Mrs. Mary Alice Ray Thornton, 76, of Elizabethton, Tenn., died Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.

Mr. James Pinkney Manning, 84, of Ellijay, died Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.

He was born May 6, 1937, in Ellijay, to the late Benjamin Franklin and Isabell Arizonia Newton Manning.

Mr. Michael Louis Capanelli, 50, of Ellijay, died Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.

He was born in Flushing, N.Y., March 25, 1971, to Diane Capanelli.

Mr. Vardis “Buzz” Benson, 64, of Ellijay, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.

He was born in Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 28, 1956, to the late Wayne Benson and Eilene Kellog Benson.

Mr. Ronald Carroll Gravett, 73, of Ellijay, died Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, at Piedmont Hospital in Jasper, after a three-week-long battle with COVID-19.

Mr. John Mark Painter, 53, of Ellijay, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2021.

He was born June 29, 1968, in Searcy, Ariz., to Wilton Harvey and Barbara Ellen Thompson Painter.

Mr. Michael Adair Moody,  63, of Ellijay, died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021.

He was born Aug. 26, 1958, in Glennville, to the late Encil Adair and Eva Clair Moody.

Stephanie Lynn Osler, 50, of New Brockton, Ala., passed away Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021.

Mrs. Sara Lynn Wheeler, 78, of Ellijay, died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper.