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Lake Oconee News
Friday, February 10,2017
Obituaries
The deadline for obituaries is 1 p.m. Monday. Funeral homes may send notices to obits@lakeoconeenews.us.
Warren Leroy Moser
Jan. 29,2017
Warren Leroy Moser, age
86 of Greensboro passed
away peacefully Sunday,
Jan. 29, 2017.
A memorial celebration
will be held Saturday, Febr.
11,2017 at 3 p.m. at the First
United Methodist Church,
North Campus, 202 West
Broad St, in Greensboro
with the Reverends David
Key and Becky Matheny of
the Lake Oconee Commu
nity Church officiating. The
Reynolds Chorus, dear to
Warren and Jeanne, will sing some of his favorite hymns.
Following the service, the family will host a reception at
the McCommons Funeral Home, 109 West Broad Street,
Greensboro as planned by Warren.
Known for his good nature and wit, Warren and his
wife, Jeanne enjoyed living in the Lake Oconee area for
the last 20 years. Drawn to Georgia by their mutual love
of golf and fellowship with friends, their hopes and expec
tations were more than satisfied.
Warren was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1930, the
second son of Milton Philip Moser and Mae Perrottet
Moser, both from Shiloh Valley Township in llinois.
Warren graduated from Belleville Township High School
in Belleville, Illinois, and completed his BS in Econom
ics at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in 1951.
He joined the Navy in 1951 as an aviation ensign during
the Korean War and received his wings a year later. He
became an aircraft carrier pilot and served a total of four
years, fulfilling his tour as a 1st Lieutenant. In addition,
he was in the Naval Reserves for 10 years. He worked for
32 years in various positions for Southwestern Bell which
ultimately became AT&T. He retired in 1987 as Senior
Division Manager, Human Resources. He then formed
a consulting firm with Jeanne, designing and conducting
HR conferences all over the United States, Canada and
Europe. Warren was very proud that all of his children and
grandchildren went to college.
He is predeceased by his parents, his first wife, Peggy
James Moser, and brother, Evan Moser.
Survivors include his wife, Jeanne; four children from
his first marriage, David Moser (Lori), Jocelyn Moser
Fry (John), Richard Moser (Cindy); and Phillip Moser
(engaged to Kim Lewis); a sister-in-law, Betty Lou Moser;
ten grandchildren, Carrie (Michael), Laura (Adam),
Evan, Emily, Sarah, Christopher, Elle, Katie (Matt), Sean
and Eric; four great-grandchildren, Ada, Allie, Brooks
and Jackson; a stepson, Michael Kardos (Alexandra); a
stepdaughter, Elizabeth Vasconcellos (Peter) and three
step-grandchildren, Holden, Griffin and Leon.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made
to Lake Oconee Community Church or to the Alzheimer’s
Association for Research, P.O. Box 96OII, Washington,
DC. 20090-6011 in memory of Warren L. Moser.
McCommons Funeral Home, 109 W. Broad St., Greens
boro, GA, (706)453-2626, has charge of arrangements.
Visit us at www.mccommonsfuneralhome.com to sign
the online guest register.
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Donald Urban Wissman
Feb. 1,2017
Donald Urban Wissman,
age 72 of Greensboro died
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 at
Piedmont Athens Regional.
A funeral mass was held
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 at
Christ Our King and Savior
Catholic Church, 6341 Lake
Oconee Parkway, Greens
boro, GA 30642, with Rev.
Young Nguyen officiating,
with burial in Honey Creek
Woodlands in Conyers. The
Knights of Columbus served
as honor guard.
Don was born Sept. 30, 1944 in Covington, Kentucky,
and was the son of the late Norbert Wissman and Frances
Schmerge Wissman.
He graduated from Covington Catholic High School in
Kentucky and served in the U.S Armyfrom 1965-67, includ
ing a tour in Vietnam.
On Jan. 27,1968, he married the former Susan Hehman.
For more than 20 years, he worked for Hamilton Movers,
Inc. as Information Manager, retiring in 1994.
He moved from Park Hills, Kentucky, to Lake Oconee in
Greene County in 2002.
He was an avid fisherman and enjoyed being outdoors.
Don was a member of Christ Our King and Savior Catholic
Church and the Knights of Columbus.
Survivors include his wife, Susan Wissman, of Greens
boro; two sisters, Peggy Weber (Ken) of Greensboro and
Nancy Layton (Bruce) of Roseville, CA; four nieces, Kerrie
Clasen (Nick) of Louisville, KY, Jennifer Wurst (Russ) of
Sagamore Hills, OH, Becky Welch (Scotty) ofMt. Pleasant,
SC and Melissa Kelley (Blake) of Folsom, CA; four nephews,
Nicholas Layton of Roseville, CA, Derek Ryan (Karen)
Sterling, VA, Mark Ryan (Janet) Richmond, VA, Nathan
Ryan (Rachael Sussman) Lewisburg, PA; a number of
great-nieces and great-nephews; two sisters-in law, Barbara
Hehman and Sally Ryan, other relatives and many friends.
He is also survived by his beloved dog and companion,
Otis Lee, TDiT (therapy dog in training).
The family requested in lieu of flowers, please consider
a donation in Don’s honor to the Knights of Columbus, c/o
Christ Our King and Savior Catholic Church, 6341 Lake
Oconee Parkway, Greensboro, GA 30642.
