Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Harper Hamilton Hendricks April 4 1958
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Rome News Tribune, April 6, 1958
1Harper Hamilton Hendricks, age 51, of the Freeman Ferry Road, well known 
employee of General Electric, died in a Rome hospital at 8:05 p.m. Friday. He 
had been in his usual health, having worked Friday, and his death comes as a 
shock to his family and friends. Mr. Hendricks was born in Rome, April 10, 
1906, son of the late Thomas J. and Ora Beulah Kitchens Hendricks and had spent 
the greater part of his life in Rome. During the 1920,s he served eight years 
in the 10th Field Artillery. For the past one and one half years he had worked 
in the Tool and Dye Department at General Electric and was formerly associated 
with Celanese Corp. for 13 years and Rome Machine & Foundry Co. for 10 years. 
He was a member of Oostanaula Lodge 113 F. & A.M. and I.O.O.f. Anchor Lodge No 
216. Survivors include the widow, the former Miss Ruth Ingram to whom he was 
married, October 27, 1939, one brother, John Thomas Hendricks, and one sister, 
Mrs. M.L. Turner, both of Rome. Also surviving is a niece, Mrs. Dan Strickland, 
East Point. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. today in the chapel of 
Jennings Funeral Home with the Rev. W. O. Denson, Rev. S. H. Pendley, pastor of 
Pleasant Valley South Baptist Church and Rev W. A. Farr, pastor of Turner 
Chapel Baptist Church officiating. Interment will follow in the family plot in 
East View Cemetery. Active pallbearers include John Sanford and Bill Ingram, 
Hobert Hincey, Dan Strickland and Alton Cochran. The following will serve as 
honorary pallbearers; L. W. Carmichael, Robert Green, Will Towers, J. T. 
Poindexter, Carl E. Chapman, L. A. Payne, Charles Bert Payne, J. W. Weaver, 
Layman Sherman, E. S. and Ben Hendricks, Guy Smith, Malcolm Smith, Grady Baugh, 
Carlton Angle, L. F. Dillard, R. C. Quarles, W. M. Hale, Julian Payne, Elbert 
Williams and R. L. Graham. Jennings Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
(Rome News Tribune, April 6, 1958) 


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