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Forsyth, GA Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Forsyth, Georgia, Monroe County, & Surrounding Areas.

Debra Ann Watkins

Debra Ann Watkins

May 25, 2020

Debra Ann Watkins passed away Monday, May 25, 2020. Private funeral services will be held Thursday, May 28, 2020. Pastor Darrell Corbin and Rev. Ruth Gravitt will officiate.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there will not be a formal family visitation. 

Debra, the daughter of the late Oliver Jack Johnson and Margarette Beatrice Moore Johnson was born October 28, 1957,...

Jeffrey Guy Barker

Jeffrey Guy Barker

May 24, 2020

Jeffrey Guy Barker passed away Sunday, May 24, 2020 at Upson Regional Medical Center, Thomaston, GA. He was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Culloden, Ga. He is a graduate of Mary Persons High School, Forsyth, GA and a retired poultry farmer in Culloden GA.Jeffrey is survived by his daughter and her husband, Brooke and Andrew Eck, his...

Audrey Pippin Little

Audrey Pippin Little

May 23, 2020

Audrey Clarice Pippin Little passed away Saturday, May 23, 2020. A private graveside service will be held Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at Monroe Hills Memorial Gardens.  Rev. Franklin Etheridge will officiate. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there will not be a family visitation. 

Audrey, the daughter of the late Gus Rudisill Pippin and Alice Elizabeth Roquemore Smith was born June...

Donald Eugene Bostick

Donald Eugene Bostick

May 23, 2020

Donald Eugene Bostick of 357 Candler Drive, Macon, GA passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 23, 2020 at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA.  He was born and raised in Juliette, GA March 19, 1936.  He loved the Juliette Community and lived there the majority of his life.

Mr. Bostick was predeceased by his parents, Curtis E. Bostick and Vilula L....

John Joseph Ptak, Jr.

John Joseph Ptak, Jr.

May 19, 2020

John Joseph Ptak Jr. went home to be with the Lord on May 19, 2020 following a battle with cancer. Services will be held at a later date.

Preceding in death his grandparents, Dominick and Josephine Fiduccia, his parents, John Joseph Ptak Sr. and Josephine Fiduccia Ptak; son John Joseph Ptak ll;  one brother Robert James Ptak.

A member of Maynard Baptist...

Sarah Shirley Pilkington

Sarah Shirley Pilkington

May 15, 2020

Sarah Shirley Taylor Pilkington passed away Friday, May 15, 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service for family will be held Monday, May 18, 2020, in Andersonville National Cemetery with no formal visitation.  

Mrs. Pilkington, the daughter of the late Russell Homer Smith and Virginia LaVerne Wheeler Smith was born August 6, 1935, in Mobile, Alabama. Her...

Earl E. Collins

Earl E. Collins

May 15, 2020

Earl E. Collins, 82, of Dry Branch, passed away on May 15, 2020. Services will be held at a later date.

He was born in Wilkinson County, but lived most of his life in Macon and later moved to Dry Branch. He graduated from Dudley Hughes High School and went on to serve in the Army. He retired from the...

Barbara Goggans Waldrop

Barbara Goggans Waldrop

May 13, 2020

Barbara Anne Goggans Waldrop, age 93, of Forsyth, Georgia, died of Covid-19 on Wednesday, May 13, 2020.

Barbara was born May 25, 1926, in Cabiness, Monroe County, Georgia to Mary Florence (Fayr) Watts Goggans and Edward Littleton Goggans.

She was preceded in death by her spouse, Lewis Neal Waldrop in 2009.

Barbara graduated from Mary Persons High School in 1942. She...

Ronnie Dale Walters

Ronnie Dale Walters

May 10, 2020

Ronnie Dale Walters passed away Sunday, May 10, 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service for family will be held Saturday, May 16, 2020 in Dames Ferry Baptist Church Cemetery with no formal visitation.  Rev. Bryan Moore will officiate.

Ronnie, the son of the late Dale Walters and Jeanne Chriswisser Walters was born October 14, 1944...

Ruby Gossett Champion

Ruby Gossett Champion

May 9, 2020

Ruby Estelle Gossett Champion passed away Saturday, May 9, 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service for family will be held Tuesday, May 12, 2020 in Fairview United Methodist Church Cemetery with no formal visitation.  Stake President Dennis Appleby will officiate.

Mrs. Champion, the daughter of the late Joseph Jefferson Gossett and Pauline Estelle Ruark Gossett...