McCommons Funeral Home, 109 W. Broad St., Greens
boro, GA, (706) 453-2626, had charge of arrangements.
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Congressman Hice announces
February mobile office hours
In an ongoing effort
to provide constituent
services, Congressman
Jody Hice (GA-10) will host
Mobile Office Hours with
two opportunities for 10th
District residents to meet
with his staff in February.
Mobile office hours
provide residents who are
unable to visit the Con
gressman’s office because
of time or location restric
tions the opportunity to
meet with a knowledge
able member of his staff
to discuss their concerns,
share their priorities or
seek help with a federal
agency.
‘While I’m hard at work
in Washington, D.C., I have
a dedicated full-time team
in the 10th Congressional
District who stand willing
and ready to help,” said
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you have questions re
garding Social Security
benefits, Medicare, immi
gration, veterans’ benefits,
the IRS and other federal
programs, I hope you
will take advantage of my
mobile office hours.”
This month you can
visit the mobile office at
the Greene County Farm
Bureau located at 1570 S.
Main Street in Greensboro
from 10 a.m. until noon on
Feb. 10 in the conference
room. Staff from Johnny
Isakson’s and David
Perdue’s offices will also be
present.
In addition to the Greene
County meeting, Hice will
send a staff member to the
Loganville Senior Center to
make a presentation to its
local participants.
To request an informa
tional session for an organi
zation or group, please call
the Monroe office at 770-
207-1776 to schedule an
event.
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not be able to access life
saving care when they
need it most.
To give an example, just
last week a patient pre
sented to our emergency
department and suffered
a massive heart attack
while signing in. Thank
fully, our staff members
were able to quickly re
suscitate him and had the
proper equipment and
medication on hand to
stabilize him for trans
port. Such equipment and
medication would not be
available in an urgent care
setting and he would not
have survived the drive to
Athens for initial care.
Q. What have been the
obstacles for bringing a
new hospital to Madison?
Bringing a new hospital
to the citizens of Morgan
County has been a work
in progress for at least
the last decade and has
now been approved by
the State on two separate
occasions during that
time. As with any project,
we’ve had to work through
various obstacles, in
cluding several layers of
government regulations,
multiple levels of review
and coordinating with a
large number of collab
orative partners such as
DOT, legal entities, other
hospitals and government
officials. Each of these
lengthened the process
at times, but ultimately
made us even more firm in
our belief that this project
is feasible and attainable.
Throughout the
years, one obstacle has
remained constant . . .
fear of the unknown by
various groups and/or
individuals. In our most
recent plan, on which
discussions began in
February 2013, extreme
due diligence has been
done involving multiple
outside entities and using
conservative numbers to
ensure that the project is
financially viable. At some
point we have to take a
leap of faith and trust our
elected and appointed
leaders, all local taxpay
ers themselves, to do their
jobs.
Q. Do we know the real
cost to taxpayers? We
understand that land has
been donated and does the
total cost cover everything
to include equipment and
infrastructure? And how
will the cost be paid?
The county commis
sioners, and in turn local
taxpayers, are commit
ted to no more than $1
million annually for the
next 25 years. There is no
legal recourse that could
mandate this amount
to increase as the loan
agreement is between the
Morgan County Hospital
Authority and the USDA,
not the county.
The total cost of the new
facility will not exceed
$36.3 million. This does
include infrastructure,
equipment, capitalized
interest, fees and contin
gencies. More important
ly, we have to take into
consideration the real
cost if we don’t build a
replacement facility. For
the $1 million annual
investment in local
healthcare, the commu
nity currently gets a $10.5
million annual return.
This will grow to $14.3
million in a new facility. If
MMH ceases to exist and
the county is no longer
spending the $1 million,
it will not go back into the
county coffers. Citizens
will still need health
care and the county has
an obligation to provide
for the indigent care of
the community. The $1
million (and more!) will
be spent to provide ad
ditional ambulances to
transport patients to and
from surrounding areas,
increases in staffing needs
for the local health de
partment, and potentially
to compensate hospitals
in surrounding areas for
the care they are provid
ing to our indigent. None
of these expenses would
generate the number
of jobs or the economic
return that a local hospital
does.
Q. What is the current
status of the new hospital?
Any estimate on a build
and completion date?
We were recently suc
cessful in securing a $35
million USDA loan to
serve as the long term
financing for the new
hospital. We are now in
the process of securing
a construction loan to
cover costs during the
building process. We
remain hopeful to break
ground in the next few
months and anticipate
the building process to
take 14-16 months once
groundbreaking occurs.
Q. What would you like
our readers to know about
the building of a new
Morgan County Hospital.
Quite often we focus
on the economics of
whether or not to build
a new hospital. While
economically the project
does make sense, what’s
most important is the
impact that a hospital,
or lack thereof, has on
the quality of life of local
citizens. There are count
less families in Morgan
County who would have a
gaping hole left by the loss
of a loved one if not for the
life-saving care provided
at MMH. No monetary
value can be placed on
these lives . . . just ask
these individuals or their
family members.
I want to thank the
Chairman for taking
these questions and for
his hard work on difficult
issues that affect us all.
Also, thanks to the other
members serving on the
hospital board: Sarah
Burbach, Vice Chair;
Mary Ellen Shannon, Sec
retary; Paul Courchaine,
Treasurer; Sherry Ter-
rell-Alexander; John
Moore; Maynard “Butch”
Thompson; Calvin Welch;
and Dan Zant, M.D.
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