Obituaries

Funeral Announcements: March 21, 2013

Death notices and funeral announcements from Paulding and West Cobb funeral homes for Thursday, March 21. Click on the names of the deceased to be taken to their full obituaries posted on the funeral homes' websites.

Bellamy Funeral Homes

Geraldine Montgomery:The 71-year-old of Dallas died Monday, March 18, 2013. She will lie in state at Tabernacle Baptist Church from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, March 21. Funeral services to follow at 11 a.m.

West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory

Thomas Henry Laird: May 25, 1938 - March 19, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at West Cobb Funeral Home and Crematory, 2480 Macland Road, Marietta. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. and will also have a reception immediately following the service at the funeral home.

Donations may be made in Mr. Laird’s memory to your local American Cancer Society chapter.

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Borrough Shirley Phillips: June 14, 1937 - March 11, 2013. A memorial service is planned for early April and those arrangements will be available soon.

Benson Funeral Home Inc.

Thomas "Tommy" Abercrombie: Nov.12, 1922 - March 18, 2013. Funeral services for the Douglasville resident (Paulding County) will be held Thursday, March 21, at 2 p.m. from the Benson Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Tim Landmon officiating. Interment will follow in the Sunrise Memorial Gardens in Douglasville, with Justin Abercrombie, Chris Abercrombie, Timmy Acklin, Timmy Hibbs, Dustin Acklin, Michael Kuykendoll, Mitch Rogers and Michael Fletcher serving as pallbearers.

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Clark Funeral Home

Helen Harmon Allen: Jan. 28, 1942 - March 20, 2013. Funeral services will be held at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 76 Seaboard St. in Hiram, on Saturday, March 23, at 2 p.m. with Pastor Tim Poston officiating. Graveside services will be held following the church service at Paulding Memorial Gardens in Hiram.

Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. at Clark Funeral Home, 4373 Atlanta Highway in Hiram, on Friday, March 22.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her name to the Cancer Foundation, Paulding County SPCA or to Holy Cross Lutheran Church grounds committee.

Harrison C. Bradley: June 25, 1925 - March 19, 2013. Funeral services will be held Friday, March 22, at 1 p.m. from Clark Funeral Home. Entombment will follow in Paulding Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Friday, March 22, at Clark Funeral Home from noon until the service time.

Jeff Eberhart Funeral Home

Maj. George Weldon Williams (Ret.): June 9, 1917 - March 20, 2013. Funeral services for Maj. George Weldon Williams will be held at Dallas First United Methodist Church on Sunday, March 24, at 3:30 p.m. with Dr. Steve Schofield and Associate Pastor Chris Pavlovsky officiating. Music will include the selection “In the Garden” and Dr. Dan Bakos will accompany on the organ. Ken Thompson, David Walraven, David Austin, Ken Vinson and Sam Dudding will serve as pallbearers. Interment will follow at Dallas Memory Gardens.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday, March 23, from 5 to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 24, from 9 am until departure in procession at 3 p.m.


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