Obituary of Mrs. L.E. Bishop

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: Bishop, Crowe, Greer, Aranoff, Waters

Date: 31 Dec 1954

"Mrs. L.E. Bishop, Native of Ellijay, Dies in Cartersville"

   Funeral serices were held from the Methodist Church in Cartersville last Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Laura Bishop, widow of the late Lark E. Bishop, with the Rev. Harold Cochran officiating. Burial was in the Cartersville cemetery.

   Mrs. Bishop, 80, died early Friday morning of a heart attack at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Crowe in Cartersville.

   A native of Ellijay, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Levi Greer who were among the early settlers of Gilmer and long prominent in Ellijay. She was a member of the Methodist Church and had made her home in Cartersville for many years.