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Harvey Lee Stanley

Harvey Lee Stanley

Oct 19, 2015

Harvey Lee Stanley Augusta, GA - Mr. Harvey Lee Stanley, 73, entered into rest on Monday, October 19, 2015. The funeral service will be Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. in the chapel of Thomas Poteet & Son. Burial will follow in Bellevue Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Saturday beginning at 10:00 A.M. until the time of...

Elizabeth G. Garrison

Elizabeth G. Garrison

Oct 16, 2015

Elizabeth G. Garrison Augusta, GA – Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gambrell Garrison passed away on Friday, October 16, 2015, at Georgia Regents Medical Center. The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 22, 2015, from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. at Thomas Poteet & Son Funeral Directors, 214 Davis Rd., Augusta, GA 30907. A private graveside service will be held at a...

Donald Keith Stacy

Donald Keith Stacy

Oct 13, 2015

Donald Keith Stacy Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Mr. Donald “Don” Keith Stacy, 84, loving husband to the late Zenith Stacy. Don was a member of New Hope Worship Center. He was a Veteran of the United States Navy serving in the Korean War. Family members include his sons: Donald Stacy, II (Linda), Phillip Stacy...

Frances R. Merry

Frances R. Merry

Oct 12, 2015

Frances R. Merry Augusta, GA-Frances Robinson Merry of Augusta died Monday, October 12, 2015. A graveside funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, October 17, at Westover Memorial Park with the Rev. George Muir of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church officiating. The family will receive friends from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Thomas Poteet and Son, 214 Davis Road,...

Virginia P. Harbin

Virginia P. Harbin

Oct 11, 2015

Virginia P. Harbin Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Sunday, October 11, 2015, Mrs. Virginia P. Harbin, 86, wife of the late Mr. Fred Bartow Harbin. Mrs. Harbin was a native of Atlanta, but lived in Augusta most of her life. She was a homemaker and a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was an active member of Woodlawn Baptist...

Rufus L. Belding, Jr.

Rufus L. Belding, Jr.

Oct 11, 2015

Rufus L. Belding, Jr. Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Sunday, October 11, 2015, Mr. Rufus L. Belding, Jr., 91, husband to Eusteen Timmerman Belding. Mr. Belding was a lifelong resident of Augusta. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at age 17 and was wounded in the Battle of Guam; receiving a Purple Heart. He promised that he...

Faye McKinney Stanford

Faye McKinney Stanford

Oct 10, 2015

Faye McKinney Stanford Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Saturday, October 10, 2015, Mrs. Faye McKinney Stanford, 68, wife of the late Mr. Gerald Herman Stanford. Mrs. Stanford was born in Charleston, SC but spent most of her life in Augusta, graduating from Butler High School in 1965. She was an active member of First Baptist Church of Augusta and...

Kristy Stevens Jones

Kristy Stevens Jones

Oct 10, 2015

Kristy Stevens Jones Evans, GA- Kristy Stevens Jones, 30, entered into peace on October 10, 2015. She was the loving wife of Lee Jones and mommy to Kyleigh Hope Jones. Kristy was born in Augusta, Ga on December 14, 1984 to Jeff and Robin Stevens. She graduated from Evans High School in 2003. She worked at the Georgia Center for...

Alice Myra Millicent Gallagher

Alice Myra Millicent Gallagher

Oct 9, 2015

Alice Myra Millicent Gallagher Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Friday, October 09, 2015, Mrs. Alice Myra Millicent Gallagher, 84, wife of 47 years to the late Mr. Jim Gallagher. Mrs. Gallagher was a native and lifelong resident of Augusta, GA. She was a member at St. Mary on the Hill Catholic Church. Mrs. Gallagher worked as an Administrative Assistant...

Hubert E. Exumé, II

Hubert E. Exumé, II

Oct 9, 2015

Hubert E. Exumé, II Augusta, GA – Mr. Hubert “Erny” Ernest Exumé, II, 34, entered into rest Friday, October 9, 2015. Erny was a 1999 graduate of Greenbrier High School. He attended Georgia State University and was voted Mr. Freshman. He was also elected as the Most Outstanding Emergent Leader in his freshman class at Georgia State School of Business....

