Category: Obituaries

Mrs. Effie Thornton Crawford, age 91 of South Sage Street, Toccoa, Ga passed away Monday, March 25, 2024 in Alma, GA. following an extended illness. Celebration of Life services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 2024 at the Crossroad Baptist Church, Toccoa, Ga.  Interment will follow in the church cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 6-7:00 p.m. Friday, […]

Mr. Simon Matthew Barker, age 18, of Toccoa passed away Monday, March 11, 2024. Born August 31, 2005 in Toccoa, he was a son of Thomas and Joanie Pressley Barker. Family members in addition to his parents include his sister, Daisy Barker, and brothers, Gerald Barker, Elijah Barker and Isaiah Barker. The family will receive friends at the mortuary from […]

Mrs. Martha Ann Brown Henry age 88, of Baldwin, GA, passed away Saturday, March 23, 2024 at The Oaks – Scenic View in Baldwin, GA. Born on November 23, 1935 in Toccoa, she was the daughter of the late William Taft and Lena Bell Verner Brown. Ann grew up in Toccoa.  She was a Toccoa High School cheerleader and majorette, […]

Mrs. Martha Ann Brown Henry age 88, of Baldwin, GA, passed away Saturday, March 23, 2024 at The Oaks – Scenic View in Baldwin, GA. Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time. Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers and sign the online guestbook at www.whitlockmortuary.net Whitlock Mortuary, Funerals and Cremations is honored to be serving the […]

Mrs. Mary Ruth Whitworth Ausborn, age 80 of Toccoa passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Pruitt Health Toccoa. A daughter of the late Luther and Eva Claudine Walters Whitworth, she was born March 5, 1944 in Stephens County where she lived all her life. She was employed with Wright Manufacturing, The City of Toccoa, and retired from Patterson Pump with […]

Mr. Fred W. Rickman age 77 of Toccoa passed away Thursday March 21, 2024 at Lake Park Nursing and Rehab in Indian Trail, North Carolina. A son of the late Fred and Drucey Williams Rickman, he was born December 2, 1946 in Toccoa, Georgia where he lived all of his life. He was a member of the Toccoa Amateur Radio Society and the Eastanollee Amateur […]

Mrs. Maria Guadalupe Cepeda Lerma, age 74, of Toccoa passed away Tuesday, March 19,2024 at Northeast Georgia Medical in Gainesville.   Born October 4,1949 in Mexico, she was the daughter of the late Porfirio and Maria de la luz Gonzalez Cepeda.   Maria was a homemaker and of the Christian faith.   Family members include her husband, Gerardo Lerma; her […]

Ottice B. Patterson, a kind, gentle man of God left his earthly home and entered the gates of heaven on Monday March 18,2024.  Within a week he would have turned 97 years of age. OB or “Mr. Pat” as many in our community called him was born March 25, 1927.  He was the third child of Ottice Bascom Patterson and […]

Mr. Richard “Rick” Calvin Drake, age 78 of Mountain View Road, Toccoa passed away Sunday, March 17,2024 at the Stephens County Hospital. A son of the late Glenn Drake, Sr. and Catherine Alice Parr Drake, he was born November 19,1945 in Washington, D.C., having lived most of his life in Toccoa.  He was a retired surveyor.  He was a loving husband, father […]

Mr. Kenneth Lewis Sewell, age 95, of Toccoa passed away Sunday, March 17,2024 at his home.  He was born on March 5,1929 to P.J. and Inez Smith Sewell. He grew up in Lavonia, GA and was a veteran of the Korean Conflict.  He moved to Toccoa and established Sewell Furniture and Appliance Company.  He and his wife, Mary Jo, remained […]