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The ADVANCE, November 3, 2021/Page 8A
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Obituaries
Mrs. Janice O’Brien
Mrs. Janice O’Brien,
age 76 of Glenwood, went
home to be with the Lord
on Tuesday, October 26,
2021, at Meadows Region
al Medical Center follow
ing an extended illness.
She was bom on
September 22, 1945, in
Dublin, Georgia, to the
late Leon B. and Eloise
Cox Adams. She was the
owner of Glenwood Tele
phone Company; the past
president of the Georgia
Telephone Association; a
member of the Regional
Commission; a Brewton-
Parker College BPC Board
Member; a member of the
Region 9 Workforce Devel
opment; and a member of
Bethel Baptist Church. She
was preceded in death by
her sister, Beverly Adams,
and her close friend Hazel
O’Brien.
Mrs. O’Brien is sur
vived by her husband,
James E. “Ed” Wommack;
two sons, James “Jim”
O’Brien (Jill), and Andrew
O’Brien (Miranda); step
son, Dewayne Wommack
(Teresa); three grandchil
dren, Lakin O’Brien, Ad-
dah O’Brien, and Addyson
O’Brien; and her special
friend, Jennifer Goff.
The family received
friends on Saturday, Oc
tober 30, 2021, from 1:00
p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at
Glenwood City Cemetery
with a graveside service
following at 2:00 p.m. with
Minister Robert Rogers
officiating. Honorary pall
bearers were Glenwood
Telephone Company em
ployees.
In lieu of flowers, me
morial contributions may
be made to the Georgia
Baptist Children’s Home,
9420 Blackshear Highway,
Baxley, GA 31513; or to
the Vidalia Heritage Acad
emy Upper School Tech
nology Fund, 101 East
First Street, Vidalia, GA
30474; or to the Georgia
Eye Bank, 5605 Glenridge
Drive, Suite 250, Atlanta,
GA 30342.
Condolences may be
sent to the family online:
www.rob erts- stewartfuner-
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Mr. Ronnie Williamson
James “Ronnie” Wil
liamson, age 75, of Vidalia,
Georgia, passed away Fri
day, October 29, 2021. He
was born April 3, 1946, to
Ben D. Williamson and
Katherine Allmond in Vi
dalia, Georgia. He gradu
ated from .
Vidalia High
School and \
attended \
Middle Geor- \
gia College.
He served as an Airman
in the United States Air
Force from 1966 to 1969
and was deployed during
the Vietnam War to Goose
Bay, Labrador. From 1969
to 1996, he served as a Ra
dioman First Class in the
United States Naval Re
serve. He was a member
of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church in Vidalia. He re
tired from AT&T, where
he was employed as a Re
gional Manager, after 53
years of service. He loved
to work on the family farm
and visit with his children
and grandchildren. He is
preceded in death by his
brother, Ray Matthew.
He is survived by his
wife of 53 years, Joyce
Easterling Williamson;
his children, Brian Keith
Williamson and Wendy
Williamson-Coyne; Patri
cia Willis; son-in-law, Jake
Coyne; his grandchildren,
Savannah, Hailey, and Au
brey; and his brothers, Roy
Allen and Ben Donald.
The funeral will be held
on Wednesday, November
3, in the chapel of Ronald
V. Hall Funeral Home. Visi
tation is at 10:00 a.m. and
service at 11:00 a.m. The
burial will follow, with full
United States Military hon
ors, at the Williamson Fam
ily Cemetery in Kibbee.
Pallbearers will be
Monty Williamson, Mitch
Williamson, John William
son, Glenn Williamson,
Kerry Harrison, and Jack-
son.
In lieu of flowers, dona
tions can be made to The
Rapha Center Internation
al, Inc., in memory of James
Ronnie Williamson, 2625
Old Kibbee Road, N. Sop-
erton, GA 30457.
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Mr. Benny Cliff
Mr. Benny Cliff, age
58, of Vidalia, died on
Thursday, October 28,
2021, at Memorial Health
Meadows Hospital in Vi
dalia after a brief illness.
Mr. Cliff was a na
tive of Macon and a 1981
graduate of Jones County
High School in Gray. He
lived in Macon, Augusta,
and Douglasville most of
his life, and moved to Vi
dalia in 2017. He was a
brick mason and started
in the family business,
Superior Masonry at the
age of 13. After retiring
from masonry in 2016 to
spend more time with his
granddaughter, he found
his passion of truck driv
ing at Swainsboro Sup
ply. He was a member of
Central Baptist Church
in Douglasville. He was
preceded in death by his
parents, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Cliff and Janice
Rachel Jones Cliff; 1 sis
ter, Rebecca Darlene Cliff;
and 1 son-in-law, Nathan
Clark.
