FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS Mrs. Clara Gresham Whitlock Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: LEONARD BAINES" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/crawford.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Mrs. Clara Gresham Whitlock, age 83, of 274 Erwin Coker Road, Rome, passed away Saturday morning, Sept. 7, 2002, at her residence following a short illness. Mrs. Whitlock was born in Floyd County, Jan. 21, 1919, daughter of the late Charles Henderson Gresham and Mamie Lee Byars Gresham. She had spent all her life in Floyd County. Mrs. Whitlock was a member of the Oostanaula United Methodist Church. She worked as a switchboard operator for many years at McCall Hospital. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Clemmon, Park, LaJoy, and Duke Gresham, also by three sisters, Diamond Gresham, Louise Gresham, and Gladys Waid. Mrs. Whitlock was married on August 31, 1940, to Carl Nixon Whitlock who preceded her in death on Oct. 19, 1993. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Grady Sharp of Rome; one son and daughter-in-law, Barry and Wanda Whitlock of Rome; grandchildren Kyle Sharp, Beverly Willingham, Nick and Bonnie Sharp, Kaycie Sharp Temples and Brian Temples, Scott and Tracy Whitlock and Chris Whitlock; great-grandchildren, Dillon Sharp, Rheanna Sharp, Kirsten Turner, Quinn Whitlock, Trenton, Seth, Ethan Temples and Emily Browning. Mrs. Whitlock will lie in state at the Jennings Funeral Home-Heritage Chapel where the family will receive friends this evening from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 8 p.m. following visitation with the Rev. Ruth Shaw officiating. Interment will follow Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in the family plot in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens with Mr. J. Parnick Jennings, Sr. officiating. At other hours the family may be contacted at the residence. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Jennings Funeral Home--Heritage Chapel has charge of the services for Mrs. Clara Gresham Whitlock.