Local obituaries for Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home

Apr 16, 2023

Mr. Billy E. Staley, 76, of Grantville, passed away Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Piedmont Newnan Hospital.

Mr. Staley was born April 13, 1947, in Grantville, son of the late Ernest Hubert Staley and Vassie Brown Staley. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, he was later employed on oil rigs, served as a tug...

Apr 15, 2023

Mr. Gerald S. B. Gosdin, 77, of Greenville, passed away Saturday, April 15, 2023, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mr. Gosdin was born November 24, 1945, in LaGrange, son of the late Silven Bernes Gosdin and Cora Dell Robinson Gosdin. A graduate of Troup High School, where he was active in athletics, he retired as an industrial shipping and...

Apr 13, 2023

Mrs. Susan Mary "Suzanne" Hebert, of Hogansville, GA passed away Thursday, April 13, 2023, at her home.

Mrs. Hebert was born November 10, 1949, in Rochester, NY, daughter of the late Robert and Lillian Ewell. A graduate of Bishop-Kearney High School in Rochester, she was employed many years as a distribution manager. She enjoyed Arts and Crafts,...

Apr 13, 2023

MRS. IRA W. KENT

Mrs. Ira Westbrook Kent, 86, of Gay, passed away, Thursday, April 13, 2023 at Piedmont Newnan Hospital.

Born on July 24, 1936, in Mississippi, Mrs. Kent was the daughter of the late Elijah and Maude Lasseter Westbrook. She was a resident of Georgia for the past 34 years and was a...

Apr 12, 2023

Mr. Barry Keith Boyd, 61, of LaGrange, passed away Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at his home.

Born March 23, 1962 in LaGrange, Mr. Boyd lived in Troup and Coweta counties most of his life. He was a manager for Southern Mills in Newnan for many years and was employed at Loy's Office Supplies for the past four...

Apr 11, 2023

Mr. Jerry L. Green, 83, of Grantville, passed away Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Mr. Green was born September 4, 1939, in Atlanta, son of the late Carter Morris Green and Velma Geneva Christian Green. A veteran of service in the U. S. Army, he retired after more than 50 years of...

Apr 7, 2023

Mr. Jerry Wayne Lashley, 79, of LaGrange, passed away Friday, April 7, 2023, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mr. Lashley was born June 20, 1943, in Randolph County, Alabama, son of the late Merna Lashley and Myrtle Stillwell Lashley. A veteran of service in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, he retired from the Army National Guard and...

Apr 5, 2023

Mr. Odis F. Taylor, Jr., 80, of Hogansville, passed away Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at Wellstar Sylvan Grove Hospital in Jackson.

Mr. Taylor was born January 21, 1943, in Atlanta, son of the late Odis Franklin Taylor and Virginia Blount Taylor. He was a retired truck driver and was employed for a number of years by Great...

Apr 4, 2023

Ms. Ann Galloway Long, 85, of Grantville, GA passed away peacefully in the early morning of Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at Avalon Health and Rehabilitation in Newnan, GA.

Ann was born April 16, 1937, daughter of the late Arizona Murphy Galloway and the late D.W. Galloway. Ann, Miss Ann, Annie, or Grams, no matter how you knew...

Apr 1, 2023

Mrs. Rosie M. McNeal, 83, of Sharpsburg, passed away Saturday, April 1, 2023, at her home.

Mrs. McNeal was born January 22, 1940, in Monticello, daughter of the late Volley E. Stephens and Georgia Cravey Stephens. She retired as a lunchroom assistant after serving 23 years in the Fayette County School System and 17 years in the...

Mar 31, 2023

Mr. Larry B. Parker, 77, of Sharpsburg, passed away Friday, March 31, 2023, at his home.

Mr. Parker was born May 6, 1945, in Ft. Payne, Alabama, son of the late Joe Tolbert Parker and Ada Westmoreland Parker. A U.S. Army veteran of service in the Vietnam War, he retired from MARTA after serving as a bus...

Mar 27, 2023

Mr. Edward H. Friend, Sr., 80, of Hogansville, passed away Monday, March 27, 2023, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mr. Friend was born July 15, 1942, at Ft. Benning, son of the late Joseph Edward Friend and Leila Lucille Pritchard Friend. He retired as a Sergeant after serving as a conservation officer for the Game and Fish Division of...

Mar 24, 2023

Jonathan Paul Lambeth, 48, of LaGrange, passed away Friday, March 24, 2023, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mr. Lambeth was born May 26, 1974, in LaGrange and was a lifelong resident of Troup County. He was employed as a residential construction carpenter and enjoyed playing and collecting guitars.

Survivors in addition to his daughter include his mother,...

Mar 21, 2023

Mr. Richard E. Batchelor, 74, of LaGrange, passed away Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center.

Mr. Batchelor was born April 24, 1948, in Troup County, son of the late Steve Ellis Batchelor and Minnie Lee Gordy Batchelor. An Army veteran of the Vietnam War, he was awarded a Bronze Star and two Purple...

Mar 18, 2023

Mrs. Debbie Courtney Staley, 67, of Hogansville, passed away Saturday, March 18, 2023, at Emory Midtown Hospital in Atlanta.

Debbie was born December 10, 1955, in Newnan, daughter of the late James Benjamin "Jimmy" Courtney and Novelene Denney Courtney. A resident of Hogansville most of her life, she was a talented floral designer, owned and operated Flower...

Mar 17, 2023

Mrs. June Barber Lloyd, 82, of Pine Mountain, passed away Friday, March 17, 2023, at her home.

Mrs. Lloyd was born June 8, 1940, in Sarasota, Florida, daughter of the late Paul and Della Presley. A resident of Troup County most of her life, she served as a bus driver for the Troup County School System for...

Mar 17, 2023

Sherrie Cranston Meacham, 70, of Lebanon, Oregon and a former resident of Hogansville, passed away Friday, March 17, 2023.

Mrs. Meacham was born January 25, 1953, in Miami, Florida, daughter of the late Freddie Howington Cranston and the late Buford Cranston. She moved to Hogansville in 1959 and was a 1971 graduate of Hogansville High School. Sherrie...

Mar 16, 2023

REVEREND DR. BILLY W. BURKS

Reverend Dr. Billy W. Burks, 83 of Newnan passed away Thursday, March 16, 2023 at The Claiborne at Newnan Lakes.

Born October 27, 1939 in Warren, Arkansas, Dr. Burks was the son of the late Clyde and Pauline Cooper Burks. A veteran of service in the U. S. Army for...

Mar 13, 2023

Mr. Randall Gene Sizemore, 71 of Hogansville, passed away Monday, March 13, 2023, at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center.

Mr. Sizemore was born March 15, 1951 in Pelham, Georgia. He was an electrician by trade, having lived and worked in Florida for many years, before making his home in Hogansville for the past 15 years. Mr. Sizemore...

Mar 8, 2023

Richard Alvin Cunningham, age 76, passed away on Wednesday, the 8th of March, 2023.

Richard was born on July 22, 1946, in San Antonio, TX. He grew up in Miami, Florida, until he was 13 years old and then moved to Hogansville, Georgia. He joined the US Army in 1964 and studied at the Defense Language Institute...