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• JOYCE ALEXANDER, 80, Decatur: English war bride who kept a photograph of Winston Churchill in her kitchen; April 1.
• HISHAM ARAIM, 73, Duluth: built business empires in his native Iraq—including its first amusement park—and as an immigrant in the United States; June 25.
• TOM ATCHESON, 70, Cumming: Falcons filmographer captured every move of every player for 22 years; July 17.

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• JOHNNY BAKER, 81, Fayetteville: golf fanatic who sold his house to buy what became Pebble Creek Golf Course; March 23.
• JACK BALLARD, 78, Stone Mountain: Mount Carmel Christian Church minister for 44 years; Feb. 21.
• MARGARET ANNE BARNES, 80, Decatur: author of "Murder in Coweta County" made into a movie starring Johnny Cash; Oct. 11.
• KEN BATIE, 46, Covington: popular concert emcee and longtime deejay on WCLK-FM; Feb. 12.
• HOWARD BAUGH SR., 82, Atlanta: first black Atlanta police officer to patrol in a squad car and serve as assistant chief; Feb. 15.
• LYNN BAUGHMAN, 60, Norcross: violin teacher who introduced the Suzuki method to Georgia; April 25.
• FLO BEDDINGFIELD, 89, Marietta: founded Cobb County Emergency Aid Association and what became the Center for Family Resources; Nov. 9.
• ELIZABETH CARROLLANN "PEGGY" DOSSER BENSON, 87, Marietta: shaped competing Cobb County arts organizations into a collaborative arts council; May 5.
• HAROLD J. BERMAN, 89, Atlanta: internationally recognized Emory University law professor; Nov. 13.
• KATHRYN BIRD, 90, Snellville: lived in Snellville longer than anyone, admitted she'd rather be cutting the grass than keeping house; Nov. 5.
• WILLIAM BLIVEN, 82, Atlanta: legendary lecturer at Georgia Tech and an economics author; Jan. 18.
• CLETE BOYER, 70, Buford: Atlanta Braves third baseman lived through one of baseball's most momentous seasons, the 1961 Yankees with teammates Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle; June 4.
• CINDY BRIDGES, 82, Atlanta: concert promoter who helped bring Liberace, Bob Newhart and the Beatles to Atlanta; Feb. 13.
• GENEVA E. BROADHURST, 93, Doraville: directed Widowed Persons Service and founded Egress to offer them social activies; Nov. 10.
• TOM WATSON BROWN, 73, Marietta: University of Georgia and Mercer University benefactor who came from a prominent Georgia family; Jan. 12.
• DEWEY BROWN JR., 85, Avondale Estates: city manager and police chief of Avondale Estates for 46 years whose secret barbecue sauce recipe is featured at his grandson's restaurant; Nov. 28.
• JOHN BROWNLEE, 51, Tucker: designed the switches that make computers and telephones connect more quickly; Aug. 14.
• MARY BRYANT, 99, Conyers: celebrated her birthdays on a jet ski, was a noted gift-wrapper, found her retirement community too full of old people; Sept. 29.
• FRANK BULLOCH, 91, Sandy Springs: electrical engineer who became Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip canon educator; Jan. 22.

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• TOMMY CAMPBELL, 95, Smyrna: train conductor, poet and author of the historical novel "Railroad Town"; Sept. 13.
• ROBERT CARPENTER, 68, Atlanta: Georgia Power executive who helped start Project Share; March 2.
• PAUL CHELKO, 72, Chamblee: charismatic poet and artist whose work adorned wine bottles, CDs, posters, magazine covers, book jackets and greeting cards; June 2.
• ANNE LANGSTON CHRISTOPHER, 112, Rome: Georgia's oldest resident, seventh oldest in the United States and 11th oldest in the world; Oct. 10.
• FRANK CLARK, 82, Atlanta: spent decades helping special needs children through a center he founded in his daughter's memory; March 11.
• MIKE CLARK, 63, Cumming: former drummer and co-owner and manager of Southern Tracks studio, where Bruce Springsteen recorded; Feb. 1.
• JUANITA CLELAND, 90, Lithonia: mother of U.S. Sen. Max Cleland; Jan. 23.
• CHARLIE COCHRANE, 60, Lithia Springs: executive director of the 30-acre John Ripley Forbes Big Trees Forest Preserve in Sandy Springs; July 12.
• NATALIE COHEN, 94, Atlanta: tennis champion and unyielding umpire who faced down bad boy Ilie Nastase; Feb. 7.
• ALBERT COLEMAN, 97, Smyrna: Atlanta Pops Orchestra founder and conductor whose life was the stuff of novels; Nov. 27.
• MATT CONNOR, 85, Atlanta: advertising executive who flew planes, collected vintage cars and displayed suave, old-school manners; March 16.
• JIMMY CRAWFORD, 62, Fayetteville: NASCAR driver who pulled off legendary 1973 Talladega win; May 26.
• THE REV. JOHN H. CROSS JR., 82, Decatur: pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, when a bomb killed four young girls at the church; Nov. 15.

