Local obituaries for Claude A. McKibben and Sons Funeral Home

Dec 4, 2022

Mr. Evander Lowry, 82, of Luthersville, passed away Sunday, December 4, 2022, at his home.

Mr. Lowry was born July 6, 1940, in Union Chapel, NC, son of the late Alamander and Addie Wilkins Lowry. A resident of Georgia for more than fifty years, he was employed in road and bridge construction and at the General Motors...

Nov 30, 2022

Mrs. Mary L. Sullivan, 66, of Sonora, Kentucky, passed away Wednesday November 30, 2022 at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Mrs. Sullivan was born December 12, 1955, in Hogansville, daughter of the late James Ralph Matthews and Betty Odom Matthews. She had been employed as a waitress.

In addition to her parents, she was...

Nov 29, 2022

Gary Stanley Davis, 82, passed away peacefully at his home in Talbot County, Georgia, on November 29, 2022, after a brief battle with lung cancer. Born on April 13, 1940, in East Point, Georgia, he was the son of the late John Henry Davis Sr. and Lois Estelle Davidson Davis.

The first in his family to earn...

Nov 29, 2022

Mr. Fred Higgins, 84, of Hogansville, passed away, Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at his home.

Mr. Higgins was born November 1, 1938, in the Lone Oak Community of Meriwether County, son of the late William Grady Higgins and Bertha Velma Lee Higgins. A veteran of service in the U.S. Army, he retired from United Airlines after 39...

Nov 28, 2022

Mrs. Delores Ann Martin Arrington, 73, of LaGrange, passed away Monday, November 28, 2022, at her home.

Mrs. Arrington was born August 23, 1949, in Atlanta, daughter of the late James A. Martin, Sr. and Elizabeth Pearson Martin. She spent her early years in LaGrange, earned her Bachelor of Nursing degree from LaGrange College, and worked as...

Nov 28, 2022

Mr. John Ransom Cathey, 84, of Monroe, passed away Monday, November 28, 2022, at Abbey Hospice in Social Circle.

Mr. Cathey was born on June 6, 1938, in Asheville, North Carolina, son of the late John Mack Cathey and Ethel Mae King Cathey. He earned a Masters degree in education from Virginia Tech, began as a technical...

Nov 27, 2022

Mrs. Shirley O'Neal McCarty, 87, of LaGrange, passed away Sunday, November 27, 2022, at her home.

Mrs. McCarty was born September 13, 1935 in Grantville, daughter of the late Harold and Zilla Farr O'Neal. Before making her home in LaGrange, she lived in many locations during her late husband's twenty-year military career. She retired from BellSouth and...

Nov 25, 2022

Joel Warren "Joey" Duffey, 50, of Blairsville, passed away Friday, November 25, 2022, at Hospice of Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Braselton.

Mr. Duffey was born June 10, 1972, in Albany and lived in LaGrange most of his life before making his home in Blairsville ten years ago. He had been employed as an electrician and enjoyed...

Nov 24, 2022

Mr. Gregory Mark Rice, 60, of LaGrange, passed away Thursday, November 24, 2022, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mr. Rice was born January 22, 1962, in LaGrange, son of the late Doil Rice and Annie Elizabeth Coker Rice. A veteran of service in the Georgia Army National Guard, he was employed for a number of years by Botex Manufacturing...

Nov 23, 2022

Mr. Richard L. "Rickey" Banks, 64, of the Lone Oak Community of Meriwether County, passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at Piedmont Newnan Hospital.

Mr. Banks was born April 3, 1958, in Ft. Benning, son of the late Lewis Banks and Johnnie Mae Elder Banks Melton. A multi-faceted entrepreneur, he owned and operated Highway 29 Grocery for...

Nov 23, 2022

Mrs. Marie Hanners Johnson, 69, of Bluffton, South Carolina and formerly of Hogansville, passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2022, at her home.

Mrs. Johnson was born December 9, 1952, in LaGrange, daughter of the late Earl J. Hanners and Doris Edwards Hanners. A resident of Hogansville most of her life, she was a 1971 graduate of Hogansville...

Nov 19, 2022

Mr. Vestal W. Thomas, 79, of LaGrange, passed away Saturday, November 19, 2022, at Sacred Journey Hospice in Newnan.

Mr. Thomas was born October 29, 1943, in LaGrange, son of the late Horace Wortham Thomas and Pauline Denham Thomas Butler. A resident of Las Vegas, Nv for a number of years, he retired from the Retail Clerks...

Nov 19, 2022

Mr. Charles Morris Graham, Sr. 81, of Jonesboro, passed away, Saturday, November 19, 2022, at Piedmont Henry Hospital.

Mr. Graham was born May 13, 1941, in Coweta County, son of the late William Glenn Graham and Zelna Bass Graham. A resident of Jonesboro for many years, he served as vice-president of DeKalb Exchange Bank in Decatur before...

Nov 19, 2022

Mr. Frank V. MacNear, 72, of Hogansville, passed away Saturday, November 19, 2022, at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center.

Mr. MacNear was born September 8, 1950, in Newburg, New York, son of the late Frederick and Mary Jones MacNear. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of service in the Vietnam War, he was a member of the American...

Nov 18, 2022

Mr. David Noel Henderson, 61, of Newnan, passed away Friday, November 18, 2022, at Piedmont Newnan Hospital.

Mr. Henderson was born March 3, 1961, in Atlanta, son of the late James Thomas Henderson and Evelyn Vaudine Hulgan Henderson. Employed for many years as an auto body technician, he was very mechanically inclined and was known to tinker...

Nov 18, 2022

Mr. Michael Henry Stephens, 61, of Forest Park, passed away Friday, November 18, 2022, at Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale.

Mr. Stephens was born August 31, 1961, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, son of the late Doris Stanford Stephens and Carmel T. Stephens. He was raised in Stockbridge, attended Stockbridge High School, and was employed for...

Nov 15, 2022

Mr. Charles L. Gardiner, 80, of LaGrange, passed away Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mr. Gardiner was born September 21, 1942, in Cody, Nebraska, son of the late Ralph Gardiner and Opal Homan Gardiner. A veteran of service in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, he was a former resident of Hapeville and lived...

Nov 6, 2022

Tammy Lynn Pressley, 53, of LaGrange, passed away Sunday, November 6, 2022, at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center.

Ms. Pressley was born June 28, 1969, in LaGrange and was a lifelong resident of Troup County. She was employed at Milliken and Company for many years and had also worked with her son, Brian, at his business, Southern...

Oct 31, 2022

Mr. William R. "Bill" Burke, 75, of LaGrange, passed away Monday, October 31, 2022, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Mr. Burke was born January 4, 1947, in LaGrange, son of the late Riley and Frankie Mae Pittenger Burke. A veteran of service in the U.S. Marine Corps, he retired as a respiratory therapist from West Georgia...

Oct 30, 2022

Mrs. Lynn McKee, 75, of Hogansville, passed away Sunday, October 30, 2022, at Hospice LaGrange.

Mrs. McKee was born September 30, 1947, in Alconbury, England, daughter of the late Harold Frederick Groves and Violet Evelyn Crow Groves. Before making her home in the United States, she was employed by the British military as a Major's Secretary. She...