Mr. Alfred Earl Croy, age 79 of Summerville, GA passed away Saturday
  
April 5, 2014 at the Oak View Nursing & Rehab Center.  Mr.  Croy was born 
  
June 18, 1934 in Trion, GA.  He was retired from Mohawk Industries as a Coater
  
and was a member of the Mohawk Elite 25 Year Club.  Mr. Croy was a Veteran
  
of the United States Navy during the Korean War.  He was a member, former 
  
deacon and Sunday School Teacher of the Dry Valley Baptist Church.  Mr. Croy 
  
was a good man, loving father, & grandfather.  
  
 
  
Mr. Croy was preceded in death by his parents, Allen Lester and Maybell Bailey
  
Croy; and several brothers & sisters.
  
 
  
Mr. Croy is survived by his daughters, Patsy Hall, Judy (Sammy) Tapp, Wanda
  
(Leonard) Elrod, and Edna Hines; brothers, Herschel (Glenda) Croy, Jimmy 
  
(Janice)  Croy, Robert (Diane) Croy, Tommy McGuire, and Billy McGuire;
  
 sisters, Maggie Fox, Ethel (Ted) Deberry, and Bobbie Goss; 11 grandchildren,
  
 several great-grandchildren, nieces & nephews.
  
 
  
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. from the 
  
Petitt Chapel of the Coffman Funeral Home with Rev. Rickey Biddle and Rev. Robert
  
Dugan Brown officiating.  Interment will follow in West Hill Cemetery.
  
 
  
Visitation for Mr. Alfred Earl Croy will be Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at the Coffman Funeral
  
Home where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
  
 
  
Pallbearers will be David Cordell, Travis Cordell, Mark Smith, Kolby Smith, Dustin Hines,
  
 and Brandon Carlton.  Honorary pallbearers will be Red Rosson, Edgar Hunter,
  
 Bill McMichael, Billy Joe Simpson, and staff of Oakview Nursing & Rehab.
  
 
  
Coffman Funeral Home—Petitt Chapel is honored to be serving the family of Alfred Earl
  
Croy.
  
 

Mrs. Linda Gail Franklin Bice, age 56, of Summerville, Georgia passed away Sunday, March 23, 2014 at her residence following an extended illness.

Mrs. Bice was born in Florida on August 5, 1957, daughter of the late Howard Franklin and Dorothy Lovain Franklin. She was a member of the Berryton Bible Mission, and prior to ill health was the co-owner of the Hair Depot. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Bice was preceded in death by a sister, Sondra Palm.

Mrs. Bice is survived by her husband, Danny Ray Bice; sons and daughters-in-law, Michael and Leslie Bice, and Jason and Ann Bice; grandchildren, Evan Bice, Ann Bice, Riley Bice, Christine Bice, Ryan Bice and Jeannie Bice; great granddaughter, Ariel Faith Green; and a nephew Zachariah Andreoli .

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced later by the Coffman Funeral Home.

Coffman Funeral Home, Petitt Chapel is honored to be serving the family of Mrs. Linda Gail Franklin Bice.

MR. FARRELL PORTER BEENE, age 63, of Adams Road-Trion, Georgia passed away Friday, March 21, 2014, evening at his residence, following an extended illness. He was born in Trion, Georgia on April 8, 1950 to the late Cecil Porter Beene and Dora Elizabeth Usry Beene who survives. Mr. Beene was a member of Mountain View Baptist Church and was retired automobile body repairman.

Surviving are wife-Christine Beene; mother-Dora Elizabeth Beene of Trion; daughters and sons-in-law-Lynn Pope and Brian Blackwell, Michelle and Michael Tapp all of Summerville, Heather Hastings and Ernest Spraggins of Lyerly, Roxanne and Dewayne Price of Trion; brothers and sister-in-law-Leroy and Loretta Beene of Tennessee, LeBron Beene of Summerville, and Ronnie Beene of Trion; grandchildren-Chelsea Jennings, Brandon Hastings, Zack Pope, Austin Tapp, Khristen Hastings, Thristen Price, and Callie Price; several Nieces and Nephews.

Funeral services will be held Monday, March 24th, at 2:00 P.M. from the J. D. Hill Memorial Chapel of Earle Rainwater Funeral Home, with Pastor Kevin Norton officiating, interment in Perennial Springs Cemetery. Active Pallbearers Billy Stewart, Donald Hammonds, Roy Ellenburg, Johnny Kincade, Shane Ashworth, and Vann Jennings; Honorary Pallbearers Willie Tapp, Keith “Jabo” Burrage, members of Mountain View Baptist Church, staff of Life Choice Hospice of LaFayette, the late Leo Short, and the late Rick Grosjean. The Family will receive friends Monday, March 24th, from 12:00 noon until the hour of service at the Funeral Home.

Earle Rainwater Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.