Obituaries

Carolyn Deangelis Compton

Carolyn Deangelis Compton

Feb 14, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Carolyn Bacon DeAngelis Compton, 82, of Savannah, Georgia, passed away Monday morning, February 14, 2011, at home under the care of Spanish Oaks Hospice. Born in Savannah, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late Earl Bacon and the late Iris Buckner Bacon. Mrs. Compton was a member of Bible Baptist Church and was a member from...

Lawrence "Ken" Harn

Lawrence "Ken" Harn

Feb 13, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Lawrence Kenneth "Ken' Harn, 55, of Savannah, Georgia, died Friday morning, February 11, 2011, at Memorial University Medical Center. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he was a son of the late Lawrence Kenneth Harn and the late Jacqueline Braddock Blackburn. Ken was a Christian and served his country in the United States Marine Corps. He worked as a...

Elizabeth Watkins Rees

Elizabeth Watkins Rees

Feb 13, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Elizabeth Herren Watkins Rees, 88, of Savannah, Georgia, widower of Chief MSGT, Robert F. Rees, United States Air Force, Ret., died Saturday afternoon, February 12, 2011, nine days shy of her 89th birthday at St. Joseph's Hospital. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she was a daughter of the late Frank Herren and the late Stella Lowery Herren. She...

Chaim Melamed

Chaim Melamed

Feb 12, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Chaim Melamed, 85, of Savannah, Georgia, widower of Maryla Krause Melamed, died Saturday morning, February 12, 2011, at his home under the care of Hospice Savannah. Chaim was a holocaust survivor. Born in Zelechow, Poland, he was 13 years old when the war broke out. He and his family were taken by the Nazis to the Lodz...

Mary Elizabeth O\'Sullivan

Mary Elizabeth O\'Sullivan

Feb 9, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Mary Elizabeth O'Sullivan, 86, of Savannah, Georgia, died Wednesday morning, February 9, 2011, at her home. Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, she was a daughter of the late W.B. O'Sullivan and the late Faye Elizabeth Randall O'Sullivan Smith. Miss O'Sullivan was a member of Bull Street Baptist Church and worked as an elementary school teacher for over...

Sharon Wells Kemper

Sharon Wells Kemper

Feb 8, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Sharon Wells Kemper, 74, of Savannah, Georgia, loving partner of Margaret G. Waters, died Thursday morning, February 3, 2011, at home under the care of Hospice Savannah. Born in Manteno, Illinois, she was a daughter of the late George Edward Wells and the late Florence Katherine Burns Wells. Sharon was an active member of Unity Church of...

Clarice Moore Malone

Clarice Moore Malone

Feb 6, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Clarice Virginia Moore Malone, 87, of Savannah, Georgia, widow of Charles Edwin Malone, died Friday evening, February 4, 2011, at her home under the care of Odyssey Hospice. Born in Adel, Georgia, she was a daughter of the late Nathaniel Spangler Moore and the late Elma Bridges Moore. Mrs. Malone was of the Protestant faith and was...

Dr. Norman Kaplan

Dr. Norman Kaplan

Feb 4, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Dr. Norman Kaplan, 93, of Savannah, Georgia, died Thursday evening, February 3, 2011, at his home. Born in Savannah, Georgia, on June 30, 1917, he was the beloved son of Phillip and Bessie Kaplan and brother of Ruth "Rocky" Kaplan Shindell. Dr. Kaplan attended Benedictine Military School, University of Georgia (B.S. Psychology), Columbia University (M.A. Psychology), and...

Christine Smith Castro

Christine Smith Castro

Feb 3, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Christine Hayes Smith Castro, 64, of Savannah, Georgia, wife of Lee Torres Castro, died Wednesday morning, February 2, 2011, at her home. Born in Dillon, South Carolina, she was a daughter of Sylvia Lee Hayes and the late Cade Tyler Hayes. Christine was of the Pentecostal Holiness faith. She worked at various banks in Savannah and retired...

Lawrence Mintz

Lawrence Mintz

Jan 31, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Lawrence Mintz, 86, of Savannah, Georgia, husband of Phyllis Tischler Mintz, died Monday morning, January 31, 2011, at Hospice Savannah. Born in Toronto, Canada, he was a son of the late Hyman Mintz and the late Anne Tepperman Mintz. Lawrence started his military career in the Royal Canadian Air Force and at the start of World War...

