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Deaths
Obituaries in The
Summerville News
are published free
of charge. There is
no charge to either
the funeral home
or the family of the
deceased.
Rosia Cagle
Trion Baptist
Dies February 15, 2000
Mrs. Rosia R. Cagle, 93,
Garden Court South, Rome, for
merly of Trion, died Tuesday in
a Rome hospital.
Mrs. Cagle was born in
Chattooga County on July 5,
1906, daughter of the late John
M. and Emma Gilreath Richard
son.
Her husband Willie D. Cagle
died earlier. She was a member
of the Trion First Baptist Church.
Surviving are a daughter,
Hildred C. T%xompson. Rome;
granddaughter, Emily Palmer,
Mt. Dora, Fla.; two grandsons,
Carl Thompson, Sharpsburg and
David Thompson, Douglasville;
three grandchildren, six great
grandchildren, and one-great
great-granddaughter.
Funeral services will be held
at 11a.m. today at the Trion First
Baptist Church with Dr. Warren
Moorehead officiating. Inter
ment will be in West Hill Cem
etery.
Active pallbearers will be
Carl Thompson, David Thomp
son, Joel Thompson, Josh 'l‘E
ompson, Jerry Richardson,
Johnny Richardson, John B.
Gilreath, Larry Shaw and Gene
Cagle.
Honorary pallbearers will
be members of the Sunday
School Class and Women's Mis
sionary Union at Trion First Bap
tist Church.
The family suggested that
contributions be macfe to Grace’s
House, Cave Spring.
J. D. Hill Funeral, Summer
ville, had charge of arrange
ments.
Judith Childers
Trion Native
Dies February 8, 2000
Judith Wilkerson Childers,
Sterling Heights, Mich., died on
Wednesday, Feb. 9. at Beaumont
Hospital, Gray, Mich. She was
born on Aug. 11, 1942 in Trion,
daughter of Mildred Lane
Wilkerson and the late Russell
“Shorty” Wilkerson. She was a
member of Mountain View Bap
tist Church.
Surviving are her widower,
Bill Childers; two sons, Eddie
Wa‘yne Childers and Jerry
Childers; one daughter, Tammy
Harrison; four firandsons and
two granddau%\ ters; mother,
Mildred L. Wilkerson and two
sisters, Doris Purcell, Trion and
Mary Fuller, Rome.
Mrs. Childers was retired
from Ford Motor Company.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, at 10:00 a.m. at the
Diener Funeral Home, Utica,
Mich. with the Rev. Herbert
Harbaugh officiating. Burial was
in the Cadillac Memorial Gar
dens, Utica.
Active pallbearers were Paul
Purcell, Jerry Fuller, Bobby
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Lewis Crye
War Veteran
Dies February 10, 2000
Lewis H. Crye, 81,
Jamestown, Ala. died Thursday
evening, Feb. 10 in Cherokee
Baptist Medical Center, Centre.
Mr. Crye was born on Feb.
28, 1918 in Jamestown, son of
the late James Scott and Willie
Lewis Crye. He was a veteran of
World War 11, a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
6688, American Legion 160, and
had worked at Best Manufactur
ing.
Brothers, Greeley Crye and
Owens Crye, two sisters, Clara
Palmer and Zelma Moseley, all
died earlier.
Survivors are his widow
Vera Hall Crye; daughter, Ellen
Martin, Menlo; two sisters, Ruth
Crye, Live Oak, Fla., Willie Sue
Perry, Miami, Fla.; and one
brother, Johnie Crye, Alburn, 111.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, 2000
at Mason Funeral Home with the
Rev. Tommy Pledger officiating.
Interment was in Moseley Cem
etery.
Active pallbearers were
Sammy Frazier, Dennis Bentley,
Larry Hallman, Jimmy Tucker,
William Moseley, and Guthrie
Frazier.
Mason Funeral Home,
Summerville had charge of the
funeral arrangements.
James Dodson
World War I 1
Dies February 12, 2000
James Riley “Bud” Dodson,
79, LaFayette, died Saturday in
Hutcheson Medical Center, Fort
Oglethorpe.
