Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Minnie Thomas Backers January 2 2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. Stephens wend@bellsouth.net March 30, 2004, 2:13 pm (The Rockmart Journal, Rockmart, GA.) Mrs. Minnie Thomas Backers, 93, 528 Hunter St., Rockmart, died January 2, 2004. Mrs. Backers was born August 9, 1910 in Polk County, daughter of the late Erwin Thomas and Belle Hooper Thomas. She was a homemaker and member of Atco Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by husband, Hiram Backers, Sr. Surviving are son, Hiram Backers Jr., Bluff City, TN; grandson, Steve Backers, Johnson City, TN; granddaughter, Cyndi Sanders, Silver Creek, GA. The funeral service was conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 4, 2004 at Bellview Baptist Church with Rev. Charles Ivey officiating. Interment was in the Bellview Cemetery. Pallbearers were J.C. Thomas, Dennis Thomas, J.W. Thomas, Harold Wayne Backers, James Wigley, “Bobby” Backers, Austin Panter and Freddie Sanders. The Freeman Harris Funeral Home had charge of arrangements. (The Rockmart Journal, Rockmart, GA.) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb