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