Obituary of Mrs. Ollie Sellers

The following obituary was transcribed by Suzanne Forte (suzanneforte@bellsouth.net) from a scrapbook in her possession, belonging to her great grandmother, Cora Lorena Foster Weeks. Lorena was born Jan 25, 1877 in Freestone Co, Texas and died Jan 6, 1952 in Gilmer County, Georgia. This obituary was presumably from the Gilmer County newspaper, the Times Courier, but could have been from the Atlanta, Georgia, newspaper, the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.

Surnames: Sellers, Barclay, McCay, Jones

Date: 23 Sep 1951

"Mrs. Ollie Sellers Passes at Ellijay Home After Long Illness"

   Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at Watkins Memorial Church for Mrs. Ollie Sellers, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Sellers. Rev. C. B. Cochran, assisted by Rev. Geo. F. Erwin and Rev. H.P. Bell, officiating. Interment was in the Ellijay Cemetery with Logan Funeral Home in charge.

   Mrs. Sellers, 79 died at her home in Ellijay at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening following an illness of almost two years.

   Mrs. Sellers, before her marriage was Miss Ollie Barclay and was a native of Kentucky. The family came to Georgia when she was just a child and settled in Murray County. Later the family moved to Ellijay where she had resided continuously for approximately sixty years. She was a member of Watkins Memorial Methodist Church and possessed a pleasing personality that won many friends among both the old and young.

   She is survived by one son, Paul Sellers, and one daugher, Miss Annie Sellers both of Ellijay. Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. A. B. McCay of Copperhill; Mrs. Maude Jones of Akron, Ohio, six grandchildren and 7 great grand children.