Vic Damone

Annie Jo Riddle

Ms. Annie Jo Riddle, 84, of Rome, Georgia, passed away Sunday, February 11, 2018, at a local hospital.

Services for Ms. Annie Jo Riddle are incomplete at this time and will be announced at a later date.

Wright Memorial Mortuary has full charge of arrangements.

Mary Ellen Young

Ms. Mary Ellen Young, 72, of Rome, Georgia, passed away Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at a local hospital.

Services for Ms. Mary Ellen Young will be held Wednesday, February 14, 2018, at 12:00 noon at the North Rome Church of God, 1929 N. Broad St., Rome, Georgia, with Pastor Rick Jacob officiating. She will lie in state from 11:00 a.m. until the hour of service. Interment will follow at Oakland Cemetery, Rome, Georgia.

Wright Memorial Mortuary has full charge of arrangements. Loraine Keith Campbell

Mrs. Loraine Keith Campbell, age 96, of Rome, passed away Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, at her residence.

Mrs. Campbell was born August 12, 1921 to the late Joseph Henry Keith and Lula Mae Thomas Keith. She was married to Alton Dee Campbell for 75 years and was preceded in death by Mr. Campbell on July 29, 2014 and by her son, Daniel Keith Campbell, on September 15, 2008. Mrs. Campbell was a member of the Cedar Creek Baptist and was an honorary member of Community Chapel Baptist Church, where she attended for the past two years. She will always be remembered as a loving wife, mother, sister, aunt, and friend.

Survivors include her siblings and their spouses, Mrs. Eva Jo Gresham, Mr. J.C. (Nellie Jo) Keith, Mr. Allen (Patsy) Keith, Mrs. Dorothy Terry, Mrs. Jean Sims, Mrs. Gala (Travis) Rosser; special daughterin-love, Sandra “Sandy” Ancell; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in the Chapel of Good Shepherd Funeral NORTH CHAPEL

Mr. Marshall Freeman Brock, age 79, of Rome, passed away on Sunday, February 11, 2018, at a local healthcare facility following a lengthy illness.

Mr. Brock was born in Rome, Georgia on May 26, 1938, son of the late Buddie Marshall Brock and the late Eula Mae Bridges Brock. Mr. Brock was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Prior to retirement, he worked for a number of years at West Point Pepperell Manufacturing, where he was a member of the Quarter Century Club.

He was a member of the Armuchee Church of God. Mr. Brock loved his family and enjoyed fishing.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Bessie Sharpe Brock, to whom he was married on November 8, 1958; two daughters, Darlene Godfrey and her husband, Lamar, Rome, and Carol Osborn and her husband, Fred, Rome; five grandsons, Matthew Godfrey and his wife, Shannon, Rome, Alex Thomas and his wife, Destiny, Rockmart, Andrew Thomas, Rome, Chad Osborn, Rome, and Brandon Osborn, Athens; six great-grandchildren, Sterling, Daelyn & Makenley Godfrey, Rome, and Aiden, Wyatt & Baylee Thomas, Rockmart; a sister, Janice Cescutti, Rome; nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Armuchee Church of God with the Rev. Charles Izell officiating. Interment will follow in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends at Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, North Chapel, on Tuesday from 6 until 8 p.m. At other hours, they may be contacted at the residence of Darlene and Lamar Godfrey.

Pallbearers are asked to assemble at the church on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and include: Ronald Cescutti Jr., Matthew Godfrey, Alex Thomas, Andrew Thomas, Keith Pettyjohn, and Kevin Pettyjohn.

Henderson & Sons Funeral Home, North Chapel, has charge of the funeral arrangements.

MIAMI (AP) — Vic Damone, whose mellow baritone once earned praise from Frank Sinatra as “the best pipes in the business,” has died in Florida at the age of 89, his daughter said. Victoria Damone told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday that her father died at a Miami Beach hospital from complications of a respiratory illness. Damone’s easy-listening romantic ballads brought him million-selling records and sustained a half-century career in recordings, movies and nightclub, concert and television appearances.

Damone’s career began climbing in the 1940s after he won a tie on the radio show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Hunt.” His hit singles included “Again,” “You’re Breaking My Heart,” “My Heart Cries for You,” “On the Street Where You Live” and, in 1957, the title song of the Cary Grant film “An Affair to Remember.” Damone’s style as a lounge singer remained constant through the years: straightforward, concentrated on melody and lyrics without resorting to vocal gimmicks. Like many young singers of his era, he idolized Sinatra.

“I tried to mimic him,” Damone said in a 1992 interview with Newsday. “I decided that if I could sound like Frank maybe I did have a chance. I was singing his words, breathing his breaths, (doing) his interpretation, with the high notes, the synergy.”

Sinatra and Damone, along with Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Dean Martin and others, formed a group of Italian Americans who dominated the postwar pop music field. And far from resenting the mimicry, Sinatra praised Damone’s singing ability.

Born Vito Farinola in Brooklyn, New York, on June 12, 1928 to immigrants from Bari, Italy, Damone adopted his mother’s maiden name when he began his career, after catching an early break while working as an usher at the Paramount Theater in New York City.