Joan Lamb
Apr 5, 2014
Joan Lois Thomas Lamb, 70, of Franklin, passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2014. Born in Macon County, she was the daughter of the late Floyd Thomas and Lois Ledford Thomas. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Mitchell Lamb who died in 2005 and three sisters, Margie, Agnes and Geneva. She was a...
Betty Goude
Apr 5, 2014
Betty Goude went to be with her Lord and Savior peacefully asleep on Saturday, April 05, 2014. She was born in Scranton, SC on December 7, 1929 to Rev. and Mrs. Ernest B. Lee, Pentecostal Holiness ministers. On April 11, 1947 she married Rev. James M. Goude, a Church of God minister. She is predeceased by her mother and father,...
Thomas Fries
Apr 3, 2014
Thomas John Fries, 64, of Franklin, passed away on Thursday, April 3, 2014. Born in Burlington, WI, he was the son of the late Rodney Lewis Fries and Carol Ann Kortendick Fries. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Mary Elizabeth Zitzmann. Thomas was a member of Cowee Baptist Church. He worked in construction....
Helen Bilger
Apr 2, 2014
Helen Drown Bilger, 83, of Franklin, passed away on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Born in Peabody, MA, she was the daughter of the late Henry Eugene Drown and Blanche Bascom Drown. Helen retired from Florida Power where she worked as a data entry operator. She was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church. Helen enjoyed her doll collection (she had...
Vera Harper
Mar 29, 2014
Vera Emma Glover Harper, 94, of Franklin, NC and formerly of Greensboro, Al., died Sat. March 29, 2014. Mrs. Harper was a native of Eutaw, Al, and the daughter of the late Joseph E. Glover and Vera Singley Glover. She was a homemaker; loved spending time with her family and sharing family values with them. She loved to fish, working...
James Conrad Clark
Mar 29, 2014
James Conrad Clark was born June 3, 1943, in Covington County, Mississippi. He is predeceased by his mother and father, Virgil and Bertha Kate Roberts Clark and two brothers who were deceased before his birth. He is survived by his wife, Julia Susan Wallace Clark and three children, Ronald Keith Clark Regelman (Dawn) of Smiths Station AL, and Connie Rochelle...
Gwendolyn Marshall
Mar 24, 2014
Gwendolyn Vaughan Marshall passed away peacefully on Monday, March 24, 2014, at Eckerd Living Center in Highlands, NC. She was born in Lilly, Georgia on April 15, 1927 to James Nunnally Vaughan and Ferol Adams Vaughan. In 1946 while in nursing school at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, she met and married William M. Bowen and became a...
Shirley Raby
Mar 23, 2014
Shirley Pressley Raby, 73, of Franklin, passed away on Sunday, March 23, 2014. Born in Canton, NC, she was the daughter of the late George Earl Pressley and Lola Bailey Pressley. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Buddy Raby, sister, Joyce Haney and husband Richard and nephew, Mike Warren. She was the most...
Daniel Bruce Perry
Mar 22, 2014
Daniel Bruce Perry, 93 of Franklin passed away on Saturday, March 22, 2014. He was a U.S. Army Air Corp Veteran of WWII; member of Junaluskee Masonic Lodge No. 145 and was an Oasis Shriner. Bruce was the owner and operator of Franklin Tool and Mfg. since 1972. He was preceded in death by his wife Anita L. Perry who...
Frank Mason
Mar 20, 2014
Frank H. Mason, 90, of Franklin went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Born in Macon County, he was the son of the late Dan and Ida Hastings Mason. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Julia Chastain and Sarah Hastings of Rabun, GA; four brothers, Earl, Woodrow, J.R. (Bud)...
Terry Waldroop
Mar 19, 2014
Terry Neil Waldroop, 62, of Franklin, died Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Terry was the son of Florence Ledbetter Waldroop Taylor and the late Neil Gilmer Waldroop. He was a barber and a member of Maidens Chapel United Methodist Church. Terry enjoyed hunting, fishing and making music. He once made music at The World's Fair in Knoxville, Tn.. In addition to...
David Lee Williams
Mar 19, 2014
David Lee Williams, Jr., 49 of Franklin, passed away on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Born in Macon County, he was the son of David Lee Williams, Sr. and Vera "Odie" Dills Williams of Franklin. David graduated from South Western Community College and Western Carolina University with a B.S. degree and was a landscaper. David loved music and was a member...
David Stanley
Mar 12, 2014
David Ray Stanley, 49, of Franklin, passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Born in Macon County, he was the son of Stella Webb Stanley and the late Leroy Stanley. David worked for Aaron Pest Control and was a member of First United Methodist Church. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, music and playing the guitar. In addition to his mother, Stella Webb...
Claude Welch
Mar 10, 2014
Claude Welch, 91, of Franklin, passed away on Monday, March 10, 2014. Born in Macon County, he was the son of the late Austin Welch and Pearl Morgan Welch. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Christine Huggins Welch who died April 27, 2010; son, Gary Welch; granddaughter, Claudia Welch Griffith;...
Larry Wilt
Mar 9, 2014
Larry Nelson Wilt, 31, of Franklin, died Sunday, March 9, 2014. Born in St. Petersburg, FL, he was the son of Nancy Useted Wilt and the late Jerold Nelson Hope. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by a half-brother, Joe Hope. Larry worked in housing construction and he enjoyed gardening. In addition to his mother, he...
Donald Eddie Adams
Mar 7, 2014
Donald Eddie Adams, 69, of Carnesville, GA, formerly of Franklin, passed away on Friday, March 7, 2014. Born in Macon County, he was the son of the late Thomas Edgar Adams and Hallie Southards Adams. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Bruce Wayne Adams who died February 20, 2014. Eddie was retired from...
Arbutus Cochran
Mar 4, 2014
Arbutus Young Cochran, 88, of Franklin, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Born in Jackson County, she was the daughter of the late John Young and Lula Ridley Young. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Warren G. Cochran who died in 1998;a son, Bruce Warren Cochran who died in 2000, great granddaughter,...
Freda Bryant
Mar 2, 2014
Freda Hall Bryant passed away on Sunday March 2nd at The Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community in Asheville NC where she had resided for the past 14 years. Freda was born to Dock Allison Hall and Pearl Bradley Hall on August 15th 1925 in the Oak Grove, NC community. She attended Western Carolina College where she received her teacher's certificate and...
Garland Bateman
Mar 1, 2014
Garland Bateman, 95, of Franklin passed away on March 1, 2014 at his home. Born in Nantahala, NC, on December 25, 1918, he was the son of the late T.A. Bateman and Mallie Waters Bateman. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers and sisters, George, Thea, Andrew, Oscar, Claude, Gene, Nannie Morrow, Milam Wilkie and...
Estella Hallmark
Feb 27, 2014
Estella Yvette Hallmark, 52, of Franklin, went to visit Heaven on Thursday, February 27, 2014. Estella's favorite thing is spending time with her Precious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and her favorite place is her prayer closet, where He shows her great and mighty things which she knew not (Jeremiah 33:3). She loves spending time with her family and friends,...
