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2A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, May 4,2022
OBITUARIES
John D. Davis
John D. Davis, 90, of Dawsonville,
passed away Saturday April 23, 2022,
at Northeast Georgia Medical Center
following a period of declining health.
Born February 23, 1932, to the late
Byrd and Clara Davis, John had been a
resident of Dawson County for most of
his life. He was a U.S. Air Force
Veteran who served in Korea. For
many years he owned and operated
Davis Trucking and served as the
Dawson County Sheriff for eight
years. John was preceded in death by
his wife, Anne Davis; daughter,
Pamela Bragg; brothers, L.T. Davis,
Franklin Davis, W.H. Davis; sisters,
Vernice Binder, Catherine Aaron.
Surviving are his son and daughter in
law, Tim and Shirley Davis,
Dawsonville; sisters, Ruth Johnson,
Monroe; brother, G.B. Davis, Clinton,
SC; 3 grandchildren; 3 great-grand
children. A funeral service was held at
2:00 p.m., Wednesday April 27, at
Bearden Funeral Home Chapel.
Interment followed in Sawnee View
Memorial Gardens. The family
received friends from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m., Tuesday, April 26, at the funeral
home and from 10:00 a.m., until the
service hour Wednesday. Condolences
may be expressed at www.beardenfu-
neralhome.com
Dawson County News
May 4, 2022
Catherine Ann Holcombe
Catherine Ann Holcombe, 66, of
Dawsonville, died Tuesday, April 26,
2022. Bearden Funeral Home of
Dawsonville was in charge of the
arrangements.
Dawson County News
May 4, 2022
Douglas Picklesimer
Douglas Picklesimer, 59, of
Cumming, died April 27, 2022. A funer
al service was held at 3:00 p.m.,
Saturday, April 30, at the Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel. Ingram Funeral
Home of Cumming was in charge of tine
arrangements.
Dawson County News
May 4, 2022
Bonnie Eddie Gene Samples
Bonnie Eddie Gene Samples, 89, of
Cumming, died Tuesday, April 26,
2022. A funeral service was held at 1:00
p.m., Friday, April 29, at the Ingram
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FCCLA
Photo courtesy of Lori Grant
In June, Berdadine Baptiste, Megan Dixon and
Avery Yarbrough will represent Dawson County
High School at a national FCCLA baking and pas
try competition in San Diego.
the competition, so DCHS
FCCLA member Avery
Yarbrough will step in to
fill Lee’s spot.
“They made it to nation
als and they needed another
baker, so I volunteered,”
Yarbrough said. “I knew I
wanted to go to California
but I wasn’t gonna go
unless they need me; and
now they need me.”
Unlike the region and
state competitions, this
time the three bakers will
be competing individually,
making four different dish
es to test their baking, time
management and cake dec
orating skills.
According to Baptiste,
competing as an individual
rather than on a team this
time is nerve-wracking but
exciting at the same time.
“It kind of makes me
more excited in a way; I
think when you work with
a team it’s good to share
ideas but you can also kind
of butt heads a little bit,”
Baptiste said. “But when
you’re doing it individually
it kind of gives you a
chance to do things on your
own.”
During the competition,
the girls will make choco
late chip cookies, blueberry
muffins and puff pastry, in
addition to decorating a
cake centered around a
theme or phrase they will
be given. Although they
will compete individually,
they will practice for the
competition together
between now and June.
The trio, along with
FCCLA Advisor Lori
Grant and CTAE Director
Amy Smith, will fly out to
San Diego on June 27. The
girls will participate in the
baking and pastry competi
tion over the course of
either one or two days, and
then they will have a cou
ple of extra days to sightsee
and enjoy themselves in
San Diego while the rest of
the categories within the
national FCCLA competi
tion are taking place.
Baptiste and Yarbrough,
both of whom have never
been on a plane, said that
they’re incredibly excited
to get to experience a dif
ferent culture on the other
side of the country.
“Apart from baking I’m
most excited about the days
in between; since moving
here I’ve never really been
out of Dawsonville, so I’m
excited about the whole
experience,” Baptiste said.
Yarbrough, who has
never been out of the south,
said that she’s excited to
see what life is like in San
Diego.
“I’m excited to see how
different people are, and
how different the beaches
are too,” Yarbrough said.
During their downtime
on the trip, the group hopes
to have time to enjoy local
restaurants, sightsee, visit
the San Diego Zoo and go
to the beach. Dixon, who
hopes to take a surfing les
son while in California,
said that getting to partici
pate in the national compe
tition and go to San Diego
is an incredibly exciting
end to her high school
career.
“I’m excited about just
having this last thing for
senior year; it’s gonna be
kind of my last hurrah
before I go off to college,”
Dixon said. “So it’s a good
way to end my senior year.”
Grant said that, as the
advisor for FCCLA, she
couldn’t be more proud of
the girls for making it so far
in the competition and rep
resenting Dawson County
at a national level.
“I’m so excited for them;
for them to get to go is
pretty impressive,” Grant
said. “It’s not an easy com
petition, it’s really stressful
— so I’m just so proud of
them.”
To travel to the national
competition, each student
will need about $2000 for
plane tickets and other
expenses, not including
spending money and food
costs. Because of this, the
trio has been hard at work
to raise funds.
Baptiste has been mak
ing and selling cakes to
raise funds, Dixon has gone
around to several local
businesses to ask for sup
port, and all three students
have been working to sell
scholarships. So far, they
said that the community
has been very supportive of
their fundraising efforts.
“This is the nicest com
munity; everyone is so
sweet and really support
ive,” Baptiste said. “I was
taken aback because I did
not expect people to be so
open, but everyone here is
just so genuine with every
thing.”
Once they meet their
fundraising goals to pay for
plane tickets and other
expenses, anything that the
students manage to raise
above that will go to help
pay for their meals and
other needs while they’re in
San Diego.
Grant added that going to
the national competition is
something that the FCCLA
students couldn’t accom
plish without the support of
the members of the
Dawson County communi
ty, and she’s grateful for
everything the community
does to show their support
for the students at Dawson
County High School.
“The community has
been super supportive;
from the time we started
making it known that we
were going to nationals it’s
been just a lot of support,”
Grant said. “So we’re slow
ly getting there, but we
would not be if it wasn’t for
the help from our commu
nity. I think they’re as excit
ed as we are; we couldn’t
do this without the commu
nity support so we’re just
really thankful and blessed
to be in Dawsonville where
even though it’s growing it
still has that small-town
feel where everybody
knows each other.”
To help donate to the stu
dents ’ fundraising efforts,
contact FCCLA Advisor
Lori Grant at 706-265-
6555 ext 1517 or by email
ing lgrant@dawson.kl2.
ga.us.
Luneral Home Chapel. Ingram Luneral
Home of Cumming was in charge of the
arrangements.
Dawson County News
May 4, 2022
Roger Lanier Stephens, Jr.
Roger Lanier Stephens, Jr., 63, of
Dawsonville, died Wednesday, April 27,
2022. A memorial service was held at
1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 30, at Bethel
United Methodist Church. Bearden
Luneral Home of Dawsonville was in
charge of the arrangements.
Dawson County News
May 4, 2022
Ronald Smith Williams
Ronald Smith Williams, 80, of
Cumming, died April 20, 2022. Services
for a celebration of his life will be held
at a later date. Ingram Luneral Home of
Cumming is in charge of the arrange
ments.
Dawson County News
May 4, 2022
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