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• FRED DANIEL, 82, Covington: recorded more than 3,000 songs, sang with the Sunshine Boys, on Red Foley's million-selling classic "Peace in the Valley," with Elvis Presley at Graceland and in movies; Nov. 6.
• VALERIE DANIEL, 44, Austell: learned sign language at 7, signed the 2005 voting rights march and was prepared to sign for the president if needed; June 6.
• BOYZIE DANIELS, 91, Monroe: Walton County Baptist minister made history registering blacks to vote in 1946, featured in book about the nation's last mass lynching; July 7.
• JOE DAOLE, 89, Tucker: chef who owned Joe Dale's Cajun House and a string of other restaurants; April 15.
• AUBREY DaSANTOS, 86, Marietta: developed a nascent industry, photogrammetry, producing dimensional topographic maps since the 1940s; Sept. 3.
• ALBERTA DAVIS, 125, Sparta: believed by her family to be the oldest Georgian, though no records proved it; Jan. 27.
• JULIA BOYD DAVIDSON, 95, Atlanta: attorney who taught classes on the Infinite Way at her Avondale Estates residence; Jan. 15.
• BONNEAU DICKSON, 99, Austell: Presbyterian pastor and elder statesman of camellia growers, shared thousands of blooms and cuttings; July 13.
• OGDEN DOREMUS, 85, Metter: dubbed Georgia's "Mr. Environment" for his work on the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act; April 4.
• THOMAS DROEGE, 75, Doraville: combined his interests in theology and health at the Carter Center's Interfaith Health Program; April 5.

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• LOWELL EGGER, 79, Atlanta: helped keep the skies safe as director of Delta Air Lines' flight control department; Feb. 19.
• JANE ENGLAND, 73, Roswell: Reinhardt College history teacher, a scholarship and faculty award are named in her honor; Jan. 20.
• RANDALL EVERETT, 66, Suwanee: rhythm guitarist, rock-solid center of the Everett Brothers bluegrass band and Saturday night emcee at Everett's Music Barn; May 16.

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• JOSEPH FAHY, 78, Atlanta: Roman Catholic priest and political activist who established ministries to hundreds of thousands of Hispanic Catholics; Jan. 22.
• MARTHA FERGUSON, 68, Cumming: innovative chief executive of the American Red Cross's metro Atlanta chapter; Feb. 5.
• ROOSEVELT "SLIM" FISHER, 68, Atlanta: founded one of the last independent, black-owned private labels of African-American hair products; Aug. 23.
• ZDZISLAW STANISLAW FOLTYN, 80, Snellville: fought in the Polish resistance, fled to America, founded Polish-American Heritage Society and worked on housing Polish athletes during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta; Oct. 16.
• RALPH FOSTER, 75, Stone Mountain: director of Atlanta's tennis facilities and prankster at the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center; Jan. 26.
• ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE, 65, Atlanta: scholar and first director of Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies; Jan. 2.
• EVELYN JONES FRAZIER, 95, Atlanta: at Frazier's Cafe Society, she brought the elegant trappings of fine dining to a still-segregated Atlanta in the 1940s; Sept. 3.
• EDDIE FREEMAN, 82, Decatur: United Methodist Church lay leader who helped bridge racial divide; Jan. 6.
• AMY FULLER, 29, Atlanta: Zoo Atlanta animal education specialist; March 5.

