Obituaries

Randolph Roland Upton, Jr.

Randolph Roland Upton, Jr.

Aug 6, 2011

Mr. Randolph Roland Upton, Jr., age 69, of Browning Road Rockmart, GA passed away Saturday, August 6, 2011 at his residence following a brief illness. He was born in Paulding County, GA on June 14, 1942 a son of the late Randolph Roland Upton, Sr. and Nettie Griffith Upton. Mr. Upton had lived most of his life in the Polk...

Annie Faye Henry Pinkard

Annie Faye Henry Pinkard

Aug 4, 2011

Mrs. Annie Faye Henry Pinkard, age 95, of Rockmart, passed away Thursday, August 4, 2011 following an extended illness. Mrs. Pinkard was born in Carroll County, GA on April 30, 1916. Faye and her late husband, Rev. Homer Pinkard, spent their lives together in Rockmart where she was a homemaker most of her life. In addition to her husband, she...

Jan Hawkins Cole

Jan Hawkins Cole

Aug 3, 2011

Mrs. Jan Hawkins Cole, age 69, of Popham Road, Taylorsville, passed away Wednesday August 3, 2011 at her residence following an extended illness. She was born in Rockmart, GA on February 9, 1942 a daughter of the late Rufus Elmer Lyle and Iris Inez Ford Lyle. Mrs. Cole had lived all of her life in the Polk and Bartow county...

Martha Hulsey Swann

Martha Hulsey Swann

Aug 2, 2011

Mrs. Martha Hulsey Swann, age 74, of Coots Lake Road Rockmart passed away Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at her residence following a lengthy illness. She was born in Aragon, GA on June 21, 1937 a daughter of the late Samuel Causey and Rilla Cash Causey. Mrs. Swann had lived all of her life in Polk County and was of the...

Roy Dean Bulloch

Roy Dean Bulloch

Jul 28, 2011

Mr. Roy Dean Bulloch, age 77, of Dallas, GA passed away suddenly, Thursday, July 28, 2011 in Dallas, GA. He was born in Rockmart, GA on July 11, 1934 a son of the late Roy Bulloch and Ethel Maner Buloch. Mr. Bulloch was a 1953 graduate of Rockmart High School and was of the Baptist faith. He had been a...

William Junior Truett

William Junior Truett

Jul 20, 2011

Mr. William Junior Truett, age 77, of Big Pond Road, Taylorsville, GA passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at his residence following a lengthy illness. He was born in Cleburne County, Alabama on December 2, 1933, a son of the late William Marshall Truett and the late Emily Brown Truett. Mr. Truett had lived most of his life in Bartow...

Betty Ann Deems

Betty Ann Deems

Jul 11, 2011

Mrs. Betty Ann Deems, age 70, of Dogwood Lane, Aragon, passed away Monday July 11, 2011. She was born in Cedartown, GA on December 13, 1940, a daughter of the late Virmes Jackson Goss and the late Katie Lou Glover. Mrs. Deems had lived all of her life in Polk County where she was a graduate of Rockmart High School...

Alvin Arness Kimmons

Alvin Arness Kimmons

Jul 7, 2011

Mr. Alvin Arness Kimmons, age 46, of Winterville Drive (the Yorkville community) Rockmart, GA passed away Thursday, July 7, 2011 from injuries received in an automobile accident in Bartow County, GA. Arness was born in Decatur, GA on January 19, 1965 a son of Benjamin Alvin Kimmons and Mary Garner Kimmons. He had been a resident of the Yorkville community...

Ruth Gribble Ballinger

Ruth Gribble Ballinger

Jul 3, 2011

Mrs. Ruth Gribble Ballinger, age 89, of Old Wax Road (The Flint Hill Community) Aragon, GA passed away Sunday, July 3, 2011. She was born on May 10, 1922 a daughter of the late R.E. Gribble and Beulah Yarbrough Gribble. Mrs. Ballinger had lived the greater part of her life in the Flint Hill Community where she was a member...

Diane Pinkard Marchbanks

Diane Pinkard Marchbanks

Jul 1, 2011

Mrs. Diane Pinkard Marchbanks, age 67, of Douglasville, GA passed away Friday, July 1, 2011 in Wellstar Douglas Hospital, Douglasville following a lengthy illness. She was born in Polk County, GA on November 4, 1943 a daughter of James Woodrow Pinkard and Rena Mae Clark Pinkard. Diane was a 1961 graduate of Rockmart High School. She moved to College Park,...

