Submitted by Emily O'Neal

Rome News Tribune May 10, 1974
John Proctor

John Wesley Proctor, 71, Belwood Road, Calhoun Rte. 6, died at 2 p.m. Thursday in a Rome hospital following several years illness, his condition being critical for three weeks.
Mr. Proctor was born in Floyd County Aug. 17, 1902, son of the late Claude E. Proctor and Emma Mae Terry Proctor. He moved to Calhoun in 1957 and prior to ill health was employed by Dixie Bell Mills. He was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Oothcalooga Lodge 154 F. & A.M., Chapter 484, Order of the Eastern Star, and Gordon County Low 12 Club and served with the Quartermaster Corp. during World War II. \par Survivors include his widow, the former Clara Kay, whom he married Nov. 16, 1957; one sister, Mrs. Willie F. Davis, Rome, seveal nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Bethlehem Baptist Church, Sonaraville, with the Revs. Robert Hudgens, and Verme Wesley officiating. \par Interment will be in Blackwood Cemetery, Calhoun, with Ooothcalooga Lodge 154 F. & A.M. in charge of graveside rites.
The body will be at Jennings Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 until 9 p.m. today.
At other hours the family will be at the residence of a nephew, Billy Kay, 106 Deer Park Lane, Calhoun.
Pallbearers include Rayford Parker, Royce Dutton, Eddie Allmon, Bobby Jacobs, Ray Childers and Julian Sutton.

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