Clarke Co. GA - Obits from the Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald 7 Nov 1998
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Ruby Nell Bruce
Canon
Ruby Nell Bruce, 66, of 3924 Airline-Goldmine Road died Friday,
Nov. 6, 1998.
A native of Franklin County, Mrs. Bruce was a daughter of the late
James and Reba Mae Garner Carter. She was a homemaker and of the
Baptist faith.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Pruitte Funeral Home, Royston,
with the Revs. Dan Bailey and Gary McWhorter officiating. Burial will
be in Bowers Memorial Garden.
Survivors include her husband, Herman L. Bruce; two daughters, Ruby
Joyce Garrett and Debra Lynn Robertson, both of Canon; two sons, Ricky
Lee Bruce, Hartwell, and Michael Scott Bruce, Canon; six sisters,
Annie Bell Hudson, Linda Fowler and Vicki Beard, all of Canon, Mary
Sue Allen and Wanda Carey, both of Royston, and Peggy Gunter,
Townsville, S.C.; four brothers, Durham Carter, Tom Carter, Will
Carter and Roy Lee Carter, all of Canon; three grandchildren and a
great-grandchild.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends 7-9 p.m.
today at the funeral home.
Mozell Dye
Winder
Mozell Dell Dye died Friday, Nov. 6, 1998.
Mrs. Dye was a daughter of the late John and Gertrude Phigpen and
was the widow of the late Hardy Dye. She was a housewife and of the
Methodist faith.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Smith Funeral Home with the
Revs. Jim Stephens and Joe Bennett officiating. Burial will be in
Barrow Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include three daughters, Naomi Fortson, Hull, Shirley Ann
Armour, Washington, and Marion Nix, Lexington; two sons, Wayne Dye,
Wren, and Arln Dyd, Leesburg, Fla.; 25 grandchildren and 28
great-grandchildren.
Lula Belle Eberheart
Athens
Lula Belle "Aunt Lue" Eberheart, 90, of 242 Pittard Road died
Thursday, Nov. 5, 1998.
A native of Wilkes County, Mrs. Eberheart was a daughter of the
late Nas and Cora Bryant Welborn.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at New Grove Baptist Church,
Winterville, with the Rev. Dr. James Washington Jr. officiating. The
body will be placed in the church at 1:30 p.m. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Survivors include two sons, Johnny Lee Flint and Robert Lewis Flint
Sr., both of Athens; a foster son, Brant Cooper, Athens; two
grandchildren raised in the home, Darlene Faust and Robert Flint Jr.;
four other grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and nieces and
nephews.
The family is at the home of Darlene Faust, 246 Pittard Road.
Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Erastus H. Jordan
Maysville
Erastus H. Jordan, 80, of 71 Donahoo Road died Friday, Nov. 6,
1998.
A native of Jackson County, born Dec. 1, 1917, Mr. Jordan was a son
of the late Gordan and Delia Parson Jordan. He was retired from
Harmony Grove Mills and a member of Riverside Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, 1998, at Little-Ward
Funeral Home, Commerce, with the Rev. Hulon Hill officiating. Burial
will be in Jackson Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include his wife, Mildred Doss Jordan; two daughters and
sons-in-law, Melodee and Pat Hall and Polly and Hillyer Godfrey, all
of Maysville; a son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Linda Jordan,
Maysville; two sisters, Clammie Lyle, Commerce, and Annie Mae Griffin,
Cleveland; two brothers, Marvin Jordan, Maysville, and R.L. Jordan,
Commerce; and four grandchildren, Keith Hall, Commerce, Kyle Hall and
Marie Godfrey, both of Maysville, and Michelle Madden, Cartersville.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends 2-4 and 7-9
p.m. today at the funeral home.
Dorothy McDonald
Comer
Dorothy Mae Wright McDonald, 57, of 1959 Comer Road died Friday,
Nov. 6, 1998.
A native of Arkansas, Mrs. McDonald was a daughter of the late
Johnny Cecil and Wilma Wright and was the widow of Paul McDonald. She
was a housewife and a member of Collier Baptist Church.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Collier Baptist Church with
the Revs. John Parker and Daniel Corbet officiating. Burial will be in
the church cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Deborah Johns and Paula Brown,
both of Comer; six sisters, Estell Ebarb, Elsie Wright, Rudell Malone,
Stella Wright and Charlene Sirman, all of Shreveport, La., and Sue
Caraway, California; seven brothers, Floyd Wright and James Wright,
both of Keithville, La., and Bud Wright, Lash Wright, Joe Wright, Dude
Wright and Albert Wright, all of Shreveport, La.; five grandchildren
and nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at Bernstein Funeral
Home, Athens.
Lila Segars
Hartwell
Lila Dunn Allen Segars, 80, of 779 Greenway Upholstery Road died
Friday, Nov. 6, 1998.
