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Stella
Berry Hemphill, age 90, of Blairsville passed away Wednesday, June 25,
1997 in
the Union County Nursing Home.
Mrs.
Hemphill was born in Union County on April 8, 1907, a
daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. T.N. Berry.
She grew up in Blairsville, graduated from Blairsville
Collegiate
Institute, and, in 1924 graduated from Young Harris College. She later graduated from the University of
Chattanooga. Mrs. Hemphill taught school
in Union County and in Chattanooga, Tennessee for forty years.
Mrs.
Hemphill was a member of the Grace Bible Class and the Highland Park
Baptist
Church. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Claude Hemphill; brother, Ferd Berry; and sisters, Eula Berry
McCall
and Bessie Berry Rector.
Survivors include:
her son and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth and Claude Hemphill, Jr. of
Blairsville,
GA; grandson, J. Claude Hemphill III of San Francisco, CA;
granddaughter,
Elizabeth Ann Hemphill of San Jose, GA; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral
services were held Friday, June 27, 1997 at 1 p.m. from the Chapel of
Cochran
Funeral Home with Rev. Bob Circeo officiating.
Music was provided by Leslie Hughes and Melissa Henson. Pallbearers were John Berry, C.R. Collins,
Leon Colwell, Dale Elliott, James McCall, and Ernest Martin. Interment was in the Blairsville Cemetery.
Cochran
Funeral Home of Blairsville in charge of
arrangements.
The
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“Preacher
Wade’s Wife”
Mrs.
Jesse
Wade, age 91, of Blairsville, GEORgia, passed away Saturday, June 21,
1997. Mrs. Wade was born in Calhoun,
Georgia, on June 6, 1906, the daughter of Thomas and Jenny Tate. She married Rev. John C. Wade on November 17,
1923. They moved to Blairsville in 1933
where she supported her husband with his ministry for fifty three years. They built a log cabin on Mulkey gap Road,
which is one of the oldest still standing in the Blairsville are (sic). She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church and The eastern Star. Mrs. Jessie
was known for her quilting, church activities, her sense of humor, but
most of
all people knew her a (sic) “Preacher Wade’s Wife.”
She was
preceded in death by her husband, Rev. John C. Wade,
who pastured over 20 different churches in the area, and her daughter
Johnnie
Mae Wade. Survivors include a son, Doyle
Wade, of Blairsville; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Curlis of Batavia, Ohio;
six
grandchildren; James Allen Cook, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Sharon Korte of
Augusta,
Georgia; Sandra West of Tyrone, Georgia, Cindi Sparks, of Blairsville;
Larry
Curlis of Missouri City, Texas; and Karen Harman of Carrollton,
Georgia; ten
great grand children (sic)
and two great great grandchildren also survive.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday, June 25, 1997 from the Chapel of Cochran
Funeral
Home in Blairsville with Rev. Horace Potts and Rev. Earl Bishop
officiating. Music was provided by Sarah
Kelley, Susie
Phillips and Louise Delong. The
following gentlemen served as pallbearers:
James Cook, Larry Curlis, Michael Kelley, Steven Cook, Richard
Kelley,
Shawn Korte, and Andrew Sparks.
Interment
was in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church cemetery
under the direction of Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville.
The
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Ms. Edith
Lillian Evans, age 71, of 1146 Wesley Mountain Drive, Blairsville,
Georgia,
passed away June 29, 1997 at Gateway Health Care Center, Cleveland, GA,
after
an extended illness.
Mrs.
Evans was a nurse during WWII and a clerk for the F.W.
Woolworth Co. for many years.
Survivors
include Amy Neece, granddaughter, Gainesville,
GA.; granddaughter Melinda Carney, Mai-Adi, Egypt; Grandsons, Keith
Evans,
Blairsville, GA; Scot Evans, Vermont; and six great granddaughter all
of
Gainesville, GA.
Graveside
services were held at the George Washington memorial Park,
Philadelphia, PA, at
a later date. Interment was in the
George Washington Memorial Park, Philadelphia, PA.
Strickland
Funeral Home of Clermont in charge of the services.