Oconee County GaArchives Obituaries.....William Earl "Early" Epps November 10 1990
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Connie Epps Bond http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003902 July 22, 2003, 11:13 am

Athens Banner Herald, Athens, GA

BOGART: William Earl "Early" Epps, 70, of 1691 Jimmy Daniel Road, died 
Saturday, Nov. 10.

A native of Americus, Mr. Epps had lived in Oconee County for 35 years. He was 
retired from Wellington Corporation and was a veteran of World War II.  He was 
a past Commander of VFW Post #2872 and a member of Amvets Post #10.  He was a 
member of Princeton United Methodist Church.

Memorial services will be at3 p.m. today at The Bernstein Funeral Home Chapel. 
The Rev. Don Cooper will officiate.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Epps; two daughters, Connie Epps Bond, 
Watkinsville, and Judy Epps Akridge, Bogart; a son William Jessie Earl Epps, 
Athens; three brothers, Thomas J. Epps, Winterville, Oscar Epps Jr., and Gene 
Epps both of Athens; two sisters, Dorothy Dottery, Watkinsville, and Thelma 
Norman, Athens; nine grandchildren; and several nices and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to the Princeton 
United Methodist Church building fund or to Extra Special People.

Cremated, memorial service on November 11, 1990 at Bernstein Funeral Home.

Notes of Connie Epps Bond

Paper does not give his entire name "William Jesse Earl Epps, Sr".
son of: Oscar Earl Epps, Sr and Lottie Wallace Epps.
grandson of Early Oscar Epps and Anna L. Herndon Epps.
Ggrandson of Thomas North and Penelope Jennings Epps.
GGgrandson of William and Sara Alexander Epps.

My dad was born in Sumter Co., GA. His family had moved from Clarke Co., GA to 
Sumter Co., GA. Later they moved back to Clarke/Madison/Oconee Counties, GA.

Dad has a toombstone at Evergreen Memorial Park, Clarke Co., Athens, GA.  He 
was a world War II veteran serving on the U.S.S. Intrepid. He received the 
purple heart.





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