His wife Juanita Lou Smith
Dodson died on Feb. 1. He was a
veteran of World War II and a
Baptist.
Survivors include a daugh
ter, Sylvia Ann Harris,
LaFayette; two sons, James C.
Dodson and Thomas Gary
Dodson, LaFayette; five sisters,
Violet Naves, Betty Busby and
Svlvia Christol, LaFayette,
Lorene Turnipseed, Rock Spring
and Katherine Shurm, Soddy-
Daisy, Tenn., one brother, Larry
Dodson, LaFayette; eight grand
children; several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 3 p.m. on Monday at Wallis
Memorial Chapel with the Revs.
Vinson Cook and Bobby Staton
officiating. Graveside services
were condgflcted by the LaFayette
High School JROTC. Interment
was in LaFayette Memory Gar
dens.
Pallbearers were grandsons
and nephews.
Arrangements were
handled by Wallis-Wilbanks Fu
neral Home, LaFayette.
Harry Farrow
World War II Veteran
Dies February 10, 2000
Har? R. Farrow Sr., 79, Ly
erly, died Thursday, Feb. 10 at
Oa{( View Nursing and Rehabili
tation Center, Summerville.
Mr. Farrow was born in
Gadsden, on Jan. 9, 1921, son of
the late Albert and Nellie Rag
land Farrow. He was a veteran of
the U.S. Army, serving during
World War 11. He was a member
of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
6688. Mr. Farrow retired after
50 years of service from Riegel
Textile Corp./Mount Vernon
Mills Inc. where he was purchas
ing manager.
His wife Frances Lorraine
Busbin Farrow died on Nov. 5,
1984.
Surviving are three sons,
Dennis Farrow, Atlanta, Pete
Farrow, Lyerlg and Bob Farrow,
Summerville; five grandchildren,
two great-grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Ly
erly Umited Methodist Church
with the Rev. Tom Martin offici
ating. Interment was in Lyerly
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Lester Simmerville, Jeff Wilson,
Don Taylor, Bill Ramse{,] Larry
Weesner and Jerry Strickland.
Honorary Pz:?l'bearers were
B. Powell, Martha Strickland,
Bea Posey and Myrtis Brown.
J. D. Hill Funeral Home had
charge of arrangements.
Maebell Griffith
Second Hired
Dies February 12, 2000
Mrs. Maebell Willinsham
Griffith, 83, of Menlo, died Sat
urday in Dahlonega.
Mrs. Griffith, a native of
Chattooga County, was born to
the late Luther and Inez
Chapplear Willingham on Nov.
19, 1916. She was a member of
Menlo First Batptist Church.
Mrs. Griftith was retired,
after many years of service, from
the sewing department of Best
Manufacturing Co., where she
was the second person hired
when the mill first opened.
Her husband Harvey Lee
Griffith, son Hershel L. Griffith
and sister Katherine Hartline, all
died earlier.
Survivors include a son and
daughter-in-law, GeorFe H.and
Pat Griffith, Dawsonville; daugh
ter-in-law, Jean Griffith,
Cloudland; one sister, Thelma
Espy, Menlo; one brother, Jun
ior Willingham, Menlo; grand
children, Mark Griffith
Cloudland, Michael and
Machelle Griffith, Cumming and
Kimberly Calvert, Oakwood;
three great-grandchildren, two
great-great-grandchildren, sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 11 a.m. on Monday at the
Chapel of J. D. Hill Funeral
Home with the Rev. Billy
Dempsey officiating. Interment
was in Ami Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Randy Willingham, Sammy Fra
zier, Tim Willingham, Gary Will
ingham, Michael Griffi% and
Mark Griffith. Honorary pall
bearers were Bud Sumner, J. T.
Copeland, George “Shug” Welch,
Lee Toles and l-%ill Hall.
Mildred Hardy
Trion Sisters
Dies February 13, 2000
Mildred Virginia Hardy, 78,
Autaugaville, Ala., died Sunday.
Funeral services were herd
on Tuesday at 2 g.m. at Ridout’s
Prattville, Ala. Chapel with Min
ister Raymond Elliott officiating.
Burial was in Rocky Hill Cem
etery, Autaugaville.
