Mr. Kenneth Turner Venable, age 79 of Summerville, passed away Tuesday, August 23, 2022 surrounded by his family at a Rome area hospital.

Mr. Venable was born in Cedartown, Georgia on January 21, 1943, son of the late Otis Turner Venable and Jessie May Osburn Venable. He had been employed as a Carpenter prior to working and retiring from Bigelow-Sanford. Mr. Venable was a jack of all trades and could fix just about anything. He enjoyed going to yard sales and Trade Day; and was a great pool player. In addition to his parents, Mr. Venable was preceded in death by his wife, Briana Jane Venable and a baby sister, Glenda Venable.

Mr. Venable is survived by his children, Wayne (Diane) Venable; Lisa (Susan) Venable, and Adriana Venable; brother, Charles W. Venable; grandchildren, Jesse (Carl) Moses, Alexis Abernathy and Emily (Joseph) Keith; great grandchildren, Owen Moses, Kinsley Moses, Bennett McElwee and Brenley McElwee; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral Services for Mr. Venable will be held Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 4:00 P.M. in the Chapel of the Coffman Funeral Home with Rev. Tony Weaver officiating. Private Interment will be in the Macedonia Cemetery.

Mr. Venable will be in state at the Coffman Funeral Home and the family will be receiving visitors from 2:00 P.M. until the funeral hour.

Coffman Funeral Home, Petitt Chapel is honored to be serving the family of Mr. Kenneth Turner Venable. Please visit www.coffmanfh.net to sign our online guestbook, and to post condolences.

Mrs. Mary Frances Shearin Ray, age 84, of Gaylesville, AL, died Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at Riverview Medical Center in Gadsden, AL.

Mrs. Ray was born January 28, 1938, in Chattanooga, TN, daughter of the late Edward and Edna Mathis Shearin. She was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant Valley # 1 Baptist Church. She loved the Lord Jesus Christ and she loved her family and friends very much. She was so gentle and always had a listening ear. She was always willing to help anyone in need and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. She was the glue that held her family together and was a beautiful reflection of the Lord that she loved.

She is now in the presence of the Lord that she spent many hours talking to. We are reminded of the “Amazing Grace” song’s line “I once was lost but now am found…was blind but now I see.” We are left to wonder what beauty that her blind eyes are now seeing. This beautiful, loving, sweet lady will be missed, but the love she has touched others with will continue. She would want the reflections of Christ in her to be passed on to her family and friends to know that her labor was not in vain. She has finished the race the Lord placed for her and is now sitting at His feet. One of her favorite Bible verses was Isaiah 55:8; “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.”

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Alvin Junior Ray; daughter, Joyce Battles; son, Lamar Addison; sisters, Peggy Kitchens, Christine Freeman, and Sue Smith; and a grandson, Stephen Addison.

Survivors include her sons, Michael (Tricia) Ray, Darryl (Carla) Ray, Randy Ray; daughters, Vicki Robbins, Pamela Porter, Kimberly (Michael) Reynolds; grandchildren, Whitey Miller, Russell Addison, Koby Addison, Leah Hairrell, Chris Battles, Colton Robbins, Michael Reynolds, Peyton Reynolds, Natalie Ray, Lyla Ray, Isaac Ray, Owen Ray, Tyler Ray, and Jamie Ray; and several great-grandchildren.

Graveside and interment services will be held at 3:30 P.M. (E.S.T.) Friday, August 26, 2022, at Mount Zion Cemetery with Rev. Briggs King and Rev. Ronald Berry officiating. Pallbearers will be Russell Addison, Koby Addison, Tyler Ray, Chris Battles, Michael Reynolds, and T.J. Miller.

Mrs. Ray will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive friends from 2:00 until 3:00 P.M. (E.S.T.) on Friday.

To share your condolences with the family online, please visit our website at www.masonfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are provided by Mason Funeral Home- Summerville, GA.

MRS. JANICE LEE (PATSY) WHITE, age 75, of Red Bird Lane, Summerville, Georgia, Teloga Community, passed away Sunday evening at her residence, following an extended illness. Born in North Carolina on April 25, 1947, She was a daughter of the late Raymond Deforest (Boog) Kirby and Josie Elizabeth Keef (Jo) Kirby. Mrs. White was former Director of Nutrition at Kennestone Hospital and a member of the Teloga Baptist Church. In addition to Parents, She was preceded in death by Her husband, the late Noland Dewayne White on July 4, 2021, and brothers, the late Steve Kirby and Michael Kirby.

Surviving are son, Jaylen White; sister-Linda (Bill) Powell; special friends and care givers, Diane Venable, Vickie and Gene Brown, Peggy Mitchell, and Brandon Gurley.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:00 P.M. from the Teloga Baptist Church with Rev. Tony Weaver officiating, interment in Summerville Cemetery. Active Pallbearers Steve Rinehart, Johnny Gentry, Gene Brown, Ted Deberry, Gene Ellenburg, and Brandon Gurley. The Family will receive friends Wednesday at the Teloga Baptist Church from 11:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M.

Earle Rainwater Funeral Home in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Patsy White.