Obituary of Mr. W.K. Reece

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: Reece, Dobbs, Rogers, Moss

Date: 28 Feb 1951

"Mr. W. K. Reece, Prominent in Ellijay, Goes To His Reward"

   Funeral services will be held today, Thursday at 2:00 o'clock from the East Ellijay Baptist Church for Mr. W. K. Reece. Rev Oscar Land officiating. Interment will be in Philadelphia Church cemetery in Pickens county with Logan Funeral Home in charge.

   Mr. Reece, 83, died early Tuesday morning at the home of his dauaghter, Mrs. Hayden Dobbs in Blue Ridge. He had been in declining health for several months and had been making his home with his daughter for some three months. Prior to this time he spent several months with his granddaghter, Mrs. Frances Rogers in Atco.

   A native of Pickens county, Mr. Reece came to Ellijay in 1900 and for many years was prominently identified in business here, conducting a general mercantile business near the Shippen lumber mill. Mr. Reece operated a lumber business in connection with his store and for many years was a large buyer and shipper of lumber, ties, pulpwood and tanbark. Because of declining health Mr. Reece retired from busines about two years ago.

   Mr. Reece was active in church, civic and political affairs of Ellijay and Gilmer county. He was a member of East Ellijay Baptist Church and a member of the board of deacons. He represented the 41st senatorial district in the State Senate in 1919 and 1920. He was well know, not only in his home county, but throught this North Georgia area and enjoyed the friendship of all who knew him.

   Mr. Reece is survived by one son, Mr. A. K. Reece, of East Ellijay and one daugher, Mrs. Hayden Dobbs of Blue Ridge. Other survivors include one brother, Allie Reece of near Rome; a sister, Mrs Ella Moss of near Jasper, ten grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.