His family includes
his wife of 37 years, Cher
yl Cliff, MD; 3 children,
Caitlyn Clark of Savan
nah, Tyler Cliff and Josh
ua Cliff, both of Vidalia;
1 granddaughter, Olivia
Clark of Savannah; 2 sis
ters, Shelia McCranney
and husband Thomas,
and Brenda Jespersen, all
of Gray; his mother-in-
law, Rubye Taylor of Villa
Rica; 2 brothers-in-law,
Guerry Taylor and wife
Sabrina of Dallas, GA,
and Greg Taylor and wife
Paula of Sugarland, TX;
and several nieces, neph
ews, and cousins, includ
ing a cousin, George Cliff
of Milledgeville.
The funeral service
was held on Tuesday, No
vember 2, 2021, at 3:00
p.m., in the chapel of Ron
ald V. Hall Funeral Home,
with Mr. Engle Medina of
ficiating. Burial followed
at Lakeview Memorial
Gardens.
Pallbearers were
George Cliff, Cole Dove,
Scott Smart, Cara Mock,
Micah Vickers, and Ste
phen Taylor.
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misconstrued and that he
really meant the opposite.
Comedian Groucho
Marx once quipped “Who
are you going to believe
— me or your own eyes?”
Panic among
Democrats is well-founded
in that Blacks constitute
approximately 20% of
voters in Virginia and can
make all the difference in
the outcome of the
election. And Blacks poll
strongly in favor of parental
choice in education.
In 2018, Republican
candidate Ron DeSantis
defeated Black Democratic
candidate Andrew Gillum
by less than 40,000 votes
in the gubernatorial
election in Florida. One
reason was DeSantis got
18% of the vote of Black
women. This was most
likely Black mothers
expressing appreciation
for the 100,000 low-
income children attending
private schools through
tax-credit funded
scholarships provided
through the Step Up for
Students program.
If anything positive
has come out of
C OVID-19, it has driven
home to many parents the
implications of
government and politically
controlled schools.
Given the central
importance of education
to a child’s future, more
parents are becoming
aware of grave implications
of losing control of when
and where their children
are taught, how they are
taught and what they are
taught.
McAuliffe’s accidental
moment of truth put out
for all to see what
Democrats are really
about. They are casting a
wider and stronger net of
government and political
control of almost every
aspect of our lives. The
core American value of
freedom has all but
disappeared.
More Black parents are
sensitive to the crisis in the
Black family. Do they
really want progressive
politicians defining
sexuality for their children ?
But this is what is
happening.
Thirty states and the
District of Columbia
mandate sex education in
public schools.
Log onto the website
of either of the major
teachers unions —
National Education
Association and American
Federation of Teachers.
Both include the
commitment to LGBTQ^
values.
What about Black
parents, or parents of any
ethnicity, that reject this
worldview? What about
Black parents, or parents
of any ethnicity, who want
their child’s education
about sexuality to be
defined by traditional
biblical views of love and
marriage?
In a recent Pew
Research survey, 59% said
Americans disagree on
“basic facts.”
In a country where
there’s not even consensus
about what reality is —
what is true and what is
false — how can we
possibly have a
government-controlled
education system? How
can parents allow
progressive bureaucrats to
determine the worldview
conveyed to their children?
A wake-up call, a new
birth of freedom, is long
overdue in America.
Virginia is a good place
to start.
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the Center for Urban Renewal
and Education and host of
the weekly television show
"Cure America with Star
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Mr. Lonnie Stripling
Mr. Lonnie Cecil
Stripling, age 61, ofLyons,
died on Sunday, October
31, 2021, at Community
Hospice in Vidalia after an
extended illness.
Mr. Stripling was a
lifelong native of Lyons
and attended Lyons Se
nior High School. He
worked as a pipefitter
and welder with the Lo
cal #177 of Brunswick.
He was Church of God by
faith. He was preceded in
death by his parents, Lon
nie Aaron Stripling and
Juette Phillips Stripling
Copeland, and stepfather,
Jim Copeland; and 1 sis
ter, Mary Anna Stripling
Cunningham.
His family includes
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mean tweets, or the way
they said he personally dis
respected other world lead
ers in one-on-one meetings.
