FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS - Curtis M. Dobbs and Mary Adaville Hollis Dobbs

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Obituary for Curtis Monroe Dobbs, December 24, 1875 -
September 10, 1960


Curtis M. Dobbs, 84, 3 Circle Drive, Lindale, died
Saturday in an out of town hospital, he had been in
declining health for the past five years, his condition
becoming serious one week ago.


Mr. Dobbs, was born in Floyd County Dec. 24, 1875, son of
the late Joseph B. and Mary E. Hollis Dobbs, and had
spent his entire life here.  He was a retired Pepperell
Mfg. Co. employee [sic], and a member of the Pleasant
Hope Baptist Church.


Surviving are his wife, the former Sara E. Stanford, to
whom he was married in 1902; three daughters, Mrs. Fair
Ballard, Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Douglas Padgett, Lindale, Miss
Eula Dobbs, Lindale; four sons, Jether [sic] V. Dobbs,
College Park; Dennis D. Dobbs, Silver Creek, Rte. 1,
Willard J. Dobbs, Cedartown and Milburn J. Dobbs,
Portsmouth, Portsmouth Co., VA.; three sisters, Mrs.
Nenie Compton, Gaither Park; Mrs. Bertie Mull, Rome, and
Mrs. Bessie Atkins, Rome.  Eleven grandchildren, two
great-grandchildren also survive.


Funeral services will be conduct-officiatng [sic] with
burial in the family Church with the Rev. Willard Willis,
and the Rev. E. S. Morris officiating [sic] with burial
in the family lot of Pleasant Hope Cemetery, Floyd Co.,
GA, the day and hour to be announced later.


Active pallbearers will be T. P. Mull, Elmer Mull, Glenn
M. Atkins, Von Brock, Oliver Tucker and Don Madden.  The
body will lie in state at the Jackson-Frazier Funeral
Home and the family will receive friends there tonight
from 7 until 9 o'clock.  At other hours they will be at
the home, 3 Circle Drive, Lindale.  The body will lie in
state at the church one hour before the services.




Obituary for Mary Adaville Hollis Dobbs, May 10, 1844 -
July 19, 1931


Mary had been a citizen of Floyd county for more than
sixty years and a faithful member of the Pleasant Hope
Baptist church for more than a century [sic].  Mrs. Mary
Dobbs, 87 years old, died Sunday at 4:30 A.M., after a
long illness.


Mary was preceeded [sic] in death by her husband, J. B.
Dobbs, who died 21 years ago.  Surviving is one son,
Curtis M. Dobbs, of South Lindale with whom she had made
her home for 15 years, and three daughters: Mrs. E. O.
Mull, South Lindale; Mrs. J. C. Watkins, Hartwell [sic],
Ala.; and Mrs. C. C. Campton, of Wax.  Twenty-six
grandchildren and more than a dozen great grand children
survives.


Funeral services were held Monday at 2:30 P.M. from the
Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. J. E.
Smith, assisted by the Rev. J. H. Johnson.  Buriel [sic]
was in the Pleasant Hope Cemetery, Floyd Co., GA.


The following grandsons, and grand sons-in-laws, acted as
pallbearers: Ira Shamblin, John Burkhalter, J. V. Dobbs,
Preston Mull, Horace Compton and Elmer Mull.