Clarke-Hall County GaArchives Obituaries.....Langley, Sara Caroline Epps February 10 2004
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The Athens Banner-Herald, Thurs., Feb. 12, 2004
Langley, Sara Caroline Epps      Feb. 12, 2004


Athens - (1921-2004)
SARA CAROLINE EPPS LANGLEY died in Athens on February 10
after a long illness.  She was 82. Born in Cedartown,
Georgia in 1921, she was the fifth of seven children born
to Charles Tyler and Wilma Bullard EPPS.

Although the family settled in North Carolina for a time,
economic hardship brought on by the Depression of 1929
made it necessary for her to be sent back to Cedartown
to be cared for by her paternal grandparents, George and
Mariah Ransbotham EPPS. She lived out her formative years
there, along with one of her brothers, the late Lindsey
Hopkins EPPS of Marietta.

After graduation with high honors from Cedartown High
School, she was employed as a legal secretary in Cedartown.
There she would remain until 1940,  when she moved to
nearby Bremen to work for Georgia Power. In 1942 she
married James David LANGLEY, also of Cedartown. They
were divorced in 1970. Mrs. Langley had been both a
devoted homemaker and later, a successful businesswoman.

She eventually retired from Smyrna Federal Savings and 
Loan in Smyrna, Georgia, where she was a loan officer,
treasurer, comptroller and eventually, its vice-president.
She then began a second leg of her career by taking a
position in a comparable capacity for Yard Wide Colonial
Pipeline in Atlanta.  She retired from there in the
mid-80s and moved to Athens to be near her remaining
family.

She  became a founding  member of  St. Jude's  Episcopal
Church in Smyrna, Georgia, where she and her immediate
family had settled in 1953. She was a long-standing member
of the church vestry and altar guide there. She also
served in an assortment of community endeavors taking
leadership roles in PTA, the local garden club, church
school and so on. Once settled in Athens, she became a
communicant and member of St. Stephen's Anglican Church
on Timothy Road, where she was primarily active in the
altar guild.

In 1990, confronted with an abundance of free time,
she decided with some urging from her family, to
enter the University of Georgia as a college freshman.
The ideals of higher education that had not been
afforded her during her youth, were suddenly available
and accessible to her. She was 69. When friends and
former colleagues assumed she would study business,
she summarily dismissed the idea. 'I already know
about business,' she would explain. 'I want to learn
about all those other things.' Taking 10 hours a
quarter, she completed two years' study of the liberal
arts before beginning to show signs of failing health.

She is survived by her daughter, Sally ADAIR of Crawford,
and two grandsons: Alex ADAIR, recently  returned from
Taiwan, and David ADAIR, currently  of Jacksonville,
Florida; a sister-in-law, Mary Jo EPPS of Marietta, and
a brother, Ernest EPPS of Grass Valley, California; two
nephews and one niece; and RANSBOTHAM cousins in Atlanta.

A memorial service will be decided on at a later date.
Lord and Stephens Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.

The Athens Banner-Herald, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004 

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