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• THOMAS D. GALLOWAY, 67, Atlanta: dean of Georgia Tech's College of Architecture who pushed for downtown Atlanta improvements; March 11.
• RONALD W. GEE, 80, Chamblee: curiosity led him to start bicycling at 50, finding adventure at every turn and riding with children in Decatur parades; Oct. 12.
• LANGSTON GEORGE SR., 67, Atlanta: sang tenor as an early member of Gladys Knight and the Pips; March 17.
• DAVID GIBSON, 56, Monroe: Doke Brothers Band frontman (he changed his last name) who opened for Molly Hatchet, Humble Pie and big-name acts; Sept. 16.
• JIM GLEESON, 66, Stone Mountain: collected musical contraptions and turned his house into a museum for carousel horses, musical boxes, player pianos, Wurlitzer jukeboxes; July 20.
• MARIAN GLUSTROM, 90, Atlanta: founding member of Atlanta's American Civil Liberties Union chapter who fought to end segregation; Feb. 5.
• MAE RUTH GREEN, 85: Atlanta: conducted landmark research on the Geechee-Gullah community of Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island; Feb. 5.

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• GEORGE HAAS, 87, Atlanta: lawyer who overcame polio and became president of the state and national Easter Seals societies; Jan. 2.
• MARK HAAS, 54, East Point: actor and pianist who wrote three Oz sequel books; Feb. 18.
• ALICE HAMILTON, 83, Norcross: helped St. Joseph's Hospital develop a post-surgery coronary care unit; Jan. 9.
• FRED HALL, 70, Decatur: taught and directed theater at Spelman College, wrote theater reviews; April 5.
• EDWARD S. HALLMAN, 76, Atlanta: donated money to the University of South Carolina to purchase Ernest Hemingway letters and manuscripts; Feb. 23.
• CHARLES HARRY HAMILTON, 73, Atlanta: physician who sang with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra choruses, founded the Atlanta Singers; Nov. 26.
• ARNOLD HARDY, 85, Stone Mountain: first amateur photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a woman falling from the deadly Winecoff Hotel fire: Dec. 5.
• GABRIEL HARDEMAN SR., 93, Atlanta: preacher assigned to his first African Methodist Episcopal church at 17; March 23.
• CRYSTAL HARRIS, 36, Atlanta: sang in European opera houses, taught voice at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University; Feb. 4.
• POLLY HARRISON, 61, Cedartown: when a piece of trash touched her artist hands it was woven into a treasure, her baskets are on display at the Atlanta airport; Sept. 15.
• RAWSON HAVERTY SR., 86, Atlanta: head of family furniture company and a leader in more than 30 civic and business organizations; Jan. 26.
• FREDDYE HENDERSON, 89, Atlanta: owned the nation's first fully accredited black travel agency; Jan. 19.
• MARY HICKS, 82, Atlanta: nurse at Grady hospital in the 1940s who treated victims of the Winecoff Hotel fire; April 5.
• DENNIS HITCHMAN, 57, Conyers: traded corporate life to become pastor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Carrollton; April 19.
• JAMES HOGUE JR., 45, Marietta: continued coaching children's sports with his voice after Lou Gehrig's disease took his body; Nov. 13.
• EDWIN HOWARD, 79, Doraville: starting with a 1925 family grocery that's still operating, he founded banks, branched into real estate; Oct. 29.
• JOYCE HOWINGTON, 73, Norcross: three-term Norcross City Council member; April 8.
• WILLIS HUBERT, 88, Dunwoody: Tuskegee Airman and Morehouse College academic dean; May 11.

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• MANCE C. JACKSON, 76, Decatur: taught preacers at the Interdenominational Theological Center, was a missionary in Africa and Jamaica; March 14.
• OMIE JACKSON, 99, Lawrenceville: taught school for 41 years starting in a one-room schoolhouse her father helped build; March 20.
• BRENDA WATTS JONES, 55, Jonesboro: elevated an aging vocational school into the cutting-edge Atlanta Technical College where she was president for 10 years; Aug. 12.
• GEORGE JONES, 77, Canton: Cherokee County extension office director and expert on anything that grows from farmer's crops to urban agriculture; Sept. 8.
• PLATO JONES, 80, Atlanta: Mensa member, traveled to 110 countries on every continent, winning poker player; Sept. 4.

