OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries - Lawrenceville and Stone Mountain, Georgia and the Surrounding Areas

Virginia Carroll Browning

Virginia Carroll Browning

Oct 27, 2022

Virginia Carroll Browning passed away on October 27, 2022 at the age of 101. Virginia was born on February 24, 1921 in Chicago, IL, to a family of 5 brothers. In December 1941, she fled the cold Chicago winter and escaped to sunny Miami Beach, FL where she worked for the Army until the war ended in 1945. There...

Paula Ann (Stephens) Hammer

Paula Ann (Stephens) Hammer

Oct 27, 2022

Paula Ann (Stephens) Hammer passed away peacefully at her home the evening of October 27, 2022 surrounded by loved ones. Born in Woburn, Massachusetts on January 15, 1940, she was the eldest child of the late Paul T. and Lillian E. (Marr) Stephens of North Reading, Massachusetts. She grew up in North Reading and graduated from Reading High School...

John Richard Curley Jr.

John Richard Curley Jr.

Oct 27, 2022

John Richard Curley Jr. “Jack”, 77, of Tucker, Georgia, passed away peacefully on October 27, 2022 at his home.

Born June 22, 1945, to the late John “Dick” and Doris (Pulsford) Curley, Jack grew up in New Jersey and studied at Rutgers University, where he served in the ARMY ROTC and earned a history degree. After college,...

Tracy Van Bracewell

Tracy Van Bracewell

Oct 26, 2022

Tracy Van Bracewell, a lifelong resident of Clarkston, Ga, went home to be the Lord suddenly on October 26, 2022. He is survived by his two children, his son Drew Bracewell (Clarkston, Ga), and daughter Sarah Estler (Sean) (Hixson, Tn). Grandchildren: Noah Bracewell, and Zula Bracewell (Cumming, Ga). Parents: Ronald and Lorraine Bracewell (Clarkston, Ga). Brothers: Dale Bracewell (Lori)...

Evelyn Klaas Powell

Evelyn Klaas Powell

Oct 26, 2022

Promotion To Glory—Major Evelyn Powell

Major Evelyn Klaas Powell

Major Evelyn Klaas Powell was Promoted To Glory on October 26, 2022, at the age of 83, following a lingering illness.

Evelyn Gwendolyn Klaas was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on October 13, 1939, to Colonels James and Ethel Klaas....

Roger Carlton Hendry

Roger Carlton Hendry

Oct 26, 2022

Roger Carlton Hendry, 75, of Lawrenceville passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, after a 3 ½ year valiant battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. He was born on February 25, 1947, in West Point, Georgia to the late Margie and Carlton O’Neal Hendry.

Roger, after attending both Brown and Therrell high schools in Atlanta, went on...

Charles Hubert Almand

Charles Hubert Almand

Oct 25, 2022

Funeral services for Charles Hubert Almand of Lawrenceville, Georgia, retired owner of Georgia Blue Print Company will be at 10:30am on Thursday, October 27 at Wages & Sons Funeral Home, Gwinnett Chapel in Lawrenceville, Georgia with burial in East View Cemetery in Conyers, Georgia. Rev. Richard Sims will officiate. Mr. Almand passed away peacefully at the age of 93...

Leonard R. Carothers

Leonard R. Carothers

Oct 24, 2022

Petty Officer 3rd Class Leonard ‘Lenny’ Raynold Carothers, Sr., 95 passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife, Carol, and family at his Lawrenceville, GA, home on 10/24/22.

Lenny was a decorated veteran who served in WW2. Lenny was born on 8/24/1927 in Newark, OH, to his parents, Reginald ‘Reggie’ and Anna. When living in Lancaster, OH, he...

Nancy Yeager Gray

Nancy Yeager Gray

Oct 23, 2022

Nancy Yeager Gray, age 79, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, died of Alzheimer’s on October 23, 2022. Nancy was born in Miami, Florida, on September 9, 1943, to Charles Gordon Yeager and Sara Landrum Yeager. Nancy was delighted at age five to gain an “older sister” when Sara’s youngest sister Patricia (then ten) came to live with them.

While...

Bhagwandeen Nandlall

Bhagwandeen Nandlall

Oct 23, 2022

Our dearly beloved Bhagwandeen (Bhaggy) Nandlall, aged 60, departed this earthly life on Sunday October 23, 2022, in the comfort of his home, at Dacula, Georgia, USA.

Bhaggy, as he was fondly called, was born on March 16, 1962, to the late Ramrattie & Boodram Nandlall in La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast, Guyana, South America. He spent...

Claudia Stroud Dickens

Claudia Stroud Dickens

Oct 23, 2022

A memorial service for Claudia Stroud Dickens will be at 2:00PM on Thursday, November 10, 2022, at Wages & Sons Funeral Home in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Peter O’Neill, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Bible Church in Lilburn, Georgia, will officiate. Claudia passed away at Accent Care Hospice in Cumming, Georgia on Sunday, October 23, 2022, following a stroke.

She...

Jay Scott Kaplan

Jay Scott Kaplan

Oct 22, 2022

“Jay would like to let you know that his work here is done. He received a call…a sort of offer you can’t refuse…for an appointment from which he will not be returning. This assignment comes with a huge sign-on bonus, a reunion with his father Lenny, his Aunt Ellen, and his grandparents: Papa Bennie & Grandma Rosie, among other...

Stephen Henry Jones

Stephen Henry Jones

Oct 20, 2022

Stephen Henry Jones, a proud retired Army Veteran who resided in Lawrenceville, GA and formerly Solsbery, IN, passed suddenly, but peacefully at 4:50 am on October 20, 2022. He went on to be with Our Lord and Savior, Jesus along with other family members.

He was predeceased by: his Mother, Ann R. Jones of Bloomington, IN; his...

David Brian Casey

David Brian Casey

Oct 19, 2022

David Brian Casey, age 64, left this world to be with his Lord and Savior on October 19, 2022 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, GA after suffering a lengthy illness with heart failure. Brian was born November 11, 1957 in Atlanta to Lottie Ewing Casey and Jesse Lee Casey. He grew up in Lilburn, GA, graduating in 1975...

Cheryl Hancock Smithie

Cheryl Hancock Smithie

Oct 15, 2022

Cheryl Hancock Smithie, 68, of Marietta, Ga., died October 15, 2022, after a lengthy illness. She was born in Quitman, Ga. to James David Hancock and Mary Alice Collins Hancock. She attended school in Quitman and worked for years at Quitman Manufacturing, among many other places. She left South Georgia in 2012 to follow her daughter’s career to Atlanta....

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