Survivors include her wid
ower, William R. Hardy,
Autaugaville; three sons and
daughters-in-law, David and
Martha Hardy, Autaugaville,
Philip and Donna ’lsurner,
Albertville, Ala. and Bill Hardy,
Autaugaville; one daughter and
son-in-law, Rena and Neal
Davis, Prattville; two grandsons,
David Hardy Jr. and wife Kim
berly, Autaugaville; and Phil‘iip
Turner of Rome; two grand
daughters, Dawn Hardy,
Autaugaville and Robyn Jackson
and husband Andy, Adairsville;
two great-granddaughters, Tay-
lor Jackson and Kaylon Lacy
Hard{l; two sisters, Mary Lowery
and Hilda McWhorter, Trion;
sister-in-law, Eva Hardy, Atlanta
and nieces and nephews. '
Rathleen Jones
From Trion
Dies February 12, 2000
Mrs. Kathleen Giles Jones,
83, Winthrop Court, Rome, for
merly of Cooper Drive, Rome,
died Saturday morning in a
Rome hospital.
Mrs. Jones was born in
Trion on Oct. 20, 1916, daughter
of the late Thomas E. Giles Sr.
and Pearl Lanier Giles. She had
been a resident of Rome most of
her life. She was a member of the
first Baptist Church, Rome.
Survivors include her wid
ower, J. Forrest Jones, to whom
she was married on June 18,
1938; a daughter, Sarah
Kathleen Forehand 111, Boone,
N. C.; grandson Henry Cecil
Forehand IV, Wilmington, N.C.;
granddaughter, Kathleen F. Hall,
Fairbanks, Alaska; sister Sarah
Frances Mobbs, Lawrenceburg,
Tenn.; two brothers, Thomas E.
Giles Jr., Snellville and James C.
Giles, Summerville, and several
nieces and neé)hews.
Graveside services were
held at 4 p.m. Monday at the
LaFayette City Cemetery with
the Rev. William S. Davies offi
ciating.
Daniel’s Funeral Home,
Rome, had charge of arrange
ments.
Joe London
Former Resident
Dies February 10, 2000
Joe Charles London, Fort
Mfiers, Fla. formerly of Summer
ville, died Thursday, Feb. 10, in
Fort Myers.
He was a member of West
Fifth Street church of Christ,
Summerville.
Survivors are one daughter
and son-in-law, Melitha Sue and
Anthony Bullock, Marietta; two
granddaughters, Andrea and
Alexis Bullock, Marietta; four sis
ters, Mrs. Melika Abdullah, Mrs.
Pearl Baker, Mrs. Linda Faye
Perry, Patterson; N.J. and Mrs.
Edna L. McCleod, Ozark, Ala.;
four brothers, Arthur Charles
London, Gregory Lamar London
and Larrfi' London, Summerville
and Mark Anthony London, Dal
ton; aunts and uncles, Mrs.
Helen Turner, Summerville;
Mrs. Etta Jean “Ora” Tate,
Patterson, N.J., Tony London,
Rome, Houston London, Sum
merville and George
McCutchins, Trion; nieces,
nephews, cousins and other rela-
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Funeral services were held
Saturday at 2 p.m. at West Fifth
Street cfilurch of Christ, 24 West
Fifth Street, Summerville, with
Minister John Lewis, Minister J.
J. Bankston and others officiat
ing. Interment was in Summer
vifie Cemetery.
Funeral arrarll:gements were
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Tom Mahaffey
" Former OCC Member
Dies February 9, 2000
Tom Morrison Mahaffey,
85, Taylor Street, Summerville,
died {Vednesda{, Feb. 9 at
Redmond Regional Medical Cen
ter.
He was born on Aug. 5, 1914
in Chattooga County, son of the
late Terry Morrison and Julia
Davis M:';{\affey.
Mr. Mahaffey was retired
from Riegel Textile Corp./Mount
Vernon Mills Inc. He also was a
farmer and a member of Horizon
Baptist Fellowship.
He joined the Civilian Con
servation Corps (CCC) in 1935.
