Obituaries
Ronald Lamar Green
Jul 16, 2020
Ronald Lamar Green, age 29, of Marietta, Georgia passed away July 16, 2020. Funeral Service will be held at 5:00 pm on Friday, July 24, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory Chapel in Marietta. He was preceded in death by his father, Roland Green, grandmother, Birtha Pennington and niece Audrey Grace Lee. Ronald was a native and lifelong...
Robert A. Beaty
Jul 12, 2020
Robert A."Bob" Beaty, age 65, of Dallas, Georgia passed away Sunday, July 12, 2020. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, August 9, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta with Pastor Jacob Beaty officiating. Interment will follow at the Georgia National Cemetery on a later date. A native of Cobb County, Mr....
Lillian Hopkins
Jul 12, 2020
Lillian Lois Hopkins, age 86, of Marietta, Georgia passed away Sunday, July 12, 2020. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta with Rev. Howard Byrd and Rev. Jackie Sanders officiating. Entombment will follow at Cheatham Hill Memorial Park in Marietta. Mrs. Hopkins was a lifelong...
Gerald Koenig
Jul 10, 2020
Gerald Koenig was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York during the tumult of the Great Depression and the Second World War that followed. His college studies were interrupted by the United States Army; during the Korean War he served in Germany as a Combat Engineer in the 1st Infantry Division (basically blowing things up, as he put it). He...
Betty Canup
Jul 9, 2020
Betty Jane Canup, age 83, of Powder Springs, Georgia passed away Thursday, July 9, 2020. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 am on Monday, July 13, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory Chapel in Marietta. Interment will follow at Kennesaw Memorial Park in Marietta, Georgia. A lifelong resident of Cobb County, Mrs. Canup retired as a teacher...
Paul R. Potts
Jul 8, 2020
Paul R. Potts, of Marietta, GA, (formerly of Madison, AL) died after a brief illness on July 8, 2020 at the age of 90. He was born in Barnesville, GA and moved to Alexandria, VA in his teenage years where he met his wife. Paul served in the U.S. Army and was employed for over 45 years with the U.S....
Robert "Bob" James Kroner
Jul 8, 2020
Robert "Bob" James Kroner, age 95, of Dallas, Georgia passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 pm on Sunday, July 12, 2020 at Nativity Lutheran Church in Austell with Pastor Dena Lane officiating. Interment will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia. Born on June 15, 1925, Mr. Kroner moved to Atlanta in...
Everett Ivan Cook
Jul 7, 2020
Everett Cook, age 75, of Winston, Georgia, formerly of Cobb County, passed away peacefully at his home Tuesday, July 7, 2020 after a year long illness. He was retired from the City of Atlanta Police Department after 30 years where he was a Captain and retired again from Ryder after 15 years as a truck driver. He was a member...
Wayne A. Witherell
Jul 5, 2020
Wayne Witherell, age 94 is survived by his wife of sixty-nine years, Frances Witherell, his daughter Susan and Carlos Arce, his daughter Andrea and Julio Velasquez and his daughter Lucinda and Lee Lawrence. Wayne has ten grandchildren and spouses and twenty four great grandchildren. He is also survived by one sister, Barbara McCrorie, and multiple nieces and nephews. There will...
Michael Wayne Williams
Jul 5, 2020
Michael Wayne Williams, age 67, of Land o Lakes, FL passed away on Sunday July 5, 2020 after a 4 year bout with cancer. Funeral Services will be held at 2pm on Monday, July 13 2020, at West Cobb Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Kennesaw Memorial Park Cemetery in Marietta, GA. The family will receive friends beginning at 1pm...
Ehren John Swedberg
Jul 5, 2020
Ehren John Swedberg, age 37, of Acworth, Georgia passed away July 5, 2020. Memorial Services will be scheduled at a later date. Born in Chicago, he lived most of his life in Acworth, GA. He attended North Cobb High School and Kennesaw State University. He owned and operated Certified Electronic Repair for the last 6 years, where he won the...
Margaret Ann McLaughlin
Jul 2, 2020
Margaret Ann McLaughlin, age 80, of Marietta, Georgia passed away Thursday, July 2, 2020. Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta. Interment will follow at Crest Lawn Memorial Park in Atlanta. Margaret Ann McLaughlin, born Margaret Ann Hammond on September 18, 1939. Margaret had two...
Gilbert Ward
Jul 1, 2020
Gilbert John Ward (92) died peacefully at Presbyterian Village, Austell, Georgia, on July 1, 2020. He was born on September 27, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York to Gilbert James Ward and Ruth Eastland Ward. After graduating Grover Cleveland High School in 1945, he enlisted in the US Navy, where he served as a radio operator on the USS Princeton. After...
Ronald David Moon
Jun 30, 2020
**STRICT SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES WILL BE IMPLEMENTED** **THE FUNERAL WILL BE LIVE-STREAMED ON OUR WEBSITE** Ronald David "Ronnie" Moon, age 78, of Dallas, Georgia passed away Tuesday, June 30, 2020. A Funeral Service will be held at 3:00 pm on Friday, July 3, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta with Rev. Gary Turner officiating. Interment will...
Gene Spring
Jun 29, 2020
Gene Gordon Spring, age 79, of Marietta, Georgia passed away June 29, 2020. Graveside Service will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at Powder Springs Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Powder Springs, GA with Rev. Tommy Channell officiating. Mr. Spring was a native of Sylvester Georgia and has lived in Atlanta and Marietta Georgia since 1960. He...
Rose Marie Higman
Jun 29, 2020
Rose Marie Higman, age 91, of Marietta, passed peacefully on June 29, 2020. Family Graveside service will be held at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, GA. Rose Marie Higman, was born ,March 6, 1929, in Springfield, MO. They moved to Georgia in 1976 and lived in Dunwoody, GA. They attended Dunwoody UMC. They were part of the Mall Walker...
Charles Lee
Jun 27, 2020
Charles G. Lee, age 92, of Roswell, Georgia passed away Saturday, June 27, 2020. A Graveside Service will be held at 2pm on Tuesday, June 30th at Concord Baptist Church Cemetery in Cumming, GA. Born in Dawsonville, GA, Mr. Lee moved to Roswell in 1953. He was a veteran of the United States Army, having served during WWII in Japan....
Sheila Burtley
Jun 26, 2020
Sheila Burtley, age 85, of Powder Springs, Georgia passed away June 26, 2020. Private Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, July 3, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory Chapel in Marietta, GA. Interment will follow at Powder Springs Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Powder Springs, Georgia. She was preceded in death by her son Ernest...
Kenneth James Petersen
Jun 23, 2020
Ken Petersen, age 58, died on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 from complications of pancreatitis. Born August 7, 1961, in Norwood, MA, he lived in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire before settling in Acworth, GA. Ken loved fishing, hunting, NASCAR, and his Atlanta sports teams. More than anything else, Ken loved his family. He is survived by his parents, two...
Penny Sue Brock
Jun 21, 2020
Penny passed away June 21, 2020 at age 72 unexpectedly in Dallas, Georgia during a short hospitalization. She is survived by her daughter, Michelle Lee (Brock) DePlanche, son-in-law Daniel, granddaughters McKenna and Emerson in Dallas, Ga; brother, David Dollar, sister-in-law Beth (Yanow) in Jacksonville, Fl; nieces Danielle in Tampa, Fl, and Rachael in Washington, DC. Penny was born at Naval...

