Obituaries
James Edward O'Neal, Sr.
Jul 24, 2020
James Edward O'Neal, Sr. (Jim), age 76, of Marietta, Georgia passed away Friday, July 24, 2020, at his home in Marietta, Georgia. The family will receive friends on Friday, July 31, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta, Georgia. Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. with Dr. Philip West...
Eric Richard Yero
Jul 20, 2020
Eric Richard Yero, age 29, of Powder Springs, Georgia passed away July 20, 2020. Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, July 24, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory Chapel in Marietta, GA. Interment will follow at Kennesaw Memorial Park in Marietta, Georgia. Preceded in death by his maternal grandparents John and Thelma DiGeorge and...
Gerald Martin
Jul 18, 2020
Gerald Wayne Martin, age 71, of Temple, Georgia passed away July 18, 2020. Funeral Service will be held at 12:00 pm on Thursday, July 23, 2020 at Calvary Baptist Church in Smyrna with Dr. T. P. Johnston, Jr. and Rev. Doug Huggins officiating. Interment will follow at Georgia Memorial Park in Marietta, Georgia. Mr. Martin was a native of Harlan,...
Ekpoumo O. Udonkuku
Jul 18, 2020
Ekpoumo O. Udonkuku, age 44, of Marietta, Georgia passed away July 18, 2020. Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 pm on Saturday, August 1, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta. Interment will follow at Mount Harmony Memorial Gardens in Mableton, Georgia. Ekpoumo was a native of Charleston, WV. She loved spending time with her family...
Fred Wyatt Chambers
Jul 18, 2020
Fred Wyatt Chambers passed away peacefully nine months ago on July 18, 2020 at age 84. Strong and resilient, with a good sense of humor, Fred fought valiantly through a number of near death experiences, suffering from numerous conditions. His family often joked that he was a man gifted with 9 lives. Fred was born in Clayton GA of Rabun...
Vincent Le
Jul 17, 2020
Vincent (Vinh) Le, age 20, of Marietta, Georgia passed away July 17, 2020 Vincent was born in California and spent a little more than half of his life growing up in Georgia where he made many lifelong friends and memories. He loved playing video games with his close friends, practicing the guitar and violin, and doing cool tricks on a...
Dorothy Mae Sedlak
Jul 16, 2020
Dorothy Mae Sedlak, age 85, of Marietta, Georgia passed away Thursday, July 16, 2020. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta. Interment will follow at Georgia Memorial Park in Marietta. Born in Atlanta, Mrs. Sedlak lived most of her life in Cobb County. She retired...
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...