The CCC was a Degression-era
program created by the
Roosevelt Administration to pro
vide jobs to men who were out of
work due to the economic con
dition of the nation. It was super
vised by Frances Perkins, De
?anment of Labor secretary, the
irst woman to serve in a presi
dential cabinet.
CCC members were paid
S3O monthl{" with $25 of that
amount sent home to their fami
lies, leaving the workers $5. They
resided in barracks and fed by
the federal government.
The CCC built bridges,
roads, parks, planted hillsides of
trees, restored farmland and
fought forest fires.
After a few months, Mr.
Mahaffey was promoted to the
Forest and Machinery Depart
ment, where he served until
March, 1940, when he left.
He and Susie Lorene
Scoggins were married on Dec.
22,1939. They resided with her
mother, Emma Scoggins on the
family farm, where tfiee enera
tions of children hag been
reared.
Mr. Mahaffey farmed for 10
years and in the winter, he and
Paul Scoggins, his wife’s brother,
worked together cutting timber
for Tom Manis, Lawrence
Scoggins and the White Broth
ers,fil of Subligna.
After a back injury left him
unable to perform heavy work,
he became an air-com?;tioner
engineer on the third shift at
Riegel Textile Corp. (now Mount
Vernon Mills Incrg Trion. He re
mained there until a heart con
dition forced his retirement.
He and his widow were mar-
Marci and Bill Wright did not come to us for a loan.
They came to us for a baby.
ried for 60 years.
Survivors include his
widow, a brother, James A.
Mahaffey, Dallas; three sisters,
Annie Lee Cook, LaFayette, Lula
Martin, Summerville, and Mar
tha Galt, Kennesaw; nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 2 g.m. Friday at Horizon Bap
tist Fellowship with the Revs.
Roger McDonald and Roger
Keith officiating. Interment was
in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
John Martin, David Mahaffey
Faribourz Bastanfiour, Ted
Scogi‘ins, Mike Cook and Gar
land Fitzpatrick.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the Adult Sunday
School class of Horizon Baptist
fellowship.
Mason Funeral Home,
Summerville, had charge of ar
rangements.
Jane Meacham
Doctor’s Wife
Dies February 15, 2000
Mrs. Jane Stephenson
Meacham, 66, Allen Street, Sum
merville, died Tuesday in a Rome
hospital.
Mrs. Meacham was born in
Chattooga Coumz on Jan. 22,
1934 daughter of the late Charles
Clifford Stephenson Sr. and the
late Evelyn Kellett Steghenson.
She was a member of Summer
ville First Baptist Church.
Sister Betty Rivers Dobbs
and brother C{arles Clifford
Stephenson Jr. both died earlier.
Surviving are her widower,
Dr. Jack R. Meacham; three
daughters, Jenny Weaver,
Chatsworth, Beth Cavin, Sum
merville and Stephanie Norton,
Summerville; three grandchil
dren, Paul Cavin, Rachel Cavin
and Savannah Weaver; and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of
J. D. Hill Funeral Home with the
Revs. Hugh Canterberry and
Roger McDonald officiating. In
terment will be in Summerville
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be
Don Groce, Billy Petitt, O. G.
Morehead, Jim Meredith and
Wayne Groce, Kenneth Wa{;ne
Stec{)henson, Charles Joel Dobbs
and Rodney Dee Vice. Honorary
pallbearers will be members of
the Dorcas Sunday School Class
and Seakers Sunday School Class
of Summerville First Baptist
Church, Mary Ann Hengrix,
Margie Quarles, Dr. Herman E.
Spivey Jr., Dr. Hugh Goodwin,
Dr. Gary L. Smith Sr. and Dr.
Rebecca Couey.
4.D. Pledger
Central Baptist Member
Dies February 10, 2000
J. D. Pledger, 79, Gray
Street, Trion diecf’l’hursday, Feb.
10 in Dalton.
Mr. Pledger, a native of
Chattooga County, was born to
the late Dayton and Lila Edwards
Pledger on Sept. 21,1920. He was
a member of Central Avenue
Baptist Church and was retired
from the cloth room of Riegel
Textile Corp. and Mount Vernon
Mills Inc.
