Barbara Ann Templeton

Our family is heartbroken to inform you that BARBARA ANN GRIFFITH TEMPLETON,

80 years old, passed away on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, in Canton, GA, after a long

battle from a mini-stroke and resulting decline from vascular dementia. Barbara was

born on August 31, 1944, in Atlanta, GA to Hayne Turner Griffith and Doris Lucretia

Redmond Griffith, both deceased. She is survived by her husband of 28 years, Billy

Jack Templeton, her daughter from a previous marriage, Tina Robin Gillman Darnell and

her husband, Randy Darnell, her grandsons Matthew Grayson Darnell and his fiancé

Jessica Fedak, Zachary Lawson Darnell and his wife Cameron Pressley, her

granddaughter Shelby Darnell Waver and her husband Nick Waver, and Barbara’s four

great grandchildren from Zachary and Cameron: Kate, Case, Lathem, and Jacob

Darnell,. Barbara retired from Bell South Telephone Company in 1999. She was a

highly perceptive, intuitive, and loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-

grandmother with strong intellectual interest in Christianity, psychology, and genealogy.

She once served as a counselor at Mount Paran Church in Atlanta, GA and was a

member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Jamestown Society and other

genealogical societies.

Viewing will be held at 10:00am and funeral at 11:00am from Canton Funeral Home,

10655 East Cherokee Drive, Canton, GA 30115 on Saturday, October 19, 2024.

Inurnment will be held at a later date.