Mr. Adrian H. “Bud” Powell age 90 of Gaylesville passed away Wednesday October 8th at Cherokee Health & Rehab.
Funeral services will be held at 3 PM Sunday October 12th at Mt. Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Andy Kellett officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Bethel Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 2 until 3P.M. at the church.
Pallbearers include Lewis Leath, Lyn Fitzpatrick, Larry Hurley, Billy Kellett, Stanley Koonce and Junior Hughes.
Honorary pallbearers will be Cherokee County Health and Rehab Station 5 staff members.
Survivors include sons, D.L. (Pam) Powell of Broomtown and Douglas (Effie) Powell of Vicenza, Italy: daughter, Sherry (Stacey) Koonce of Summerville, GA. , 3 grandchildren, Lindsey and Josh Koonce and Rosemary Powell.
Mr. Powell was preceded in death by his brother Harrison Powell and sister Julene Powell Chapman.
Mr. Powell was a native of Cherokee County and the son of the late Arthur H. and Gertrude Smith Powell and was a member of the Mt. Bethel Baptist Church. He retired from Georgia Glove Mill in Lyerly Georgia in 1987.
The family request in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Mt. Bethel Cemetery Fund.
Perry Funeral Home directing