Confront a Progressive
with actual facts, like that
President Trump gave us
the lowest Black/Hispanic/
female unemployment in
fifty years — a direct result
of his administration’s busi
ness-friendly initiatives
leading to confident expan
sion and aggressive hiring
— or the fact that his en
ergy policies led to our be
coming energy-indepen-
dent while still preserving
our environmental integrity
or the reality of illegal im
migration coming under
his wife of 43 years, Diane
Stripling of Lyons; 2 chil
dren, Lonnie L. Stripling
and wife Jessica of Fitzger
ald, and Wendie Stripling
Sikes and husband Clint
of Reidsville; 1 sister,
Judy Stripling Adams and
husband Mike of Vidalia;
1 stepbrother, James Co
peland of Lyons; 6 grand
children, Brooke Strip
ling, Clayton Stripling,
Kase Sikes, Trevor Collier,
Tanner Collier, and Tuck
er Collier; and numerous
nieces, nephews, great-
nieces and great-nephews.
The funeral service
will be held on Wednes
day, November 3, 2021,
at 3:00 p.m., in the chapel
at Ronald V. Hall Funeral
Home, with Bishop Gil
bert Wommack officiat
ing. Burial will follow in
the Ohoopee Community
Cemetery.
Flowers are accepted,
or donations maybe made
to Community Hospice,
P.O. Box 2277, Vidalia,
GA 30475.
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control for the first time in
generations, and the typical
Progressive response was,
“Yeah, fine, but he made
fun of a disabled reporter!
Impeach him!” The objec
tions to President Trump
were 99% style-based, emo
tion over substance. Under
President Trump, people’s
daily quality of life im
proved greatly, business was
terrific, gas and heating
prices were low, NATO was
finally anteing up, but Pro
gressives didn’t like his gruff
demeanor and too long red
ties. How intellectual.
We should be so lucky
now. This administration is
doing real harm to a fright
eningly wide swath of peo
ple every day, with every
new policy and proclama
tion.
Mrs. Lois Phillips
Mrs. Lois Jean McLain
Phillips, age 81, died on
Monday, October 25, 2021,
at the Treutlen County
Health and Rehabilitation
Center in Soperton.
Mrs. Phillips was bom
in Toombs County and
grew up on a farm in the
Blue Ridge Community
of Toombs County. After
graduating from Lyons High
School in 1956, she attended
Secretarial/Business School
in Atlanta. Upon comple
tion, she returned home
and worked in Swainsboro
for Warnock and Calhoun
Wholesale Grocers. She
later joined Handi House
in Swainsboro, where she
remained for over 30 years,
retiring in 2007. She was a
Now there’s a new one
that could be the most un
believable thing ever: Pro
gressives want to give
$450K to every illegal alien
for the “psychological
trauma” all of them suffered
from being separated at the
border during the Trump
years. Can they be serious?
The talk is that this will
come about by executive
order, bypassing Congress,
where even some Demo
crats would likely reject this
insanity. If this happens, it
exponentially increases the
incentive to come here ille
gally. It’ll explode the na
tional debt beyond all
bounds of manageability. It
will crush the taxpayer and
threaten the foundation of
our economic system, from
every angle. Yet it’s being
longtime member of Morn-
ingside Baptist Church,
where she played the piano
for a short time. She was
preceded in death by her
parents, Cannie and Florene
Kitchens McLain; her sib
lings, Everette McLain and
Dorothy Cobb; and an in
fant son, Kerry Phillips.
Survivors include her
husband of 60 years, Shan
non Phillips, and 2 sons,
Terry Phillips (Laura), and
Ronnie Phillips, all of Soper
ton; 3 granddaughters, Bran
di Dykes (Justin), Brenna
Phillips, and Chloe Phillips;
1 grandson, Jacob Phillips; 3
great-grandchildren, Mason,
Madilyn and Abigail; several
nieces and nephews; and a
special friend, Eunice Gillis
ofDublin.
A graveside funeral
service was conducted on
Wednesday, October 27,
2021, at 11:00 a.m., in Boil
ing Springs Cemetery, with
Rev. Louis Pierce and Rev.
Vic Fordham officiating.
In lieu of flowers, me
morial contributions are en
couraged to be made in her
memory to the charity of
one’s choice.
Sammons Funeral
Home in Soperton was in
charge of arrangements.
talked about seriously.
Whether it actually comes
to pass or not is not the
point.
The point is that to the
new Progressive way of
thinking and governing, no
entitlement is too much; no
amount of government
vote-buying bribery is be
yond the pale. There is not
even the slightest recogni
tion by Progressives about
the economic danger of un
controlled deficit spending.
If this $450K/immigrant
ploy doesn’t pan out, rest
assured that there will be
another, even more aston
ishing hare-brained scheme
to follow, quicker than you
can imagine.
Sadly, as long as Pro
gressives run the govern
ment, that is true.