Mr. Arthur Harlan "Art" Cole, age 96, of South Street Carrollton, passed away Friday September 10, 2010. Mr. Cole was born in Murray County, TN. December 19, 1913. He was the oldest of seven children born to the late James Arthur and Ivy Etta Lunn Cole. Mr. Cole's family farmed and ran a dairy on 150 acres of leased land where they milked 60 to 75 cows and grew crops of corn, hay, tobacco, tomatoes and other vegetables. He attended Beachland School in Murray County, TN.; his favorite past time growing up was fishing near his home and in the Tennessee River and Picwic Lake in Savannah, TN.; He was a life long Methodist by faith but in most recent years had attended The First Baptist Church in Carrollton. Mr. Cole was married to the late Bessie Virginia Agent on November 10, 1934 and they lived together 60 years until her death on June 8, 1994. There were three sons born to this union, James Lee Cole, Gene Gordon Cole and Harold Allen Cole. In 1943, the family moved to Detroit, MI.; where Mr. Cole went to work for Packard Motors on the assembly line building Rolls Royce airplane engines. In the fall of 1945 he went to work for Douglas Lomason Company as a machine operator and served as shop union official until 1953 when he became a supervisor. In early 1957 he moved to Carrollton, Ga. to be the second shift supervisor for D&L under William Lomason and Vince Cashen and remained there until he retired on January 1, 1979. In addition to his parents and wife, Mr. Cole was preceded in death by step mother Annie Shelton Cole; sons Harold Cole & Gene Cole; brothers James Thomas Cole and Elgan Cole; sister in-law Mary Shires Cole; brother in-law Russell Flory, Dick Shelton and D.C. Burgess. Survivors include son and daughter in-law Jim & Joan Walker Cole of Carrollton daughter in-laws Sandra Chandler Cole and Maggie Cook Cole both of Carrollton; grandchildren Tim & Leann Cole, Rhonda & Greg Smith, Hal & Rhonda Cole, Debbie & Ken Nash, Cindy Walton, Brandon Cole, Bart & Stacy Cole. Great Grandchildren Elizabeth Cole, Leslie Lanier, Mary Kathryn Cole, Hayley Burks, Brandon Smith, Drew Nash, Jared Nash, Graham Nash, Landon Nash, Jessie Walton, Jake Walton, Halie Walton, John Michael Walton and Avery Cole and Hannah Cole. Sisters Aubrey Cole Flory of Greenville, OH. and Martha Polly Cole Burgess of Savannah, TN.; sister & brother in-law Shelia & Randy West of Shelbyville, Tn.; sister in –law Reba Henson Cole of Columbia,TN. Funeral Services will conducted Monday September 13, 2010 at 1:00 PM from Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel with Rev. Rodney Carr and Dr. Steve Davis officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday September 12, 2010 from 5 PM until 8 PM . Serving as pallbearers will be Hal Cole, Tim Cole, Brandon Cole, Bart Cole, Ken Nash, Jessie Walton and Drew Nash. In lieu of flowers donations maybe made to Agape Hospice Care, Inc. 5825 Glenridge Drive #4-200 Atlanta, Ga. 30328. Messages of condolences maybe sent to the family at www.martin-hightower.com. Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel has charge of the arrangements.