OBITUARIES

Jun 23, 2020

Loraine J. Mitchell, 90, of Monroe Ga., passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 due to complications of dementia. The funeral service will be held at Wages & Sons Funeral Home in Lawrenceville, Ga. Visitation will be held from 11-1 p.m. with funeral immediately after in the chapel. Burial will follow the funeral at Floral Hills Perpetual Care on...

Jun 22, 2020

Lannie G. Phillips, 68, died unexpectedly June 22, 2020 at Northside Gwinnett Medical. He was born September 9, 1951, in Flint, MI, the son of Lionel G. Phillips and Lauralee (Manchester) Phillips.

Lannie graduated Swartz Creek High School in Swartz Creek, MI, Class of 1970. Following graduation, he attended Flint Junior College for Hospitality Management. He worked...

Jun 22, 2020

Timothy (Tim) James Branch of Lawrenceville, Georgia passed away on Monday, June 22, 2020.

Timothy was born in Gary, Indiana on August 17, 1963.  He was a 1982 graduate of Westside High School and attended Iowa State University.  In 1996 Timothy moved to the Atlanta area where he became a member of New Beginning Full Gospel Baptist...

Jun 20, 2020

Cynthia (Cindy) Gentry, 79, of Stone Mountain, passed away on June 20, 2020. Born and raised in Quincy, IL. on April 2, 1941, she later moved to Rockford, Il and Roanoke, VA and has lived the last 31 years in Stone Mountain, GA. Cindy graduated from Quincy High School in 1959. On June 10, 1960, she married her high...

Jun 19, 2020

Sirikone Tony Choummanivong was born on December 6, 1982 in Nong Khai, Thailand, to Dalone and Bouavone. He received his degree from The Art Institute of Atlanta in 2005 and went on to pursue a successful career in Web Analytics for the next 15 years.

Tony, as he was fondly called by his family and friends, was...

Jun 18, 2020

Jun 16, 2020

Betty P. Schulte, 82, of Lawrenceville, GA passed into the arms of her beloved Jesus June 16, 2020.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leo and Ann Peleske, and her brother, Leo Peleske. She is survived by her sister, Joann Simi of Venice, FL. Also surviving: daughter Debbie (Ron) Wills of Dacula, GA, son Ted...

Jun 16, 2020

Doris Marie Vincent Mason “Granny” passed away June 16, 2020 in Snellville, GA. She was born on February 9th, 1941 near Talladega, Alabama. After graduating from Talladega High School in 1959 she moved to Atlanta, Georgia and started to work for the Federal Reserve. She lived her adult life in Gwinnett County raising her children and spending time with...

Jun 16, 2020

Benjamin Williams Anderson (Ben) passed away June 16, 2020 in Snellville, Georgia. He is survived by his parents Jennifer and Andy Anderson, siblings Lainey and Cecilia Anderson, grandmother Elaine LaVoy and loving aunts, uncles and cousins.

In no particular order and by no means an exhaustive list, we would like to share some of Ben’s greatest loves:...

Jun 16, 2020

Martha McCollum Henck, 96, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, died on June 16, 2020. She was born in 1923 to Charles A. and Elsie McCollum in Hartford, Connecticut, moving at the age of six weeks to Houston, Texas, where she grew up. She was married for over 57 years to F. Seymour Henck, who died in 2001. She is survived by...

Jun 15, 2020

Harold C. Smolenski, age 91, of Roswell, Georgia, passed peacefully away Monday, June 15, 2020 in Tucker, Georgia. Harold was preceded in death by his children’s mother, Janet “Jeannie” Fleming, brother Wilfred Smolenski, and sister Susan Smolenski. He is survived by sisters Urte Kahle, of Flowery Branch, Georgia;and Renate McKitrick of Ogden, Utah;his children Elizabeth Field (Michael) of Lilburn,...

Jun 14, 2020

Burgess Baird Jr. (Papa) was welcomed home by our Lord and many loved ones Sunday morning 14th of June 2020. Burgess was a loving husband, father, brother, grandpa, uncle, cousin, and friend to many loved ones. He was born July 8th, 1943 in Atlanta, grew up in Sandy Springs, and spent his entire life living in the state of...

Jun 13, 2020

William Joseph Lang “Bill”, age 86, leaped over to be with his Savior on Saturday, June 13th. He resided in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and previously in the Champaign and Chicago area in Illinois, but he was always eager to live in the kingdom of God. Bill studied this earth through his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, his...

Jun 12, 2020

Jun 10, 2020

Peggy Joan Garrett passed away June 10, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Peggy was born in Enid, Oklahoma on January 26, 1941 to Lowell and Rosa Lee Wells. She graduated from Enid High School, and then from the University of Oklahoma in 1963 with a degree in Journalism.While at OU she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Shortly...

Jun 9, 2020

Stratton “Z” Zelack, age 90, of Lilburn, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. “Z” as he was affectionately known to all, was born May 10, 1930 to Russian parents, Andrew and Sophia Zelack in Greentown, Ohio. He graduated from Palmyra High School in 1948 and enlisted shortly thereafter in the United...

Jun 9, 2020

June Marie Elsesser Dukes was born December 14, 1923 in Buffalo and grew up in Grand Island, NY. On June 9, 2020 she began enjoying a sweet gin gimlet with all the many family and friends that preceded her in death: her husband, Robert A Dukes, Jr, brother Leland E. Elesser, Jr., parents, Leland E. Elsesser Sr, and Florence...

Jun 9, 2020

Santosh Chadha, age 83, passed away on June 9, 2020. She was born on June 10, 1936 in Pakpatan, British India. At a young age of 11 she had come to Nakodar, Punjab (after partition). She got married in 1958.

She was a devoted and loving mother and grandmother who worked as a teacher. Giving out hugs...

Jun 8, 2020

James Christy Bailey, 91, of Atlanta died June 8, 2020 after a brief illness. A native of Atlanta, he was predeceased by his wife of 66 years Nancy Alexander Bailey and his sons John and Kim Bailey. Jim was a civil engineering graduate of Georgia Tech and M.I.T. He was an army veteran who worked in the concrete manufacturing...

Jun 8, 2020

Patricia T. Wynn, 65, died June 8 after a 2-year fight against cancer. She was chief lactation consultant for Floyd Medical Center, Rome, Georgia, from 2014 to 2017. Previously, she was a labor and delivery nurse at Gordon Hospital, Calhoun, for ten years. She was a member of The Church on the Hill in Dalton.

She is...