Miss Edith Louise McCollum, age 87, of Gore, GA, passed away Saturday December 5, 2015, at Redmond Regional Medical Center.

 

Miss McCollum was born August 6, 1928, in Gore, GA, in the home where she lived until the time of her passing. She was the daughter of Carl Mason and Maude Menta McClain McCollum.  She loved her neighbors and her church and felt the valley was the prettiest in the world. She attended Berry College until she became sick with tuberculosis and was unable to finish.  She attended Carol Ann School of Business, and worked for the telephone company, was a secretary for Malcolm Thomas Insurance Agency, news reporter for WGTA radio, worked with the telethon to raise money for the mentally retarded children of Chattooga County,  she got her real estate license and sold real estate  for many years.  Louise wrote articles for the Summerville News and the Rome News Tribune and she was a member of Horizon Baptist Fellowship and played the piano and organ at church.  She was preceded in death by her sisters, Elma Johnston and Thelma Brooks, and a niece, Marilyn Marks.

 

Survivors include nieces, Sue Ellen Houston and Diane Louise Hachey; nephew,

Steven Clark Brooks; great nieces and great nephews, Jennifer Mangan, Carlton Houston, Susan Geurin, Heather Brooks, Matthew Hachey, Steven Hachey, Amanda Hachey, Jon Marks, and Sarah Marks.

 

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p. m. on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at Mason

Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jody Brock and Rev. Jimmy Bryant officiating.

Burial will follow in Greenhills Memory Gardens.  Pallbearers will be Jim Parker,

Mike Dawson, Carlton Houston, Scott Mangan, Jeff Gurin, and Jimmy McCollum.

 

Mrs. McCollum will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive

friends from 12:00 noon until the service hour on Saturday.  The family respectfully

request no flowers.

 

Mason Funeral Home is directing.