Julia Ann Sweeney

Julia loved knitting, reading, and playing bridge with her friends. She also loved spending time on the computer – she was known to message her grandchildren on AOL and write her letters in Word Perfect long before many of her contemporaries. An accomplished swimmer since childhood, she continued swimming until the last weeks of her life. She passed her love of water and swimming on to many of her grandchildren.

Julia met her husband, the late Donald Sweeney, Sr., while she was at West Virginia Wesleyan College. After they married, they lived all over the country, including in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nebraska, and Illinois, before finally settling in Georgia.

She was a loving wife, mother of six, grandmother of fourteen, great grandmother of six, beloved aunt and great-aunt to many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Donald Sweeney, Sr., son Mark Vernon Sweeney, daughter-in-law Rene’ Sweeney, brother John Bail, and sister-in-law Patricia Bail.

Julia is survived by her four sons, Donald II (Jill), Gary (Lorena), Scott (Bonnie), Jeff (Shelley), and daughter Lisa Hereth(Chris); grandchildren Caryn Sweeney, Scott Sweeney (Katie), Ryan Sweeney(Lauren), Katherine(Eric) Yeasted, Kevin Sweeney(Mei), Kara Bac (Dan), Lyndsay Sweeney, Kirsten Helwig (Chris), Cameron Sweeney, Kasey Sweeney (Emily), Korey Sweeney, Savanna Garde(Joey), Diana Sweeney, Hannah Hereth; great grandchildren Taylor Russell, Hunter Richardson, Cora Helwig, Sloane Sweeney, Brynlee Bac, Kinley Helwig.

Visitation at Clutter Funeral and Cremation Buckhannon, WV at 10 AM on Saturday, December 19, 2020 followed by a graveside service at 11 AM at Heavner Cemetery, Buckhannon, WV.

A celebration of Julia’s life will be held in the Spring of 2021 in Cartersville, GA.

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Owen Funeral Home, 12 Collins Dr., Cartersville, GA 30120 has charge of the arrangements.