Surviving are his widow
Louise Spralnében'%'_ Pledger; two
daughters, Karen Turner, Dalton
and Jenith Strickland, Chatta
nooga; four grandchildren, Beth
Bean, Trion, Amf' Miller and
Ashley Arnold, Dalton and Mat
thew Strickland Sr., Chatta
nooga; three great—fi:‘landchil
dren, Matthew Strickland Jr.,
Chelsea Arnold and Laura Bean;
two sons-in-law, Kenneth
Strickland, Chattanooga and
Leon D. Arnold, Dalton and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at 11 a.m. at the J. D.
Hill Funeral Home chagel with
the Revs. Willie Bearden and
Bud Davis officiating. Interment
was in West Hill Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Frank Trammell, Scott Miller,
Tony Bean, David Young, Kermit
Roberson and Nick Rogerson.
Bertha Smith
Oak View Retiree
Dies February 10, 2000
Bertha Smith, 86, Mont
fiomery Street, Summerville,
ied away Thursday, Feb. 10 in
a Cartersville, hospital.
Mrs. Smith was born in
Cleveland, Tenn. on Feb. 13,
1913, daughter of the late Mack
and Mary Etta Overbel Bryson.
She was a member of Belmont
Baptist Church, Summerville.
She was retired from Oak View
Nursing Home.
Her husband John B.
Smith, and Leroy Sumner, both
died earlier.
Surviving are her daughter,
Opal McMurrain, Douglasville;
son, Randall Sumner, Dallas; two
sisters, Carrie Majors, Menlo,
and Josephine Caudell, Powder
Springs; seven frandchildren, 12
great-grandchildren, nine great
great-grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the chapel
of J. D. Hill Funeral Home with
Rev. Harley Reynolds officiating.
Interment was in Macedonia
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Tim
York, Dillard Bailey, Eddie Ma
jors, Jamie Cooper, Chris Will-
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Honorary pallbearers were
staff members of Oak View Nurs
in% and Rehabilitation Center
and the women of Belmont Bap
tist Church.
Aubrey Swords
Local Kin
Dies February 8, 2000
Aubrey L. Swords, 81, Adel,
died Tuesday, Feb. 8, in
Homerville.
Mr. Swords was born on
July 27, 1918, in Cook County,
son of the late Emmett and
Verdie Weeks Swords. Son Sam
Swords died earlier.
Survivors include his widow
Annie Swords, Adel; five sons,
Raymond Swords, Summerville,
Ronnie Swords and Sid Swords,
Menlo, Brian Swords, Atlanta
and David Swords, Adel; two
daughters, Carol Swords, Menlo
and Carol Moore, Sidney, Ark.;
11 grandchildren and five great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
on Friday, Feb. 11, in the chapel
of Boone-Lipsey Funeral Home.
Interment was in the Woodlawn
Cemetery Annex, Adel.
Vernon Thompson
Former Lt. Colonel
Dies February 11, 2000
Vernon C. Thompson, 80,
Garden Court South, Rome, for
merly of Trion, died Friday in
Cave Spring.
Mr. Thompson was born in
Chattooga County on Dec. 1,
1919, son of the late O. C. and
Mattie Tinney Thom}gson. He
was a member of the First Bap
tist Church, Rome, and a lieuten
ant colonel (Ret.) in the U. S. Air
Force. He served in World War
IT and he was statistician for the
U. S. Department of Energy.
Survivors include his
widow, Hildred Cagle Thomp
son; daughter, Emily Palmer,
Mount Dora, Fla., two sons, Carl
Thompson, Sharpsburg and
David Thompson, Douglasville;
six grandchildren, one great
granddaughter, several nieces
and nephews.
Graveside services were
held at noon on Monday at West
Hill Cemetery with Dr. Joel
Snider and Dr. Bill Davies offici
ating.
Active pallbearers were Carl
Thompson, David Thompson,
Josh Thompson, Joel Thomp
son, Brad Palmer and Larry
Shaw. Honorary pallbearers
were Chester Thompson, Spen
cer Thompson, Glen Thompson,
V. C. Thompson, Al Leonard,
David Fussel?, Chance New, Jim
Clark and John B. Gilreath.
J. D. Hill Funeral Home had
charge of arrangements.
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