Stephens County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gastley, Joseph Marion 1974 ************************************************ 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: J. C. Southerland deceased July 12, 2010 May 20, 2008, 5:04 pm Newspaper Anderson Independent Mail Sunday, July 21, 1974 Joe Gastley Toccoa, Ga. - Joseph Marion "Joe" Gastley, age 52 of Rt. 1, Mize Road, died at the VA Hospital in Atlanta late Friday after a short illness. A son of Mrs. Lillie Whitmire Gastley of Clarkesville and the late James Henry Gastley, he was a native of Habersham County and had lived in Stephens County for the past 21 years. He was a veteran of WWII having served in Europe, a member of the VFW Post 4346 and was employed in the chemical industry. He was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Clarkesville. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Viola Watkins Gastley of the home; five sisters, Mrs. Margaret Douglas, Mrs. Lill Tobey of Stockbridge, Mrs. Peggy Neill of Atlanta, Mrs. Eureka Jackson of Clarkesville, Mrs. Catherine Greene of Greenwood, S.C.; two brothers, Henry Gastley of Gainesville and Thomas Gastley of Greenville, S.C. Funeral Services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Hillcrest Chapel of Acree Davis Funeral Home by the Revs. Gordon Shirley and Furman Lewis. Burial will be in Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Clarkesville. Pallbearers will be Joe and Ray Crunkleton, Rex Watkins, Beck Addison, Taylor Whitmire and Roy Taylor The family is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Williams, Mize Road. The body is at Acree-Davis Funeral Home and will be placed in the chapel at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Additional Comments: JOSEPH MARION2 GASTLEY (JAMES HENRY1) was born April 19, 1922 in Georgia, Habersham Co., and died July 09, 1974 in Veterans Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. on a Friday. He married VIOLA MARIE WATKINS, daughter of JAMES WATKINS and WILLIE FRANKS. She was born August 26, 1922 in Fri. 25 Aug 1922ts & vi., and died June 16, 1997 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia. Notes for JOSEPH MARION GASTLEY: Lived in Stephens, Co. Ga. the past 21 yrs. Member of VFW Post 4346, employed in the chemical industry. Services Sunday, July 21, 2:00 P.M. Hillcrest Chapel of Acree-Davis Funeral Home Clergy Rev. Gordon Shirley and Furman Lewis. Pallbearers Joe and Ray Crunkleton, Rex Watkins, Beck Addison, File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/stephens/obits/g/gastley8850gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb