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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, April 13,2022
OBITUARIES
William A. "Bill" Almond
William A. “Bill” Almond, 92, of
Cumming, died April 5, 2022. A
funeral service was held at 2:00 p.m.,
Friday, April 8, at Bearden Funeral
Home Chapel. Bearden Funeral Home
of Dawsonville was in charge of the
arrangements.
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April 13, 2022
Betty Jean Gardner
Betty Jean Gardner, 92, of
Dawsonville, died Saturday, April 9,
2022. A graveside service was held at
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 13, at the
Eidson Memorial Cemetery. Bearden
Funeral Home of Dawsonville was in
charge of the arrangements.
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April 13, 2022
Sherman Hugh McBrayer
Sherman Hugh McBrayer, 71, died
April 6, 2022. A memorial service
will be held by the family at a later
date. Ingram Funeral Home of
Cumming is in charge of the arrange
ments.
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April 13, 2022
Bobby Joe Reed
Bobby Joe Reed, 88, of Cumming,
died Sunday, April 3, 2022. A funeral
service was held at 3:00 p.m.,
Wednesday, April 6, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel. Ingram Funeral
Home of Cumming was in charge of
the arrangements.
Dawson County News
April 13, 2022
FROM 1A
Kemp
didn’t stay on the ground
longer than it did” and
encouraged event attendees
to keep people in
Pembroke and other
impacted areas in their
thoughts and prayers.
Policy points
Kemp reaffirmed state
decisions as far as advocat
ing for children’s return to
classrooms during the pan
demic, the heartbeat bill
and elections integrity, in
spite of cultural and politi
cal pushback.
He’s also signed legisla
tion to “unmask Georgia
students,” protect girls’
sports, limit students being
shown obscene materials
and address the teaching of
divisive ideologies in class
rooms. The governor
described the latter bill as a
product of the state’s work
with superintendents, who
he said “want involved par
ents and a transparent pro
cess.”
“This has nothing to do
with what our history is
and what it was in our
state,” Kemp said. “It needs
to be a truthful history, not
somebody’s idea of what
that was or pushing an indi-
vidual’s unnecessary,
biased values on our chil
dren in our state.”
He discussed rural
broadband expansion
efforts, the tax rebates
included in this year’s state
budget and the suspension
of the gas tax as ways to
provide financial relief for
Georgians.
“Make no mistake, as
brutal as the war is in
Ukraine and how bad
Vladimir Putin is, these
policies and gas prices
were high long before that
started,” he said.
Kemp likewise men
tioned a statewide veterans’
tax exemption for retire
ment income and the last
$2,000 pay raise for teach
ers during his term, to com
plete the total $5,000 raise
he promised during his ini
tial campaign.
He later mentioned a
right-to-farm bill that he
said would make it easier
for farmers not to waste
products and for people to
get food.
Kemp said initiatives like
that will be “more impor
tant than ever with the
global supply shortage.”
Later on in the speech,
he mentioned efforts of the
General Assembly, his
wife, Georgia’s First Lady
Marty Kemp and the
GRACE Commission to
help end human trafficking
and help victims reenter
society “in a promising and
optimistic way.”
He added that more
money is being sent to the
Georgia Bureau of
Investigation’s Street Gang
Task Force and prosecution
units and physicians in the
state medical examiner’s
office. Governor’s emer
gency funds have been
allocated to crime suppres
sion efforts on the parts of
multiple state and local
agencies.
Kemp elaborated by
characterizing voters’ sup
port as vital to he and his
colleagues.
“Make no mistake, we
are not taking this primary
for granted,” Kemp said.
“We will be working every
single day, just like we
have been to make sure we
keep the leadership and
team we have,” he said.
Kemp reminded the
Dawson and north Georgia-
area audience that Will
Wade and State Sen. Steve
Gooch (R) are on the ballot
and said that they will help
the state continue going “in
the right direction.”
“If you don’t want to go
the way of Washington
D.C.,” said Kemp, “then
help with your vote and
support...[and] then we’ll
turn around and do it again
against [Stacey] Abrams in
November.”
FROM 1A
Bricks
his time to help her rebuild
the wall, taking down the
old mosaics and the old
bricks and replacing them
with the new ones.
According to Croft, she
would haul the five-pound
bricks inside in a box set
on her walker, carry them
upstairs two at a time in a
bag so she could paint
them, and bring them back
down for Jackson to place
on the wall.
“Every day I’d look out
and he’d bring bricks down
so they’d be sitting there,
so I’d bring them in, get
them upstairs, paint them
and bring them back
down,” Croft said. “I paint
ed them faster than he
could put them up, but it’s
probably taken about 8
months or so... it’s been a
lot of work.”
But after all the work,
Croft said that the end
product, a large wall built
out of 700 of her painted
bricks and standing right
outside of her house, has
been incredibly rewarding
to see every time she walks
past her window.
Croft said that her art
work has been an outlet for
her during her battle with
Lyme disease, which has
made it hard for her to
walk or to stand for long
periods of time.
“I can’t do anything —
I’ve gotten way better than
I was, but I paint all day,”
Croft said. “I have to do
something; I can’t just sit,
but I can’t stand for long
periods so I’m doing a lot
of sitting so I paint con
stantly.”
She has always been
crafty, but she said that she
really took up painting
after she retired from her
career as a nurse.
“When I retired I started
painting,” Croft said. “I’ve
always done crafts but
never painting so I have
paintings everywhere, I
don’t have any more
room.”
She added that her inspi
ration for rocks, bricks and
canvases alike can come
from anywhere, from sea
sonal designs to animals to
ideas she sees online.
“I just look and look for
inspiration; Pinterest, really
anywhere,” Croft said.
“The ones for the kids are
littie rocks, so I have to do
small lithe things, but it’s
easy on rocks because
they’re smooth.”
Moving forward, Croft
said that she is now paint
ing on pieces of boards
taken from pallets, which
her son-in-law cuts for her
to paint.
“My daughter’s husband
has been getting pallets,
and then he cuts me the
boards and I put three of
them together; that’s my
favorite cause they’re kind
of rough and make your
painting look kind of old
and I just love them,” Croft
said.
FROM 1A
Turner
searched the car’s engine
bay and found a white-
and-yellow plastic cylin
der containing an alleged
65 grams of marijuana,
divided into two 28-gram
bags and one nine-gram
bag.
“The plastic tube was
located by the intake of
the engine, below the dust
cover of the engine out of
plain view,” stated one of
the warrants.
Also discovered was a
hard plastic storage con
tainer with multiple sec
tion dividers supposedly
holding various drags.
Instead of containing
office supplies or other
permissible items, this
organizer allegedly “was
full of numerous pre
packaged drags for sale,”
according to multiple
warrants.
Separate plastic bags in
the container supposedly
held eight blue, oval pills
suspected to be Xanax,
two grams of suspected
meth, 1.5 grams of sus
pected powder cocaine
and four grams of sus
pected crack cocaine.
DCN will update this
story when more informa
tion becomes available.
Gary Voyles
Gary Voyles, 57, of Dawsonville,
died Tuesday, April 5, 2022. A memo
rial service was held at 2:00 p.m.,
Tuesday April 12, at CrossBridge
Community Church. Bearden Funeral
Home of Dawsonville was in charge
of the arrangements.
Dawson County News
April 13, 2022
Jenifer Lynn "Jenni" Walls
Jenifer Lynn “Jenni” Walls, 56, of
Dawsonville, died Sunday, April 3,
2022. A memorial service was held at
2:00 p.m., Saturday, April 9, at
Bearden Funeral Home Chapel.
B ear den Funeral Home of
Dawsonville was in charge of the
arrangements.
Dawson County News
April 13, 2022
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birthplace
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