chilton. Dotty was a loving mother,
sister, grandmother and great grandmother. Her
life was her family. She had been a Mary
Kay Representative for
several years. Mrs. Chilton was of the
Baptist faith.
Surviving
Mrs.
Chilton are one sister, Evelyn Johnson of Euless, TX, three
grandchildren,
Jessica and Wendall Lee of Blairsville, Brittany Jenkins and Alyssa
Chilton,
five great grandchildren, Chase, Chloe, Nevaeh, Keira and Elaina, many
other
relatives and friends also survive.
A
memorial service was held on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 6 p.m. from the
Mountain
View Chapel with the Gregg Huskins officiating. Dotty’s
favorite hymns were presented for the
service. Interment followed in Maine. In lieu of flowers if you wish, the family
requests that memorials may be made to the Union County Humane Society
in
memory of Mrs. Chilton. The family met
with friends at the funeral home on Friday evening from 5-6 p.m.
Mountain
View
Funeral Home of Blairsville is in charge of the arrangements. You may sign the family guest book and send
condolences on line at www.mountainviewfuneralhome.com
DOROTHY GAYLOR CHILTON
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James
Hayward
Justus, age 80 of Blairsville, passed away Saturday, June 18, 2011 at
his home.
Mr. Justus was born November 16, 1930 in
Jefferson, GA to Benjamin and Lillie Mathis Justus. He
had lived in Blairsville for the past 4
years, moving here from Carnesville, GA. Mr. Justus had lived in
Buford, GA for
most of his life and had worked for General Motors.
Survivors
include
his wife, Gwen Justus, daughter, Sharon Dudley and her husband, Randy
of
Carnesville, GA, daughter, Lynn Montgomery of Blairsville, daughter,
Elizabeth
Thomason and her husband, Tim of Round Rock, TX, sister, Ethel Puckett
of
Buford, GA, sister, Lorene Franklin and her husband, Felton, of Daculs,
(sic)
GA, sister, Ann Morgan and her husband, Bobby, of Buford, GA,
sister-in-law,
Pat Samples of Dahlonega, GA, sister-in-law, Margaret Pye of
Blairsville and
sister-in-law, Joyce Tumlin and her husband, Wayne, of Blue Ridge, GA. He is also survived by 14 grandchildren; Jason
Dudley and his wife, Tresa, Julie Hall and her husband, Sam, Leshay
Acy, Ashley
Richardson and her husband, Alec, Andrew Powers, Ayanna Ramson, Alyssia
Ramson,
Lessie Montgomery, Aaliyah Ramson, John Denny, Lauren Thomason, Aiden
Thomason,
Kayla Thomason and Leium Thomason and 4 great grandchildren; Jessica
Dudley,
David Thomason, Heather Davis and Hunter Dudley.
Funeral
services
were held on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Cochran Funeral
Home with
the Rev. Jerry Helton officiating. Interment
was in Union Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Cochran
Funeral Home
of Blairsville in charge of arrangements.