Obituaries
Frank Joseph Malinak
Feb 27, 2015
Frank Joseph Malinak passed away peacefully on Friday morning, February 27, 2015. He was 95. Frank was born on January 24, 1920 in Shiner, Texas. The grandson of European immigrants, he grew up in rural Texas during the Great Depression. Frank embarked on what would be a 23 year military career in defense of America during the World War II...
Ray Dowda
Feb 27, 2015
Ray Dowda, age 73, of Hiram passed away February 27, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 11 am on Monday, March 2 in the Chapel of West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory, Marietta. Interment will follow at Crest Lawn Cemetery. Ray was an Atlanta native but an Auburn fan. He loved fishing, and he would fix anything for anybody....
Charles Nelson Pickelsimer
Feb 26, 2015
Charles N. Pickelsimer, age 77, of Powder Springs, GA passed away on Thursday, February 26, 2015. Funeral Services will be held 11:00 am on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory with Rev. Larry Ritch officiating. Interment will follow at Georgia Memorial Park in Marietta,GA. Charles has lived in Powder Springs since 1987. He loved to...
William Bobby Jones
Feb 24, 2015
William Bobby Jones, age 76, of Marietta, GA passed away on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The family will receive friends Thursday from 6pm until 8pm at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta. Born in Madison, GA, Mr. Jones moved to Marietta 25 years ago from Mableton. He retired from NAPA Auto Parts, was a dedicated family man, and...
Debra Ann Cartee
Feb 22, 2015
Debra Ann Cartee, 49, of Acworth passed away on Sunday, February 22, 2015. Services will be 1:00 p.m. Friday, February 27, 2015 in the Chapel of West Cobb Funeral Home with Rev. Snyder Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Cheatham Hill Memorial Park. Mrs. Cartee was employed with the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office where she was a Fiscal Tech in...
Darren Ray Coleman
Feb 22, 2015
Darren Ray Coleman, age 38, of Austell passed away on February 22nd, 2015. Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, March 3rd at 1 pm in the Chapel of West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory, Marietta with Rev. Michael Martin officiating. The family will receive friends from 11 am until 1 pm at the funeral home. Darren is survived by...
Robert B. "Bob" Gillis
Feb 22, 2015
Robert B. “Bob” Gillis, age 76, of Marietta passed away on Sunday, February 22, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, February 25 at West Cobb Funeral Home with the Reverend Bruce Hamrick and Dr. Ernest Easley officiating. Interment will follow at Georgia Memorial Park in Marietta. Mr. Gillis is preceded in death by his parents,...
Paul Bowman
Feb 20, 2015
Paul Bowman, age 86, of Smyrna passed away February 20, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 2 pm on Monday, February 23 at Olin L. Gammage & Sons Funeral Home in Cedartown, GA. The family will be receiving friends on Sunday, February 22 from 5 until 8 pm at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory, Marietta and on Monday...
Louise S. Christian
Feb 18, 2015
Louise Sanders Christian, age 88, of Marietta, GA passed away on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She is preceded in death by her husband, Gerald Tatum Christian, Jr. She is survived by her daughter Jill Christian Pearson of Dawsonville, GA, and son Eric (Sabrina) Christian of Kennesaw, GA. She has five grandchildren, Madeleine, Mary...
James Edward Barnwell
Feb 17, 2015
James Edward Barnwell, age 49, of Powder Springs, GA passed away on Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Funeral Services will be held 11am on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory. Interment will follow at Georgia Memorial Park in Marietta. A lifelong resident of Cobb County, Mr. Barnwell worked as a fork lift operator, and attended Turner...
Margaret Williams
Feb 16, 2015
Margaret J. Williams, age 73, of Temple, GA passed away February 16, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 12 noon on Friday, February 20 at Faith Missionary Baptist Church, 63 Georgia 101, Temple, GA 30179. Mrs. Williams will lie in state one hour prior to the funeral service at the church. Interment will follow at Cheatham Hill Memorial Park...
Sean Michael Tarrant
Feb 16, 2015
Sean Michael Tarrant, age 59, of Marietta passed away February 16, 2015. A funeral mass will be held at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Marietta at 10 am on Friday, February 20. Sean was raised in Ramsey, NJ; graduated college in Radford, VA in 1977 and then moved to Southern California where he met his wife in San Francisco in...
Barbara Ellen Bookhardt
Feb 15, 2015
Barbara Ayers Bookhardt, age 70, of Acworth, GA passed away on Sunday, February 15, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 3pm on Friday, February 20th at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta with Rev. Charles Sineath officiating. Interment will follow at Cheatham Hill Memorial Park in Marietta. A native of LaGrange, GA, Mrs. Bookhardt moved to Cobb...
Johnny Milton Patterson
Feb 14, 2015
Johnny Milton Patterson, age 79, of Powder Springs, GA passed away on Saturday, February 14, 2015. Memorial Services will be held at 11am on Saturday, February 21st at Macland Baptist Church with Dr. Richard Walker and Rev. John Creech officiating. A native of Atlanta, Mr. Patterson has lived in Cobb County since 1960. He served in the Navy Reserves for...
Raymond Wade Cook
Feb 12, 2015
Raymond Wade Cook 11/21/1951 – 02/12/2015 There once was a man named Raymond Cook, He was not the kind of man to read a book, Short and scrappy, but not a great pappy, The ladies often gave him a second look. Raymond was born in Clayton County, On his head there was sometimes a bounty, Never met a stranger, seldom...
Nancy Ann Rittall
Feb 11, 2015
Nancy Ann Rittall, age 79, of Marietta, GA passed away on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. Services will be held at a later date. Mrs. Rittall was a member of Walnut Ridge Baptist Church in Ohio, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and loved her family and teaching piano. Survivors include: daughter and son-in-law Lisa and Dan Hyland...
Elisabeth Victoria McLendon
Feb 11, 2015
Elisabeth Victoria McLendon, age 54, of Powder Springs, GA passed away on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm on Saturday, February 14, 2015 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta with Dr. Richard Walker officiating. Interment will follow at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta. A native of Sandy Springs, Ms. McLendon moved to Powder...
Judge Carson Burch Shafer
Feb 10, 2015
Judge Carson Burch Shafer, age 95, of Powder Springs passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Memorial Services will be held Friday, February 13, 2015 at 2pm at McEachern Memorial United Methodist Church with Dr. Laurence McCullough, Rev. Tommy Willingham and Rev. Wallace Wheeles officiating. Private interment services will be held at Kennesaw Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at...
Dr. John Stanley Clark
Feb 9, 2015
Dr. John Stanley Clark, age 79, of Marietta, GA passed away on Monday, February 9, 2015. The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 15 from 11 am until 1 pm at West Cobb Funeral Home. Dr. Clark lived and worked in the Atlanta area for more than thirty years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of...
Susan Knight Simmone
Feb 6, 2015
Susan Knight Simmone, age 61, of Marietta, GA passed away on Friday, February 6, 2015. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at the First Baptist Church of Smyrna with Dr. Randy Cheek officiating. Interment will follow at Kennesaw Memorial Park in Marietta. She will lie in state at the church 1 hour prior to...
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