Dawn Cato Tussey Richard

Dawn Cato Tussey Richard

Oct 7, 2015

Dawn Cato Tussey Richard Hephzibah, GA – Entered into rest Wednesday, October 7, 2015, Mrs. Dawn Cato Tussey Richard, 55. Mrs. Richard was a native and lifelong resident of Augusta, GA. She was a member of First Christian Church in Augusta and a teacher at Diamond Lakes Elementary. Family members include mother: Catherine “Kitty” Cato; daughter: Terra T. Newsome and...

Betty Bentley

Betty Bentley

Oct 5, 2015

Betty Bentley Augusta, GA - Betty Hadamuscin Bentley, 67, of Augusta, passed away Monday October 5, 2015. Betty was a native of Willard, OH, having relocated to Augusta with her late husband Earnie Bentley. She retired as an employee of the state of Georgia after 30 years of service. She is survived by her father, John Hadamuscin, son Brian (Heather),...

James O. Brady

James O. Brady

Oct 4, 2015

James O. Brady Augusta, GA – JAMES O. BRADY, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (retired), entered into eternal rest at Brandon Wilde, Evans, GA, on October 4, 2015. He is survived by his beloved wife of 69 years, Eleanor Thomas Brady; daughter Barbara Brady Bice (Ronald) of Martinez, GA; son, James Christopher Brady (Rebecca) of Alexandria, VA; and grandchildren Jonathan Bice...

Joseph J. Rogers

Joseph J. Rogers

Oct 3, 2015

Joseph J. Rogers Augusta, GA - Joseph J. Rogers, a leader in the economic and community development of Augusta, entered into rest Saturday, October 3, 2015. Mr. Rogers, one of the original employees of the Procter and Gamble Augusta Plant, was known as “Mr. Tide” by those who remember him as a spokesman for the company. He was a long...

Lemuel Foy Waters, Jr.

Lemuel Foy Waters, Jr.

Sep 30, 2015

Lemuel Waters Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Wednesday, September 30, 2015, Mr. Lemuel Foy Waters, Jr., 77, loving husband to Janice Kinsey Waters. Mr. Waters was employed at Georgia Power for 30 years in various locations and has been retired for 21 years. He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, his true passion was his children and grandchildren, and he was...

Joe D. Brown

Joe D. Brown

Sep 29, 2015

Joe D. Brown Augusta, GA – Joe D. Brown entered into rest on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 with his beloved wife at his side. Mr. Brown was born in 1936 in Swainsboro, GA. Don served in the Navy and afterwards began his long career as a pilot with Augusta Aviation until his retirement. Don was a loving husband a, father,...

Colonel Carter E. Hudson (Ret.)

Colonel Carter E. Hudson (Ret.)

Sep 29, 2015

Colonel Carter E. Hudson (Ret.) Augusta, GA – Colonel (Retired) Carter E. Hudson of Augusta died on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at the age of 78. He was born in Cullman, AL. The funeral service will be at Cullman Heritage Funeral Home Chapel in Cullman, AL, Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 2:00 P.M. with Rev. Don Ware and Max Carter...

Edward Skinner, Jr.

Edward Skinner, Jr.

Sep 29, 2015

Edward Skinner Augusta, GA – The man who helped lead Augusta’s newspapers and the newspaper industry through the innovation of offset printing and into the computerized world has died at the age of 86, Edward B. Skinner Jr., 719 Chipandie Drive, Augusta, semi-retired vice president of Morris Communications Company, died at his residence. Mr. Skinner not only rose from a...

Louise Patterson Gambill Bussey

Louise Patterson Gambill Bussey

Sep 28, 2015

Louise Patterson Gambill Bussey North Augusta, SC – Mrs. Louise Patterson Gambill Bussey, 59, loving wife of Ray Bussey, entered into rest on Monday, September 28, 2015 at her home. Mrs. Bussey was a mother of four children and grandmother of nine. She was born in Augusta, the fifth of eight children. She graduated from Aquinas High School in 1974....

Constance Elizabeth Hall

Constance Elizabeth Hall

Sep 28, 2015

Constance Elizabeth Hall Augusta, GA – Entered into rest Monday, September 28, 2015, Mrs. Constance Elizabeth Hall, 84, wife of 56 years to the late Mr. David Emmett Hall. Mrs. Hall was a native of Hartsville, SC but lived in Augusta for the past 56 years. Family members include son: Emmett Hall and his wife Bobbie; daughter: Karen Newman and...