Marietta resident Leveta Stout Evans. 77, of Marietta, formerly of Hiawassee, died Sunday.
Services will be 2 p.m. today at Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Roy F. Major officiating Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
Born in Oxford, Kan . Mrs. Evans lived m Hiawassee for 23 years before moving to Cobb County in November. She was a member of Hiawassee United Methodist Church
Survivors include her husband, Glen L Evans; daughter. Raenell Evans Johnson of Marietta; son. Phillip E. Evans of White; sister, Kathyrn Ormsby of Tulsa. Okla ; two brothers, Richard G. Stout of Ojai. Calif., and Max C. Stout of Tulsa; four grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Date: 1995-03-15; Paper: Marietta Journal
Mr. Robert A. "Peg" Robinson, 72, of 2400 Hiawassee Road, died Tuesday, April 16, 1911, at University Hospital.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today in Westover Memorial Park, with Dr. Al C. Cadenhead Jr., Dr. Gordon W. Robinson and the Rev. Jeff Good officiating.
Mr. Robinson, a native of North Augusta, was a founder and partner of Murphy and Robinson Opticians. An Augusta resident most of his life, he was a graduate of Academy of Richmond County and a member of Augusta Lions Club and The Hill Baptist Church, where be was a deacon and belonged to Sim Folk Sunday School Class.
Survivors include his wife, Jackie Bixler Robinson; two daughters,Donna Deal, Augusta, and Kay Robinson, Tucker; two brothers, E. Reid Robinson and William R. Rodgers, both of Augusta; a sister, Louise Johnson. Augusta; and two grandsons.
Pallbearers will be W.R. Johnson, Abbie R. Prince, Jack N. Coley, Scott Rodgers, Dr. B.K. Sherwood and Craig Rodgers.
Honorary pallbearers will be deacons and members of Sim Folk Sunday School Class.
Memorials may be made to the vision program of The Hill Baptist Church.
Piatt's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
Date: 1991-04-18; Paper: Augusta Chronicle
HAWASSEE Ga.— Gordon Robertson, 88, died Sunday after an extended Illness.  
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Friendship Baptist Church with the Rev. John F. Moore officiating. Burial will be In the Woodlawn Cemetery in Gainesville, Ga.
A retired Richmond County school teacher, Mr. Robertson was a member of Friendship Baptist Church.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Georgia Robertson; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Jarman of Macon and Mrs. Doris Snepard of Byron; one son, W.G. Robertson Jr. of Glassbery, Conn.; and two sisters, Mrs. Madge Reed and Miss Gwenn Robertson of Hiawasee.
Banister Funeral Home is in charge.
Date: 1974-04-01; Paper: Augusta Chronicle
HIAWASSEE, Ga. - Mr. William Carroll Hedden. 72, of Berrong Street, died Friday, June 7,1991, at Towns County Hospital.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at McConneir Memorial Baptist Church, with Dr. Benny Pate officiating. Burial will be in Osborne Cemetery.
Mr. Hedden, a native of Towns County, had retired as a radio and television technician. He was an Army veteran of World War II and member of McConnell Memorial Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Edwina Fricks Segars Hedden; a daughter. Sandra Shumann. Augusta; a stepdaughter, Carolyn Ayres. Hartwell:  three stepsons Dennis Segars. De Land. Fla.. James Segars, Toccoa. and Richard Segars, Milledgeville; three sisters. Margie Nicholson and Jean Nichols, both of Hiawassee. and Juanita Byrd. Decatur; three brothers, Henry Hedden. Young Harris, and Robert Hedden and Michael Harris, both of Hiawassee; and 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Cochran Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Date: 1991-06-08; Paper: Augusta Chronicle
HIAWASSEE. Ga. "AP" - Towns County Sheriff Jay Chastain was shot and killed early Sunday as he stopped a car for a traffic violation just east of this town near the North Carolina - Georgia border, police said.
However. Chastain. 46, managed to shoot back at his assailant before he died, authorities added
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Roy Struben Lockaby. 42. of Hiawassee was killed in the exchange of gunfire with officers arriving at the scene
GBI agent R C McCracken said the shooting occurred when Chastain and Deputy Sheriff Rudy Eller stopped a car two miles east of here at the intersection of US 76 and Georgia 288 for a traffic violation.
McCracken said the driver of the car. identified as Ernest Harold Hollifield. 36. of Dahlonega. was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.
The agent said Eller was escorting Hollifield to the patrol car when Lockaby. a passenger \n the car. fired three shots, striking Chastain once in  the chest.
The sheriff was dead on arrival at Towns County Hospital, McCracken said
The agent said a search of the trunk of Hollifield's car revealed items identified as having been taken from two recent robberies in Towns County.
McCracken declined to-say if bond had been set for the Dahlonega man or whether he would be charged in connection with Chastain's death. He indicated that the GBI investigation was continuing
Date: 1974-12-09; Paper: Augusta Chronicle