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• LELIA KELLY, 48, Atlanta: former banker who became a successful author of legal thrillers; March 13.
• DONALD KEYES, 66, Athens: former Georgia Museum of Art and Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art director; May 19.
• CHUCK KNOBLER, 95, Peachtree City: pilot to presidents and kings, friend of aviation pioneers, early barnstormer; July 22.
• ELMER KNOX, 88, Atlanta: Atlanta Black Crackers outfielder, state National Baseball Congress commissioner, gladly shared his stories to preserve Negro Leagues' history; Nov. 13.
• TED KONIS, 75, Newnan: master brewer at the Carling Black Label facilities in Hapeville in the 1960s and '70s; Jan. 8.
• LOUISE KRAFT, 76, Atlanta: for 27 years at her group home, she prodded and prayed over hundreds of wayward teenagers to find the right path; Aug. 29.

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• JUDY LATZ, 62, Atlanta: principal oboist for Atlanta Concert Band and Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra for 25 years; Nov. 3.
• TREVILLE LAWRENCE, 91, Marietta: donated papers to Kennesaw State University and preserved his family's history; Jan. 26.
• WON SUK LEE, 60, Duluth: contributed his time and money to found the Korean Community Patrol; March 10.
• BRUCE LOGUE, 95, Atlanta: cardiologist who helped found the Emory University Clinic; Feb. 27.
• GEORGE LOTTIER, 63, Roswell: owned the Atlanta Tribune, was president of the non-profit Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council; Sept. 10.
• JORGE PUENTE LUNA, 52, Dunwoody: consul general of Peru in Atlanta who fulfilled a diplomatic goal as artistic director of the Peruvian Cultural and Gastronomic Festival; Oct. 27.
• BRETT LYKINS, 27, Duluth: contracted HIV from a blood transfusion at birth, became an AIDS celebrity and computer whiz; Aug. 1.

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• MAC McGLAMERY, 66, Conyers: started the first K-9 unit at DeKalb County Police Department; Feb. 21.
• JOHN McKENNA, 92, Decatur: Georgia Tech associate athletic director; March 31.
• DAGMAR MARSHALL, 71, Cumming: real estate broker who based her novel, "The Closing," on her experiences; March 20.
• ELEANOR MASSELL, 83, Atlanta: founded the Arts Festival of Atlanta in 1952 in the yard behind her West Paces Ferry Road art studio; June 19.
• C.W. MATTHEWS, 84, Marietta: started the state's largest highway construction business; April 29.
• DON MEDLEY, 76, Lithia Springs: Six Flags' sign painter who created the giant peach dropped at Underground Atlanta on New Year's Eve; March 13.
• ILUMINADA MILIAN, 72, Lawrenceville: cooked Cuban soups and doled out songs at her family's Casa Nuova restaurant; Sept. 6.
• CLAUDE MILLER, 104, Acworth: sawmill master, proud moonshiner and bootlegger jailed only once; June 14.
• DOROTHY MITCHELL, 80, East Point: longtime Buckhead Men's Shop employee who had a knack for selling children's clothes; March 4.
• LEE MOORE, 84, Atlanta: parasite expert tromped through remote outposts to prevent tropical diseases, retreated to his refined Ansley Park home; Sept. 21.
• FRANK MURPHY, 85, Atlanta: WWII navigator and prisoner of war who flew 20 bombing missions without fighter escort; June 16.
• TOM MURPHY, 83, Bremen: speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives 1974-2002 and the nation's longest serving statehouse speaker; Dec. 17.

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• EMILIA NAVARRO, 67, DeKalb County: first chairwoman of an Emory University department—Spanish, Hispanic and Latin American studies — founded Emory Women's Caucus and Women's Studies program; Oct. 19.

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• PHIL OSBORNE, 77, Atlanta: lifelong tour organizer, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at 65, survived a plane crash in the African bush, threw legendary fund-raiser parties at his Ansley Park home; Sept. 23.
• CLIFFORD OXFORD, 89, Atlanta: lawyer and mental health advocate who stood up against the Ku Klux Klan; Feb. 28.

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• ROBERT PEARSON, 85, Conyers; monastery monk who used his architecture background to help construct its buildings; Feb. 16.
• GENEVIEVE POU, 87, Atlanta: writer whose heart-pounding mystery novels were ahead of their time; April 22.

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• JANICE RAPER, 98, Atlanta: Warm Springs physical therapist who went on picnics with President Franklin D. Roosevelt; March 4.
• ALBERT RAUBER, 84, Stone Mountain: Emory University pediatrician who became a poison control expert; March 7.
• STEVE REYNOLDS, 87, Lawrenceville: former state senator and Department of Transportation board member; Sept. 17.
• RICH RICHARDSON, 92, Decatur: engineer who campaigned for his wife, the late Georgia Rep. Eleanor Richardson; Jan. 2.
• HAL RIVES, 81, Stone Mountain: former Georgia Department of Transportation commissioner, helped end acrimony over Freedom Parkway; May 8.
• FRANCES ROSSMAN, 99, Atlanta: tenacious activist, Silver Haired Legislator, VISTA volunteer; April 23.

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• JENNY SAMPLES, 79, Woodstock: quiet wife of flamboyant stock car race driver Ed Samples; March 31.
• HAROLD SARLES, 84, Atlanta: podiatrist and clown who entertained as Dr. Foot; June 10.
• SELMA SAX, 65, Sandy Springs: dressed women in high style with couture clothing from her Fantastic Finds consignment shop; Aug. 13.
• RÖNNOG SEABERG, 75, Atlanta: created a new form of art, acrobatic poetry, sometimes read in the nude; Oct. 17.
• JASPER SESSION, 65, College Park: dentist who coached African-American students in the sport of diving; March 25.
• T.L. SEXTON, 83, Hampton: former trucker who designed and manufactured a device sold around the world to eliminate steering hazards on big rigs; Aug. 16.
• EVA SIGRID, 100, Atlanta: former Montessori teacher who made cheesecakes for her son's restaurant, Dante's Down the Hatch; Jan. 26.
• LINWOOD SLATON JR., 59, Atlanta: first director of the Neighborhood Justice Center of Atlanta, inspired others to join the legal field; March 23.
• OTIS W. SMITH, 81, College Park: Georgia's first certified black pediatrician who received an anonymous scholarship from Margaret Mitchell; Feb. 5.
• ETHEL SPRUILL, 99, Sandy Springs: donated her family's 1860s farmhouse that today is the Spruill Center for the Arts; Sept. Sept. 10.
• MARY STANFORD, 83, Atlanta: matriarchal tenant president of Perry Homes, fought for progress to the projects; Jan. 7.
• HELEN STONE, 79, Canton: arts advocate, taught nearly 50 years at Cherokee High School, designed its landmark totem pole; Feb. 11.
• MARTY STORCH, 83, Atlanta: Auschwitz concentration camp survivor who helped students understand the Holocaust; Feb. 11.
• MIKE SWIMS, 42, Canton: auto racing promoter whose integrity was as solid as the red clay on race tracks, Dirt Late Model Hall of Famer; Sept. 28.

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• ROBERT LEE VEAL JR., 23, Atlanta: real-life ninja taught self-defense to flight crews since he was 17; July 14.
• TED VOLANTE, 79, Atlanta: photographed Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis Jr., popular video teacher at St. Martin's Episcopal School; Aug. 8.

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• OTTO WALDROP, 65, Lilburn: award-winning master wood carver specialized in life-sized nature figures; May 3.
• JOHN A. WALKER, 43, Oxford: revitalized DeKalb County's wastewater treatment operations; Oct. 20.
• WILLIE R. WARE SR., 68, East Point: for 42 years in real estate, he guided families and congregations into new homes; Oct. 19.
• WILLIAM "DAN" WEST, 57, Kennesaw: barbecue chef for the rich and famous but mostly for a good cause; Aug. 26.
• ELGIN WELLS SR., 89, Duluth: retired Delta pilot who took up stunt flying and safely brought his plane to an emergency landing on Ga. 316; Feb. 19.
• TILLIE WOOD, 89, Roswell: her beds, breakfasts and biscuits were trail magic for Appalachian Trail hikers; Oct. 14.

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• KAI CHEONG YONG, 81, Avondale Estates: Malay native, assistant principal and role model at Cary Reynolds Elementary School where students spoke 16 languages; Aug. 20.
• WARREN YOUNG,87, Fayetteville: photographer who coaxed 30 years of smiles from Fayetteville residents; March 9.

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• NICOLETTE POULOS ZERVAKOS, 82, Atlanta: preserved the Greek community's history for 30 years, as a dancer founded what became Troupe Hellas; Nov. 16.

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