A native of Hart County, Mrs. Segars was a daughter of the late Ank
and Lila Chastain Dunn and was the widow of David S. Segars. She was
retired from Newton Mill as a cloth inspector and a member of Reed
Creek Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Reed Creek Baptist Church with
the Rev. Ted Kelley officiating. The body will be placed in the church
at 1:30 p.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Phyllis Osborne and Jill Greenway,
both of Hartwell; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
The family is at the home of Donnie and Jill Greenway, 881 Greenway
Upholstery Road.
Strickland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Nat G. Slaughter Jr.
Cartersville
Nat G. Slaughter Jr., 85, of West Main Street died Thursday, Nov.
5, 1998.
A native of Clarke County, Mr. Slaughter was a son of the late Nat
G. Slaughter Sr. and Manie Fain Slaughter. He was twice married, first
to the late Nancy Ivey Slaughter. He was a graduate of the University
of Georgia where he was a member of Sigma Chi, Gridiron Honorary Club,
Glee Club and the varsity golf and basketball teams. An Army veteran
of World War II, he was a member of the Rotary Club and American
Legion, and was a controller and tax manager for New Riverside Ochre
Co. until retiring in 1983.
Services were Friday at Episcopal Church of the Ascension with the
Revs. Tom Martin and Louis Tonsmeire officiating. Burial was in Shadow
Lawn Cemetery, La Grange.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Trotter Slaughter; six
children, Nat Slaughter III, Bob Slaughter and Ginger Hammond, all of
Atlanta, Jim Slaughter, Cartersville, San Hammond, Rome, and Rosie
Persmark, Chapel Hill, N.C.; a sister, Nell Dye, Gainesville; 12
grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Nat Slaughter IV, Robert Slaughter Jr., Jay
Slaughter, Todd Smith, Rob Conner, Jordon Hammond, Bo Hammond and Sam
Gordon. Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Baker, Thomas Champion, John
Cochran, Herb Dittmer, Fred Harris, Larry Hyde, Chandler Kelly, Warren
Simms and Herschel Wisebram.
Owen Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Announcement courtesy of Bridges Funeral Home.
Berman Smith
Westminster, S.C.
James Berman Smith, 92, of 821 Cleveland Pike Road died Friday,
Nov. 6, 1998.
A native of Oconee County, S.C., Mr. Smith was a son of the late
Wilburn H. and Essie Jane Spencer Smith and was the widower of Willie
Mitchell Walters Smith. He was a retired dairy farmer and retired from
Coats & Clark. He was a member and deacon of Old Liberty Baptist
Church and had served as church clerk and Sunday school
superintendent, and was a member of the Men's Sunday School Class. He
was a member of Westminster Masonic Lodge.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Old Liberty Baptist Church
with the Revs. Reginald Pressley and Edward Hyde officiating. The body
will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter, Sandra Saxon, Stone Mountain; two
sisters, Geneva Singleton, Westminster, S.C., and Lula Beth Griffin,
Easley, S.C.; two brothers, Herbert S. Smith, Westminster, S.C., and
Spencer Smith, Wagner, S.C.; and a grandson.
Pallbearers will be nephews, including Billy Singleton, Gerald
Smith, Furman Smith Jr., Raymond Singleton, Jimmy Smith, James Smith,
Ben Griffin Jr. and Leland Griffin.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends 3-5 and 7-9
p.m. today at Acree-Davis Funeral Home, Toccoa.
Lonnie Wilder
Elberton
Lonnie Ray Wilder, 50, of 1827 Shallow Creek Road died Thursday,
Nov. 5, 1998.
A native of Elberton, Mr. Wilder was a son of Herman Monroe Wilder
Sr., Elberton, and Helen M. Brady Orso, Patterson, Calif. He had been
a deputy sheriff in Alameda County, Calif., and was of the Baptist
faith.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Deep Creek Baptist Church with
the Rev. Tim Adams officiating.
Survivors, in addition to his parents, include three sons, Patrick
Maxwell, Elberton, Joseph Wilder, North Carolina, and Michael Wilder,
Colorado; his grandmother, Beulah Wilder, Elberton; three sisters,
Blanch Rockhill, California, Elaine Scoggins, Elberton, and Aurelia
Mihm, Kansas; and five brothers, Calvin Wilder, Colorado, Herman
Wilder Jr., Elberton, and Gregory Wilder, Raymond Wilder and Richard
Pribialla, all of Pennsylvania.
George Sturgill
Hartwell
George Marshall Sturgill, 49, of 112 Woodlake Circle, Apt. 220,
died Friday, Nov. 6, 1998.
Mack's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Louise Towns
Athens
Louise Porterfield Towns died Friday, Nov. 6, 1998.
The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at Bernstein Funeral
Home, which will announce arrangements.
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