Rev. Clyde Bennett

Rev. Clyde Bennett

May 5, 2020

Rev. Clyde Bennett passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2020.  Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service for family will be held Thursday, May 7, 2020 in Greenwood Cemetery in Barnesville, Georgia with no formal visitation. Rev. Marty Leverette will officiate.

Mr. Bennett, the son of the late Vondvia Bennett and Fay Harris Bennett, was born June 7,...

Linda Scott Ramage

Linda Scott Ramage

May 4, 2020

Linda Lee Scott Ramage passed away Monday, May 4, 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service for family will be held Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Monroe Hills Memorial Gardens with no formal visitation.  Rev. Debbie Lefevers will officiate. 

Mrs. Ramage, the daughter of the late James Kermit Scott and Elnora Blackburn Scott was born April 19,...

Frances Cheek Agnew

Frances Cheek Agnew

May 3, 2020

Frances Rebecca Cheek Agnew passed away Sunday, May 3, 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, a private graveside service for family will be held Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in East Juliette Baptist Church Cemetery, with no formal visitation.  Rev. Mark Goolsby will officiate. 

Mrs. Agnew, the daughter of the late Herbert Lee Cheek and Myrtle Ree Beasley Cheek was...

Ray Lechtenberg

Ray Lechtenberg

May 1, 2020

Raymond Alfred Lechtenberg, 67, of Forsyth, Georgia, passed away on May 1st, 2020 from lung cancer. Services and burial will be private.Ray was predeceased by his parents, John and Louise, his wife Linda, and siblings Regina, Rita and Ralph. He is survived by his son, Kacee Andrew Lechtenberg and his three siblings, Rose Ann, Ruth and Ronald.Raymond will live on...

Olin Trammell

Olin Trammell

Apr 30, 2020

Lewis Olin Trammell Sr., 84, went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday, April 30, 2020. He was born at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, GA on October 8, 1935, and was a veteran of the National Guard.

 Mr. Trammell, also known affectionately as Olin, Big O, Daddy, Papa T., and Boss, was the patriarch of a...

Margaret Blackmon Nicholson

Margaret Blackmon Nicholson

Apr 22, 2020

Margaret Blackmon Nicholson passed away Wednesday, April 22, 2020. A private family graveside service will be held Friday, April 24, 2020 in Salem Cemetery in Upson County.  Dr. Jeff Morgan will officiate. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there will not be a family visitation. 

Mrs. Nicholson, the daughter of the late Jake Blackmon and Maggie Waldroup Blackmon was born August...

Barnes O'Neal

Barnes O'Neal

Apr 20, 2020

Oscar Barnes O’Neal of Griffin passed away on Monday, April 20, 2020.  He was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on May 3, 1936.  Mr. O’Neal was preceded in death by his parents, Henry Clay and Mabel Jean Barnes O’Neal and brother, Henry Clay O’Neal, Jr. 

Mr. O’Neal served in the United States Army and was a graduate of Fitzgerald...

Rosanne Wilson Jerkins Thompson

Rosanne Wilson Jerkins Thompson

Apr 12, 2020

Rosanne Wilson Jerkins Thompson, 74, of Forsyth, Georgia, passed away at her home on April 12, 2020 following a valiant fight against cancer.  A family graveside service will be held at this time, with a memorial service to follow at a later date.

Mrs. Thompson, the daughter of the late Nadine Shaw Wilson and Howell Montgomery Wilson, Jr., was born...

William Harrell Newton

William Harrell Newton

Apr 6, 2020

William Harrell Newton passed away Monday, April 6, 2020. A private graveside service will be held in Greenwood Cemetery, Barnesville, Georgia, with Steve Sharpe officiating.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there will not be a family visitation.

Mr. Newton, the son of the late William Clarence Newton and Myrtice Jewel Daniel Newton was born March 31, 1940, in Barnesville, Georgia. ...

Johnny Edward Turnbow

Johnny Edward Turnbow

Apr 3, 2020

Johnny Edward Turnbow passed away Friday, April 3, 2020.  A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Johnny, the son of the late Teddy Joe Turnbow, Sr. and Vicky Elizabeth Marsh Turnbow was born April 7, 1967, in Forsyth, Georgia. 

Johnny is survived by his children, Caleb Turnbow, Mary Elizabeth Turnbow and Noah Joe Turnbow; brother, Joey Turnbow,...

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