Obituaries

Wendell Postell

Wendell Postell

Wendell Postell

Mr. Wendell Delos Postell, age 80, of Blue Ridge, passed away Thursday, January 27, 2022, at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital. Wendell was born September 6, 1941, in the Higdon Community of Fannin County. He had a vast work history including owning and operating his own business.
Joanne Poole

Joanne Poole

Joanne Poole

Joanne Deal  Poole, age 89, of Blue Ridge, passed away peacefully at her home Tuesday, February 1, 2022. She was born in Copperhill, May 25, 1932, to the late Ira Jefferson Deal and Ida Pless Deal. She was a member of McCaysville Gospel Tabernacle.
Bobby Stewart

Bobby Stewart

Bobby Stewart

Bobby Hanson Stewart, age 77, of Mineral Bluff, passed away on January 22, 2022, at his home. He was born in Gilmer County, Georgia, to the late Hanson Robert and Thelma Ruth Beaver Stewart. Bobby served in the United States Marine Corp Reserve.
Wendell Patterson

Wendell Patterson

Wendell Patterson

Jonathan Wendell Patterson, age 85, of Blue Ridge, passed away Sunday, January 30, 2022, at his home. He was born January 11, 1937, in Blue Ridge, to the late Harschel Patterson and Bonnie Callihan Patterson. He worked for 45 years as an auto body technician for Anderson Hyde Auto.
Dot Messer

Dot Messer

Dot Messer

Dorothy “Dot”  Jean Messer, age 79, of Blue Ridge, passed away Thursday, February 3, 2022. Mrs. Messer was born  July 18, 1942, in Mineral Bluff, to the late Charles Arthur Clore and Lassie Ferguson Clore.
Judith Goode

Judith Goode

Judith Goode

Judith Marie Goode, age 80, of Turtletown, passed away January 19, 2022, in the Fannin Regional Hospital. She was born in Michigan, February 1, 1941, to the late Justin True and Mary Bell Tucker Gortney. She was retired from Shaw Industries as a Twister Operator.
Cody Williamson

Cody Williamson

Cody Williamson

Christopher Cody Williamson, age 39, of Jasper, Georgia, passed away January 26, 2022, in the Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper, Georgia. Cody was an Interventional Radiological Technologist with the North Fulton Wellstar Hospital.
Mardee Kauffman

Mardee Kauffman

Mardee Kauffman

Mrs. Margaret (Mardee) Kauffman, age 96, passed away peacefully in Blue Ridge, February 5, 2022. Mardee was born in Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1925, the youngest of four children born to Charles and Blanche.
Heather and Richard Gazaway

Heather and Richard Gazaway

Richard and Heather Gazaway

Richard Andersen Gazaway Jr., age 38, and Heather Nichole Stover Gazaway, age 35, of Blue Ridge,  went home to be with the Lord Friday, January 28, 2022. They were members of Damascus Baptist Church and were married there in 2006.
Paul Berger

Paul Berger

Paul Berger

Paul M Berger, age 90, of Morganton, passed away Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at his home after a 19 month battle with cancer. Mr. Berger was born December 27, 1931, in Noble, Illinois, to the late Frank Berger and the late Mildred Bruner Berger.