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ATLANTARamsey Agan, 77, died Wednesday. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Sunday, Arlington Memorial Park, Sandy Springs. Fischer Funeral Care.CARROLL COUNTYRichard Laverne Pike, 80, of Whitesburg died Thursday. Memorial service, 7 p.m. today, Jones-Wynn Funeral Home, Douglasville.CLAYTON COUNTYNellie Marie Haynes Floyd, 95, of Riverdale died Thursday. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Haisten Funeral ...
Dan Whitner, 77: Jazz drummer overcame obstacles to pursue love of music
Dan Whitner never tired of playing the drums. From his earliest days beating on pots and pans in his grandmother’s kitchen to playing Atlanta jazz clubs until his death, Whitner couldn’t resist setting the tempo for his life.It didn’t start out so swinging. Diagnosed with polio as a child, doctors ...
Deaths and funerals
ATLANTAJanet King Yerta, 86, died Monday. Funeral, 1 p.m. today, Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, Atlanta. H.M. Patterson and Son Arlington Chapel, Sandy Springs.CARROLL COUNTYWilliam T. “Billy” Miles Sr., 67, of Carrollton died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Martin and Hightower Heritage Chapel.CLAYTON COUNTYSam Huggins, 75, of Riverdale died ...
Corne Taylor, 109: Conyers woman began work life as child to help support family
Back in the early part of the last century, Corene Taylor used to catch the train from Rockdale County to Atlanta and spend the week looking for jobs. Still in her early teens, she often found part-time work as a maid, washing and ironing clothes, cleaning yards for 5 — ...
Deaths & Funerals
ATLANTAKenneth Winchester MacKenzie, 66, died Monday. Memorial service, 1 p.m. Friday, Atlanta Unity Church Church, Norcross. SouthCare Cremation & Funeral Society, Alpharetta.Melvin Roberts, 65, died Saturday. No service is planned. Georgia Funeral Care, Acworth.CARROLL COUNTYBinnie Joey Jarriel, 70, of Villa Rica died Tuesday. Funeral, 1 p .m. Friday, Jones-Wynn Funeral ...
DEATHS & FUNERALS
ATLANTAJames L. Rogers, 64, died May 4. Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Zion Grove Baptist Church. Young Funeral Home.Ada Elizabeth Leach, 98, died Sunday. Funeral, 1 p.m. today, H.M. Patterson & Son, Arlington Chapel, Sandy Springs.COBB COUNTYLillie Mae Brackett Bufford, 78, of Marietta died Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, First Baptist ...
DEATHS & FUNERALS MONDAY MAY 13
ATLANTASavanna Frances Spencer, 19, of Bossier City, LA, formerly of Atlanta, died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. today, St. James Catholic Church, Gonzales, TX. Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, Gonzales, TX.BARTOW COUNTYWilford Jean Morrison, 85, of Acworth died Saturday. Private service will be held. SouthCare Cremation & Funeral Society, Marietta.CHEROKEE COUNTYAnn Edge, 84, ...
Maybelle “May” Vranicar agitated for social justice
Living in a mid 20th-century era of compliant, subordinate women and freely-expressed prejudices, Maybelle “May” Vranicar agitated for social justice. But while others were picketing or bomb throwing, say her kids, Vranicar mainly chose a less dramatic but equally effective way to help foment change. “She did her work at ...
Miriam D. Minter, 91, retired civil servant, legal secretary
She went from a shirt factory, to working for Uncle Sam, and from homemaker, to the helm of a law firm. Miriam Minter grew up on an Ellaville farm. Her brother, Kenneth Dupree of Smyrna, called Miriam “a well-disciplined person. On a farm, there’s a lot to do. We grew ...
Deaths & Funerals
ATLANTAMargery W. Brown, 99, died Wednesday. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. May 17, H.M. Patterson and Son, Spring Hill.Eddie Dobbs, 70, of Copperhill, Tenn., formerly of Atlanta, died Wednesday. A private service will be held. Akins Funeral Home, Copperhill, Tenn.Martin Raymond Flannery, 72, died May 2. Funeral, 2 p.m. today, Holy Spirit ...
The Rev. R. Lanier Clance, 74: Founder of First Existentialist Church
In 1976, around a dozen people gathered in a Decatur house, led by the Rev. R. Lanier Clance, and became the First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta. It was the beginning of an adventure that was perfectly suited to Clance, who aimed to create a community of like-minded people, friends and ...
Alva Lines, 97: Filmmaker, coastal preservationist
A native of Savannah, and a lover of the Georgia coast, Alva Lines told people there was saltwater in his veins. So in the ’70s, when developers wanted to encroach on the shoreline in front of the coastal home he bought from his parents, Lines sprang into action. He was ...
Clyde Burnette, 89: BBDO ad man, portrait artist
When Clyde Burnette’s children say their father was an artist his whole life, they are not painting with a broad brush. He started when he was 5, his daughter said, using whatever material that was around. At that time, it was house paint and wood from his parents’ barn. “If ...
Mildred Hill, 83: Owned The Little Shop in Phipps Plaza
Adults who visited Mildred Hill’s The Little Shop usually wanted to chat with the shopkeeper and find something special for the children in their lives. The children, however, were often looking for Harvey, Hill’s West Highland Terrier.Hill and Harvey could be found at the children’s clothing shop, which moved from ...
John M. Farrell, 58: Coca-Cola Co. vice president and chief strategy officer
The way John Farrell’s mind worked made him an invaluable member of the Coca-Cola Co. executive management team, his colleagues said. That same quality made him an extremely fun dad, according to his daughters.In an e-mail to company associates across the world, Muhtar Kent, Coca-Cola’s chairman and chief executive officer, ...
Wayne Langford, 75, longtime director of Central Fulton Mental Health Center
The Central Fulton Mental Health Center at Grady Memorial Hospital is one of the largest and most comprehensive facilities of its type in the Southeast. Colleagues of Wayne Langford, who served as its director for 20 years, say he deserves a significant portion of the credit for making it so. ...
Deaths & Funerals
ATLANTAEstelle Wisdom, 98, died Friday. Memorial service, 2 p.m. May 11, Lenbrook Square. Wages & Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain.CARROLL COUNTYBetty Sue Waldon Bradley, 75, of Carrollton died Thursday. Funeral, 4 p.m. Sunday, Carrollton United Pentecostal Church. Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel.Evelyn C. Denney, 93, of Carrollton died Thursday. Funeral, ...
Ed Negri, 91: Former Herren’s owner
During Atlanta’s transformation from Southern city to global player, Herren’s was more than a downtown restaurant, just as its owner, Ed Negri, was more than just a restaurateur. Both played significant roles in city history and neither will soon be forgotten by loyal customers. Herren’s, with its famous nugget-sized sweet ...
Dr. Wesley S. Wilborn, 75: Dermatologist formulated skin, hair care products
Growing up in rural South Carolina, Dr. Wesley Wilborn didn’t always have the luxury of purchasing what he wanted. Often times, he had to make it. Wilborn took the ingenuity he developed in childhood, combined it with a chemistry background and medical degree, and created skin and hair care products ...
Michael Brink, 57: Atlanta estate planner had ‘Rocky Top roots’
Michael Brink had given so much of himself to his friends over the years that many felt there was no way they could repay him. So when neighbor and friend Chip Matthews came up with a grand plan to restore Brink’s 1955 Willys Jeepster, everybody he talked to got on ...
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