Rosalina Llerena-Santana Barrios

Rosalina Llerena-Santana Barrios

Jan 29, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Rosalina Llerena-Santana Barrios, 88, of Savannah, Georgia, wife of Francisco Antonio Barrios, died Saturday morning, January 29, 2011, at her home under the care of Odyssey Hospice. Born in Cuba, she was a daughter of the late Quintin Llerena and the late Magdalena Santana. Mrs. Barrios was of the Catholic faith. She retired as an obstetrics nurse...

Norton Melaver

Norton Melaver

Jan 28, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Norton Melaver, 84, of Savannah, Georgia, husband of Betty Stein Melaver, died Thursday evening, January 27, 2011, at his home. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926 and moved with his family to Savannah in 1940. After attending Savannah High School, he attended Armstrong State College for two years before matriculating at the University of...

Frank Allen Pfirman

Frank Allen Pfirman

Jan 27, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Frank Allen Pfirman, Sr., 75, of Savannah, Georgia, died Tuesday evening, January 25, 2011, on Tybee Island at the home of his daughter and son-in-law and under the care of Spanish Oaks Hospice. Born in Bellevue, Kentucky, he was a son of the late Elsie Copher. Frank retired as a sales associate from Kohler Corporation after 25...

Lynette Vickery Tilton

Lynette Vickery Tilton

Jan 27, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Lynette Hall Vickery Tilton, 78, of Savannah, Georgia, wife of Eugene A. Tilton, died Wednesday afternoon, January 26, 2011, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Springfield surrounded by her loving family. Born in Savannah, Georgia, she was a daughter of the late Bobby Hall, Sr. and the late Julia Suddath Hall Brittingham. Mrs. Tilton...

Florette Jacobs Epstein

Florette Jacobs Epstein

Jan 26, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Florette Jacobs Epstein, 99, of Savannah, Georgia, died Wednesday morning January 26, 2011, at Hospice Savannah. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, she was a daughter of the late Louis Jacobs and the late Ethel Pearlstein Jacobs. Mrs. Epstein was a member of Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob and was a former president of Hadassah. She was a very...

Yong Cooper Grant

Yong Cooper Grant

Jan 25, 2011

PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA - Yong Ae Kim Cooper Grant, 49, of Port Wentworth, Georgia, wife of Andre Raymond Grant, died Monday morning, January 24, 2011 at Hospice Savannah. Born in P'Yongtaek, South Korea, she was a daughter of the late Kim Teh Oak Kim and the late Goo Pil Joh Kim. Yong was a member of the Savannah Korean United...

Georgette Roxey Labraney

Georgette Roxey Labraney

Jan 23, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Georgette Roxey LaBraney, 61, of Savannah Georgia went home to be with the Lord on Sunday morning, January 16th, 2011, at Memorial University Medical Center. Originally from Concord, NH she moved to Savannah GA in the late 90's to be with her daughters, Lylia and Ginger. Georgette was a Loving Mother to her three children, Lylia, Ginger...

James Donahue

James Donahue

Jan 21, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - James Donahue, 70, of Savannah, Georgia, husband of Anne Marie Flanagan Donahue, died Thursday afternoon, January 20, 2011, at Memorial University Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the son of the late John and Ann Donahue. He relocated to southern California where he lived and worked in Orange County. Mr. Donahue was a United...

David A. Childers

David A. Childers

Jan 21, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - David A. Childers, 57, of Savannah, Georgia, died Tuesday evening, January 18, 2011, at St. Joseph's Hospital. Born in Sacramento, California he was a son of the late Laurence Evan Childers and the late Hattie Marie Darby Childers. David was of the Lutheran faith and worked as an I.T. Administrator for Verizon. He was the chairman of...

Randall Wayne Jenkins

Randall Wayne Jenkins

Jan 19, 2011

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - Randall Wayne Jenkins, 56, of Savannah, Georgia, died January 17, 2011, at Memorial University Medical Center. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he was a son of the late George Samuel Jenkins, Sr. and the late Maggie Bell Hall Jenkins. Randall was of the Baptist faith and was a truck driver for Phillip's Seafood Company. Survivors include one daughter,...