Mary Ann Moss

Mary Ann Moss

Jun 27, 2011

Mrs. Mary Ann Moss, age 74, of Bellview Road Rockmart passed away Monday, June 27, 2011 in a Rome medical center following an extended illness. She was born in Polk County, GA on September 6, 1936 a daughter of Rufus Milford Garrett and Lelia Pearl Lee Garrett. Mrs. Moss had lived her entire life in the Rockmart area and graduated...

Wanda Gail Clark

Wanda Gail Clark

Jun 20, 2011

Mrs. Wanda Gail Clark, age 52, of Creekside Drive Rockmart, GA passed away Monday, June 20, 2011 following a year long illness. She was born in Polk County, GA on April 27, 1959 a daughter of Wiley James Watson, Sr. and Joyce Forrister Watson. Mrs. Clark was a homemaker and a member of the Friendly Baptist Church. She was preceded...

Elaine T. White

Elaine T. White

Jun 18, 2011

Mrs. Elaine T. White, age 63, of Barber Road, Rockmart passed away Saturday, June 18, 2011 at her residence following several years of declining health. She was born in Watertown, N.Y. a daughter of the late John Towsley and Marjorie Loomis Towsley. Mrs. White was a homemaker and of the Methodist faith. She served as a nurse in the U.S....

Charlotte Wright Wood

Charlotte Wright Wood

Jun 13, 2011

Mrs. Charlotte Wright Wood, age 83, of 246 Runyon Loop Cedartown, GA passed away Monday, June 13, 2011 in Polk Medical Center of Cedartown following several months of declining health. She was born in Polk County, GA on March 3, 1928 a daughter of the late Charles Benjamin Wright and Susie Mae Brown Wright. Mrs. Wood had lived the greater...

Larry A. Brumit

Larry A. Brumit

Jun 12, 2011

Mr. Larry A. Brumit, age 75, of Hightower Falls Road, Cedartown passed away Sunday, June 12, 2011. He was born at Young Station in Polk County, GA on August 1, 1935 a son of the late Fred Stanley Brumit and Marjorie Eugene Baldwin Brumit. Mr. Brumit had lived all of his life in Polk County and was a member of...

Charles H. Schildt

Charles H. Schildt

Jun 12, 2011

Mr. Charles H. Schildt, age 70, of Kades Cove Drive, Dallas, GA passed away Sunday, June 12, 2011 at his residence following an extended illness. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on October 1, 1940 a son of the late Henry Schildt and Mildred Herrmann Schildt. Mr. Schildt had been a resident of Dallas, GA for the past ten years...

Joseph Laltrello, Sr.

Joseph Laltrello, Sr.

Jun 10, 2011

Joseph Laltrello, Sr. of Atlantic City, New Jersey and recently a resident of Rockmart, Georgia, died June 10, 2011. He was days shy of 96 years of age. Mr. Laltrello was formidable in his family?s eyes. The son of immigrant parents from Italy, he made his living as a shoemaker. Retired at 70 years of age, he was an expert...

Carol Ann Wright

Carol Ann Wright

Jun 7, 2011

Ms. Carol Ann Wright, age 64, of Taylorsville Road, Aragon passed away Tuesday June 7, 2011 in a Rome medical center following a lengthy illness. She was born in Floyd County, GA on February 19, 1947 a daughter of the late Harry Lee Wright, Sr. and Ruth Ellison Wright. Ms. Wright had lived all of her life in Polk County...

William Michael Jay

William Michael Jay

Jun 6, 2011

Mr. William Michael Jay, age 46, of Aragon passed away Monday, June 6, 2011 in a Rome medical center. He was born in Polk County, GA on June 9, 1964, a son of Jerry Jay and Frances Mauldin Jay. Mr. Jay had lived the greater part of his life in Polk County. He was a 1983 graduate of Paulding County...

Ruth Coats

Ruth Coats

Jun 4, 2011

Mrs. Ruth Coats, age 73, of Bellview Road, Rockmart passed away Saturday, June 4, 2011 at her residence. She was born in Haralson County, GA on October 21, 1937 daughter of William W. Williams and Mattie Robinson Williams but was raised in the Murphy-Harpst Home of Cedartown, GA. Mrs. Coats spent the greater part of her life in the Rockmart...